demi-brigade
Enable an agent to recognise a demi-brigade, assess its organisational continuity and current status, and determine which organisational changes or uses of its designation are authorised.
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5 bundles · 9 layers · 16 findings · 26 questions
Designation and recognition Establishes which formation is meant and why it qualifies as a demi-brigade in its own institutional context.
Attested identity
Separates official designations from aliases, translations and reused identifiers.
Dated designation
Record the formation's designation with the authority and interval supporting its use.
- What original-language title, number and qualifying terms identify this demi-brigade at the date under examination? definition
- Which dated official record supports that designation, and which alternative names are editorial or retrospective? provenance
Institutional meaning
Locates the designation within a particular military system.
Demi-brigade classification
Record the local criteria for this unit category without deriving them from the literal name.
- How did the relevant military authority define or use demi-brigade during this period? definition
- What evidence distinguishes this designation from regiment, brigade or an ad hoc grouping in the same system? boundary
Constituent formation and establishment Describes the demi-brigade's authorised organisation and dated actual composition.
Authorised organisation
Captures the establishment applicable to this demi-brigade.
Establishment basis
Record the prescribed subordinate formations, headquarters and supporting elements.
- Which establishment order specifies the battalions or other elements authorised for this demi-brigade? provenance
- How many constituent units and personnel posts were authorised, and from what effective date? measurement
Actual composition
Reconstructs which elements actually belonged to or served with the formation.
Dated unit membership
Distinguish organic membership, temporary attachment and detachment for each constituent unit.
- Which subordinate units were recorded with this demi-brigade on the selected date? provenance
- Which units belonged to its establishment, which were temporarily attached, and which remained members while detached? boundary
Command and organisational state Relates command authority to the formation's administrative existence and reported capacity.
Authority and subordination
Identifies command offices and distinguishes different forms of control.
Command mandate
Record who commands the demi-brigade and who can authorise changes to its organisation.
- Which command office and superior formation held administrative and operational authority over this demi-brigade at the relevant date? provenance
- Which authority could appoint its commander, alter its constituent units or approve its redesignation? action
Status and strength
Separates nominal existence, actual staffing and explicitly reported availability.
Reported organisational condition
Record dated status and strength without inferring readiness from headcount or designation.
- What organisational status was officially reported for the demi-brigade, and when did it take effect? provenance
- What personnel strength was reported, and did the count include absent, attached or detached personnel? measurement
- What additional evidence is required before treating the demi-brigade as available for an assigned role? action
Formation and lineage Tracks the demi-brigade through creation, combination, renaming and termination.
Formation and amalgamation
Distinguishes creation of the demi-brigade from the earlier histories of its components.
Constituting event
Record the act establishing the demi-brigade and the disposition of any contributing formations.
- Which order or event constituted this demi-brigade, and when did it become effective? provenance
- Were contributing formations retained as subordinate identities, dissolved into the new formation or linked only by inherited tradition? boundary
Redesignation and termination
Evaluates whether later formations continue, succeed or merely commemorate the demi-brigade.
Continuity across change
Record evidenced continuity and preserve uncertainty where lineage accounts disagree.
- What authoritative record establishes whether a later regiment, demi-brigade or other formation continued this organisational identity? provenance
- Does a shared number, title or honour indicate continuity, succession or commemorative inheritance in this case? boundary
- Should the agent retain one identity, link separate predecessor and successor identities, or defer the decision pending evidence? action
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 demi-brigade 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 demi-brigade 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 demi-brigade 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 demi-brigade this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance
Typical measurements
Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.
- Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of demi-brigade 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 demi-brigade 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 demi-brigade 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 demi-brigade this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Society, people and institutions
- Entry kind
- thing
- Plane
- SOC
- Domain
- SOC.ORG
What it is Filled
A demi-brigade is a French military unit designation used especially for regimental-scale infantry formations during the French Revolution and retained or revived for certain later formations.
In scope
- Official designation, identifying number, qualifying titles and dated aliases
- Military authority and period-specific criteria for recognition as a demi-brigade
- Authorised establishment and actual constituent formations
- Command appointments, superior formations and attachment relationships
- Formation, amalgamation, redesignation, disbandment and disputed continuity
- Administrative existence, personnel strength and organisational availability
Out of scope
- Individual service members and their personal service histories
- Detailed models of constituent battalions, companies or other subordinate units
- Brigades, regiments and armies except as related or comparison formations
- Campaigns, battles and tactical execution
- Individual weapons, vehicles, installations and supply inventories
- Independent models of inherited honours, insignia and ceremonial objects
Why it exists Filled
Enable an agent to recognise a demi-brigade, assess its organisational continuity and current status, and determine which organisational changes or uses of its designation are authorised.
Distinguishing features Filled
- A dated authoritative record recognises the formation as a demi-brigade or establishes an equivalent designation; numerical size alone is insufficient.
- The designation is interpreted within a particular military authority and period, rather than treated as a universal echelon.
- Constituent units and a recognised command relationship distinguish the demi-brigade from an informal grouping of soldiers or a purely descriptive historical label.
- Its relationship to a regiment or brigade is evidenced explicitly; neither synonymy with regiment nor a literal half-brigade relationship is assumed.
- A reused number or inherited honour does not by itself establish that two demi-brigades are the same continuing organisation.
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Treat it as the same as a brigade or a modern regiment without explanation.
- Attribute actions or atrocities to a named unit without evidence.
- Alter or remove documents from archives.
Only with a human decision
- Publishing records that name individual soldiers.
May
- Describe the demi-brigade and its role in French Revolutionary armies from historical sources.
- Help researchers trace units and service records in archives.
Moral aspects Filled
- Military history shapes national memory and should be accurate.
- Revolutionary wars caused great suffering to soldiers and civilians.
Who is affected
- Historians and readers
- Descendants of soldiers
- Present-day units carrying the name
Owners Filled
Steward
Nobody: a historical designation; current armed forces answer for revived units.
Master systems
- National military archives
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- Q176799 - registry parent class
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.demi-brigade
- Wikidata: Q968092 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q968092)
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
- Attested designation: Official name, number, qualifiers, original-language form and dated aliases
- Organisational context: Military authority, service branch and applicable historical period
- Recognition basis: Formation order, establishment instruction or other authoritative record, with effective dates
- Constituent structure: Dated subordinate-unit relationships marked organic, attached, detached or proposed
- Authorised strength: Personnel posts, dated and qualified by establishment basis
- Reported strength: Persons, with reporting date and inclusion rules
- Command relationship: Commander or command office, superior formation, authority type and effective interval
- Organisational status: Forming, active, inactive, reorganising, disbanded or unresolved, mapped to source terminology
- Continuity determination: Documented continuation, successor relationship, separate formation or disputed
Plane SOC: no invented physical properties.
Recognition not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
A demi-brigade is an organisational designation with no universal visual appearance, and uniforms or insignia identify particular units rather than the formation type.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- Identify a demi-brigade from a dated designation and distinguish it from formations with reused numbers.
- Reconstruct its constituent units and command relationships for a specified date.
- Compare authorised and reported strength using compatible counting rules.
- Trace formation, amalgamation and redesignation without silently merging separate identities.
- Determine the recorded authority required to change its designation, composition or command assignment.
- Flag unsupported claims about echelon equivalence, continuity or organisational availability for review.
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Confusing the many renumbered units leads to errors in research.
Standards and interfaces not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
No single designation-specific standard or official classification applies uniformly across the historical and later formations covered by this sense.
Context of use required Filled
- The demi-brigade designation is encountered in French military history, particularly for infantry formations of the revolutionary period.
- It is also used in the names of certain later formations, so its organisational meaning must be interpreted using the unit and date concerned.
Sources Filled
- Wikidata item Q968092: demi-brigade - identity and sense of the item
- Wikipedia: Demi-brigade - general description of the item
Open questions
- Does the registry intend demi-brigade to cover every military use of the designation, or a particular national and historical organisational category?
- Which authoritative sources define the designation's changing relationship to regiment and brigade across the periods included?
- Which constituent structures and establishment rules are documented, and which commonly repeated descriptions apply only to particular examples?
- What rules do the relevant military authorities use to determine continuity through amalgamation, redesignation, disbandment and re-creation?
- Does an existing Vercy military-unit or world model already own this concept, requiring a registry link or a narrower extension?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q968092/spec.json