father's sister
Enable an agent to identify and assess a father's sister relationship relative to a specified person while distinguishing kinship evidence from assumptions about family duties or authority.
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5 bundles · 9 layers · 15 findings · 23 questions
Paternal relationship path Establishes the specific chain of relationships that makes someone the reference person's father's sister.
Reference person and father
Fixes the perspective and the father through whom the relationship is asserted.
Explicit father link
Record which person is the reference person and which father relationship supports this particular paternal-aunt assertion.
- Whose father's sister is being identified? definition
- Which identified father connects the reference person to the proposed aunt, and what supports that link? provenance
Father to sister
Establishes that the proposed role holder is the identified father's sister.
Qualifying sister link
Record the sister relationship directly, keeping it distinct from marriage to a sibling and from other uses of aunt.
- What evidence identifies this person as the father's sister? provenance
- Does the claimed connection run through sisterhood or only through marriage to the father's sibling? boundary
Kinship basis and boundaries Makes the meanings of father and sister explicit without silently narrowing them to one family structure.
Parenthood basis
Captures the basis on which the intervening person is identified as father.
Specified fatherhood context
Keep biological, adoptive, step, and social father assertions explicit; leave their inclusion unresolved where the intended usage is unclear.
- In what sense is the intervening person identified as the reference person's father? definition
- Does the relevant family usage include this father's sister under the requested relationship term? boundary
Siblinghood basis
Captures how the father and his sister are related.
Specified sisterhood context
Preserve full, half, adoptive, step, or socially recognized sister distinctions when known, without guessing from shared surnames.
- What kind of sister relationship is asserted between the father and this person? definition
- What evidence supports that distinction, and which details remain unknown? provenance
Kinship language and recognition Separates the structural relationship from terms of address and the family's recognition of it.
Terms and address
Records how the father's sister is described or addressed in a specified language and context.
Term to path mapping
Keep the recorded kinship term alongside the explicit paternal path so translation does not substitute a broader or different relationship.
- What term does the reference person or family use for this father's sister, and in which language? definition
- Does that term specifically identify a father's sister or also cover other relatives and social aunts? boundary
Attributed recognition
Records who recognizes or disputes the relationship and avoids inferring sisterhood from appearance.
Recognition with attribution
Attribute family-role descriptions to their sources and preserve disagreement without treating one person's wording as universal agreement.
- Who identifies the person as the father's sister, and is that identification disputed? provenance
- What clarification is needed before using this kinship description in communication with the people concerned? action
Evidence and permitted use Assesses support for the derived kinship assertion and limits what an agent may infer from it.
Support and revision
Tracks evidence separately for both links and reassesses the derived relationship when either changes.
Derived assertion support
Treat the father's sister assertion as dependent on its recorded father and sister links; distinguish changed knowledge from changed family recognition.
- Are both links supported, or does the paternal-aunt assertion depend on an unresolved claim? provenance
- If either link is corrected or disputed, which derived father's sister assertions need review? action
Kinship action limits
Separates the paternal-aunt role from permissions and responsibilities that require independent support.
Separate authority from aunt status
Use the kinship assertion to describe a family connection; consult separate evidence for caregiving, representation, access, or disclosure decisions.
- What separately recorded permission or authority supports the proposed action involving the father's sister? action
- Is a claim about custody, inheritance, caregiving, or contact being incorrectly inferred from paternal-aunt status alone? boundary
Evidence and external alignment What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.
Reported evidence
Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.
Check these first
Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.
- Which of these check these first hold for the sense of father's sister this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance
Kinds and varieties
Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.
- Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of father's sister this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance
Identifiers and schemes
Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.
- Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of father's sister this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance
Real-world use
Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.
- Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of father's sister this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance
Failure modes and hazards
Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.
- Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of father's sister this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance
Regional variation
Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.
- Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of father's sister this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance
Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart
Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.
- Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of father's sister this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Physical world and living systems
- Entry kind
- thing
- Plane
- PHY
- Domain
- PHY.LIV
- Other names and narrower kinds
- cousin, father's younger sister
What it is Filled
A father's sister is a person's paternal aunt, a kinship relation traced through that person's father to his sister.
In scope
- The reference person, their identified father, and that father's identified sister
- The basis and evidence for the father relationship and sister relationship
- Full-sister and half-sister distinctions where established
- Family or cultural terminology used for the relationship
- Uncertainty, competing assertions, and changes in recognition of the relationship
Out of scope
- The aunt's complete identity, biography, or occupational roles
- Mother's sister and other kinship paths that do not establish father's sister
- A father's sibling's spouse when marriage is the only qualifying connection
- General kinship terminology systems beyond distinctions needed for this relationship
- Guardianship, inheritance, custody, and other legal statuses requiring separate evidence
Why it exists Filled
Enable an agent to identify and assess a father's sister relationship relative to a specified person while distinguishing kinship evidence from assumptions about family duties or authority.
Distinguishing features Filled
- The relationship is evaluated relative to a named reference person; someone is not a father's sister without that reference.
- The qualifying path is reference person to father to his sister, rather than reference person to mother to her sister.
- The person is identified as the father's sister, rather than only as the spouse of one of his siblings.
- The word 'aunt' alone does not establish this relationship because its use can cover other family connections or social roles.
- The kinship role does not by itself establish caregiving responsibility, legal authority, or current contact.
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Reveal or infer family relationships of living people without their consent.
- Assume a person's family structure or roles from cultural stereotypes.
- Contact relatives on someone's behalf without permission.
- Use family links to locate or track a person who does not want to be found.
Only with a human decision
- Sharing family tree data that includes living people.
May
- Explain kinship terms for a father's sister across languages and cultures.
- Help a person record family relationships in a family tree they are building.
Moral aspects Filled
- In some cultures a paternal aunt has special duties and authority; descriptions should respect them.
- Family data is personal; revealing it can expose adoption, paternity or estrangement.
Who is affected
- Family members
- People estranged from relatives
- Adopted people
Owners Filled
Steward
Nobody owns the relationship; each family keeps its own records, and civil registries record births.
Master systems
- Civil registration records
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- Q126416832 - registry parent class
- Q138716875 - registry parent class
- Q138717201 - registry parent class
- Q139494182 - registry parent class
- Q41805477 - registry parent class
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.father-s-sister
- Wikidata: Q5992509 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5992509)
Direct properties required Filled
- Reference person: Identified person from whose perspective the relationship is stated
- Intervening father: Identified person recognized as the reference person's father, with the basis recorded
- Father's sister: Identified person asserted to be the intervening father's sister
- Father relationship basis: Biological; adoptive; step; socially recognized; other specified; unknown; multiple bases permitted
- Sister relationship basis: Biological full sibling; biological half sibling; adoptive sibling; step sibling; socially recognized sister; other specified; unknown
- Relationship assertion status: Reported; supported by recorded evidence; disputed; unresolved
- Kinship term in use: Recorded term with language, speaker, and family or cultural context
- Assertion provenance: Sources for each relationship link, including attribution and date where available
Recognition not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
A father's sister relationship cannot be established from appearance because it depends on family links relative to a specified person.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- Trace and explain the reference-person-to-father-to-sister path.
- Record multiple qualifying paternal aunts or multiple father links without treating them as duplicate people.
- Distinguish a supported father's sister relationship from an ambiguous use of 'aunt'.
- Request clarification about an uncertain father or sister link without guessing from names or appearance.
- Update or qualify the derived relationship when supporting assertions change.
- Check separately recorded permission or authority before using kinship to justify contact, disclosure, or representation.
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Genealogy data can reveal unexpected paternity or family secrets.
- Terms vary between languages and can be mistranslated.
Standards and interfaces not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
No single standard or legal classification universally governs this kinship relationship independently of jurisdiction and purpose.
Context of use required Filled
- The father's sister relationship is used in genealogy, family records and descriptions of extended family networks.
- It identifies a paternal aunt relative to a specified person, while questions about biological, adoptive or other recognized family links require supporting context.
Sources Filled
- Wikidata item Q5992509: father's sister - identity and sense of the item
- Wikipedia (sv): Faster - general description of the item
Open questions
- Does the registry intend father's sister to include adoptive, step, and socially recognized pathways, or only a narrower genealogical relationship?
- Does an existing Vercy kinship model already own this concept, making this entry a link or specialization rather than a separate publication?
- Which language and cultural contexts require distinctions such as the father's older versus younger sister?
- What evidence standard should apply when the father link or sister link is disputed, undocumented, or based only on family testimony?
- How should preferred kinship descriptions and historical assertions be represented when the people concerned use different terms?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q5992509/spec.json