victory
Let an agent identify and describe victories in sport, politics, history and daily life with sourced facts, explain how victories are decided, and keep war victories at a respectful historical level.
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4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Decide How victory is decided.
Conditions
Victory conditions.
Conditions
Victory conditions.
- What are the victory conditions in this contest, including tie-breaks? provenance
- Was the result official? boundary
Sport
Sporting terms.
Sport
Sporting terms.
- What do terms like fall, pin, takedown or first-place finish mean in this sport? definition
- How are points awarded? provenance
Report Reporting results.
Results
Who won.
Results
Results.
- Who won, according to official results, and when were they confirmed? provenance
- Is the result disputed or under appeal? boundary
Elections
Electoral victories.
Elections
Electoral victories.
- Has the electoral body declared the result? provenance
- Is the description neutral and attributed? boundary
History Historical victories.
War
Military victories.
War
Military victories.
- How do historians describe this victory, its significance and its costs? provenance
- Are all sides perspectives attributed? boundary
Commemoration
Victory days.
Commemoration
Commemoration.
- How is this victory commemorated, and by whom? provenance
- Are commemorations contested? boundary
Personal Everyday victories.
Goals
Achieving goals.
Goals
Achieving goals.
- How can a personal achievement be recognised and built on? action
- What is the next goal? action
Sportsmanship
Winning well.
Sportsmanship
Sportsmanship.
- How can victory be celebrated with respect for opponents? action
- How is defeat handled well? action
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Activities and processes
- Entry kind
- noun.event
- Plane
- ACT
- Domain
- ACT.EVT
- Facets: substance
- activity
- Facets: origin
- conceptual
- Facets: agency
- inert
- Facets: mobility
- not-applicable
- Facets: scale
- not-applicable
- Facets: affordances
- observable
- Other names and narrower kinds
- win, first-place finish, fall, pin, takedown, triumph, independence, landslide, last laugh, slam, sweep, grand slam
What it is Filled
A successful ending of a struggle or contest, such as winning a match, election, battle or campaign, marked in sport by a win, first-place finish, or in wrestling by a fall or pin, and in wider life by achievement of a goal against opposition; victories are recorded, celebrated and, in war, remembered with their costs.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent identify and describe victories in sport, politics, history and daily life with sourced facts, explain how victories are decided, and keep war victories at a respectful historical level.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Successful outcome
- Decided by rules or events
- Recorded and celebrated
- Contextual meaning
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Declare a winner before the result is official or after it is disputed, without saying so.
- Help claim a victory that did not happen, including in an election.
- Encourage humiliation of the losing side.
Only with a human decision
- Announcing the outcome of an election or a contested competition.
May
- Report a result and who won from official sources.
- Explain the criteria by which a contest is decided.
Moral aspects Filled
- False claims of victory, especially in elections, undermine trust and can bring violence.
- Winners and losers both deserve dignity.
Who is affected
- Competitors and teams
- Voters in an election
- Supporters
Owners Filled
Steward
The body that governs the contest, such as the referee, the organizer or the electoral authority.
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- oewn-07306035-n - registry parent class
- oewn-07333703-n - registry parent class
related
- outcome - category
- match-event - contest
- card game - contests
- defeat - opposite outcome
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.victory
- Open English WordNet: oewn-07488581-n
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
Plane ACT: no invented physical properties.
Recognition optional Filled
- Final scores and results
- Trophies and medals
- A draw is not a victory
- Not physical; recorded results, trophies and celebrations.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- determine how a victory is decided in a contest
- report sourced results
- explain victory conditions and tie-breaks
- describe historical victories with balance
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Premature or unsourced claims of victory
- Glorifying war victories without their costs
- Partisan framing of political results
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- Competition rules defining wins
- Electoral law on declaring results
Context of use required Filled
- Marking outcomes of contests.
- sporting victories
- electoral victories
- military victories (historical)
- legal and business victories
- personal victories
Sources Filled
- Open English WordNet 2024, synset oewn-07488581-n - sense and gloss of the concept
- Wiktionary: victory - word senses and usage
Open questions
- Should sporting and military senses be separate entries?
- How should results sources be linked?
- How should disputed results be handled?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-victory/spec.json