{ "model": { "rank": 5922, "code": "thing-q837605", "model_id": "vr.tr.tengrism", "name": "Tengrism", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise context-specific expressions of Tengrism, assess their documented continuity and present practice, and determine appropriate actions within community-defined authority.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Society, people and institutions", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "SOC", "domain": "SOC.ORG", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q837605/", "tier": 2, "score": 64, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [], "aliasCount": 0, "merged": 0, "knownIn": 64, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q837605", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q837605", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T10:07:16Z", "providers": [ "Codex", "Grok" ], "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "usd": 0.00250886, "turns": 1, "seconds": 28.4, "error": null }, "codex": { "seconds": 100.3, "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: 01a07b54-98e8-76b2-89ef-ba67ed6cf832\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. 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a sky reference, nature ritual or Tengri-related word alone does not establish the classification.", "Record whether Tengrism is a participant's identification, a historical attribution or a disputed scholarly category; these support different recognition decisions.", "Identify the role attributed to Tengri within the particular expression rather than assuming that all expressions share one account of divinity.", "Distinguish religious participation from ethnic affiliation, cultural appreciation and political use of Tengrist imagery.", "Distinguish claims of inherited practice from deliberate reconstruction by identifying the transmission evidence offered." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Identification basis", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "self-identification; historical attribution; scholarly classification; contested attribution; unknown; multiple values permitted", "why_it_matters": "Prevents an external classification from being presented as a community's own identity." }, { "name": "Historical and community context", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Named community or source population, locality, language and applicable period", "why_it_matters": "Limits each statement to the people and circumstances for which evidence exists." }, { "name": "Meaning and role of Tengri", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Source-language term, attributed meaning, religious role and unresolved translation alternatives", "why_it_matters": "Supports recognition without treating every occurrence of a related term as equivalent." }, { "name": "Sacred relationships", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Locally attested relationships among Tengri, other sacred beings, ancestors, places and participants", "why_it_matters": "Preserves the particular religious configuration without imposing a universal pantheon." }, { "name": "Transmission status", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "ongoing transmission; interrupted transmission; reconstruction; new formulation; disputed; unknown; scoped to a named practice", "why_it_matters": "Separates observable transmission from assertions of antiquity." }, { "name": "Practice activity", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Documented occurrences of a named practice within a stated observation period and community; coverage recorded", "why_it_matters": "Provides bounded evidence of activity without equating limited observation with disappearance." }, { "name": "Religious authority basis", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Recognised person or body, recognising community, responsibilities and limits", "why_it_matters": "Determines whose interpretation or permission applies to a proposed action." }, { "name": "Participation and disclosure conditions", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "public; invitation required; role restricted; disclosure restricted; disputed; unknown; scoped to an activity or knowledge item", "why_it_matters": "Makes participation, documentation and reuse decisions depend on applicable community conditions." } ], "affordances": [ "Classify a candidate expression as self-identified, historically attributed, disputed or insufficiently evidenced Tengrism.", "Compare expressions by their understandings of Tengri, ritual obligations and transmission without flattening differences.", "Trace a historical-continuity claim to its supporting evidence and identify gaps.", "Assess whether named practices are active, interrupted or being reconstructed within a bounded community.", "Determine whom to consult before observing, recording, translating or sharing a practice.", "Link overlapping traditions and organisations while retaining one registry-level model for Tengrism." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "src-1", "title": "Tengrism", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tengrism", "what_it_supports": "Working overview of definition, historical range, and modern revival; used only as a map to named sources, not as a finding in itself.", "url_status": "live" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identification-and-historical-attribution", "name": "Identification and Historical Attribution", "description": "Establish what the label Tengrism denotes in the case being modelled and who applies it.", "rationale": "An agent needs to distinguish a living identification from a retrospective grouping of historical evidence.", "layers": [ { "id": "names-and-recognition", "name": "Names and Recognition", "description": "Record local names, external labels and grounds for inclusion under the registered thing.", "findings": [ { "id": "attributed-religious-identity", "name": "Attributed Religious Identity", "description": "Record who identifies the expression as Tengrism and who accepts or disputes that identification. Naming early Turkic beliefs is explicitly debated in the consulted research. [Erkoç, 2025](https://doi.org/10.1017/S0017816025000045).", "questions": [ { "text": "What name do the relevant participants or historical sources use for the beliefs and practices?", "kind": "definition", "id": "attributed-religious-identity-q01" }, { "text": "Who applies the label Tengrism, and what evidence or objection accompanies that attribution?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "attributed-religious-identity-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "historical-reach", "name": "Historical Reach", "description": "Bound claims by date, locality, population and evidential perspective.", "findings": [ { "id": "bounded-historical-claim", "name": "Bounded Historical Claim", "description": "Record the historical expression actually evidenced without extending a ruler's declaration or an observer's account to an entire population.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which dated inscription, account, material interpretation or oral testimony supports this attribution?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "bounded-historical-claim-q01" }, { "text": "Does the evidence concern a court, household, ritual specialist or broader community, and where does its reach end?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "bounded-historical-claim-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "tengri-and-sacred-relationships", "name": "Tengri and Sacred Relationships", "description": "Represent the locally articulated sacred order and the meanings assigned to Tengri.", "rationale": "Recognition requires more than finding a divine name, and assessment must preserve differences between theological interpretations.", "layers": [ { "id": "meanings-of-tengri", "name": "Meanings of Tengri", "description": "Distinguish terms, translations and attributed divine roles.", "findings": [ { "id": "contextual-tengri-interpretation", "name": "Contextual Tengri Interpretation", "description": "Record the interpretation its proponents actually give. The Tengrist Society explicitly presents its one-god account as its own contemporary interpretation. [The Tengrist Society](https://tengristsociety.org/about/).", "questions": [ { "text": "What does Tengri mean in this source or community, and which original-language wording supports the interpretation?", "kind": "definition", "id": "contextual-tengri-interpretation-q01" }, { "text": "Who endorses this interpretation, and does anyone claim it applies beyond that community or period?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "contextual-tengri-interpretation-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "other-sacred-beings-and-powers", "name": "Other Sacred Beings and Powers", "description": "Capture attested relationships with ancestors, natural powers and other sacred beings without presupposing their presence.", "findings": [ { "id": "locally-attested-sacred-order", "name": "Locally Attested Sacred Order", "description": "Record the beings and powers attested in each context. Research on early Uyghur beliefs describes celestial and natural cults alongside Täŋri; that finding must retain its historical scope. [Erkoç, 2025](https://doi.org/10.1017/S0017816025000045).", "questions": [ { "text": "Which ancestors, beings or natural powers are recognised here, and how are they related to Tengri?", "kind": "definition", "id": "locally-attested-sacred-order-q01" }, { "text": "Which source supports each relationship, and which apparent equivalents remain uncertain across languages or communities?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "locally-attested-sacred-order-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "ritual-and-sacred-place", "name": "Ritual and Sacred Place", "description": "Describe attested acts directed toward Tengri or other recognised sacred recipients and their conditions of performance.", "rationale": "An agent must distinguish descriptions of ritual from instructions it has authority to facilitate or enact.", "layers": [ { "id": "ritual-obligations", "name": "Ritual Obligations", "description": "Connect named practices to their recipients, purposes, occasions and locally recognised requirements.", "findings": [ { "id": "attested-ritual-requirements", "name": "Attested Ritual Requirements", "description": "Record invocation, offering or other practice only where evidenced, including who may perform it and what participants regard as proper completion.", "questions": [ { "text": "What named practice is performed, toward whom or what, and for which occasion or obligation?", "kind": "definition", "id": "attested-ritual-requirements-q01" }, { "text": "Who may perform or assist with it, and which requirements must an agent establish before helping?", "kind": "action", "id": "attested-ritual-requirements-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "sacred-landscape-and-access", "name": "Sacred Landscape and Access", "description": "Record the religious significance and access conditions of particular places and natural features.", "findings": [ { "id": "place-specific-religious-protocol", "name": "Place-specific Religious Protocol", "description": "Connect any sacred mountain, water source, tree or other feature to the community and testimony establishing its significance.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who recognises this place as sacred, and what account establishes its relationship to the tradition?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "place-specific-religious-protocol-q01" }, { "text": "What permissions or conduct requirements apply to visiting, photographing, collecting or sharing its location?", "kind": "action", "id": "place-specific-religious-protocol-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "authority-and-transmission", "name": "Authority and Transmission", "description": "Identify how religious knowledge, ritual competence and interpretive authority are recognised and passed on.", "rationale": "The model must locate applicable authority without inventing a central institution or treating every spokesperson as representative.", "layers": [ { "id": "recognised-religious-roles", "name": "Recognised Religious Roles", "description": "Record locally named roles and their authority over particular practices or interpretations.", "findings": [ { "id": "role-specific-authority", "name": "Role-specific Authority", "description": "Establish the recognition and remit of any ritual specialist, elder, teacher or organisational representative; retain local terminology where available.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which roles are recognised here, and how do participants distinguish ritual competence from administrative or public representation?", "kind": "definition", "id": "role-specific-authority-q01" }, { "text": "Who can authorise the proposed observation, recording or teaching, and what limits apply to that authority?", "kind": "action", "id": "role-specific-authority-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "continuity-and-reconstruction", "name": "Continuity and Reconstruction", "description": "Assess how particular teachings and practices reach current participants.", "findings": [ { "id": "documented-transmission-path", "name": "Documented Transmission Path", "description": "Separate remembered inheritance, evidenced teaching relationships, archival reconstruction and newly formulated practice.", "questions": [ { "text": "Through which teachers, households, texts or reconstruction efforts was this practice transmitted?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "documented-transmission-path-q01" }, { "text": "What dated evidence shows current performance or teaching, and what observation gaps limit the assessment?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "documented-transmission-path-q02" }, { "text": "Which elements are acknowledged as restored, adapted or newly introduced?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "documented-transmission-path-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "religious-overlap-and-public-claims", "name": "Religious Overlap and Public Claims", "description": "Distinguish religious identification from shared practices, cultural heritage and claims about collective or political authority.", "rationale": "An agent must avoid assigning religious identity from ancestry or symbols and avoid treating a public claim as universally accepted doctrine.", "layers": [ { "id": "overlapping-religious-belonging", "name": "Overlapping Religious Belonging", "description": "Represent participants' explanations of practices shared with or retained within other religious settings.", "findings": [ { "id": "practice-and-affiliation-boundary", "name": "Practice and Affiliation Boundary", "description": "Keep the attribution of a practice distinct from the religious identity of its participants; allow multiple affiliations or rejection of the Tengrist label.", "questions": [ { "text": "How do participants explain this practice's relationship to Tengrism and any other religious commitments?", "kind": "definition", "id": "practice-and-affiliation-boundary-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence supports calling the practice Tengrist without assigning that identity to everyone who performs it?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "practice-and-affiliation-boundary-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "heritage-and-legitimation", "name": "Heritage and Legitimation", "description": "Record uses of Tengri-related beliefs and imagery in claims about ancestry, community norms or political legitimacy.", "findings": [ { "id": "attributed-public-authority-claim", "name": "Attributed Public Authority Claim", "description": "Represent claims of heavenly sanction, ancestral authenticity or collective obligation as claims made by identifiable actors, with their acceptance and consequences separately evidenced.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who invokes Tengri or ancestral tradition to justify authority, identity or an obligation, and for which audience?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "attributed-public-authority-claim-q01" }, { "text": "Is this use understood as religious commitment, cultural heritage, political rhetoric or some combination by the affected community?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "attributed-public-authority-claim-q02" }, { "text": "What community-recognised obligation, if any, does this claim create for the proposed action?", "kind": "action", "id": "attributed-public-authority-claim-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "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": [ "Classical Turkic-Mongolic imperial Tengrism (Göktürk, Uyghur, early Mongol court cult of Tengri and the qaghan's mandate)", "Mongolian Tengerism / Böö mörgöl (shamanic sky-and-spirit practice as lived among Mongols)", "Kazakh and Kyrgyz folk Tengrism (Täñir / Teñir alongside Islam in customary law, oath, and nature cult)", "Buryat and Tuvan shamanic Tengerism (multiple tengers, ancestral ongons, and clan shamans)", "Hungarian and other Uralic revivalist Tengriism (modern reconstruction claiming Scythian-Hunnic ancestry)", "Contemporary neo-Tengrist political-religious movements (post-Soviet national revival in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tatarstan, and among some Turks)" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of Tengrism 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": "Q430247", "note": "item Tengrism" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of Tengrism 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": [ "Historical: the Göktürk and early Mongol qaghan claimed to rule by Tengri's will; inscriptions and the Secret History treat Tengri as the source of victory and legitimacy.", "Lived religion: among Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Mongols, Buryats, and Tuvans, sky, mountain, fire, and ancestor rites continue under Islamic, Buddhist, or secular overlay.", "Revival: post-1991 national movements in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, and some Tatar and Turkish circles, treat Tengrism as an indigenous alternative to Abrahamic religion." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Tengrism 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": [ "Anachronism: treating a loosely shared steppe cosmology as a single historical church with a creed.", "Political capture: neo-Tengrist rhetoric used for ethnic nationalism or anti-Islamic polemic.", "Syncretism misread as purity: Islamic, Buddhist, and Soviet layers are often stripped out in revivalist accounts." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Tengrism 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": [ "Mongolia and Inner Asia: Tenger, many directional tengers, shamanic Böö practice, often alongside Buddhism.", "Kazakh and Kyrgyz steppe: Täñir/Teñir, mountain and ancestor cult, largely inside a Muslim customary frame.", "Volga-Ural and Anatolian revival: reconstructed 'Tengrism' as ethnic religion rather than continuous folk practice.", "Hungary and some European reconstructionists: Tengri linked to Hunnic/Scythian origin myths." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of Tengrism 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": "Shamanism (generic Siberian)", "difference": "Tengrism names a sky-god political cosmology; Siberian shamanism is a technique of spirit mediation that may or may not include Tengri." }, { "name": "Islam among Turkic peoples", "difference": "Islam is a revealed law-religion; Tengrist elements that survive in Kazakh/Kyrgyz practice are customary overlay, not a second sharia." }, { "name": "Tibetan Buddhism in Mongolia", "difference": "Buddhism is a monastic dharma with a canon; Mongolian tenger cult was absorbed as local spirits, not replaced as a church." }, { "name": "Turkic neo-paganism / modern pagan reconstruction", "difference": "Reconstruction is a post-Soviet invented tradition; historical Tengrism is attested in inscriptions and medieval sources as court and folk cult, not as a reconstructed liturgy." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of Tengrism this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "What minimum evidence should justify historical attribution to Tengrism when contemporary sources do not name a bounded religious tradition?", "Which proposed correspondences among Turkic and Mongolic sacred terms, beings and practices withstand comparison of original-language sources?", "For which living communities can continuity, interruption or reconstruction be established through independently assessable transmission evidence?", "How do particular communities distinguish Tengrist religious belonging from shared custom, other religious commitments and heritage identification?", "Which community-specific authorities, participation conditions and disclosure protocols can be verified for the practices this model will support?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 16, "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 Tengrism, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise context-specific expressions of Tengrism, assess their documented continuity and present practice, and determine appropriate actions within community-defined authority.", "characteristics": { "substance": "social", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "collective" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Described in 64 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 Tengrism, 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": [], "standing": "Described in 64 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 Tengrism from another, and a Tengrism 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 Tengrism, 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 Tengrism, 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 Tengrism 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 Tengrism, 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 Tengrism, 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 Tengrism 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 Tengrism 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 Tengrism, 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 Tengrism, 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 Tengrism 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 Tengrism from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Tengrism, 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 Tengrism, 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 Tengrism 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 Tengrism 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 Tengrism between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Tengrism, 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 Tengrism, 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 Tengrism 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 Tengrism, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Tengrism 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 Tengrism, 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 Tengrism, 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 Tengrism 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 Tengrism.", "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 Tengrism and who fills them.", "findings": [ { "id": "role-assignments", "name": "Role assignments and their validity", "description": "Who holds which role over a Tengrism, from when, and on whose authority.", "questions": [ { "id": "role-assignments-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a role over a Tengrism, 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 Tengrism, 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 Tengrism 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 Tengrism and who may decide about it.", "findings": [ { "id": "accountability", "name": "Accountability and decision rights", "description": "Where responsibility for a Tengrism sits when something goes wrong.", "questions": [ { "id": "accountability-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes responsibility for a Tengrism, 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 Tengrism, 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 Tengrism 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 Tengrism 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 Tengrism 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 Tengrism, 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 Tengrism 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 Tengrism 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 Tengrism 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 Tengrism 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 Tengrism and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Tengrism, 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 Tengrism, 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 Tengrism 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 Tengrism is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Tengrism, 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 Tengrism, 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 Tengrism 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 } } } }