{ "model": { "rank": 6297, "code": "thing-q51724", "model_id": "vr.tr.jedi", "name": "Jedi", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a Jedi institution, assess its membership, authority and continuity, and determine which actions its members or representatives may legitimately undertake within a specified Star Wars continuity.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Society, people and institutions", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "SOC", "domain": "SOC.ORG", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q51724/", "tier": 2, "score": 61, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "Jedi Master", "Padawan" ], "aliasCount": 2, "merged": 2, "knownIn": 61, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q51724", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q51724", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T13:38:44Z", "providers": [ "Codex", "Grok" ], "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "usd": 0.0035649, "turns": 1, "seconds": 50.7, "error": null }, "codex": { "seconds": 72.8, "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: 01a07c16-9e91-75e3-921e-cb2243bd9948\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: Jedi\nRegistry id: vr.tr.jedi\nPlane / domain: SOC / SOC.ORG\nRegistry definition: (none recorded)\nNames folded into this entry: (none)\n\nA Vercy model s" } } }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q51724", "registryId": "vr.tr.jedi", "name": "Jedi", "version": "0.1.0-research.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "SOC.ORG" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q51724/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.jedi", "name": "Jedi", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a Jedi institution, assess its membership, authority and continuity, and determine which actions its members or representatives may legitimately undertake within a specified Star Wars continuity.", "definition": "A member of a fictional monastic-martial order in the Star Wars franchise, bound by a code of service and trained to use the Force as a guardian of peace and justice.", "scope_statement": "Provisionally interprets Jedi in SOC / SOC.ORG as the Jedi Order or an explicitly identified institutional continuation, owning its collective identity, membership rules, teachings, governance and mandates; whether the registry instead intends individual Jedi or real-world Jedi organisations remains unresolved.", "in_scope": [ "Institutional identity bounded by fictional continuity and historical period", "Recognition, training, standing and departure of Jedi members", "Interpretation and enforcement of Jedi teachings", "Internal authority and relationships with political institutions", "Collective missions, operational limits and institutional continuity" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Individual Jedi biographies, abilities and personal development", "The Force as a cosmological phenomenon or system of powers", "Lightsabers, temples, archives and spacecraft as independently modelled things", "The Republic, Sith institutions and other neighbouring organisations", "Real-world Jedi religions, fan organisations and media-production history" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Requires evidence of institutional identity or continuity; possession of Force abilities alone does not establish a Jedi organisation.", "Separates recognition by a Jedi institution from an individual's self-description as Jedi.", "Distinguishes a Jedi institution from a generic Force tradition through its claimed Jedi lineage, recognised teachings and membership practices.", "Distinguishes the Order from a political or military body by recording its own authority separately from offices or commissions granted externally.", "Treats the same institutional name in different fictional continuities as insufficient evidence that the records describe one organisation." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Continuity and period", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Named fictional continuity and bounded in-universe period; unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Prevents incompatible versions of Jedi institutions from being combined." }, { "name": "Institutional condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Organised; dispersed; suppressed; rebuilding; dissolved; disputed; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Determines whether membership, leadership and collective action can still be established." }, { "name": "Recognition basis", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Institution linked to recognising bodies, successor claims and supporting evidence", "why_it_matters": "Separates an acknowledged continuation from an unsupported claim to the Jedi name." }, { "name": "Membership standing", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Person linked to institution with admission basis, training stage, standing and effective period", "why_it_matters": "Supports decisions about who belongs and which institutional permissions apply." }, { "name": "Governing authority", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Council, office or other authority linked to jurisdiction, appointment basis and effective period", "why_it_matters": "Identifies who may recognise members, interpret rules or authorise missions." }, { "name": "Applicable teaching", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Institution linked to a sourced formulation of Jedi teaching and its local interpretation", "why_it_matters": "Avoids treating one formulation of Jedi conduct as universal across all periods." }, { "name": "External mandate", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Political or other counterpart linked to granted powers, obligations, limits and duration", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes Jedi standing from externally granted legal or military authority." }, { "name": "Training capacity", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Sustained; constrained; interrupted; absent; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Helps assess whether the institution can transmit its teachings and reproduce its membership." } ], "affordances": [ "Assess a claim of Jedi membership against the relevant institution, period and recognition rules.", "Identify the authority competent to approve training, advancement, discipline or a mission.", "Check a proposed action against applicable Jedi teachings and external mandates.", "Distinguish institutional decisions from individual conduct or unofficial representation.", "Evaluate whether a dispersed or rebuilt group continues an earlier Jedi institution.", "Flag conflicting evidence and withhold conclusions that depend on unresolved continuity or authority." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "lucasfilm-canon-jedi", "title": "Jedi", "url": "https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Jedi", "what_it_supports": "In-universe definition, ranks (Initiate, Padawan, Knight, Master, Grand Master), High Council, and the Order as peacekeepers of the Galactic Republic.", "url_status": "blocked" }, { "id": "britannica-star-wars", "title": "Star Wars", "url": "https://www.britannica.com/topic/Star-Wars-film-series", "what_it_supports": "Jedi as the central heroic order of the franchise; Jedi vs. Sith as the franchise's primary moral-political opposition.", "url_status": "blocked" }, { "id": "census-jedi-uk", "title": "Jedi (census category) and related coverage of the 2001 UK census 'Jedi' write-in", "url": "https://www.ons.gov.uk/", "what_it_supports": "Real-world use of 'Jedi' as a self-reported religious identity in national censuses (UK 2001 and later, and analogous campaigns elsewhere).", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "temple-of-the-jedi-order", "title": "Temple of the Jedi Order (TotJO) - public-facing description of Jediism as a real-world spiritual path", "url": "https://www.templeofthejediorder.org/", "what_it_supports": "Jediism as a lived, extra-fictional practice with its own code, training language, and community institutions.", "url_status": "live" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "jedi-identity-and-lineage", "name": "Jedi identity and lineage", "description": "Establishes which Jedi institution is being described and how its identity is supported.", "rationale": "The Jedi name alone cannot establish continuity, institutional recognition or the intended organisational referent.", "layers": [ { "id": "continuity-bound-identity", "name": "Continuity-bound identity", "description": "Locates the institution within a particular fictional continuity and period.", "findings": [ { "id": "institutional-referent", "name": "Institutional referent", "description": "Record whether Jedi denotes an Order, a local institutional body, a successor organisation or a collective label in the evidence being used.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which organisation does Jedi denote in this continuity and period?", "kind": "definition", "id": "institutional-referent-q01" }, { "text": "Which source establishes that organisational referent rather than merely mentioning Jedi individuals?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "institutional-referent-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "recognition-and-succession", "name": "Recognition and succession", "description": "Separates claims of Jedi lineage from demonstrated institutional continuity.", "findings": [ { "id": "basis-of-jedi-continuity", "name": "Basis of Jedi continuity", "description": "Record the evidence and disputes connecting this institution to an earlier Jedi body or tradition.", "questions": [ { "text": "What connects this body to an earlier Jedi institution: recognised members, transmitted teachings, delegated authority or another evidenced basis?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "basis-of-jedi-continuity-q01" }, { "text": "What would make this a separate Jedi organisation rather than a continuation of the same one?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "basis-of-jedi-continuity-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "jedi-membership-and-training", "name": "Jedi membership and training", "description": "Records how people enter, learn within and leave the institution.", "rationale": "Force sensitivity, training, title and recognised membership must remain distinguishable when judging who may act as a Jedi.", "layers": [ { "id": "admission-and-instruction", "name": "Admission and instruction", "description": "Captures the institution's admission rules and responsibility for transmitting Jedi practice.", "findings": [ { "id": "recognised-training-path", "name": "Recognised training path", "description": "Record applicable admission conditions, training relationships and evidence of accepted instruction.", "questions": [ { "text": "What conditions make a candidate eligible for admission in this institution and period?", "kind": "definition", "id": "recognised-training-path-q01" }, { "text": "Who may accept a learner and take responsibility for their Jedi training?", "kind": "action", "id": "recognised-training-path-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "standing-and-advancement", "name": "Standing and advancement", "description": "Distinguishes training stages, recognised titles and current institutional standing.", "findings": [ { "id": "title-and-membership-status", "name": "Title and membership status", "description": "Record what titles such as Padawan, Knight or Master mean where attested, together with promotion, resignation and exclusion rules.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which Jedi titles or stages exist here, and what evidence establishes advancement between them?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "title-and-membership-status-q01" }, { "text": "How do departure, expulsion or interrupted training affect a person's standing and permission to represent the institution?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "title-and-membership-status-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "jedi-teachings-and-accountability", "name": "Jedi teachings and accountability", "description": "Connects the institution's understanding of Jedi practice to expectations and judgments of conduct.", "rationale": "An agent needs the applicable interpretation of Jedi teachings to evaluate conduct without assuming a timeless, uniform code.", "layers": [ { "id": "code-and-force-practice", "name": "Code and Force practice", "description": "Records authoritative teachings and how they constrain the use of Force abilities.", "findings": [ { "id": "applicable-jedi-teaching", "name": "Applicable Jedi teaching", "description": "Record sourced expectations concerning the Force, the dark side, attachment and service only where supported for this institution.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which formulations of Jedi teaching are authoritative for this institution and period?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "applicable-jedi-teaching-q01" }, { "text": "How does the institution distinguish permissible Force practice from conduct it identifies with the dark side?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "applicable-jedi-teaching-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "conduct-and-discipline", "name": "Conduct and discipline", "description": "Captures how alleged violations are interpreted and addressed.", "findings": [ { "id": "institutional-response-to-breach", "name": "Institutional response to breach", "description": "Record who judges breaches of Jedi teaching, what evidence is required and what responses are available.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who may determine that a member has breached an applicable Jedi obligation?", "kind": "action", "id": "institutional-response-to-breach-q01" }, { "text": "Which responses are supported, and how is a disputed judgment or possible return to standing handled?", "kind": "action", "id": "institutional-response-to-breach-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "jedi-authority-and-public-mandate", "name": "Jedi authority and public mandate", "description": "Separates internal Jedi decision-making from powers granted by other institutions.", "rationale": "Jedi membership alone does not establish authority to command others, represent the Order or exercise public power.", "layers": [ { "id": "internal-jedi-governance", "name": "Internal Jedi governance", "description": "Identifies the bodies and offices empowered to make institutional decisions.", "findings": [ { "id": "council-and-office-jurisdiction", "name": "Council and office jurisdiction", "description": "Record any governing council or equivalent authority, including how its jurisdiction differs from personal rank or teaching status.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which body or office may speak for the Jedi institution, and how is that authority established?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "council-and-office-jurisdiction-q01" }, { "text": "Which decisions require collective approval, and which may an individual Jedi make independently?", "kind": "action", "id": "council-and-office-jurisdiction-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "political-and-military-relations", "name": "Political and military relations", "description": "Records institutional relationships with governments and armed forces where evidenced.", "findings": [ { "id": "externally-granted-powers", "name": "Externally granted powers", "description": "Record the basis and limits of diplomatic, investigative or military powers separately from internal Jedi authority.", "questions": [ { "text": "What agreement, appointment or other evidence grants Jedi representatives powers within the relevant political system?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "externally-granted-powers-q01" }, { "text": "Where do those powers end, and how are conflicts between external orders and Jedi obligations resolved?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "externally-granted-powers-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "jedi-missions-and-survival", "name": "Jedi missions and survival", "description": "Assesses authorised activity and the institution's ability to continue through disruption.", "rationale": "A Jedi institution's practical state depends on whether it can authorise action, sustain training and preserve recognised continuity.", "layers": [ { "id": "mission-authorisation", "name": "Mission authorisation", "description": "Connects a proposed mission to institutional purpose, authority and limits.", "findings": [ { "id": "permitted-jedi-intervention", "name": "Permitted Jedi intervention", "description": "Record the mandate, responsible authority and constraints for an intervention undertaken in the Jedi institution's name.", "questions": [ { "text": "What makes this intervention an authorised Jedi mission rather than a member's personal undertaking?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "permitted-jedi-intervention-q01" }, { "text": "Who may authorise, constrain or end the mission, including its use of coercion or force?", "kind": "action", "id": "permitted-jedi-intervention-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "institutional-survival", "name": "Institutional survival", "description": "Assesses whether Jedi collective functions persist when leadership, membership or access to teaching is disrupted.", "findings": [ { "id": "capacity-to-continue-the-order", "name": "Capacity to continue the Order", "description": "Record surviving governance, recognised teachers, learners and access to teachings without equating surviving individuals with a functioning Order.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which functions remain demonstrably active: recognising members, training learners, making collective decisions or authorising missions?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "capacity-to-continue-the-order-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence supports classifying the institution as dispersed, rebuilding or ended when individual Jedi remain?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "capacity-to-continue-the-order-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": [ "Jedi Knight (canonical rank after trials)", "Jedi Master (rank of those who have trained a Padawan to Knighthood or otherwise attained the rank)", "Jedi Grand Master (head of the Order, historically a single office)", "Padawan (apprentice under a Knight or Master)", "Jedi Initiate / Youngling (pre-apprentice trainee)", "Jedi Consular (lore specialization emphasizing diplomacy and Force study)", "Jedi Guardian (lore specialization emphasizing combat)", "Jedi Sentinel (lore specialization blending investigation, technical skill, and combat)" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of Jedi 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": "Q51720 (Jedi, fictional organization)", "note": "The Order as a fictional organization in Star Wars; distinct from Q6107326 Jediism (real-world new religious movement) and Q3177577 Jedi (Star Wars character class)." }, { "scheme": "Library of Congress Subject Headings", "value_or_pattern": "Jedi (Fictitious characters)", "note": "LCSH heading used in cataloguing; treats Jedi primarily as a class of fictitious characters rather than as an organization." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of Jedi 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": [ "No civil, ISO, or professional standard governs 'Jedi' as an occupation or legal status. Census statistical agencies (e.g. ONS in the UK) have treated 'Jedi' as a write-in religious identity, typically recoded as 'no religion' rather than as a recognized faith.", "Real-world Jediist groups (e.g. Temple of the Jedi Order) publish internal codes and training rules; these bind members of those groups only.", "Star Wars canon and licensing of the Jedi as IP are governed by Lucasfilm / The Walt Disney Company, not by public law about the role itself." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of Jedi 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": [ "As a fictional order of Force-using peacekeepers in Star Wars films, series, novels, games, and licensed merchandising.", "As a census write-in religious identity (notably the 2001 UK 'Jedi census phenomenon' and similar campaigns in Australia, New Zealand, and Canada).", "As Jediism / Jedi spirituality: small real-world communities that adopt a Jedi code, meditation, and ethical training without claiming the fiction is historical fact.", "As a pop-culture occupational metaphor (e.g. 'Excel Jedi', 'marketing Jedi') for expert skill.", "As a character class / faction in tabletop and video games derived from Star Wars." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Jedi 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": "UK 2001 census write-ins as Jedi / Jedi Knight", "typical_range": "about 390,000 people in England and Wales (ONS; widely reported as the fourth-largest 'religion' write-in that year, later recoded)", "unit": "persons" }, { "quantity": "In-universe Order size (prequel-era High Republic / late Republic canon, order-of-magnitude)", "typical_range": "on the order of 10,000 Knights at the time of the Clone Wars, plus a much smaller High Council (typically 12)", "unit": "persons (fictional census)" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of Jedi 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": [ "Fall to the dark side: attachment, fear, anger, or hunger for power converting a Jedi into a Sith or dark-side user (the franchise's central moral failure mode).", "Order-level political capture: the late-Republic Jedi becoming generals and intelligence actors, then being destroyed in Order 66 / the Great Jedi Purge.", "Real-world census distortion: coordinated joke write-ins inflating 'Jedi' as a religion and forcing statistical recoding.", "IP / doctrine confusion: treating licensed fiction, fan canon, and Jediist practice as the same object.", "Physical-roleplay and replica-weapon incidents: unregulated lightsaber-style props and combat hobby injuries (rare, not an institutional Jedi hazard)." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Jedi 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 Star Wars canon the Order is galactic, not national; 'regional' variation is in-universe (e.g. Jedi of the High Republic era vs. post-Empire remnant, or local temples vs. Coruscant Temple).", "Census 'Jedi' write-ins were especially visible in English-speaking countries after 2001 internet campaigns (UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada); other statistical agencies rarely surface the category.", "Jediism communities are concentrated in English-language internet spaces; they are not a recognized state religion anywhere." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of Jedi 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": "Sith", "difference": "Sith are the dark-side counterpart order; they seek power through passion and domination, whereas Jedi are defined by a code of non-attachment, service, and restraint. Same Force, opposed doctrine and institutions." }, { "name": "Force-sensitive non-Jedi (e.g. Nightsisters, Guardians of the Whills, unaffiliated Force users)", "difference": "Force sensitivity is a capacity; Jedi is membership in a specific Order with ranks, a code, and (in most eras) a Temple/Council. A Force user is not a Jedi unless inducted." }, { "name": "Jediism (real-world new religious movement)", "difference": "Jediism is a 21st-century spiritual practice inspired by the fiction; it does not claim membership in the Galactic Republic's Order. Wikidata Q6107326 vs Q51720." }, { "name": "Samurai / knightly monastic orders (historical analogues)", "difference": "Lucas has cited samurai cinema and chivalric monks as design sources; historical orders have documented legal status, lineages, and material culture. Jedi do not, outside the fiction and licensed encyclopedias." }, { "name": "Grey Jedi / Dark Jedi (fan and Legends usage)", "difference": "Not a stable canonical rank. 'Grey Jedi' usually means a Force user who rejects both Jedi Council orthodoxy and Sith doctrine; 'Dark Jedi' means a dark-side user who is not a Sith. Canonical sources prefer specific names (e.g. fallen Jedi, Inquisitor) over these labels." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of Jedi this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does vr.tr.jedi intend the fictional Jedi Order, individual Jedi, a broader tradition or real-world Jedi organisations, given the absence of a registry definition?", "Which fictional continuities and periods must the model cover, and where do their institutional rules materially diverge?", "What evidence standard should establish Jedi membership or succession when recognised governing authorities are absent or contested?", "Which teachings, ranks and disciplinary procedures are explicitly attested for each institution rather than inferred from particular characters?", "How should the model distinguish institutional extinction, dispersed survival and the founding of a successor Order?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 18, "questions": 28 } }, "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 Jedi, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a Jedi institution, assess its membership, authority and continuity, and determine which actions its members or representatives may legitimately undertake within a specified Star Wars continuity.", "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: Jedi Master, Padawan.", "2 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 61 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 Jedi, 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": [ "Jedi Master", "Padawan" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 61 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 2 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 Jedi from another, and a Jedi 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 Jedi, 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 Jedi, 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 Jedi 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 Jedi, 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 Jedi, 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 Jedi 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 Jedi 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 Jedi, 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 Jedi, 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 Jedi 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 Jedi from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Jedi, 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 Jedi, 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 Jedi 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 Jedi 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 Jedi between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Jedi, 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 Jedi, 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 Jedi 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 Jedi, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Jedi 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 Jedi, 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 Jedi, 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 Jedi 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 Jedi.", "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 Jedi and who fills them.", "findings": [ { "id": "role-assignments", "name": "Role assignments and their validity", "description": "Who holds which role over a Jedi, from when, and on whose authority.", "questions": [ { "id": "role-assignments-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a role over a Jedi, 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 Jedi, 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 Jedi 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 Jedi and who may decide about it.", "findings": [ { "id": "accountability", "name": "Accountability and decision rights", "description": "Where responsibility for a Jedi sits when something goes wrong.", "questions": [ { "id": "accountability-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes responsibility for a Jedi, 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 Jedi, 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 Jedi 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 Jedi 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 Jedi 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 Jedi, 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 Jedi 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 Jedi 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 Jedi 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 Jedi 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 Jedi and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Jedi, 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 Jedi, 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 Jedi 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 Jedi is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Jedi, 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 Jedi, 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 Jedi 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 } } } }