{ "model": { "rank": 3060, "code": "thing-q36597284", "model_id": "vr.tr.wagner-group", "name": "Wagner Group", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise Wagner Group across changing names and organisational arrangements, assess its evidenced condition, and determine permissible engagement without assuming continuity, affiliation or authority.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Society, people and institutions", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "SOC", "domain": "SOC.ORG", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q36597284/", "tier": 2, "score": 92, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [], "aliasCount": 0, "merged": 0, "knownIn": 92, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q36597284", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36597284", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T14:29:18Z", "providers": [ "Codex", "Grok" ], "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "usd": 0.00763674, "turns": 1, "seconds": 143.5, "error": null }, "codex": { "seconds": 83, "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: 01a07c43-8170-74d3-b76b-29645d092475\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: Wagner Group\nRegistry id: vr.tr.wagner-group\nPlane / domain: SOC / SOC.ORG\nRegistry definition: (none recorded)\nNames folded into this entry: (none)\n" } } }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q36597284", "registryId": "vr.tr.wagner-group", "name": "Wagner Group", "version": "0.1.0-research.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "SOC.ORG" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q36597284/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.wagner-group", "name": "Wagner Group", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise Wagner Group across changing names and organisational arrangements, assess its evidenced condition, and determine permissible engagement without assuming continuity, affiliation or authority.", "definition": "The Wagner Group is a Russian private military company that, from about 2014 until its 2023 mutiny and leadership collapse, supplied deniable combat, security, and resource-extraction services as a proxy of the Russian state while remaining formally outside the armed forces.", "scope_statement": "This model owns the identity, organisational boundaries, command relationships, operating footprint, support dependencies and engagement constraints of the registered Wagner Group entry, with every assessment bounded by time, location and evidence.", "in_scope": [ "Continuity of Wagner identity across leadership changes, reorganisations and reuse of its name", "Membership, command and control relationships among Wagner-associated formations and entities", "Geographically and temporally bounded deployments, activities and host relationships", "Recruitment, financing, equipment and logistical dependencies attributable to Wagner", "Evidence supporting conduct attribution, legal designations and engagement restrictions" ], "out_of_scope": [ "The Russian state, armed forces and intelligence institutions as complete organisations", "Africa Corps or other formations as independent organisations, except their evidenced relationships to Wagner", "Individual biographies beyond roles, authority and organisational relationships", "Complete models of host governments, armed conflicts or military campaigns", "Corporate, concession and transaction records beyond their relevance to Wagner relationships", "Adjudication of individual criminal liability or comprehensive reconstruction of particular incidents" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Distinguish a Wagner formation from a group merely using Wagner names or insignia through dated evidence of command, personnel and organisational recognition.", "Distinguish Wagner from a Russian state formation by recording actual command authority and institutional incorporation separately from sponsorship or cooperation.", "Distinguish Wagner from Africa Corps or another proposed successor through evidence of transferred command, personnel, assets and mandates; shared personnel alone does not establish organisational identity.", "Distinguish a Wagner-controlled commercial entity from a contractor or associate through evidence of ownership, effective control and the specific services exchanged.", "Distinguish historical Wagner activity from current activity by requiring observation dates and explicit evidence of continuing presence." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Organisational continuity", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "supported continuity | partial continuity | disputed continuity | evidenced discontinuity | unknown; assessed between specified dates and formations", "why_it_matters": "Determines whether observations belong to this registry entry or to a related organisation." }, { "name": "Relationship to Wagner", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "component | controlled entity | contractor | sponsor | host counterpart | successor candidate | claimed affiliate | disputed affiliate; time-bounded and evidenced", "why_it_matters": "Prevents association, cooperation and membership from being treated as equivalent." }, { "name": "Effective command authority", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Actor-to-formation authority over appointments, orders, discipline, funding or withdrawal; location and validity period required", "why_it_matters": "Identifies who can direct a formation and whether authority differs from public representation." }, { "name": "Deployment status", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "reported | corroborated presence | active | transitioning | withdrawing | withdrawn | disputed | unknown; by location and period", "why_it_matters": "Separates current operating presence from historical reporting and unverified claims." }, { "name": "Personnel strength estimate", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Persons, expressed as a range with date, geography, inclusion criteria and estimation method", "why_it_matters": "Supports assessment of organisational scale without combining incompatible estimates or double-counting transferred personnel." }, { "name": "Support dependency", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Provider-to-recipient relationship for funding, recruitment, equipment, transport or facilities; criticality and substitutability recorded", "why_it_matters": "Shows which external relationships sustain a formation and what disruption could change its state." }, { "name": "Applicable legal restriction", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Sanctions, designation, prohibition, exemption or licensing requirement identified by authority, jurisdiction, covered entity and effective dates", "why_it_matters": "Allows an agent to assess a proposed interaction against the correct entity and applicable rules." } ], "affordances": [ "Resolve a reported Wagner name, formation or associated entity to this entry, a related organisation or an unresolved candidate.", "Construct a dated assessment of Wagner presence, command and dependencies in a specified theatre.", "Compare pre-transition and post-transition evidence to assess continuity, fragmentation or transfer.", "Assess attribution of reported conduct while preserving competing explanations and evidence limits.", "Screen a proposed interaction for entity ambiguity and applicable restrictions, then permit, withhold or escalate it within the agent's authority.", "Identify stale assessments and specify the evidence needed to revise them." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "wikipedia-wagner-group", "title": "Wagner Group", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagner_Group", "what_it_supports": "Organizational history, aliases, theatres of operation, the 2023 mutiny, and successor structures.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "us-treasury-tco-2023", "title": "Treasury Sanctions Russian Proxy Wagner Group as a Transnational Criminal Organization", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "U.S. designation of Wagner as a significant transnational criminal organization (26 January 2023) and the sanctions framing used in U.S. practice." }, { "id": "un-coi-ukraine", "title": "Reports of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Documented conduct of Wagner and other Russian-linked armed actors in Ukraine under international humanitarian and human-rights law." }, { "id": "un-hr-car-mali", "title": "United Nations human-rights reporting on the Central African Republic and Mali", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Wagner's security-for-resources role in Africa and alleged abuses attributed to the group and allied local forces." } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "wagner-identity-and-continuity", "name": "Wagner identity and continuity", "description": "Determines what counts as Wagner across names, formations and organisational transitions.", "rationale": "The Wagner label cannot by itself establish a single enduring organisation or the identity of a proposed successor.", "layers": [ { "id": "names-and-affiliation", "name": "Names and affiliation", "description": "Separates use of the Wagner identity from evidenced organisational inclusion.", "findings": [ { "id": "wagner-affiliation-test", "name": "Wagner affiliation test", "description": "An affiliation assessment should identify the formation or entity concerned, the relevant period and evidence beyond branding.", "questions": [ { "text": "What combination of command links, personnel records and organisational acknowledgement establishes that this formation belongs to Wagner?", "kind": "definition", "id": "wagner-affiliation-test-q01" }, { "text": "Who applied the Wagner label, when, and on what evidence beyond names, insignia or personal association?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "wagner-affiliation-test-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "reorganisation-and-succession", "name": "Reorganisation and succession", "description": "Assesses continuity when personnel, assets, leadership or sponsorship change.", "findings": [ { "id": "continuity-versus-transfer", "name": "Continuity versus transfer", "description": "Transitions involving Africa Corps or other formations require an explicit identity judgement rather than automatic inheritance of Wagner history.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which transfers of command, personnel, assets and obligations support continuity with Wagner, and which support a separate successor?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "continuity-versus-transfer-q01" }, { "text": "What dated evidence establishes whether the transition applies to the whole organisation or only a particular theatre or formation?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "continuity-versus-transfer-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "wagner-command-and-state-relationships", "name": "Wagner command and state relationships", "description": "Records effective authority within Wagner and its relationships with Russian institutions and host counterparts.", "rationale": "Public leadership, operational command, state support and host authorisation may describe different relationships.", "layers": [ { "id": "effective-internal-command", "name": "Effective internal command", "description": "Identifies who can direct particular Wagner formations and enforce decisions.", "findings": [ { "id": "formation-level-authority", "name": "Formation-level authority", "description": "Command assessments distinguish public representation from demonstrated authority over orders, appointments and discipline.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who could issue and enforce orders for this Wagner formation during the period being assessed?", "kind": "definition", "id": "formation-level-authority-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence demonstrates compliance, contested orders or independent action by that formation?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "formation-level-authority-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "external-authority-and-support", "name": "External authority and support", "description": "Separates state sponsorship, institutional command and host-country relationships.", "findings": [ { "id": "state-and-host-relationship-test", "name": "State and host relationship test", "description": "Each external relationship should specify its mechanism and avoid inferring command solely from material support or political alignment.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the evidence establish Russian institutional command, financing, logistical support, coordination or only asserted association?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "state-and-host-relationship-test-q01" }, { "text": "Which host counterpart claims authority to request, supervise or terminate the Wagner presence, and what supports that claim?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "state-and-host-relationship-test-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "wagner-presence-and-sustainment", "name": "Wagner presence and sustainment", "description": "Assesses where Wagner formations operate, what roles they perform and which relationships sustain them.", "rationale": "A global Wagner label can obscure differences in local activity, personnel continuity and resource dependence.", "layers": [ { "id": "theatre-presence-and-role", "name": "Theatre presence and role", "description": "Bounds presence and activity by formation, geography and observation period.", "findings": [ { "id": "dated-operating-footprint", "name": "Dated operating footprint", "description": "Presence assessments distinguish corroborated deployment from historical references, announcements and uncertain attribution.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence places an identifiable Wagner formation in this location during the stated period?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "dated-operating-footprint-q01" }, { "text": "What personnel range and observed roles can be supported without counting local partners or successor personnel as Wagner?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "dated-operating-footprint-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "personnel-and-material-support", "name": "Personnel and material support", "description": "Maps recruitment and resource relationships needed to maintain an identified Wagner formation.", "findings": [ { "id": "attributable-sustainment-dependencies", "name": "Attributable sustainment dependencies", "description": "Support assessments connect evidenced providers and intermediaries to specific recipients rather than treating all associated businesses as Wagner assets.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which recruitment channels, funders, commercial interests and logistical providers demonstrably sustain this formation?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "attributable-sustainment-dependencies-q01" }, { "text": "How dependent is the formation on each provider, and what evidence supports estimates of interruption tolerance or replacement capacity?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "attributable-sustainment-dependencies-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "wagner-attribution-and-engagement", "name": "Wagner attribution and engagement", "description": "Connects conduct assessments and applicable restrictions to clearly identified Wagner actors.", "rationale": "An agent must avoid transferring allegations or legal restrictions between entities merely because they share Wagner associations.", "layers": [ { "id": "conduct-attribution", "name": "Conduct attribution", "description": "Evaluates reported conduct without collapsing allegations, corroboration and formal determinations.", "findings": [ { "id": "actor-specific-conduct-assessment", "name": "Actor-specific conduct assessment", "description": "Attribution should identify the alleged act, implicated formation, relevant command relationship and evidential status.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence connects the reported conduct to an identifiable Wagner formation rather than a partner force or another Russian-associated actor?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "actor-specific-conduct-assessment-q01" }, { "text": "Which elements are alleged, independently corroborated, formally determined or disputed, and what remains unresolved?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "actor-specific-conduct-assessment-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "restrictions-and-agent-decisions", "name": "Restrictions and agent decisions", "description": "Assesses proposed interactions against dated legal instruments, entity resolution and the agent's authority.", "findings": [ { "id": "interaction-specific-permissibility", "name": "Interaction-specific permissibility", "description": "A decision requires the actual counterparty, proposed activity, applicable jurisdictions and authoritative restriction text.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which current authoritative instruments cover this Wagner entity, alias or controlled organisation, and how was the match established?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "interaction-specific-permissibility-q01" }, { "text": "Given the proposed interaction, applicable restrictions and any evidenced authorisation, should the agent proceed, withhold action or seek qualified review?", "kind": "action", "id": "interaction-specific-permissibility-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": [ "Core expeditionary PMC (Donbas and Syria, mid-2010s)", "Convict-recruited assault force (Ukraine, 2022-2023)", "Africa security-for-resources contingent (CAR, Mali, Sudan, Libya, and others)", "Logistics, aviation, and commercial front companies", "Post-2023 successor formations under the Ministry of Defence (including Africa Corps)", "Veterans and memorial structures (PMC Wagner League and related bodies)" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of Wagner Group 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": "Q28173822", "note": "Item for PMC Wagner / Wagner Group." }, { "scheme": "OFAC SDN name", "value_or_pattern": "WAGNER GROUP", "note": "Listed under U.S. Treasury sanctions; aliases include PMC Wagner and Private Military Company Wagner." }, { "scheme": "Common aliases", "value_or_pattern": "ЧВК \"Вагнер\"; PMC Wagner; ChVK Vagner", "note": "Russian and English usage; informal nicknames include \"the orchestra\" and \"the musicians.\"" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of Wagner Group 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": [ "Russian Criminal Code Article 359 (mercenarism), Russian Federation - PMCs occupied a domestic legal grey zone even while Wagner operated with state support.", "U.S. Treasury / OFAC sanctions, including the January 2023 designation of Wagner as a significant transnational criminal organization under U.S. transnational-crime authorities.", "EU and UK Russia-related sanctions listings targeting Wagner, related entities, and associated persons.", "National terrorist-organization listings in Ukraine and in several European states (practice is not uniform across the EU).", "International humanitarian law, including Additional Protocol I Article 47 on mercenaries, which affects combatant privilege but does not remove criminal liability for war crimes.", "UN International Convention against the Recruitment, Use, Financing and Training of Mercenaries (1989) - relevant as a mercenary-law frame, with limited ratification among key states." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of Wagner Group 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": [ "Used as a deniable combat force in Donbas from 2014 and in Syria (including Palmyra operations) on behalf of Russian and client-state interests.", "Deployed at large scale in Ukraine in 2022-2023, including the Bakhmut campaign and recruitment from Russian prisons.", "Contracted or invited as a regime-security partner in parts of Africa, often in exchange for access to gold, diamonds, timber, or other resources.", "Encountered in open sources as a sanctions target, a defendant in war-crimes and human-rights reporting, and as the protagonist of the June 2023 armed mutiny and march toward Moscow.", "After Prigozhin's death in August 2023, remnants were reported as absorbed, reflagged, or replaced by Ministry of Defence structures rather than continuing as an independent company." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Wagner Group 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": "Reported core personnel (pre-2022)", "typical_range": "about 5 000-10 000", "unit": "fighters" }, { "quantity": "Reported peak strength in Ukraine including convict recruits (2022-2023)", "typical_range": "about 25 000-50 000 (public claims cluster near 50 000; independent counts are uncertain)", "unit": "personnel" }, { "quantity": "Countries with documented or widely reported presence over the group's life", "typical_range": "about 10-15", "unit": "states" }, { "quantity": "Coherent organizational lifespan under Prigozhin/Utkin", "typical_range": "2014-2023", "unit": "years" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of Wagner Group 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": [ "Command mutiny against the Russian Ministry of Defence (23-24 June 2023), showing the principal-agent risk of an armed proxy.", "Extreme attrition among convict assault units, especially around Bakhmut.", "Documented and alleged war crimes and serious human-rights abuses in Ukraine, the Central African Republic, Mali, and elsewhere, creating legal and political liability for patrons.", "Leadership decapitation (Utkin and Prigozhin killed in the August 2023 aircraft crash) followed by fragmentation of command and brand.", "Inter-service conflict with regular forces (fire-control disputes, competing logistics, and open hostility with the MoD).", "Sanctions disruption of finance, aviation, and logistics, and isolation of host regimes that accepted Wagner.", "Succession hazard: leftover armed networks, weapons, and commercial concessions that do not disappear when the brand is retired." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Wagner Group 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": [ "In Russian usage the group is a ЧВК (private military company) and is nicknamed \"musicians\"; domestic law long treated mercenarism as a crime even as the group operated.", "In Ukraine it is treated as an illegal armed formation and has been designated a terrorist organization.", "In U.S. practice it is a sanctioned proxy and, from 2023, a designated transnational criminal organization; it was not placed on the State Department Foreign Terrorist Organization list.", "EU and UK practice is sanctions-led; a subset of European states use a terrorist listing, so the same group is not legally the same kind of entity across Europe.", "In the Sahel and CAR it has been framed locally as a security partner and as a replacement for French or UN-associated forces, not as a classic Western PMC.", "Belarus was used as a temporary base after the 2023 mutiny, a status that did not exist in earlier theatres." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of Wagner Group 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; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Russian Armed Forces (Ministry of Defence)", "difference": "State military under public command and a uniform legal status; Wagner was a deniable, extra-legal proxy even when it fought the same campaigns." }, { "name": "Africa Corps (Afrikanskiy korpus)", "difference": "Post-2023 MoD-run successor for African deployments; test is command and contracting through the defence ministry rather than Prigozhin's private network." }, { "name": "Redut and other Russian PMCs (Patriot, Convoy)", "difference": "Separate companies, often closer to GRU/MoD contracting; test is corporate identity, recruiting brand, and which ministry or oligarch actually pays and commands." }, { "name": "Rosgvardiya (National Guard)", "difference": "A statutory internal-security force of the Russian state, not a private company." }, { "name": "Internet Research Agency / Concord commercial network", "difference": "Prigozhin-linked information and catering businesses; test is mission - influence and logistics versus armed combat." }, { "name": "U.S. or Western PMCs (e.g. Blackwater/Academi)", "difference": "Typically licensed contractors to a publicly acknowledged principal; Wagner's value was deniability and extra-legal violence, not a published government contract." }, { "name": "Donetsk and Luhansk proxy militias", "difference": "Local separatist formations with territorial claims; Wagner was an imported Russian company that fought alongside them rather than a Donbas polity." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of Wagner Group this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does an existing Vercy world model already own Wagner Group or an equivalent concept, requiring this registry entry to link to it?", "What organisational boundary should the Wagner Group entry retain across leadership changes and transfers to Africa Corps or other formations?", "Which formations currently retain evidenced Wagner command and identity, and which reported presences are historical or attributable to successors?", "Which commercial, recruitment and logistical relationships reflect effective Wagner control rather than association or contracted support?", "Which current legal instruments and conduct determinations apply to the precisely identified entities, and where do authoritative sources disagree?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 9, "findings": 16, "questions": 24 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "organisation or institution", "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 Wagner Group, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise Wagner Group across changing names and organisational arrangements, assess its evidenced condition, and determine permissible engagement without assuming continuity, affiliation or authority.", "characteristics": { "substance": "social", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "collective" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Described in 92 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 Wagner Group, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "a social arrangement between people", "physicalCharacter": [ "Acts through people, and only through them.", "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. Recognised by name, register entry and the people acting in its name, and those change while it stays the same body." ], "relatedModels": [], "standing": "Described in 92 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 Wagner Group from another, and a Wagner Group 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 Wagner Group, 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 Wagner Group, 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 Wagner Group 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 Wagner Group, 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 Wagner Group, 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 Wagner Group 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 Wagner Group 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 Wagner Group, 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 Wagner Group, 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 Wagner Group 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 Wagner Group from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Wagner Group, 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 Wagner Group, 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 Wagner Group 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 Wagner Group 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 Wagner Group between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Wagner Group, 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 Wagner Group, 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 Wagner Group 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 Wagner Group, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Wagner Group 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 Wagner Group, 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 Wagner Group, 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 Wagner Group is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "people-and-responsibility", "name": "People, roles and responsibility", "description": "Who stands in what relation to a Wagner Group.", "rationale": "Social things are defined by the relations people hold to them, and those relations change without the thing changing.", "layers": [ { "id": "roles-and-parties", "name": "Roles and parties", "description": "The roles that exist around a Wagner Group and who fills them.", "findings": [ { "id": "role-assignments", "name": "Role assignments and their validity", "description": "Who holds which role over a Wagner Group, from when, and on whose authority.", "questions": [ { "id": "role-assignments-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a role over a Wagner Group, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "role-assignments-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a role over a Wagner Group, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "role-assignments-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a role over a Wagner Group is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "ownership-and-accountability", "name": "Ownership and accountability", "description": "Who answers for a Wagner Group and who may decide about it.", "findings": [ { "id": "accountability", "name": "Accountability and decision rights", "description": "Where responsibility for a Wagner Group sits when something goes wrong.", "questions": [ { "id": "accountability-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes responsibility for a Wagner Group, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "accountability-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about responsibility for a Wagner Group, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "accountability-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once responsibility for a Wagner Group is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "legal-identity", "name": "Legal identity and mandate", "description": "What Wagner Group is in law and what it exists to do.", "rationale": "Legal identity survives changes of name, address, staff and premises, which is exactly why it must be recorded separately from all of them.", "layers": [ { "id": "registration", "name": "Legal form and registration", "description": "Form, register, identifiers and jurisdiction.", "findings": [ { "id": "registration-record", "name": "Registration and identifiers", "description": "What names this body unambiguously in law.", "questions": [ { "id": "registration-record-q01", "text": "What legal form does Wagner Group take, in which register, under which identifier?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "registration-record-q02", "text": "What survives a rename, a merger or a move of premises, and what does not?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "mandate", "name": "Mandate and governing instrument", "description": "The purpose it is bound to and the document that binds it.", "findings": [ { "id": "mandate-record", "name": "Mandate and its source", "description": "What it may do, and the instrument that says so.", "questions": [ { "id": "mandate-record-q01", "text": "What is the mandate of Wagner Group, and which founding or governing instrument grants it?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "mandate-record-q02", "text": "What lies outside the mandate, and what should an agent do when asked for it?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "governance-and-membership", "name": "Governance, membership and decision rights", "description": "Who decides in Wagner Group and who belongs to it.", "rationale": "Authority inside an organisation is held by roles, not people, and an agent needs to know which role can commit it.", "layers": [ { "id": "decision-rights", "name": "Decision rights", "description": "Bodies, offices and what each may bind.", "findings": [ { "id": "authority-map", "name": "Who may bind the organisation", "description": "The offices that can commit it and their limits.", "questions": [ { "id": "authority-map-q01", "text": "Which bodies or offices of Wagner Group may take which decisions, and up to what limit?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "authority-map-q02", "text": "What evidence shows that a given person currently holds that office?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "membership", "name": "Membership and affiliation", "description": "Who counts as part of it and on what terms.", "findings": [ { "id": "membership-rules", "name": "Membership and its evidence", "description": "Classes of member, how membership starts and ends.", "questions": [ { "id": "membership-rules-q01", "text": "What kinds of membership or affiliation does Wagner Group have, and how does each begin and end?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "membership-rules-q02", "text": "What may a member do in its name, and what may they not?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a Wagner Group 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 Wagner Group and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Wagner Group, 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 Wagner Group, 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 Wagner Group 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 Wagner Group is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Wagner Group, 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 Wagner Group, 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 Wagner Group is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 12, "findings": 14, "questions": 38 } } } }