{ "model": { "rank": 2667, "code": "thing-q587", "model_id": "vr.tr.all-saints-day", "name": "All Saints' Day", "purpose": "Let an agent explain All Saints Day, relay its date, meaning, related observances and customs from liturgical and cultural sources respectfully, and distinguish it from All Souls Day, Halloween, the Day of the Dead and ordinary saints feast days.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Cross-cutting context", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "XCT", "domain": "XCT.TME", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q587/", "tier": 2, "score": 99, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [], "aliasCount": 0, "merged": 0, "knownIn": 99, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q587", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q587", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-14T02:27:14Z", "providers": [ "Claude" ], "breadth": "written by Claude from model knowledge without web access - no source was read, every claim is a lead to verify", "pass": 2, "wave": 4, "engine": "claude" }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q587", "registryId": "vr.tr.all-saints-day", "name": "All Saints' Day", "version": "0.2.0-wave.4", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "XCT.TME" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q587/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.all-saints-day", "name": "All Saints' Day", "purpose": "Let an agent explain All Saints Day, relay its date, meaning, related observances and customs from liturgical and cultural sources respectfully, and distinguish it from All Souls Day, Halloween, the Day of the Dead and ordinary saints feast days.", "definition": "All Saints Day is a Christian feast honouring all the saints, known and unknown, celebrated on 1 November in the Western churches and on the first Sunday after Pentecost in many Eastern churches, and a public holiday in many countries; it is closely linked to the following All Souls Day and, in Western tradition, to the eve of Halloween, whose name comes from All Hallows Eve, and to observances such as visiting graves. Customs vary by country and denomination, and the feast is described respectfully as a religious observance.", "what_it_is_for": "Christian feast honouring all saints.", "affordances": [ "explain date and meaning", "relay related observances", "relay customs", "distinguish related days" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Honours all saints", "1 November in the West", "Linked to All Souls and Halloween", "Public holiday in many countries" ], "appearance": "Not a physical object; church services, grave visits and public holiday observance.", "visual_identification": [ "Christian feast of all saints", "All Saints Day, All Hallows", "All Souls Day honours the dead generally; Halloween is its eve; the Day of the Dead is a related Mexican observance; individual saints have their own feast days" ], "physical_properties": [ { "quantity": "Western date", "typical_range": "1 November", "unit": "date", "note": "" }, { "quantity": "Eastern date", "typical_range": "first Sunday after Pentecost", "unit": "note", "note": "many traditions" }, { "quantity": "registry parents", "typical_range": "religious holiday, public holiday", "unit": "note", "note": "" } ], "families_and_kinds": [ "Western All Saints Day", "Eastern commemoration of all saints", "national customs" ], "related_models": [ { "relation": "is a kind of", "target": "religious holiday", "why": "in registry terms" }, { "relation": "precedes", "target": "All Souls Day", "why": "" }, { "relation": "is contrasted with", "target": "Halloween", "why": "" }, { "relation": "is contrasted with", "target": "Day of the Dead", "why": "" } ], "identifiers": [], "standards_and_regulation": [ "Liturgical calendars", "National public holiday laws" ], "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Conflating All Saints, All Souls and Halloween", "Ignoring denominational differences", "Insensitive framing of religious observance" ], "in_scope": [], "out_of_scope": [], "characteristics": [] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "understand", "name": "Understand", "description": "What All Saints Day is.", "rationale": "Attribution.", "layers": [ { "id": "definition", "name": "Definition", "description": "Definition.", "findings": [ { "id": "definition-finding", "name": "Definition", "description": "Definition.", "questions": [ { "text": "What is All Saints Day, and how does it differ from All Souls Day, Halloween, the Day of the Dead and individual saints feasts?", "kind": "definition" }, { "text": "Is the question about the religious meaning, dates or customs?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "dates", "name": "Dates", "description": "Dates.", "findings": [ { "id": "dates-finding", "name": "Dates", "description": "Dates.", "questions": [ { "text": "When is All Saints Day in Western and Eastern churches?", "kind": "definition" }, { "text": "Which entry fits All Souls Day?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "meaning", "name": "Meaning", "description": "Meaning.", "rationale": "Sources.", "layers": [ { "id": "feast", "name": "Feast", "description": "Honouring saints.", "findings": [ { "id": "feast-finding", "name": "Feast", "description": "Feast.", "questions": [ { "text": "How does the feast honour all saints, known and unknown?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which references are standard?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "history", "name": "History", "description": "History.", "findings": [ { "id": "history-finding", "name": "History", "description": "History.", "questions": [ { "text": "How did All Saints Day develop and move to 1 November?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which sources are cited?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "related", "name": "Related", "description": "Related observances.", "rationale": "Attribution.", "layers": [ { "id": "halloween", "name": "Halloween", "description": "All Hallows Eve.", "findings": [ { "id": "halloween-finding", "name": "Halloween", "description": "Halloween.", "questions": [ { "text": "How is Halloween linked to All Hallows Eve?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which entry fits Halloween?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "deadofdead", "name": "Day of the Dead", "description": "Day of the Dead.", "findings": [ { "id": "deadofdead-finding", "name": "Day of the Dead", "description": "Day of the Dead.", "questions": [ { "text": "How does the Mexican Day of the Dead relate to these feasts, described respectfully?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Is the presentation neutral and attributed?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "context", "name": "Context", "description": "Customs.", "rationale": "Sources.", "layers": [ { "id": "customs", "name": "Customs", "description": "National customs.", "findings": [ { "id": "customs-finding", "name": "Customs", "description": "Customs.", "questions": [ { "text": "How do customs such as visiting graves vary by country?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Is the information accurate?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "holiday", "name": "Holiday", "description": "Public holiday.", "findings": [ { "id": "holiday-finding", "name": "Holiday", "description": "Holiday.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which countries observe All Saints Day as a public holiday?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Is the information current?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Should All Souls Day be a separate entry?", "How should Eastern and Western observances be documented?", "How should national customs be linked?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 4, "layers": 8, "findings": 8, "questions": 16 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "abstract concept", "method": "Written from the archetype playbook - what this kind of thing needs beyond identity and provenance - and from the structure that recurred across 6,333 models already researched by two engines. Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched. This entry carries no facets of its own, so they were inferred from its domain - a guess about a whole domain applied to one thing.", "facetsInferred": true, "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.", "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a All Saints' Day, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Let an agent explain All Saints Day, relay its date, meaning, related observances and customs from liturgical and cultural sources respectfully, and distinguish it from All Souls Day, Halloween, the Day of the Dead and ordinary saints feast days.", "characteristics": { "substance": "abstract", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "inert" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Described in 99 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 All Saints' Day, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "an abstraction with no physical instance", "physicalCharacter": [ "Does nothing on its own; everything it does, something else did to it.", "These come from the domain this entry sits in rather than from the entry itself, so treat them as a first guess about the whole domain applied to one thing." ], "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [ "observe it, measure it, record its state" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "Nothing to see. What is recognised is an instance of it, and which instances count is exactly what is argued about." ], "relatedModels": [], "standing": "Described in 99 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one All Saints' Day from another, and a All Saints' Day 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 All Saints' Day, 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 All Saints' Day, 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 All Saints' Day 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 All Saints' Day, 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 All Saints' Day, 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 All Saints' Day 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 All Saints' Day 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 All Saints' Day, 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 All Saints' Day, 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 All Saints' Day 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 All Saints' Day from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a All Saints' Day, 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 All Saints' Day, 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 All Saints' Day 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 All Saints' Day 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 All 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whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a All Saints' Day 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 All Saints' Day, 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 All Saints' Day, 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 All Saints' Day is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "definitions-in-contest", "name": "Definitions and who holds them", "description": "What All Saints' Day is taken to mean, and by whom.", "rationale": "When a field disagrees about a concept, the disagreement is the content. A model that picks one definition silently destroys the information.", "layers": [ { "id": "competing-definitions", "name": "Competing definitions", "description": "The main readings and the traditions behind them.", "findings": [ { "id": "definition-map", "name": "Definitions and their holders", "description": "Each definition with the school or body that holds it.", "questions": [ { "id": "definition-map-q01", "text": "Which definitions of All Saints' Day are in use, and which tradition or body holds each?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "definition-map-q02", "text": "What turns on the difference between them in practice?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "operationalisation", "name": "Operationalisation", "description": "How it is measured or applied when it has to be.", "findings": [ { "id": "operational-record", "name": "Measures and proxies", "description": "Instruments and indicators used to stand in for it.", "questions": [ { "id": "operational-record-q01", "text": "How is All Saints' Day operationalised or measured in practice, and by what instrument?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "operational-record-q02", "text": "What does that operationalisation leave out, and when does that matter?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "instances-and-use", "name": "Instances, use and consequence", "description": "What counts as an instance of All Saints' Day and what follows from calling something that.", "rationale": "Applying a concept is an act with consequences, so a model must say what the label licenses and what it does not.", "layers": [ { "id": "instances", "name": "What counts as an instance", "description": "Clear cases, borderline cases and non-cases.", "findings": [ { "id": "instance-tests", "name": "Tests for an instance", "description": "What would settle whether something falls under it.", "questions": [ { "id": "instance-tests-q01", "text": "What would settle whether something is an instance of All Saints' Day?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "instance-tests-q02", "text": "Which borderline cases are argued about, and on what grounds?", "kind": "definition" } ] } ] }, { "id": "consequence", "name": "Consequence of application", "description": "Rights, duties or decisions that follow from the label.", "findings": [ { "id": "consequence-record", "name": "What the label licenses", "description": "What an agent may do once something is classified this way.", "questions": [ { "id": "consequence-record-q01", "text": "What follows practically once something is treated as All Saints' Day?", "kind": "action" }, { "id": "consequence-record-q02", "text": "What must an agent not infer from the label alone?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a All Saints' Day 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 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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 All Saints' Day is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a All Saints' Day, 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 All Saints' Day, 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 All Saints' Day is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 10, "findings": 12, "questions": 32 } } } }