{ "model": { "rank": 1779, "code": "thing-q42138", "model_id": "vr.tr.citizenship", "name": "citizenship", "purpose": "Let an agent explain citizenship by acquisition routes, rights, dual citizenship and statelessness in general terms, point to official sources, and avoid personal immigration or legal advice.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Cross-cutting context", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "XCT", "domain": "XCT.QLT", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q42138/", "tier": 2, "score": 127, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "Anguillans", "British Virgin Islanders", "Gibraltarians", "Turks and Caicos Islanders", "Bermudans", "British", "British Asians", "British World War I casualty", "Cornish people", "Black Britons", "Falkland Islanders", "Latin American British", "South African Britons", "Thai Britons", "naturalised sports competitor", "South Asians in the United Kingdom", "East Asian Britons", "British Punjabis", "Vietnamese people in the United Kingdom", "British African-Caribbean people", "Kenyan Britons", "Tanzanian Britons", "Bolivians in the United Kingdom", "Peruvians in the United Kingdom", "Sub-district head", "District head of Ngawi", "American Samoan citizenship and nationality", "multiple citizenship", "Bulgarian nationality law", "claimed citizenship", "citizenship in Islam", "Dutch citizenship", "environnemental citizenship", "energy citizenship", "citizenship of the United States", "Roman citizenship", "citizenship of Russia", "global citizenship", "active citizenship", "Belarusian citizenship" ], "aliasCount": 47, "merged": 47, "knownIn": 127, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": "vr.tr.citizenship", "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q42138", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q42138", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-11T13:41:12Z", "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-Q42138", "registryId": "vr.tr.citizenship", "name": "citizenship", "version": "0.2.0-wave.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "XCT.QLT" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q42138/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.citizenship", "name": "citizenship", "purpose": "Let an agent explain citizenship by acquisition routes, rights, dual citizenship and statelessness in general terms, point to official sources, and avoid personal immigration or legal advice.", "definition": "The legal status of membership of a state, conferring rights such as residence, voting and diplomatic protection and duties such as obeying laws, 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overseas territories citizenship" ], "related_models": [ { "relation": "is a kind of", "target": "membership and legal status", "why": "category" }, { "relation": "is evidenced by", "target": "passport", "why": "document" }, { "relation": "is related to", "target": "descent-relation", "why": "acquisition by descent" }, { "relation": "is contrasted with", "target": "statelessness", "why": "absence" } ], "identifiers": [], "standards_and_regulation": [ "National nationality law", "UN conventions on statelessness", "Universal Declaration of Human Rights article 15" ], "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Agents giving personal immigration advice", "Scams offering fast-track citizenship", "Outdated rules" ], "in_scope": [], "out_of_scope": [], "characteristics": [] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "acquire", "name": "Acquire", "description": "Routes.", "rationale": "Routes vary.", "layers": [ { "id": "routes", "name": "Routes", "description": "Birth, descent, naturalisation.", "findings": [ { "id": "routes-finding", "name": "Routes", "description": "Acquisition routes.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which routes to citizenship exist in this country, according to official sources?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "What are the general requirements?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "apply", "name": "Apply", "description": "Applications.", "findings": [ { "id": "apply-finding", "name": "Apply", "description": "Applications.", "questions": [ { "text": "Where is the official application process described?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Is the user seeking advice on their own case?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "rights", "name": "Rights", "description": "Rights and duties.", "rationale": "Status confers rights.", "layers": [ { "id": "rights", "name": "Rights", "description": "Citizen rights.", "findings": [ { "id": "rights-finding", "name": "Rights", "description": "Citizen rights.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which rights come with this citizenship, such as voting or consular protection?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which duties apply?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "dual", "name": "Dual", "description": "Dual citizenship.", "findings": [ { "id": "dual-finding", "name": "Dual", "description": "Dual citizenship.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does this country allow dual citizenship?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Could acquiring another citizenship cause loss of this one?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "stateless", "name": "Stateless", "description": "Without citizenship.", "rationale": "Help exists.", "layers": [ { "id": "help", "name": "Help", "description": "Support.", "findings": [ { "id": "help-finding", "name": "Help", "description": "Support for stateless people.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which organisations help stateless people?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Is there a statelessness determination procedure here?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "risk", "name": "Risk", "description": "At risk.", "findings": [ { "id": "risk-finding", "name": "Risk", "description": "Risk of statelessness.", "questions": [ { "text": "Could a child or adult be at risk of statelessness?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "text": "Where can they get legal help?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "safety", "name": "Safety", "description": "Scams and neutrality.", "rationale": "Caution needed.", "layers": [ { "id": "scams", "name": "Scams", "description": "Fake services.", "findings": [ { "id": "scams-finding", "name": "Scams", "description": "Scams.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is an agency promising guaranteed or fast-track citizenship for a fee?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "text": "How can official channels be identified?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "neutral", "name": "Neutral", "description": "Contested cases.", "findings": [ { "id": "neutral-finding", "name": "Neutral", "description": "Contested cases.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is citizenship tied to a disputed territory here?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "text": "How should different positions be attributed?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Should each country citizenship be a separate entry?", "How should official portals be linked?", "How should special categories be modelled?" ], "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 citizenship, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Let an agent explain citizenship by acquisition routes, rights, dual citizenship and statelessness in general terms, point to official sources, and avoid personal immigration or legal advice.", "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: Anguillans, British Virgin Islanders, Gibraltarians, Turks and Caicos Islanders, Bermudans, British, British Asians, British World War I casualty, Cornish people, Black Britons, Falkland Islanders, Latin American British.", "47 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 127 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 citizenship, 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": [ "Anguillans", "British Virgin Islanders", "Gibraltarians", "Turks and Caicos Islanders", "Bermudans", "British", "British Asians", "British World War I casualty", "Cornish people", "Black Britons", "Falkland Islanders", "Latin American British" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 127 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 47 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 citizenship from another, and a citizenship 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 citizenship, 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 citizenship, 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 citizenship 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 citizenship, 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 citizenship, 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 citizenship 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 citizenship 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 citizenship, 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 citizenship, 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 citizenship 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 citizenship from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a citizenship, 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 citizenship, 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 citizenship 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 citizenship 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 citizenship between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a citizenship, 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 citizenship, 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 citizenship 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 citizenship, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a citizenship 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 citizenship, 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 citizenship, 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 citizenship 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 citizenship 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 citizenship 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 citizenship 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 citizenship 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 citizenship?", "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 citizenship?", "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 citizenship 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 citizenship and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a citizenship, 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 citizenship, 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 citizenship 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 citizenship is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a citizenship, 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 citizenship, 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 citizenship 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 } } } }