{ "model": { "rank": 5986, "code": "thing-q379689", "model_id": "vr.tr.generation-x", "name": "Generation X", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise Generation X as a context-dependent birth cohort, assess evidence about its changing circumstances, and decide which cohort-level interpretations or actions are justified.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Society, people and institutions", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "SOC", "domain": "SOC.ORG", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q379689/", "tier": 2, "score": 63, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "Generation Jones" ], "aliasCount": 1, "merged": 1, "knownIn": 63, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q379689", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q379689", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T10:30:16Z", "providers": [ "Codex", "Grok" ], "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "usd": 0.00480012, "turns": 1, "seconds": 66.5, "error": null }, "codex": { "seconds": 67.5, "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: 01a07b69-be60-7652-964f-8210160ae538\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. 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demography, marketing, labour-force statistics, and cultural history.", "scope_statement": "This model owns the definition, contextual recognition, aggregate circumstances and responsible use of Generation X as a generational cohort, with explicit boundaries, geographic applicability and evidential uncertainty.", "in_scope": [ "Source-specific birth-year boundaries and rules for identifying Generation X", "Geographic and cultural applicability of the Generation X label", "Historical exposures proposed to distinguish this cohort", "Aggregate life-course circumstances and variation within the cohort", "Separation of cohort patterns from age effects and period effects", "Permissible uses and limitations of Generation X classifications" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Individual identity, personality, preferences or eligibility decisions", "Complete models of neighbouring generations such as Baby Boomers and Millennials", "National population structures and demographic forecasting as a whole", "Organisations, membership bodies or governance structures", "Household, employment, pension or healthcare systems themselves", "Marketing personas that infer individual behaviour from a generational label" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Recognition requires an explicit source and birth-year convention; the name alone does not establish membership.", "Generation X follows a birth cohort through time, whereas an age band such as middle-aged adults changes its membership as people age.", "The same label may use different boundaries or historical reference points across countries; applicability must be established for the population under study.", "Birth-year classification, personal identification as Generation X and external attribution of the label are distinguishable observations.", "Generation X denotes a cohort rather than an organisation: its placement in SOC.ORG does not establish formal membership, leadership or collective authority." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Operational birth-year interval", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Inclusive start and end calendar years, tied to a named source and its stated exceptions", "why_it_matters": "Makes cohort recognition reproducible without presenting disputed cutoffs as universal." }, { "name": "Geographic and cultural applicability", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Countries, populations and cultural contexts to which a definition or claim applies", "why_it_matters": "Prevents transferring a locally meaningful generational interpretation to an unsupported population." }, { "name": "Classification basis", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Birth-year convention; self-identification; external attribution; combination; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Separates an analytical cohort assignment from an identity claim." }, { "name": "Age range at observation", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Years of age at a specified observation date, calculated from the selected cohort boundaries", "why_it_matters": "Locates findings in the life course without treating present age as a permanent generational attribute." }, { "name": "Historically situated exposure", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Documented event or transition linked to place, calendar period and age at exposure", "why_it_matters": "Allows proposed formative experiences to be examined rather than assumed to be shared." }, { "name": "Cohort attribution status", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Untested; descriptive association; age and period effects examined; contested; insufficient evidence", "why_it_matters": "Controls whether an observed difference supports a claim about Generation X specifically." }, { "name": "Within-cohort disparity", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Outcome-specific distributions or subgroup differences, with units, denominators and uncertainty", "why_it_matters": "Prevents averages from concealing materially different circumstances within Generation X." } ], "affordances": [ "Apply a documented Generation X definition to aggregate data and flag cases whose classification changes under alternative boundaries.", "Compare Generation X across places or sources after checking whether their cohort definitions are compatible.", "Evaluate proposed formative experiences against actual timing, location and exposure evidence.", "Assess changing employment, care and retirement circumstances while distinguishing age, period and cohort explanations.", "Identify evidence gaps and within-cohort groups obscured by an overall average.", "Support population-level research or service planning while flagging unsupported individual inferences." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "pew-2019-generations", "title": "Defining generations: Where Millennials end and Generation Z begins", "url": "https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2019/01/17/where-millennials-end-and-generation-z-begins/", "what_it_supports": "Pew Research Center's widely cited U.S. birth-year spans, including Generation X as 1965-1980.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "coupland-1991", "title": "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Popularized the name in English-language culture (1991 novel); does not itself define a census birth-year band." }, { "id": "strauss-howe-1991", "title": "Generations: The History of America's Future, 1584 to 2069", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Strauss-Howe generational dating that places this cohort earlier and longer (commonly 1961-1981) than Pew." } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "generation-x-recognition", "name": "Generation X recognition", "description": "Establishes which population the label denotes and where that interpretation is usable.", "rationale": "Generation X cannot be recognised reliably through an unstated or supposedly universal birth-year cutoff.", "layers": [ { "id": "birth-cohort-conventions", "name": "Birth cohort conventions", "description": "Makes the selected interval and its relationship to adjacent generations explicit.", "findings": [ { "id": "operational-generation-x-boundary", "name": "Operational Generation X boundary", "description": "Record the adopted birth-year convention, its source and any boundary ambiguity affecting the task.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which inclusive birth years define Generation X for this task, and how does the defining source handle exceptions?", "kind": "definition", "id": "operational-generation-x-boundary-q01" }, { "text": "Which birth years change classification between Generation X and neighbouring cohorts under other relevant conventions?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "operational-generation-x-boundary-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "label-and-context", "name": "Label and context", "description": "Distinguishes contextual validity of the label from personal identification with it.", "findings": [ { "id": "local-meaning-and-identification", "name": "Local meaning and identification", "description": "Record where Generation X is used, who applies the label and whether self-identification was observed separately.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which sources establish that Generation X is a meaningful cohort label in the country or population being modelled?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "local-meaning-and-identification-q01" }, { "text": "Does the evidence classify people by birth year, ask whether they identify as Generation X, or combine these approaches?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "local-meaning-and-identification-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "generation-x-historical-exposure", "name": "Generation X historical exposure", "description": "Examines the historical experiences used to explain or recognise this cohort.", "rationale": "Accounts of Generation X often invoke formative transitions whose timing and reach must be checked for each population.", "layers": [ { "id": "formative-period-timing", "name": "Formative period timing", "description": "Relates proposed formative events to the cohort's age and location at the time.", "findings": [ { "id": "historical-exposure-alignment", "name": "Historical exposure alignment", "description": "Record evidence for proposed influences, such as Cold War conditions or labour-market restructuring, without presuming universal exposure.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which events or transitions are proposed as formative for Generation X in this setting, and what ages did the selected birth years span during them?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "historical-exposure-alignment-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence shows that the relevant population experienced those conditions rather than merely living during the same period?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "historical-exposure-alignment-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "analogue-and-digital-transition", "name": "Analogue and digital transition", "description": "Tests narratives connecting Generation X to changes in communications, media and computing.", "findings": [ { "id": "technology-adoption-trajectories", "name": "Technology adoption trajectories", "description": "Record the timing and unequal availability of digital technologies before using an analogue-to-digital narrative to characterise Generation X.", "questions": [ { "text": "At what ages did relevant Generation X subgroups gain access to personal computers, the internet or mobile communications in the setting studied?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "technology-adoption-trajectories-q01" }, { "text": "Where do geography, income or occupation make the proposed analogue-childhood and digital-adulthood narrative inapplicable?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "technology-adoption-trajectories-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "generation-x-life-course", "name": "Generation X life-course circumstances", "description": "Tracks dated evidence about work, material resources, care responsibilities and retirement transitions.", "rationale": "Judging Generation X's circumstances requires observations that move with the cohort and expose differences within it.", "layers": [ { "id": "work-and-retirement-position", "name": "Work and retirement position", "description": "Assesses employment and retirement circumstances under the applicable institutions and observation period.", "findings": [ { "id": "employment-and-retirement-readiness", "name": "Employment and retirement readiness", "description": "Record distributions of employment conditions, accumulated resources and retirement provision without assuming a single Generation X trajectory.", "questions": [ { "text": "At the observation date, how are employment status, job security and pension coverage distributed within the selected Generation X population?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "employment-and-retirement-readiness-q01" }, { "text": "Which differences remain when Generation X is compared with earlier cohorts at comparable ages under documented economic and pension conditions?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "employment-and-retirement-readiness-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "care-and-household-responsibilities", "name": "Care and household responsibilities", "description": "Tests claims that Generation X faces overlapping responsibilities for younger and older people.", "findings": [ { "id": "overlapping-care-demands", "name": "Overlapping care demands", "description": "Record actual care relationships, intensity and available support before attributing a sandwich-generation position to Generation X.", "questions": [ { "text": "What proportion of the defined Generation X population provides care or financial support to both younger and older people, under which definition of support?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "overlapping-care-demands-q01" }, { "text": "Which measured needs justify a planning response, and which are better addressed through care circumstances than through the Generation X label?", "kind": "action", "id": "overlapping-care-demands-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "generation-x-evidence-and-use", "name": "Generation X evidence and use", "description": "Determines how far cohort claims support interpretation, comparison or action.", "rationale": "Generational descriptions can conflate ageing with historical effects and turn aggregate associations into unsupported stereotypes.", "layers": [ { "id": "cohort-effect-assessment", "name": "Cohort effect assessment", "description": "Evaluates whether a reported pattern is attributable to this birth cohort.", "findings": [ { "id": "age-period-cohort-separation", "name": "Age, period and cohort separation", "description": "Record the research design, assumptions and uncertainty behind claims that a pattern is distinctive to Generation X.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the evidence follow Generation X over time, compare cohorts at similar ages, or report only a single cross-sectional difference?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "age-period-cohort-separation-q01" }, { "text": "What assumptions address the dependence between age, observation period and birth cohort, and how sensitive is the conclusion to those assumptions?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "age-period-cohort-separation-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "heterogeneity-and-action-limits", "name": "Heterogeneity and action limits", "description": "Checks whether proposed uses respect variation within Generation X and the limits of aggregate evidence.", "findings": [ { "id": "justified-cohort-level-use", "name": "Justified cohort-level use", "description": "Record which uses a Generation X finding supports, whose circumstances it represents and where direct evidence is required.", "questions": [ { "text": "How does the reported Generation X pattern vary by relevant factors such as country, gender, socioeconomic position or migration history?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "justified-cohort-level-use-q01" }, { "text": "What population-level action does the evidence support, and what direct information would be required before applying it to a particular person?", "kind": "action", "id": "justified-cohort-level-use-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": [ "Demographic cohort (census/Pew-style birth-year band)", "Cultural generation (media, music, and workplace identity rather than a hard year cut)", "Xennials / cusp microgeneration (late Gen X / early Millennial, roughly late 1970s-early 1980s)", "National statistical cohorts (country-specific year ranges that do not match U.S. Pew dates)", "Workplace/HR generation (used in talent and leadership discourse, often looser than demographic dating)", "Consumer-segment Gen X (marketing panels defined by age at campaign time rather than birth-year theory)" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of Generation X 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": "Q188198", "note": "Item for the demographic/cultural generation named Generation X; confirm before treating as canonical." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of Generation X 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": [ "Birth-year bands in public-opinion, census-adjacent, and marketing research reports", "Workforce planning and 'generational' HR commentary (management style, retirement timing, digital-native contrast)", "Media and cultural history labels (latchkey childhood, MTV, end of Cold War young adulthood)", "Political and consumer targeting that treats the cohort as a voting or buying bloc" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Generation X 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": "Birth-year span (Pew / common U.S. research convention)", "typical_range": "1965-1980", "unit": "calendar year of birth" }, { "quantity": "Birth-year span (Strauss-Howe / 13th Generation)", "typical_range": "1961-1981", "unit": "calendar year of birth" }, { "quantity": "Age of cohort members in 2026 under the Pew band", "typical_range": "46-61", "unit": "years of age" }, { "quantity": "Share of a national adult population (order of magnitude, high-income Western countries)", "typical_range": "about 15-25 of adults, depending on country and year", "unit": "percent of adult population" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of Generation X 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": [ "False precision: treating 1964 vs 1965 or 1980 vs 1981 as a real social boundary rather than a research convention", "Ecological fallacy: attributing cohort averages (income, politics, tech use) to every member", "Marketing stereotyping that erases class, race, gender, and national differences inside the same birth years", "Inconsistent year ranges across vendors, making time series and cross-study comparison invalid", "Age-period-cohort confounding: effects of being middle-aged now misread as enduring 'Gen X' traits" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Generation X 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": [ "United States: Pew Research Center's 1965-1980 band is the default citation in journalism and applied research", "United Kingdom and much of Europe: similar mid-1960s to ~1980 usage, but Cold War, housing, and welfare timing differ from the U.S. story", "Australia: research houses such as McCrindle often use 1965-1979", "Societies without a U.S.-style Baby Boom (parts of the Global South, delayed fertility transitions) do not have a commensurate 'Generation X' as a lived demographic event; the label is often an imported marketing category" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of Generation X 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": "Baby Boomers", "difference": "Immediately preceding cohort; Pew places Boomers at 1946-1964, so a 1964 birth is Boomer and a 1965 birth is Generation X only by that convention." }, { "name": "Millennials (Generation Y)", "difference": "Immediately following cohort; Pew places Millennials at 1981-1996. A 1980 birth is Gen X, a 1981 birth is Millennial on that scale." }, { "name": "Xennials", "difference": "Informal cusp microgeneration (often ~1977-1983) spanning late Gen X and early Millennials; not a replacement for the parent cohort in census work." }, { "name": "Generation Jones", "difference": "Proposed late-Boomer microgeneration (roughly mid-1950s to mid-1960s); overlaps the Boomer/X boundary, not a synonym for Generation X." }, { "name": "Age group / life stage", "difference": "A 50-year-old in 2026 is Gen X under Pew dating, but 'people in their 50s' is an age band that will contain different generations in other years." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of Generation X this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Which authoritative definition and geographic context should anchor vr.tr.generation-x when the registry records no definition?", "Does an existing Vercy world model already own this cohort concept, requiring a registry link rather than a separate publication?", "Should the SOC.ORG placement be retained for a generational cohort, and what registry convention explains that placement?", "Which proposed historical and technological experiences demonstrably distinguish Generation X in each intended population?", "Which available datasets support robust cohort comparisons and meaningful subgroup analysis without overstating age-period-cohort separation?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 9, "findings": 15, "questions": 23 } }, "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 Generation X, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise Generation X as a context-dependent birth cohort, assess evidence about its changing circumstances, and decide which cohort-level interpretations or actions are justified.", "characteristics": { "substance": "social", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "collective" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: Generation Jones.", "1 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 63 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 Generation X, 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": [ { "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": [ "Generation Jones" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 63 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 1 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 Generation X from another, and a Generation X 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 Generation X, 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 Generation X, 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 Generation X 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 Generation X, 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 Generation X, 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 Generation X 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 Generation X 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 Generation X, 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 Generation X, 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 Generation X 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 Generation X from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Generation X, 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 Generation X, 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 Generation X 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 Generation X 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 Generation X between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Generation X, 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 Generation X, 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 Generation X 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 Generation X, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Generation X 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 Generation X, 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 Generation X, 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 Generation X 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 Generation X.", "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 Generation X and who fills them.", "findings": [ { "id": "role-assignments", "name": "Role assignments and their validity", "description": "Who holds which role over a Generation X, from when, and on whose authority.", "questions": [ { "id": "role-assignments-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a role over a Generation X, 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 Generation X, 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 Generation X 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 Generation X and who may decide about it.", "findings": [ { "id": "accountability", "name": "Accountability and decision rights", "description": "Where responsibility for a Generation X sits when something goes wrong.", "questions": [ { "id": "accountability-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes responsibility for a Generation X, 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 Generation X, 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 Generation X 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 Generation X 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 Generation X 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 Generation X, 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 Generation X 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 Generation X 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 Generation X 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 Generation X 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 Generation X and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Generation X, 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 Generation X, 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 Generation X 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 Generation X is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Generation X, 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 Generation X, 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 Generation X 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 } } } }