culture war
Generated draft, first pass
This model was drafted by rule from what the registry knows about the thing. It proposes which bundles a real model will need and which questions research must answer. It is not researched and no sentence in it is sourced.
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.
Generator: vr.draft.v3
Purpose and description
Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a culture war, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.
An activity registered under ACT.ACT. The registry names it; this draft has not been given a definition yet.
It can be observed and measured.
Distinguishing features
Described in 33 Wikipedia languages, which is a measure of how widely the thing is known, not of how important it is.
Physical character
Made of: something that happens over time.
Does nothing on its own; everything it does, something else did to it.
These come from the domain this entry sits in rather than from the entry itself, so treat them as a first guess about the whole domain applied to one thing.
How it is recognised
Not a thing to see. Recognised by when it happened and who was involved, on the account of somebody.
Described in 33 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is.
Where this came from
wikidata · CC0 1.0
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 6 bundles · 12 layers · 14 findings · 38 questions.
Identity, naming and classification How an agent tells one culture war from another, and a culture war from things that resemble it.
Recognition comes before every other claim. Without stable identity nothing else in the model can be trusted to be about the same thing twice.
Names and identifiers
The names this thing goes by and the identifiers that survive translation and time.
Preferred name, aliases and local names
Which name to use, which names mean the same thing, and which merely sound similar.
- What identifies and describes the name of a culture war, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
- Who or what asserted this about the name of a culture war, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
- What may an agent decide or do once the name of a culture war is known, and what must it refuse? action
Stable identifiers and external keys
Identifiers that keep pointing at this kind of thing across systems and languages.
- What identifies and describes an identifier for a culture war, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
- Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a culture war, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
- What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a culture war is known, and what must it refuse? action
Classification and granularity
Where a culture war sits among kinds, and how finely a task needs to cut it.
Kind, parents and neighbouring kinds
The classes this thing belongs to and the ones it is next to.
- What identifies and describes the kind of a culture war, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
- Who or what asserted this about the kind of a culture war, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
- What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a culture war is known, and what must it refuse? action
Distinguishing features
What separates a culture war from the things most often confused with it.
- What identifies and describes what distinguishes a culture war, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
- Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a culture war, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
- What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a culture war is known, and what must it refuse? action
State and lifecycle The states a culture war passes through and the events that move it between them.
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.
Lifecycle stages
From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.
Stages and transitions
The stages worth naming and what moves a culture war between them.
- What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a culture war, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
- Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a culture war, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
- What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a culture war is known, and what must it refuse? action
Observations and current status
What is observed about a culture war, how often and by whom.
Observation record
How an observation of a culture war is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.
- What identifies and describes an observation of a culture war, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
- Who or what asserted this about an observation of a culture war, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
- What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a culture war is known, and what must it refuse? action
Process, inputs and outcome How a culture war proceeds, what it needs and what it leaves behind.
An activity is known by its steps and its results, and both have to be recordable while it is still running.
Steps and sequence
The steps of a culture war, their order and what may run in parallel.
Steps, preconditions and completion
What has to be true before each step of a culture war and what marks it done.
- What identifies and describes a step of a culture war, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
- Who or what asserted this about a step of a culture war, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
- What may an agent decide or do once a step of a culture war is known, and what must it refuse? action
Inputs, resources and results
What a culture war consumes and what it produces.
Inputs, outputs and side effects
The resources a culture war takes and the results it leaves, wanted or not.
- What identifies and describes the inputs and results of a culture war, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
- Who or what asserted this about the inputs and results of a culture war, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
- What may an agent decide or do once the inputs and results of a culture war is known, and what must it refuse? action
Temporal extent and dating When culture war began and ended, and who says so.
Dates for events are conventions held by historiographies that disagree, and a single confident date hides the disagreement.
Dating and calendar
Start, end, granularity and the calendar used.
Dates, granularity and authority
What is dated, how precisely, and on whose account.
- What start and end are conventionally given for culture war, at what granularity, in which calendar? definition
- Which accounts date it differently, and on what grounds? provenance
What counts as part of it
Sub-events included or excluded, and by whom.
Inclusion and exclusion
The episodes treated as inside the event and those left out.
- Which episodes are counted as part of culture war, and which are treated as separate? boundary
- Whose framing is being followed in that inclusion, and who frames it otherwise? provenance
Participants, causes and consequences Who took part in culture war and what is claimed to follow from it.
Causation around events is asserted rather than observed, so each claim needs the party asserting it.
Participants and roles
Parties involved and what each did.
Parties and their roles
Who is recorded as involved and in what capacity.
- Which parties took part in culture war, in what roles, and on whose account? provenance
- Where do accounts disagree about who was involved? boundary
Causes and consequences
What is claimed to have caused it and followed from it.
Causal claims and who makes them
Antecedents and outcomes as attributed claims.
- What causes and consequences are attributed to culture war, and by whom? provenance
- What would an agent need before treating such a claim as settled rather than contested? action
Provenance, evidence and time Where every claim about a culture war came from and when it held.
A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.
Source and authority
Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.
Claim provenance and confidence
The authority behind each claim about a culture war and how confident it is.
- What identifies and describes a claim about a culture war, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
- Who or what asserted this about a claim about a culture war, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
- What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a culture war is known, and what must it refuse? action
Time, versions and supersession
When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.
Validity period and supersession
How an old claim about a culture war is retired without being erased.
- What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a culture war, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
- Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a culture war, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
- What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a culture war is known, and what must it refuse? action
What the second pass must settle
- Which of the bundles below does a real task actually need, and which are ceremony?
- What does this thing have that the facets do not capture at all?
- Which neighbouring kind is most often confused with a culture war, and on what evidence are they told apart?