{ "model": { "rank": 5961, "code": "thing-q319771", "model_id": "vr.tr.cockfight", "name": "cockfight", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a cockfight, assess its participants and progression, and determine appropriate recording, welfare and authority-dependent actions.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Activities and processes", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "ACT", "domain": "ACT.ACT", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q319771/", "tier": 2, "score": 63, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [], "aliasCount": 0, "merged": 0, "knownIn": 63, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q319771", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q319771", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T10:20:33Z", "providers": [ "Codex", "Grok" ], "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "usd": 0.00782986, "turns": 1, "seconds": 53.3, "error": null }, "codex": { "seconds": 73.9, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.3\n--------\nworkdir: R:\\02_PROJECTS\\02_Meta_Models_Platforms\\Ver.cy\\current\\thing-registry-backlog\nmodel: gpt-6-astra\nprovider: openai\napproval: never\nsandbox: read-only\nreasoning effort: none\nreasoning summaries: none\nsession id: 01a07b61-277c-72f3-aa18-4729881fac7a\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. 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"scope_statement": "This model owns a particular planned, attempted or actual human-arranged confrontation between roosters, including evidence of its identity, participation, progression, consequences and applicable constraints.", "in_scope": [ "Evidence that rooster fighting was intentionally arranged or sustained by people", "The bout boundary, participating birds and directly involved human roles", "Observed confrontation, interruptions, termination and reported outcome", "Bird welfare, injuries and protective interventions associated with the bout", "Bout-specific equipment, wagering links and applicable authority constraints" ], "out_of_scope": [ "General rooster biology, husbandry and lifetime veterinary records", "Breeding, conditioning and training programmes", "The venue, business or organisation beyond its relationship to the bout", "Independent betting markets, payments and gambling accounts", "A tournament or festival containing multiple bouts", "The broader investigation, prosecution or animal-rescue operation" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Evidence of human arrangement or deliberate continuation distinguishes a cockfight from spontaneous aggression between birds.", "The intended confrontation involves live roosters; representations, simulations and mechanical substitutes belong elsewhere.", "The confrontation itself is the organised activity, distinguishing it from an exhibition or handling incident in which aggression is incidental.", "A particular encounter has identifiable participation and temporal boundaries, distinguishing one cockfight from the wider event containing it.", "Wagering, spectators and attached implements are assessed separately rather than treated as prerequisites for identification." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Human arrangement evidence", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "directly observed | reported | inferred | disputed | unknown", "why_it_matters": "Determines whether the encounter can be distinguished from 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"Supports protective triage while distinguishing visible evidence from veterinary diagnosis." }, { "name": "Attached fighting implements", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "observed | reported | not observed | unknown; description and associated bird", "why_it_matters": "Preserves evidence relevant to injury assessment and classification without making equipment necessary to recognition." }, { "name": "Reported outcome", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "declared winner | draw | no contest | no declaration | disputed | unknown, with attribution", "why_it_matters": "Separates a participant's declared result from observed behaviour and animal condition." }, { "name": "Applicable authority determination", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Location- and date-specific authoritative sources or decisions, with verification status", "why_it_matters": "Constrains possible actions without assuming uniform legal treatment." } ], "affordances": [ "Classify an observed or reported 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metal spurs; historical spread; legal status as widely prohibited animal fighting.", "url_status": "blocked" }, { "id": "aphis-adba", "title": "Animal Fighting Venture Prohibition - Animal Welfare Act", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "US federal prohibition of animal fighting ventures, including cockfighting, under the Animal Welfare Act as administered by USDA APHIS.", "url_status": "dead" }, { "id": "pagcor-sabong", "title": "Cockfighting (Sabong) regulation in the Philippines", "url": "https://www.pagcor.ph/", "what_it_supports": "Philippine licensed cockpit and e-sabong regulatory frame (PAGCOR / local government cockpits) as the main remaining large legal commercial market.", "url_status": "live" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "cockfight-identification", "name": "Cockfight identification", "description": "Establishes whether the subject is a human-arranged rooster confrontation and defines the particular encounter.", "rationale": "Rooster aggression alone does not establish a cockfight, and a wider gathering may contain several distinct bouts.", "layers": [ { "id": "arranged-confrontation", "name": "Arranged confrontation", "description": "Separates deliberate rooster fighting from incidental aggression.", "findings": [ { "id": "human-arrangement-evidence", "name": "Human arrangement evidence", "description": "Records the basis for attributing arrangement or deliberate continuation to people.", "questions": [ { "text": "What observed conduct or attributed testimony indicates that people intentionally arranged or sustained this rooster confrontation?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "human-arrangement-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Could the evidence instead describe spontaneous aggression, an accidental encounter or an exhibition incident?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "human-arrangement-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "individual-bout-boundary", "name": "Individual bout boundary", "description": "Identifies the encounter without confusing it with a tournament, gathering or duplicate report.", "findings": [ { "id": "bout-continuity", "name": "Bout continuity", "description": "Records the evidence connecting observations to one encounter.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which birds, location and time anchors distinguish this encounter from other reported bouts?", "kind": "definition", "id": "bout-continuity-q01" }, { "text": "Does a resumed recording or renewed confrontation continue this bout or document a separate encounter?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "bout-continuity-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "birds-and-human-involvement", "name": "Birds and human involvement", "description": "Connects the roosters and directly involved people to supported observations.", "rationale": "Welfare consequences belong to individual birds, while human responsibility cannot be inferred merely from presence.", "layers": [ { "id": "rooster-identification", "name": "Rooster identification", "description": "Maintains distinctions between participating birds across observations.", "findings": [ { "id": "individual-bird-continuity", "name": "Individual bird continuity", "description": "Tracks each bird using evidence and provisional identifiers where necessary.", "questions": [ { "text": "What markings, records or other observed features distinguish each participating rooster?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "individual-bird-continuity-q01" }, { "text": "How certain is the link between a bird seen during the confrontation and a bird examined or recovered afterward?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "individual-bird-continuity-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "direct-human-roles", "name": "Direct human roles", "description": "Separates observed handling and organisation from alleged ownership or incidental presence.", "findings": [ { "id": "role-attribution", "name": "Role attribution", "description": "Records bout-specific human involvement without treating spectatorship as proof of organisation.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who was observed handling birds, arranging the encounter or declaring its result, and who supplied that evidence?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "role-attribution-q01" }, { "text": "Which claims about ownership, control or organisation remain unverified despite a person's presence?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "role-attribution-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "confrontation-and-outcome", "name": "Confrontation and outcome", "description": "Represents what occurred during the encounter and how it ended.", "rationale": "An agent must distinguish a planned fight from an actual confrontation and a declared result from observable consequences.", "layers": [ { "id": "observed-bout-progression", "name": "Observed bout progression", "description": "Orders direct observations, interruptions and gaps in coverage.", "findings": [ { "id": "confrontation-timeline", "name": "Confrontation timeline", "description": "Records physical confrontation and state transitions with explicit observation limits.", "questions": [ { "text": "Was physical confrontation observed, or is this known only as a planned or attempted cockfight?", "kind": "definition", "id": "confrontation-timeline-q01" }, { "text": "What start, interruption, resumption and end times are supported, and which intervals were not observed?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "confrontation-timeline-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "termination-and-result", "name": "Termination and result", "description": "Separates the reason fighting ceased from any declared competitive outcome.", "findings": [ { "id": "ending-evidence", "name": "Ending evidence", "description": "Preserves observed cessation, attributed declarations and conflicting accounts.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence indicates why the confrontation stopped, such as separation, withdrawal, incapacity or external intervention?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "ending-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Who declared an outcome, under what claimed criteria, and does the available observation support or contradict that declaration?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "ending-evidence-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "bird-harm-and-protection", "name": "Bird harm and protection", "description": "Records bird condition, observed implements and protective responses.", "rationale": "Competitive outcome does not describe welfare, and urgent care may be needed regardless of how the bout was classified.", "layers": [ { "id": "condition-and-implements", "name": "Condition and implements", "description": "Links visible welfare concerns and equipment observations to each bird.", "findings": [ { "id": "bird-specific-harm-evidence", "name": "Bird-specific harm evidence", "description": "Distinguishes observed signs, attached implements and professional findings without assuming causation.", "questions": [ { "text": "What signs of injury, distress or impaired movement were observed for each rooster before, during and after the encounter?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "bird-specific-harm-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Were attached implements observed or recovered, and what evidence links them to a particular bird without presuming they caused a particular injury?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "bird-specific-harm-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "protective-response", "name": "Protective response", "description": "Connects welfare concerns to qualified assessment and authorised care.", "findings": [ { "id": "care-and-custody-status", "name": "Care and custody status", "description": "Records whether affected birds remain exposed to harm and whether care or transfer has occurred.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which birds require prompt qualified assessment based on recorded observations, and has that assessment been requested or completed?", "kind": "action", "id": "care-and-custody-status-q01" }, { "text": "Who currently has custody of each bird, and what authorised protective intervention or care transfer is available?", "kind": "action", "id": "care-and-custody-status-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "bout-context-and-constraints", "name": "Bout context and constraints", "description": "Connects the encounter to wagering evidence and the rules governing possible responses.", "rationale": "Wagering is a separate evidentiary question, and permitted responses depend on verified context and authority.", "layers": [ { "id": "wagering-and-event-links", "name": "Wagering and event links", "description": "Records supported links to bets and larger organised events without importing their full models.", "findings": [ { "id": "bout-specific-context-links", "name": "Bout-specific context links", "description": "Distinguishes evidence of wagers or event membership from assumptions based on spectators or money.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence connects a wager to this particular cockfight rather than merely showing money or spectators nearby?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "bout-specific-context-links-q01" }, { "text": "Which wider event or betting activity should be referenced separately from this individual bout?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "bout-specific-context-links-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "applicable-rules-and-authority", "name": "Applicable rules and authority", "description": "Establishes the verified basis and limits for legal classification and intervention.", "findings": [ { "id": "response-authorisation", "name": "Response authorisation", "description": "Records applicable sources and the authority required for proposed actions.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which location, event date and authoritative sources establish the applicable treatment of this rooster-fighting encounter?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "response-authorisation-q01" }, { "text": "Given the verified rules and the agent's role, which reporting, evidence-preservation or animal-protection actions are authorised?", "kind": "action", "id": "response-authorisation-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "natural-spur (naked-heel) cockfight", "gaff (metal-spur) cockfight", "knife / slash (short-knife, long-knife, Filipino slash) cockfight", "derby / tournament-style cockfight", "hack fight (informal match, not a derby)", "pit-style / cockpit cockfight (indoor or purpose-built arena)", "street or backyard cockfight", "ritual or festival cockfight (e.g. Balinese tajen)" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of cockfight this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "Wikidata", "value_or_pattern": "Q1477", "note": "Wikidata item for cockfighting as a blood sport / animal fighting contest. Verify Q-id against Wikidata before publishing; do not treat this as confirmed without a lookup of the live item." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of cockfight this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation", "name": "Standards and regulation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "United States: Animal Welfare Act animal-fighting venture prohibition (7 U.S.C. ยง 2156), enforced by USDA APHIS; all 50 states also prohibit cockfighting.", "United Kingdom: Animal Welfare Act 2006 and earlier Protection of Animals Acts - cockfighting banned (England and Wales 1835/1849 lineage; still a specific offence).", "Philippines: Cockfighting Law of 1974 (Presidential Decree No. 449) and subsequent PAGCOR / local government licensing of cockpits; e-sabong (online betting on fights) has been separately restricted or suspended by national directive.", "Mexico: federal and state animal-protection and gambling rules vary; some states still license palenques, others prohibit.", "CITES / animal-health: live gamecock movement may also fall under veterinary and invasive-pathogen controls (e.g. avian influenza, Newcastle disease) even where the fight itself is a criminal matter." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of cockfight this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Licensed cockpit match in the Philippines (sabong), with weigh-in, matching, and pari-mutuel or bookmaker betting.", "Clandestine pit or barn fight in jurisdictions where the practice is a criminal animal-fighting offence (US, UK, much of Europe, Australia).", "Festival or temple-associated fights in parts of Bali and South and Southeast Asia, sometimes framed as ritual offering (tajen) rather than pure sport.", "Derby events: multi-entry tournaments in which a string of birds is entered and the last surviving or highest-scoring string wins the purse.", "Breeding and trade of gamefowl (Asil, Kelso, Hatch, Sweater, and regional strains) as the supply chain for fights, even where fighting is illegal." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of cockfight this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "bird body mass at matching / weigh-in", "typical_range": "1.8-2.7", "unit": "kg" }, { "quantity": "fight duration (gaff or knife, until kill or disable)", "typical_range": "10-120", "unit": "s" }, { "quantity": "natural-spur or hack fight duration", "typical_range": "10-45", "unit": "min" }, { "quantity": "gaff / knife spur length (artificial)", "typical_range": "25-70", "unit": "mm" }, { "quantity": "birds per derby entry (string)", "typical_range": "4-8", "unit": "birds" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of cockfight this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Death or catastrophic injury of one or both birds (puncture of lung, liver, brain, or major vessel by gaff or blade).", "Human injury from handling armed birds or from crowd violence around unpaid bets.", "Zoonotic and epizootic disease transmission at gatherings (avian influenza, Newcastle disease, ectoparasites).", "Criminal liability for organisers, spectators, transporters, and animal keepers where fighting is prohibited.", "Illegal gambling, money-laundering, and associated organised-crime harms around unlicensed pits.", "False matching or doping of birds (stimulants, blood-doping) as contest fraud." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of cockfight this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Philippines (sabong): still the largest legal commercial cockpit culture; matching by weight class; knives (tare) rather than gaffs predominate.", "Spanish-speaking Americas (pelea de gallos / palenque): mixed legal status; Mexican and Caribbean strains and knife or gaff styles vary by country and state.", "Bali (tajen): fights often tied to temple ceremony and offering of spilled blood; not only a betting sport.", "United States / Europe / Australia: underground only; federal and state animal-fighting felonies; 'gamefowl' kept ostensibly as show or breeding stock.", "South Asia (India, Pakistan, Tamil Nadu, Andhra): Asil and local gamefowl; often natural spur or short knife; festival and village settings despite legal bans in India." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of cockfight this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; 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Registry entries should not collapse the animal taxon into the event." }, { "name": "cockfighting derby (event format)", "difference": "A derby is a tournament structure over many pairwise fights; a cockfight is a single bout. Derbies contain cockfights." }, { "name": "poultry show / exhibition gamefowl", "difference": "Show judging scores conformation and plumage of live birds that are not set to fight; a cockfight requires two birds to be pitted." }, { "name": "dogfighting", "difference": "Same class of blood-sport animal fighting, different species, different federal/state charging language, and different pit equipment; not interchangeable as an event type." }, { "name": "boxing / human combat sport", "difference": "Human combat sports are regulated athletic contests between consenting persons; cockfighting is inter-animal combat, typically to disablement or death, and is treated as animal cruelty in most jurisdictions." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of cockfight this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does the registry intend cockfight to include deliberately staged rooster confrontations described by participants as sparring, demonstrations or training?", "What evidence threshold should distinguish deliberate continuation of spontaneous rooster aggression from failure to intervene?", "How should local bout conventions affect whether interruptions, substitutions or renewed encounters constitute a new cockfight?", "Which qualified welfare assessment framework should guide escalation from observed signs without inviting unsupported diagnosis?", "Which existing Vercy models should own the linked birds, wagering activity, wider event and enforcement process?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 18, "questions": 28 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "abstract concept", "method": "Written from the archetype playbook - what this kind of thing needs beyond identity and provenance - and from the structure that recurred across 6,333 models already researched by two engines. Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched. This entry carries no facets of its own, so they were inferred from its domain - a guess about a whole domain applied to one thing.", "facetsInferred": true, "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. 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What is recognised is an instance of it, and which instances count is exactly what is argued about." ], "relatedModels": [], "standing": "Described in 63 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one cockfight from another, and a cockfight from things that resemble it.", "rationale": "Recognition comes before every other claim. Without stable identity nothing else in the model can be trusted to be about the same thing twice.", "layers": [ { "id": "naming-and-identifiers", "name": "Names and identifiers", "description": "The names this thing goes by and the identifiers that survive translation and time.", "findings": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases", "name": "Preferred name, aliases and local names", "description": "Which name to use, which names mean the same thing, and which merely sound similar.", "questions": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the name of a cockfight, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the name of a cockfight, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a cockfight is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers", "name": "Stable identifiers and external keys", "description": "Identifiers that keep pointing at this kind of thing across systems and languages.", "questions": [ { "id": "stable-identifiers-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an identifier for a cockfight, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a cockfight, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a cockfight is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "classification-and-granularity", "name": "Classification and granularity", "description": "Where a cockfight sits among kinds, and how finely a task needs to cut it.", "findings": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents", "name": "Kind, parents and neighbouring kinds", "description": "The classes this thing belongs to and the ones it is next to.", "questions": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the kind of a cockfight, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the kind of a cockfight, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a cockfight is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features", "name": "Distinguishing features", "description": "What separates a cockfight from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a cockfight, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a cockfight, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a cockfight is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "state-and-lifecycle", "name": "State and lifecycle", "description": "The states a cockfight passes through and the events that move it between them.", "rationale": "Most decisions about a thing depend on what state it is in now, which is a claim with a time on it, not a property.", "layers": [ { "id": "lifecycle-stages", "name": "Lifecycle stages", "description": "From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.", "findings": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions", "name": "Stages and transitions", "description": "The stages worth naming and what moves a cockfight between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a cockfight, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a cockfight, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a cockfight is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "observations-and-status", "name": "Observations and current status", "description": "What is observed about a cockfight, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a cockfight is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.", "questions": [ { "id": "observation-record-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a cockfight, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an observation of a cockfight, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a cockfight is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "process-and-outcome", "name": "Process, inputs and outcome", "description": "How a cockfight proceeds, what it 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"event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a step of a cockfight is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-results", "name": "Inputs, resources and results", "description": "What a cockfight consumes and what it produces.", "findings": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs", "name": "Inputs, outputs and side effects", "description": "The resources a cockfight takes and the results it leaves, wanted or not.", "questions": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the inputs and results of a cockfight, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the inputs and results of a cockfight, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the inputs and results of a cockfight is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "definitions-in-contest", "name": "Definitions and who holds them", "description": "What cockfight is taken to mean, and by whom.", "rationale": "When a field disagrees about a concept, the disagreement is the content. 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cockfight operationalised or measured in practice, and by what instrument?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "operational-record-q02", "text": "What does that operationalisation leave out, and when does that matter?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "instances-and-use", "name": "Instances, use and consequence", "description": "What counts as an instance of cockfight and what follows from calling something that.", "rationale": "Applying a concept is an act with consequences, so a model must say what the label licenses and what it does not.", "layers": [ { "id": "instances", "name": "What counts as an instance", "description": "Clear cases, borderline cases and non-cases.", "findings": [ { "id": "instance-tests", "name": "Tests for an instance", "description": "What would settle whether something falls under it.", "questions": [ { "id": "instance-tests-q01", "text": "What would settle whether something is an instance of cockfight?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "instance-tests-q02", "text": "Which borderline cases are argued about, and on what grounds?", "kind": "definition" } ] } ] }, { "id": "consequence", "name": "Consequence of application", "description": "Rights, duties or decisions that follow from the label.", "findings": [ { "id": "consequence-record", "name": "What the label licenses", "description": "What an agent may do once something is classified this way.", "questions": [ { "id": "consequence-record-q01", "text": "What follows practically once something is treated as cockfight?", "kind": "action" }, { "id": "consequence-record-q02", "text": "What must an agent not infer from the label alone?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a cockfight came from and when it held.", "rationale": "A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain 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"action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "time-and-versions", "name": "Time, versions and supersession", "description": "When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.", "findings": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession", "name": "Validity period and supersession", "description": "How an old claim about a cockfight is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a cockfight, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a cockfight, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge 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