{ "model": { "rank": 8112, "code": "thing-q3603531", "model_id": "vr.tr.grandchild", "name": "grandchild", "purpose": "Let an agent handle the grandchild relation as a second-degree kinship tie with legal effects in inheritance, custody and immigration.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Cross-cutting context", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "XCT", "domain": "XCT.REL", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q3603531/", "tier": 2, "score": 52, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "granddaughter", "grandson", "great-grandson", "stepgranddaughter", "neptis", "stepgrandson", "nepos", "son's son", "pronepos", "daughter's child", "son's child" ], "aliasCount": 11, "merged": 11, "knownIn": 52, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q3603531", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3603531", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-11T05:41:46Z", "providers": [ "Claude" ], "breadth": "written by Claude from model knowledge without web access - no source was read, every claim is a lead to verify", "pass": 2, "wave": 1, "engine": "claude" }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q3603531", "registryId": "vr.tr.grandchild", "name": "grandchild", "version": "0.2.0-wave.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "XCT.REL" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q3603531/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.grandchild", "name": "grandchild", "purpose": "Let an agent handle the grandchild relation as a second-degree kinship tie with legal effects in inheritance, custody and immigration.", "definition": "A child of one own child: a grandson or granddaughter, including step-grandchildren and adopted grandchildren in social and often legal usage.", "what_it_is_for": "Defining family relationships and the rights and duties that follow.", "affordances": [ "establish the relationship, by records", "inherit, under succession law", "seek contact or custody, where law allows", "translate kinship terms" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Second-degree lineal descendant", "Includes step and adoptive relations socially", "Legal rights vary by jurisdiction", "Great-grandchildren are a further degree" ], "appearance": "A relationship, not an object; shown in family trees and records.", "visual_identification": [ "Family trees two generations down", "Birth and adoption records linking generations", "Terms such as neptis in Latin" ], "physical_properties": [], "families_and_kinds": [ "grandson and granddaughter", "step-grandchildren", "adopted grandchildren", "great-grandchildren" ], "related_models": [ { "relation": "is a kind of", "target": "kinship", "why": "relation" }, { "relation": "is the converse of", "target": "grandparent", "why": "relation" }, { "relation": "has legal effect in", "target": "inheritance", "why": "law" }, { "relation": "is established by", "target": "civil records", "why": "evidence" } ], "identifiers": [], "standards_and_regulation": [ "Succession law", "Family law on grandparent contact", "Immigration rules on family members" ], "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Assuming legal rights that do not exist", "Revealing family data without consent", "Translation errors for kinship terms" ], "in_scope": [], "out_of_scope": [], "characteristics": [] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "relation", "name": "Relation", "description": "Who is whose grandchild.", "rationale": "The relation must be specified.", "layers": [ { "id": "link", "name": "Link", "description": "Through which child.", "findings": [ { "id": "link-finding", "name": "Link", "description": "The intermediate parent.", "questions": [ { "text": "Through which child is this person a grandchild?", "kind": "definition" }, { "text": "Is the relation biological, step or adoptive?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence", "name": "Evidence", "description": "Records.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-finding", "name": "Evidence", "description": "Proof of the relationship.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which records establish the relationship?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Are they recognised here?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "legal", "name": "Legal effects", "description": "Rights and duties.", "rationale": "Legal effects vary.", "layers": [ { "id": "inheritance", "name": "Inheritance", "description": "Succession.", "findings": [ { "id": "inheritance-finding", "name": "Inheritance", "description": "Inheritance rights.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the grandchild inherit, and in what share?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "text": "Under which succession rules?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "contact", "name": "Contact and care", "description": "Custody.", "findings": [ { "id": "contact-finding", "name": "Contact", "description": "Contact and care rights.", "questions": [ { "text": "What rights to contact or care exist?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "text": "Which court decides?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "language", "name": "Language", "description": "Terms.", "rationale": "Terms differ by language and side of family.", "layers": [ { "id": "terms", "name": "Terms", "description": "Kinship words.", "findings": [ { "id": "terms-finding", "name": "Terms", "description": "Kinship terms.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which term is used in this language?", "kind": "definition" }, { "text": "Does it distinguish son side and daughter side?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "translation", "name": "Translation", "description": "Equivalents.", "findings": [ { "id": "translation-finding", "name": "Translation", "description": "Translation.", "questions": [ { "text": "How should the term be translated?", "kind": "action" }, { "text": "Is any nuance lost?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "privacy", "name": "Privacy", "description": "Family data.", "rationale": "Family data concerns several people.", "layers": [ { "id": "data", "name": "Data", "description": "Handling.", "findings": [ { "id": "data-finding", "name": "Data", "description": "Data rules.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is family data handled lawfully?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "text": "Who else is affected?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "minors", "name": "Minors", "description": "Children data.", "findings": [ { "id": "minors-finding", "name": "Minors", "description": "Protection of children.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is the grandchild a minor, requiring extra care?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "text": "What must not be shared?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Should kinship relations be modelled as relations rather than entries?", "How should step and adoptive relations be distinguished?", "How should agents handle family data?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 4, "layers": 8, "findings": 8, "questions": 16 } }, "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. Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.", "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a grandchild, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Let an agent handle the grandchild relation as a second-degree kinship tie with legal effects in inheritance, custody and immigration.", "characteristics": { "substance": "abstract", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "inert" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: granddaughter, grandson, great-grandson, stepgranddaughter, neptis, stepgrandson, nepos, son's son, pronepos, daughter's child, son's child.", "11 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 52 Wikipedia languages, which is a measure of how widely the thing is known, not of how important it is." ], "openQuestionsForResearch": [ "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 grandchild, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "an abstraction with no physical instance", "physicalCharacter": [ "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." ], "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [ "observe it, measure it, record its state" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "Nothing to see. What is recognised is an instance of it, and which instances count is exactly what is argued about." ], "relatedModels": [ { "relation": "covers", "note": "Finer kinds folded into this entry because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it. Each is a model waiting to be split out when one does.", "targets": [ "granddaughter", "grandson", "great-grandson", "stepgranddaughter", "neptis", "stepgrandson", "nepos", "son's son", "pronepos", "daughter's child", "son's child" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 52 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 11 finer distinctions are held inside this entry as names rather than as separate models.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one grandchild from another, and a grandchild 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 grandchild, 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 grandchild, 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 grandchild 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 grandchild, 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 grandchild, 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 grandchild 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 grandchild 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 grandchild, 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 grandchild, 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 grandchild 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 grandchild from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a grandchild, 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 grandchild, 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 grandchild 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 grandchild 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 grandchild between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a grandchild, 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 grandchild, 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 grandchild 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 grandchild, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a grandchild 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 grandchild, 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 grandchild, 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 grandchild 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 grandchild is taken to mean, and by whom.", "rationale": "When a field disagrees about a concept, the disagreement is the content. A model that picks one definition silently destroys the information.", "layers": [ { "id": "competing-definitions", "name": "Competing definitions", "description": "The main readings and the traditions behind them.", "findings": [ { "id": "definition-map", "name": "Definitions and their holders", "description": "Each definition with the school or body that holds it.", "questions": [ { "id": "definition-map-q01", "text": "Which definitions of grandchild are in use, and which tradition or body holds each?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "definition-map-q02", "text": "What turns on the difference between them in practice?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "operationalisation", "name": "Operationalisation", "description": "How it is measured or applied when it has to be.", "findings": [ { "id": "operational-record", "name": "Measures and proxies", "description": "Instruments and indicators used to stand in for it.", "questions": [ { "id": "operational-record-q01", "text": "How is grandchild 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 grandchild 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 grandchild?", "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 grandchild?", "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 grandchild 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 itself.", "layers": [ { "id": "source-and-authority", "name": "Source and authority", "description": "Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.", "findings": [ { "id": "claim-provenance", "name": "Claim provenance and confidence", "description": "The authority behind each claim about a grandchild and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a grandchild, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a claim about a grandchild, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a grandchild is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "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 grandchild is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a grandchild, 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 grandchild, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a grandchild is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 10, "findings": 12, "questions": 32 } } } }