{ "model": { "rank": 2117, "code": "thing-q428124", "model_id": "vr.tr.violet", "name": "violet", "purpose": "Let an agent identify and specify violet shades, explain spectral violet versus purple, provide colour codes and accessibility guidance, and describe cultural and symbolic uses.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Cross-cutting context", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "XCT", "domain": "XCT.QLT", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q428124/", "tier": 2, "score": 115, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "bright ube", "violet red", "red-violet", "cobalt violet", "dark violet", "pale violet red", "thistle" ], "aliasCount": 7, "merged": 7, "knownIn": 115, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": "vr.tr.violet", "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q428124", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q428124", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-11T16:05:29Z", "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-Q428124", "registryId": "vr.tr.violet", "name": "violet", "version": "0.2.0-wave.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "XCT.QLT" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q428124/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.violet", "name": "violet", "purpose": "Let an agent identify and specify violet shades, explain spectral violet versus purple, provide colour codes and accessibility guidance, and describe cultural and symbolic uses.", "definition": "A colour between blue and purple at the short-wavelength end of the visible spectrum, spectrally around 380 to 450 nanometres, and also a range of purplish hues in pigments and design such as cobalt violet, red-violet and dark violet; the name comes from the flower, and violet is used in art, design, symbolism and colour standards.", "what_it_is_for": "Colour identification, design and culture.", "affordances": [ "specify violet in colour systems", "distinguish violet from purple", "check contrast and accessibility", "describe symbolism and uses" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Short-wavelength spectral colour", "Bluish purple", "Many named shades", "Named after the flower" ], "appearance": "A bluish purple hue.", "visual_identification": [ "Between blue and purple", "Spectral colour at short wavelengths", "Purple is a mix of red and blue, not spectral" ], "physical_properties": [ { "quantity": "spectral wavelength", "typical_range": "about 380-450", "unit": "nm", "note": "" } ], "families_and_kinds": [ "spectral violet", "cobalt violet and other pigments", "red-violet and dark violet shades", "web and design violets", "violet in nature such as flowers and minerals" ], "related_models": [ { "relation": "is a kind of", "target": "purple", "why": "category" }, { "relation": "is adjacent to", "target": "blue", "why": "spectrum neighbour" }, { "relation": "is related to", "target": "radiation", "why": "visible light" }, { "relation": "is related to", "target": "afterglow", "why": "purple light in twilight" } ], "identifiers": [], "standards_and_regulation": [ "Colour standards such as sRGB and Pantone", "WCAG contrast guidelines" ], "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Confusing violet and purple", "Poor contrast in design", "Display differences" ], "in_scope": [], "out_of_scope": [], "characteristics": [] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "specify", "name": "Specify", "description": "Colour codes.", "rationale": "Systems differ.", "layers": [ { "id": "codes", "name": "Codes", "description": "Hex and other values.", "findings": [ { "id": "codes-finding", "name": "Codes", "description": "Codes.", "questions": [ { "text": "What are the hex, RGB and other values for this violet shade?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which standard defines it?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "shades", "name": "Shades", "description": "Named shades.", "findings": [ { "id": "shades-finding", "name": "Shades", "description": "Named shades.", "questions": [ { "text": "How do red-violet, dark violet and cobalt violet differ?", "kind": "definition" }, { "text": "Which pigments produce them?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "science", "name": "Science", "description": "Physics and perception.", "rationale": "Spectral versus mixed.", "layers": [ { "id": "spectral", "name": "Spectral", "description": "Spectral violet.", "findings": [ { "id": "spectral-finding", "name": "Spectral", "description": "Spectral violet.", "questions": [ { "text": "Why is violet a spectral colour while purple is not?", "kind": "definition" }, { "text": "How do displays reproduce violet?", "kind": "definition" } ] } ] }, { "id": "perception", "name": "Perception", "description": "Seeing violet.", "findings": [ { "id": "perception-finding", "name": "Perception", "description": "Perception.", "questions": [ { "text": "How do people with colour vision deficiency perceive violet?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Why does violet appear reddish to some observers?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "design", "name": "Design", "description": "Using violet.", "rationale": "Contrast matters.", "layers": [ { "id": "contrast", "name": "Contrast", "description": "Accessibility.", "findings": [ { "id": "contrast-finding", "name": "Contrast", "description": "Accessibility.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does this violet meet WCAG contrast requirements against the background?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "text": "Which pairings work?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "palette", "name": "Palette", "description": "Palettes.", "findings": [ { "id": "palette-finding", "name": "Palette", "description": "Palettes.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which palettes suit this violet for the intended mood?", "kind": "action" }, { "text": "How does it print versus display?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "culture", "name": "Culture", "description": "Meaning.", "rationale": "Attributed meanings.", "layers": [ { "id": "symbolism", "name": "Symbolism", "description": "Symbolic uses.", "findings": [ { "id": "symbolism-finding", "name": "Symbolism", "description": "Symbolism.", "questions": [ { "text": "What does violet symbolise in this culture or tradition, according to sources?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which movements have used it?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "nature", "name": "Nature", "description": "Violet in nature.", "findings": [ { "id": "nature-finding", "name": "Nature", "description": "Nature.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which flowers, minerals and animals are violet, and why?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which entry fits the violet flower?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Should named shades be separate entries?", "How should colour standards be linked?", "How should cultural meanings be attributed?" ], "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 violet, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Let an agent identify and specify violet shades, explain spectral violet versus purple, provide colour codes and accessibility guidance, and describe cultural and symbolic uses.", "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: bright ube, violet red, red-violet, cobalt violet, dark violet, pale violet red, thistle.", "7 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 115 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 violet, 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": [ "bright ube", "violet red", "red-violet", "cobalt violet", "dark violet", "pale violet red", "thistle" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 115 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 7 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 violet from another, and a violet 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 violet, 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 violet, 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 violet 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 violet, 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 violet, 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 violet 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 violet 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 violet, 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 violet, 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 violet 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 violet from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a violet, 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 violet, 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 violet 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 violet 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 violet between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a violet, 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 violet, 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 violet 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 violet, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a violet 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 violet, 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 violet, 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 violet 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 violet is taken to mean, and by whom.", "rationale": "When a field disagrees 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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 violet 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 violet 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 violet 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 violet?", "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 violet?", "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 violet 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": 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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 violet is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a violet, 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 violet, 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 violet 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 } } } }