{ "model": { "rank": 6526, "code": "thing-q582779", "model_id": "vr.tr.sikh", "name": "Sikh", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to represent a person's stated Sikh identity, understand relevant commitments and participation, and support requested actions without inferring religion from appearance or judging religious authenticity.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Society, people and institutions", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "SOC", "domain": "SOC.PER", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q582779/", "tier": 2, "score": 60, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "Brahmin Sikhs", "Bhapa", "Rai Sikh", "Sahajdhari" ], "aliasCount": 4, "merged": 4, "knownIn": 60, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q582779", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q582779", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T15:09:46Z", "providers": [ "Codex", "Grok" ], "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "usd": 0.01265412, "turns": 1, "seconds": 151.1, "error": null }, "codex": { "seconds": 86.5, "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: 01a07c65-affe-7fc3-afc3-013c897744e1\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. 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[Sikh Coalition FAQ](https://www.sikhcoalition.org/about-sikhs/faq/)", "Distinguish personal identification from conformity with an institution's definition; the SGPC's definition must remain attributed to its code rather than become an automated identity test. [SGPC Sikh Rehat Maryada](https://old.sgpc.net/rehat_maryada/section_one.html)", "Distinguish Sikh identity from attendance at a gurdwara, participation in langar or interest in Sikh teachings; those activities alone do not establish identity." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Declared Sikh identification", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Person's own wording; affirmed, questioning, historical, not disclosed or unknown; dated", "why_it_matters": "Establishes what may be represented without assigning religion from indirect signals." }, { "name": "Identity assertion provenance", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Statement linked to its speaker or document, date and context", "why_it_matters": "Separates self-description from family, institutional or historical attribution." }, { "name": "Declared Amrit initiation", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Initiated, not initiated, considering initiation, not disclosed or unknown; person-supplied qualifications", "why_it_matters": "Allows support for initiation-related commitments without treating all Sikhs as initiated." }, { "name": "Religious guidance relationship", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Named teachings, code of conduct, community or adviser, with the person's stated relationship", "why_it_matters": "Identifies guidance relevant to the individual without assuming one interpretation governs everyone." }, { "name": "Articles of faith and head-covering requirements", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Person-described requirements concerning kesh, kanga, kara, kirpan, kachera and dastar; unknown and not disclosed permitted", "why_it_matters": "Supports practical arrangements while keeping the turban distinct from the five articles of faith. [Sikh Coalition Identity](https://www.sikhcoalition.org/about-sikhs/identity/)" }, { "name": "Sangat and gurdwara connection", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Named community or institution, participation type and any explicitly assigned role", "why_it_matters": "Connects requested support to the relevant community without inferring membership or authority." }, { "name": "Religious practice requirements", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Individual prayer, observance, food and service preferences; timing only where relevant", "why_it_matters": "Makes actual needs actionable without converting religious expectations into assumed personal behavior." }, { "name": "Identity information permissions", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Permitted purpose, recipients, retention and withdrawal conditions for each disclosed item", "why_it_matters": "Determines whether an agent may store or share Sikh identity and associated requirements." } ], "affordances": [ "Record, attribute and revise a person's stated Sikh identity and initiation-related commitments.", "Ask which Sikh practices or articles of faith matter to a specific requested activity.", "Arrange requested prayer time, head-covering provisions or article-of-faith accommodations using individual requirements.", "Find a suitable gurdwara, sangat, seva opportunity or langar activity using the person's preferences.", "Refer a disputed religious interpretation or participation requirement to an adviser or institution chosen by the person.", "Prepare a purpose-limited description of religious needs for sharing with the person's authorization." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "sgpc-rehat-maryada", "title": "Sikh Rehat Maryada (Sikh Code of Conduct)", "url": "https://sgpc.net", "what_it_supports": "Institutional definition of a Sikh; Amritdhari discipline; authority of the ten Gurus and Guru Granth Sahib", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "sikh-gurdwaras-act-1925", "title": "The Sikh Gurdwaras Act, 1925", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Statutory definition and management of Sikh shrines in Punjab; SGPC electorate and who counts as Sikh for gurdwara purposes" }, { "id": "india-constitution-art25", "title": "Constitution of India, Article 25 (Explanation I)", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Kirpan wearing as part of the profession of the Sikh religion in Indian constitutional law" }, { "id": "census-india-2011-religion", "title": "Census of India 2011, Religion PCA", "url": "https://censusindia.gov.in", "what_it_supports": "Official Indian headcount and share of population recorded as Sikh", "url_status": "unverified" }, { "id": "ons-census-2021-religion", "title": "Religion, England and Wales: Census 2021", "url": "https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/culturalidentity/religion/bulletins/religionenglandandwales/census2021", "what_it_supports": "UK enumerated Sikh population", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "statcan-2021-religion", "title": "Census of Population, 2021: religion", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Canadian enumerated Sikh population, the largest national share outside India" }, { "id": "mandla-1983", "title": "Mandla v Dowell-Lee [1983] 2 AC 548", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "UK recognition of Sikhs as an ethnic group for race-discrimination law" }, { "id": "multani-2006", "title": "Multani v. Commission scolaire Marguerite-Bourgeoys, 2006 SCC 6", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Canadian Supreme Court ruling on kirpan in schools as religious practice" }, { "id": "guru-granth-sahib", "title": "Guru Granth Sahib", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Scriptural centre of Sikh identity; living Guru after Guru Gobind Singh" }, { "id": "harbans-singh-encyclopaedia", "title": "Encyclopaedia of Sikhism", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Standard reference on Gurus, orders (Nihang, Udasi), and panthic terms" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "sikh-identification", "name": "Sikh identification", "description": "Represent what being Sikh means in this person's own account and how that account is known.", "rationale": "The registry lacks a definition, and appearance, ancestry and external classification cannot substitute for attributed identity.", "layers": [ { "id": "personal-identification", "name": "Personal identification", "description": "Capture the person's chosen religious identity without assigning an authenticity score.", "findings": [ { "id": "stated-sikh-identity", "name": "Stated Sikh identity", "description": "Keep the person's exact description and any distinctions they make between religious practice, family heritage and belonging.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the person describe themselves as Sikh, and what wording or qualifications do they use?", "kind": "definition", "id": "stated-sikh-identity-q01" }, { "text": "Was this identification supplied by the person or attributed by another source, and when?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "stated-sikh-identity-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "identity-boundaries", "name": "Identity boundaries", "description": "Separate Sikh identification from correlated identities and outside judgments.", "findings": [ { "id": "attribution-and-change", "name": "Attribution and change", "description": "Preserve conflicting or historical descriptions as attributed statements rather than silently choosing a religious classification.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is Sikh identity being incorrectly inferred from Punjabi ancestry, a name, clothing or a relative's identity?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "attribution-and-change-q01" }, { "text": "Has the person revised their identification or asked that an earlier attribution be corrected?", "kind": "action", "id": "attribution-and-change-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "guidance-and-khalsa-commitment", "name": "Guidance and Khalsa commitment", "description": "Represent the person's relationship to Sikh religious guidance and any declared initiation commitments.", "rationale": "Sikh identification, religious interpretation and Amrit initiation answer different questions and must remain separately recordable.", "layers": [ { "id": "religious-guidance", "name": "Religious guidance", "description": "Record the teachings and interpretive authorities the person considers relevant.", "findings": [ { "id": "accepted-guidance", "name": "Accepted guidance", "description": "Capture person-stated relationships to the Sikh Gurus, Guru Granth Sahib and a named rehat or adviser without testing doctrinal conformity.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which Sikh teachings, code of conduct or adviser does the person identify as guiding this decision?", "kind": "definition", "id": "accepted-guidance-q01" }, { "text": "Is a stated requirement the person's interpretation, advice from a named source or an institution's participation rule?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "accepted-guidance-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "amrit-and-commitments", "name": "Amrit and commitments", "description": "Represent initiation and its personally acknowledged implications.", "findings": [ { "id": "declared-khalsa-commitment", "name": "Declared Khalsa commitment", "description": "Record voluntarily disclosed Amrit initiation and current commitments; do not infer initiation from clothing or attendance.", "questions": [ { "text": "Has the person disclosed receiving Amrit or described themselves as Amritdhari?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "declared-khalsa-commitment-q01" }, { "text": "Which initiation-related commitments affect the requested activity, and what support does the person want?", "kind": "action", "id": "declared-khalsa-commitment-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "embodied-and-daily-practice", "name": "Embodied and daily practice", "description": "Record individual requirements involving Sikh articles of faith and daily religious activity.", "rationale": "Practical support depends on what the person observes and requests, rather than a presumed uniform level of observance.", "layers": [ { "id": "articles-and-head-covering", "name": "Articles and head covering", "description": "Describe the articles and covering practices relevant to a particular interaction.", "findings": [ { "id": "article-specific-requirements", "name": "Article-specific requirements", "description": "Identify individual requirements involving kesh, kanga, kara, kirpan, kachera and dastar, including handling and privacy preferences.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which articles of faith or head-covering practices does the person say must be accommodated here?", "kind": "definition", "id": "article-specific-requirements-q01" }, { "text": "What permissions or alternatives must be agreed before touching hair, adjusting a covering or handling an article?", "kind": "action", "id": "article-specific-requirements-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "prayer-and-observance", "name": "Prayer and observance", "description": "Capture requested support for religious routines and observances.", "findings": [ { "id": "individual-practice-arrangements", "name": "Individual practice arrangements", "description": "Record person-specified needs involving nitnem, simran, scripture engagement, gurpurabs or food practices without presuming frequency or uniformity.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which prayer routines or Sikh observances affect the person's schedule, space or food requirements?", "kind": "definition", "id": "individual-practice-arrangements-q01" }, { "text": "What timing, duration or practical provision has the person requested for this occasion?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "individual-practice-arrangements-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "sangat-and-seva", "name": "Sangat and seva", "description": "Represent the person's connections to Sikh communal life and service.", "rationale": "Community participation creates useful relationships and opportunities, but does not by itself establish identity, office or representative authority.", "layers": [ { "id": "sangat-connections", "name": "Sangat connections", "description": "Connect the person to particular congregations or gurdwaras when relevant.", "findings": [ { "id": "community-relationship", "name": "Community relationship", "description": "Distinguish attending, belonging, volunteering and holding an explicitly assigned role.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which sangat or gurdwara does the person identify with or wish to contact?", "kind": "definition", "id": "community-relationship-q01" }, { "text": "Does a claimed role authorize a particular action, and who assigned that role?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "community-relationship-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "service-participation", "name": "Service participation", "description": "Capture requested involvement in seva and langar-related activity.", "findings": [ { "id": "seva-and-langar-preferences", "name": "Seva and langar preferences", "description": "Represent the person's desired contribution or participation alongside the host's actual arrangements.", "questions": [ { "text": "What seva or langar activity does the person want to join, support or organize?", "kind": "action", "id": "seva-and-langar-preferences-q01" }, { "text": "Which responsibilities and participation conditions come from the host, rather than being assumed from Sikh identity?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "seva-and-langar-preferences-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "accommodation-and-disclosure", "name": "Accommodation and disclosure", "description": "Translate voluntarily supplied Sikh practice requirements into authorized, context-specific support.", "rationale": "An agent must distinguish a person's religious need from permission to disclose it or authority to decide institutional exceptions.", "layers": [ { "id": "contextual-accommodation", "name": "Contextual accommodation", "description": "Connect a stated practice requirement to a concrete task and responsible decision-maker.", "findings": [ { "id": "requested-practice-support", "name": "Requested practice support", "description": "Record the request, relevant setting, acceptable arrangements and unresolved constraints without assuming a universal policy outcome.", "questions": [ { "text": "What arrangement does the person request concerning a kirpan, kara, kesh, dastar, prayer or another stated practice?", "kind": "action", "id": "requested-practice-support-q01" }, { "text": "Which current local policy and responsible decision-maker must be consulted to resolve this request?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "requested-practice-support-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "religious-information-control", "name": "Religious information control", "description": "Keep religious identity and observance details tied to the person's disclosure choices.", "findings": [ { "id": "authorized-identity-use", "name": "Authorized identity use", "description": "Represent what Sikh identity or practice information may be used for the requested service, and with whom it may be shared.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which identity or practice details has the person authorized the agent to record and share for this request?", "kind": "action", "id": "authorized-identity-use-q01" }, { "text": "Can the arrangement be made by describing the practical requirement without disclosing Sikh identity or initiation status?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "authorized-identity-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": [ "Amritdhari (Khalsa-initiated, bound to the Five Ks)", "Keshdhari (keep uncut hair, not necessarily initiated)", "Sahajdhari (believers who have not taken full external discipline)", "Nihang (armed Akali orders with a distinct maryada and dress)", "Punjabi ethnoreligious majority, often Jat agricultural communities", "Caste-named communities distinguished in practice (Ramgarhia, Mazhabi, Ravidasia and others)", "Diaspora Sikh (especially UK, Canada, United States)", "Western convert lineages (including 3HO/Sikh Dharma), whose status is contested in some panthic settings" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of Sikh 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": "Q161541", "note": "Item for Sikh as adherent/people; religion as a system is Q9316" }, { "scheme": "Library of Congress Subject Headings", "value_or_pattern": "Sikhs", "note": "Authorized heading for the people; Sikhism is the religion heading" }, { "scheme": "Census of India religion category", "value_or_pattern": "Sikh", "note": "Named religion tick in Indian decennial census" }, { "scheme": "UK census religion", "value_or_pattern": "Sikh", "note": "Named religion response in ONS census of England and Wales" }, { "scheme": "Khalsa personal name", "value_or_pattern": "Singh (men) / Kaur (women)", "note": "Initiatory surnames; Singh is not unique to Sikhs" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of Sikh 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": [ "Sikh Rehat Maryada - Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC), Amritsar", "Hukamnamas (edicts) - Akal Takht Sahib", "Sikh Gurdwaras Act, 1925 - Government of India (originally Imperial Legislative Council)", "Delhi Sikh Gurdwaras Act, 1971 - Parliament of India", "Constitution of India, Article 25 Explanation I - kirpan as Sikh religious profession", "Mandla v Dowell-Lee [1983] 2 AC 548 - UK House of Lords (Sikhs as ethnic group under the Race Relations Act 1976)", "Multani v. Commission scolaire Marguerite-Bourgeoys, 2006 SCC 6 - Supreme Court of Canada (kirpan in schools)" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of Sikh 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": [ "Self-identification on censuses and equalities monitoring in India, the UK, and Canada", "Gurdwara membership, SGPC and Delhi gurdwara committee electoral rolls, and langar (open kitchen) seva", "Bodily and dress markers in daily life and institutions: kesh and turban, kara, kirpan, kachera, kanga (the Five Ks for Amritdhari Sikhs)", "Legal exemptions and contests over motorcycle helmets, school uniforms, workplace PPE, and weapons screening of the kirpan", "Military service as a named identity, notably the Sikh Regiment of the Indian Army and historic British Indian Army Sikh units", "Marriage, caste endogamy in practice, and diaspora community institutions (gurdwaras, Khalsa schools, Vaisakhi processions)" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Sikh 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": "Worldwide population identifying as Sikh", "typical_range": "about 25-30 million", "unit": "persons" }, { "quantity": "India, Census 2011, religion Sikh", "typical_range": "20833116 (1.72% of India)", "unit": "persons" }, { "quantity": "England and Wales, Census 2021, religion Sikh", "typical_range": "525882 (0.9%)", "unit": "persons" }, { "quantity": "Canada, Census 2021, religion Sikh", "typical_range": "about 772000 (about 2.1%)", "unit": "persons" }, { "quantity": "Share of Sikhs who are Amritdhari", "typical_range": "a minority of those who identify as Sikh; no single official global figure", "unit": "proportion" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of Sikh 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": [ "Visual misidentification with Muslims (turban and beard), producing hate crime and workplace discrimination, including post-9/11 attacks and the 2012 Oak Creek gurdwara shooting", "Panthic conflict over who is a Sikh for gurdwara votes, Rehat, and Akal Takht authority, including exclusion or contest of Sahajdhari, Namdhari, Nirankari, and 3HO claims", "Caste exclusion in marriage and sometimes in gurdwara practice, contrary to stated doctrine of equality", "Security and school bans on kirpan, turban, or kara framed as safety rules", "Forced cutting of kesh as an assault on religious identity", "1984 anti-Sikh mass violence in India after Operation Blue Star, and later Khalistan-related political violence", "Gendered barriers in some takhts and gurdwaras (seva, kirtan, leadership) despite Kaur equality in Khalsa naming" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Sikh 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": [ "Indian Punjab: ethnoreligious majority, Gurmukhi/Punjabi public life, SGPC-centred institutions", "Pakistani Punjab: very small remaining population around historic gurdwaras such as Nankana Sahib", "United Kingdom: largest European population; turban helmet exemption; ethnic-group status in race law", "Canada: highest national population share outside India; leading kirpan case law", "United States: smaller population, visible 3HO presence, concentrated post-9/11 targeting of turbaned men", "East African then UK Ramgarhia migration versus Jat-majority patterns from rural Punjab", "Insider preference for 'Sikhi' over English 'Sikhism'; Afghanistan and Iran historically present, now almost gone" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of Sikh 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": "Hindu", "difference": "Shared Punjabi culture and some historically fluid families; a Sikh's religious authority is the ten Gurus and the Guru Granth Sahib, not murti puja or Vedic/smriti authority, and the SGPC definition forbids dual allegiance." }, { "name": "Muslim", "difference": "Beard and turban cause public confusion; Sikhs are marked by the khanda, steel kara, uncut kesh in a joora, gurdwara/langar, and no Islamic shahada or salah." }, { "name": "Punjabi (ethnolinguistic)", "difference": "Punjabi speakers include large Hindu and Muslim populations; language or ancestry does not make a Sikh - religious affiliation does." }, { "name": "Khalsa", "difference": "The Khalsa is the initiated order (Amrit Sanchar, Five Ks), not the whole set of people who identify as Sikh." }, { "name": "Ravidassia", "difference": "Caste-origin movement that often treats Guru Ravidass as supreme; orthodox Sikhi takes the ten Gurus and the Guru Granth Sahib as sole Guru." }, { "name": "Namdhari (Kuka)", "difference": "Holds a continuing living Guru after Gobind Singh; mainstream Sikhi holds the Guru Granth Sahib as the last and living Guru." }, { "name": "Sant Nirankari", "difference": "Follows a living satguru; Akal Takht does not accept the movement as Sikh." }, { "name": "Sindhi Nanakpanthi", "difference": "Reveres Guru Nanak without Khalsa initiation or exclusive Sikh institutional identity." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of Sikh this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does the registry intend Sikh to mean an individual adherent, a broader cultural identity or a collective, and does an existing world model already own that concept?", "How should the model represent contested boundaries involving self-identification, institutional definitions and terms such as Sahajdhari without adjudicating authenticity?", "Which variations in rehat, initiation terminology and article-of-faith practice require explicit distinctions after consultation with diverse Sikh sources?", "Which gurdwara roles and ceremony participation conditions need separate relationship models rather than additional characteristics of a Sikh person?", "What evidence and attribution conventions should apply to historical or deceased persons for whom direct contemporary self-identification is unavailable?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 18, "questions": 28 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "occupation or role", "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 Sikh, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to represent a person's stated Sikh identity, understand relevant commitments and participation, and support requested actions without inferring religion from appearance or judging religious authenticity.", "characteristics": { "substance": "social", "origin": "natural", "agency": "autonomous", "mobility": "self-moving" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: Brahmin Sikhs, Bhapa, Rai Sikh, Sahajdhari.", "4 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 60 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 Sikh, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "a social arrangement between people", "physicalCharacter": [ "Moves under its own power or of its own accord.", "Acts on its own behalf.", "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": [ "Not recognisable by appearance, and guessing from dress or setting is how an agent gets this wrong. Recognised by qualification, licence or engagement." ], "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": [ "Brahmin Sikhs", "Bhapa", "Rai Sikh", "Sahajdhari" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 60 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 4 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 Sikh from another, and a Sikh 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 Sikh, 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 Sikh, 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 Sikh 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 Sikh, 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 Sikh, 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 Sikh 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 Sikh 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 Sikh, 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 Sikh, 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 Sikh 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 Sikh from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Sikh, 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 Sikh, 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 Sikh is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "place-and-movement", "name": "Place and movement", "description": "Where a Sikh is, how it got there and where it may go (self-moving).", "rationale": "A thing that can move needs its position recorded with a time, or every later claim about it is about a place it has left.", "layers": [ { "id": "location-and-placement", "name": "Location and placement", "description": "Position, containment and the reference frame the position is given in.", "findings": [ { "id": "position-and-frame", "name": "Position, container and reference frame", "description": "Where a Sikh is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a Sikh, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the location of a Sikh, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the location of a Sikh is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "movement-and-transfer", "name": "Movement and transfer", "description": "How a Sikh moves on its own.", "findings": [ { "id": "movement-events", "name": "Movement events and constraints", "description": "What counts as a movement, what records it and what limits it.", "questions": [ { "id": "movement-events-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the movement of a Sikh, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the movement of a Sikh, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the movement of a Sikh 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 Sikh 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 Sikh between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Sikh, 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 Sikh, 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 Sikh 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 Sikh, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Sikh 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 Sikh, 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 Sikh, 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 Sikh 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 Sikh.", "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 Sikh and who fills them.", "findings": [ { "id": "role-assignments", "name": "Role assignments and their validity", "description": "Who holds which role over a Sikh, from when, and on whose authority.", "questions": [ { "id": "role-assignments-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a role over a Sikh, 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 Sikh, 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 Sikh 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 Sikh and who may decide about it.", "findings": [ { "id": "accountability", "name": "Accountability and decision rights", "description": "Where responsibility for a Sikh sits when something goes wrong.", "questions": [ { "id": "accountability-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes responsibility for a Sikh, 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 Sikh, 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 Sikh is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "competence-and-licence", "name": "Competence, qualification and licence", "description": "What someone must be able to do, and be permitted to do, as Sikh.", "rationale": "The permission is jurisdictional and the competence is not, and conflating them is how an agent concludes someone may practise when they may not.", "layers": [ { "id": "competences", "name": "Competences and qualifications", "description": "Skills and credentials the role assumes.", "findings": [ { "id": "qualification-record", "name": "Qualifications and how they are evidenced", "description": "What counts as qualified, and what proves it.", "questions": [ { "id": "qualification-record-q01", "text": "What competences and qualifications does Sikh require, and how is each evidenced?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "qualification-record-q02", "text": "Which qualifications transfer between jurisdictions and which do not?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "licensing", "name": "Licensing and the right to practise", "description": "Who grants permission, where it holds, and when it lapses.", "findings": [ { "id": "licence-record", "name": "Licence, issuer and validity", "description": "The permission, its issuer, its territory and its expiry.", "questions": [ { "id": "licence-record-q01", "text": "Who licenses Sikh, in which territory, and for how long?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "licence-record-q02", "text": "What may an unlicensed person not do, and what must an agent refuse to assume?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "tasks-and-accountability", "name": "Tasks, employment and accountability", "description": "What Sikh actually does and who answers for it.", "rationale": "A role is filled by people under an arrangement, and the arrangement decides liability, supervision and who may instruct whom.", "layers": [ { "id": "tasks", "name": "Tasks and typical duties", "description": "The work itself, and how it differs by setting.", "findings": [ { "id": "duty-record", "name": "Duties and setting", "description": "What the role does and where the work varies.", "questions": [ { "id": "duty-record-q01", "text": "What tasks define Sikh, and how do they differ between settings or seniority?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "duty-record-q02", "text": "Which tasks may only be done by this role, and which are shared with neighbouring roles?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "accountability", "name": "Employment and accountability", "description": "The relation under which the work is done and where responsibility sits.", "findings": [ { "id": "responsibility", "name": "Responsibility and supervision", "description": "Who instructs, who supervises, who is liable.", "questions": [ { "id": "responsibility-q01", "text": "Under what arrangement does someone act as Sikh, and who supervises or is liable?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "responsibility-q02", "text": "When something goes wrong, what does the model need to have recorded to answer who was responsible?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a Sikh 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 Sikh and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Sikh, 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 Sikh, 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 Sikh 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 Sikh is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Sikh, 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 Sikh, 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 Sikh is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 7, "layers": 14, "findings": 16, "questions": 44 } } } }