{ "model": { "rank": 592, "code": "thing-q8445", "model_id": "vr.tr.marriage", "name": "marriage", "purpose": "Let an agent handle marriage as a legal status with conditions, recognition, rights and dissolution, and describe forms such as monogamy and polygamy neutrally with their legal status.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Cross-cutting context", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "XCT", "domain": "XCT.STA", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q8445/", "tier": 2, "score": 234, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "polygamy", "Mormonism and polygamy", "Polygamy in Guinea", "polyandry", "Polygamy in Syria", "polygyny", "Polygamy in Islam", "Polygamy in Nigeria", "polygamy in Afghanistan", "polygamy in Botswana", "polygamy in Cameroon", "Polygamy in Christianity", "Polygamy in Ethiopia", "Polygamy in Iraqi Kurdistan", "Polygamy in Kuwait", "Polygamy in Lesotho", "Polygamy in Pakistan", "Polygamy in North America", "Polygamy in Yemen", "Polygamy in the Democratic Republic of the Congo", "polygamy in the Gambia", "Biandry", "religious marriage of two Jews", "child marriage", "child marriage in India", "Child marriage in Pakistan", "Child marriage among Muslims in Kerala", "Child marriage in Turkey", "Child marriage in South Sudan", "Baad", "Child marriage in Afghanistan", "Child marriage in Angola", "Child marriage in Botswana", "Child marriage in Cameroon", "Child marriage in Democratic Republic of the Congo", "Child marriage in Mauritania", "Child marriage in Nigeria", "Child marriage in Sudan", "Child marriage in Togo", "Child marriage in Zimbabwe" ], "aliasCount": 279, "merged": 279, "knownIn": 234, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": "vr.tr.marriage", "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q8445", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8445", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-11T05:35:33Z", "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": 1, "engine": "claude" }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q8445", "registryId": "vr.tr.marriage", "name": "marriage", "version": "0.2.0-wave.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "XCT.STA" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q8445/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.marriage", "name": "marriage", "purpose": "Let an agent handle marriage as a legal status with conditions, recognition, rights and dissolution, and describe forms such as monogamy and polygamy neutrally with their legal status.", "definition": "A legally or socially recognised union between people that establishes rights and obligations between them, their children and their families, whose forms and conditions vary by law, religion and culture.", "what_it_is_for": "Forming families and defining legal and social relationships.", "affordances": [ "enter it, through a legally valid wedding", "register and prove it", "have it recognised abroad", "dissolve it, by divorce or annulment" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "A legal status, not only a ceremony", "Conditions include age and consent", "Forms and recognition differ between jurisdictions", "Polygamous marriages are lawful in some states and not others" ], "appearance": "A status, shown by certificates and registers; celebrated in weddings.", "visual_identification": [ "Marriage certificate", "Civil register entry", "Recognition documents for foreign marriages" ], "physical_properties": [], "families_and_kinds": [ "civil marriage", "religious marriage", "same-sex marriage where lawful", "polygamous forms: polygyny, polyandry", "customary marriage" ], "related_models": [ { "relation": "is created by", "target": "wedding", "why": "ceremony" }, { "relation": "is governed by", "target": "family law", "why": "rules" }, { "relation": "is ended by", "target": "divorce", "why": "dissolution" }, { "relation": "is confused with", "target": "civil partnership", "why": "related status" } ], "identifiers": [ { "scheme": "marriage registration number", "value_or_pattern": "jurisdiction-specific", "note": "civil record" } ], "standards_and_regulation": [ "National family law", "UDHR Article 16 on free and full consent", "Conventions on consent and minimum age for marriage", "Private international law on recognition" ], "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Forced and child marriage", "Unrecognised marriages leaving people without rights", "Sham marriages for immigration fraud" ], "in_scope": [], "out_of_scope": [], "characteristics": [] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "validity", "name": "Validity", "description": "Is it valid.", "rationale": "Validity decides rights.", "layers": [ { "id": "conditions", "name": "Conditions", "description": "Age, consent, capacity.", "findings": [ { "id": "conditions-finding", "name": "Conditions", "description": "Legal conditions.", "questions": [ { "text": "Were the legal conditions for marriage met?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "text": "Under which law?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "form", "name": "Form", "description": "Civil, religious, customary.", "findings": [ { "id": "form-finding", "name": "Form", "description": "Form of marriage.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which form of marriage is this, and is it legally recognised here?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "text": "Was it registered?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "rights", "name": "Rights", "description": "Legal effects.", "rationale": "Marriage creates rights and duties.", "layers": [ { "id": "effects", "name": "Effects", "description": "Property, inheritance, children.", "findings": [ { "id": "effects-finding", "name": "Effects", "description": "Legal effects.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which rights and duties arise?", "kind": "definition" }, { "text": "Which property regime applies?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "recognition", "name": "Recognition", "description": "Abroad.", "findings": [ { "id": "recognition-finding", "name": "Recognition", "description": "Cross-border recognition.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is this marriage recognised in another country?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "text": "What documents are needed?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "dissolution", "name": "Dissolution", "description": "Ending it.", "rationale": "Dissolution has its own rules.", "layers": [ { "id": "divorce", "name": "Divorce", "description": "Process.", "findings": [ { "id": "divorce-finding", "name": "Divorce", "description": "Divorce rules.", "questions": [ { "text": "How can the marriage be dissolved here?", "kind": "definition" }, { "text": "What happens to property and children?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "annulment", "name": "Annulment", "description": "Invalidity.", "findings": [ { "id": "annulment-finding", "name": "Annulment", "description": "Grounds for annulment.", "questions": [ { "text": "On what grounds can it be annulled?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "text": "Who decides?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "safeguarding", "name": "Safeguarding", "description": "Consent and protection.", "rationale": "Consent must be free and full.", "layers": [ { "id": "consent", "name": "Consent", "description": "Forced marriage.", "findings": [ { "id": "consent-finding", "name": "Consent", "description": "Signs of coercion.", "questions": [ { "text": "Are there signs that consent was not free?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "text": "Was either party a child?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "help", "name": "Help", "description": "Support.", "findings": [ { "id": "help-finding", "name": "Support", "description": "Where to get help.", "questions": [ { "text": "Where can someone at risk get help?", "kind": "action" }, { "text": "What emergency contact applies?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Should forms of marriage be separate entries with legal status by jurisdiction?", "How should recognition across jurisdictions be modelled?", "How should agents respond to signs of forced marriage?" ], "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 marriage, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Let an agent handle marriage as a legal status with conditions, recognition, rights and dissolution, and describe forms such as monogamy and polygamy neutrally with their legal status.", "characteristics": { "substance": "abstract", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "inert" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: polygamy, Mormonism and polygamy, Polygamy in Guinea, polyandry, Polygamy in Syria, polygyny, Polygamy in Islam, Polygamy in Nigeria, polygamy in Afghanistan, polygamy in Botswana, polygamy in Cameroon, Polygamy in Christianity.", "279 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 234 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 marriage, 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": [ { "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": [ "polygamy", "Mormonism and polygamy", "Polygamy in Guinea", "polyandry", "Polygamy in Syria", "polygyny", "Polygamy in Islam", "Polygamy in Nigeria", "polygamy in Afghanistan", "polygamy in Botswana", "polygamy in Cameroon", "Polygamy in Christianity" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 234 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 279 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 marriage from another, and a marriage 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 marriage, 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 marriage, 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 marriage 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 marriage, 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 marriage, 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 marriage 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 marriage 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 marriage, 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 marriage, 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 marriage 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 marriage from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a marriage, 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 marriage, 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 marriage 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 marriage 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 marriage between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a marriage, 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 marriage, 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 marriage 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 marriage, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a marriage 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 marriage, 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 marriage, 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 marriage 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 marriage 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 marriage 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 marriage 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 marriage 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 marriage?", "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 marriage?", "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 marriage 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 marriage and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a marriage, 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 marriage, 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 marriage 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 marriage is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a marriage, 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 marriage, 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 marriage 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 } } } }