{ "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-12T08:29:40Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 19.7, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.4\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: 01a094bb-9cdb-73f3-ad2d-95699f121799\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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merely naming an event a celebration leaves its fit with the registry definition unresolved.", "An occasion can explain a celebration but is not required by 'any joyous diversion'; spontaneous revelry remains a candidate.", "Commemoration, tribute or ceremony qualifies only insofar as it includes joyous diversion; remembrance or formal recognition alone does not establish that.", "A person's joyful mood alone does not identify an ACT instance; record what activity constitutes the diversion.", "Entertainment and recreation may overlap with celebration under this broad definition; do not invent an exclusive boundary or require collective participation." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Registry fit", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "supported | disputed | unclear", "why_it_matters": "Separates evidence of joyous diversion from an organiser's label or an agent's assumption." }, { "name": "Celebratory focus", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Linked occasion, person, achievement or other subject; none stated; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Records what participants celebrate without imposing a commemorative requirement." }, { "name": "Participation form", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "solitary | shared in person | shared remotely | hybrid", "why_it_matters": "Guides arrangements without equating celebration with a physical gathering." }, { "name": "Experienced enjoyment", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Per participant or reporting group: enjoyable | mixed | unenjoyable | unreported, with time and evidence", "why_it_matters": "Prevents intended joy from being treated as a uniform or verified outcome." }, { "name": "Participation choice", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Per activity and participant: opted in | declined | undecided | pressured | unknown", "why_it_matters": "Supports invitations and adaptations that respect differing wishes." }, { "name": "Festive activity", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Open set, such as dancing, play, music-making, feasting, toasting or other locally identified diversion", "why_it_matters": "Identifies the actual conduct constituting the celebration without prescribing universal festive forms." }, { "name": "Celebration phase", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "proposed | preparing | underway | paused | concluded | cancelled", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes an intended celebration from an activity that has occurred." }, { "name": "Duration", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Minutes or hours, planned or observed; unknown when unbounded", "why_it_matters": "Supports pacing, participation windows and an appropriate ending." } ], "affordances": [ "Assess whether a described activity fits joyous diversion and record uncertain or competing interpretations.", "Connect a celebration to its focal subject when one exists.", "Propose festive activities using participants' expressed preferences and available conditions.", "Offer ways to join, decline, take a break or participate differently.", "Adapt the activity when enjoyment, energy or willingness changes.", "Conclude the celebration and record whose experience supports the outcome assessment." ], "agent_conduct": { "may": [ "Help plan a celebration the organizer has asked for, including timing and accessibility.", "Remind people of an occasion they asked to be reminded of." ], "must_not": [ "Publish photographs or details of someone's celebration without their consent.", "Serve alcohol to minors or press drink on people who have declined.", "Plan an event that ignores noise, crowd safety or permit requirements.", "Mock or exclude people for how they mark, or do not mark, an occasion." ], "requires_human": [ "Inviting people or sharing guest details.", "Booking spending on someone's behalf." ] }, "ethics": { "considerations": [ "Celebrations can exclude people who cannot afford or access them.", "People grieving or unwell may find festivity painful rather than welcome." ], "affected_parties": [ "Guests", "Neighbours", "People who cannot take part" ] }, "owners": { "steward": "The host or organizer; venue operators and local authorities answer for public events.", "master_systems": [] }, "visual_identification": [ "Gatherings with food, music, decoration or ritual marking the occasion." ], "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Crowd crushes, fire and alcohol harm at poorly run events.", "Noise and disruption for neighbours." ], "what_it_is_for": [ "Celebration occurs in private gatherings, community festivities and organized entertainment where people share festive enjoyment.", "It provides recreation and social connection through activities such as music, dancing, games or shared meals without requiring a commemorative occasion." ], "standards_and_regulation": [ "ISO 20121, issued by the International Organization for Standardization, provides event sustainability management system requirements applicable to organized celebrations." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "oewn", "title": "Open English WordNet 2024, synset oewn-00428985-n", "url": "https://en-word.net/id/oewn-00428985-n", "what_it_supports": "sense and gloss of the concept", "url_status": "live", "checked_by": "http 200" }, { "id": "wiktionary-en", "title": "Wiktionary: celebration", "url": "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/celebration", "what_it_supports": "word senses and usage", "url_status": "live", "checked_by": "http 200" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "celebration-identity", "name": "Celebration identity", "description": "Establishes what activity counts as the celebration and why it fits joyous diversion.", "rationale": "The registry definition is broader than an occasion-based understanding of celebration, so identification needs explicit boundaries.", "layers": [ { "id": "joyous-diversion", "name": "Joyous diversion", "description": "Examines the activity and the evidence for its joyful, diverting character.", "findings": [ { "id": "basis-for-celebration", "name": "Basis for celebration", "description": "Record the candidate activity, who calls it a celebration and the basis for that interpretation; a label alone does not settle its experienced character.", "questions": [ { "text": "What activity constitutes the joyous diversion in this instance?", "kind": "definition", "id": "basis-for-celebration-q01" }, { "text": "Whose account or observation supports calling it joyous, and when was that evidence obtained?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "basis-for-celebration-q02" }, { "text": "If joy was intended but not experienced, should this remain an attempted celebration or qualify as a celebration under the registry definition?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "basis-for-celebration-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "focus-and-overlap", "name": "Focus and overlap", "description": "Separates the celebration from its possible occasion and records overlap with neighbouring activities.", "findings": [ { "id": "occasion-and-activity-boundary", "name": "Occasion and activity boundary", "description": "Record any celebratory focus separately from the diversion itself, and locate celebratory portions within mixed ceremonies or recreational activities.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is anything specifically being celebrated, or is the diversion spontaneous and without a stated focus?", "kind": "definition", "id": "occasion-and-activity-boundary-q01" }, { "text": "Which portions involve joyous diversion, and which are solemn remembrance, formal recognition or other adjacent activities?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "occasion-and-activity-boundary-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "participants-and-enjoyment", "name": "Participants and enjoyment", "description": "Captures who participates, how freely they participate and how they experience the diversion.", "rationale": "A celebration's intended joy cannot stand in for every participant's experience or willingness.", "layers": [ { "id": "participation-choices", "name": "Participation choices", "description": "Records ways of joining or declining specific celebratory activities.", "findings": [ { "id": "willing-participation", "name": "Willing participation", "description": "Distinguish invitation, attendance and willingness to perform particular festive acts; being present does not imply agreement to each act.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who wants to participate, observe, participate remotely or decline?", "kind": "action", "id": "willing-participation-q01" }, { "text": "Can someone decline a toast, dance, gift exchange or other activity without losing access to the rest of the celebration?", "kind": "action", "id": "willing-participation-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "experienced-joy", "name": "Experienced joy", "description": "Tracks reported enjoyment and variation across people and moments.", "findings": [ { "id": "uneven-and-changing-enjoyment", "name": "Uneven and changing enjoyment", "description": "Record enjoyment with its reporter and time, retaining mixed responses and uncertainty rather than assigning a single mood to everyone.", "questions": [ { "text": "What have participants reported about enjoyment, discomfort or mixed feelings, and whose experience remains unknown?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "uneven-and-changing-enjoyment-q01" }, { "text": "What change would participants welcome if the diversion becomes tiring, uncomfortable or unwelcome?", "kind": "action", "id": "uneven-and-changing-enjoyment-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "festive-expression-and-flow", "name": "Festive expression and flow", "description": "Describes how the celebration takes form and develops from opening to ending.", "rationale": "An agent needs to arrange concrete opportunities for joyous diversion while preserving room for spontaneous enjoyment.", "layers": [ { "id": "expressive-forms", "name": "Expressive forms", "description": "Connects chosen activities and symbols to participants' meanings and preferences.", "findings": [ { "id": "meaningful-festive-acts", "name": "Meaningful festive acts", "description": "Record which acts participants regard as festive and any meanings attached to them; music, food, gifts or ceremonial gestures are possibilities rather than requirements.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which activities would make this diversion enjoyable for these participants?", "kind": "action", "id": "meaningful-festive-acts-q01" }, { "text": "Who explains the meaning or expected use of a toast, song, decoration or other celebratory expression?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "meaningful-festive-acts-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "pacing-and-ending", "name": "Pacing and ending", "description": "Records the celebration's progression, optional focal moments and conditions for changing course.", "findings": [ { "id": "celebratory-sequence", "name": "Celebratory sequence", "description": "Identify how the diversion starts, whether it has a focal moment and how it can pause or end, without requiring a formal programme.", "questions": [ { "text": "What marks the beginning and ending of this celebration, and is any focal moment planned?", "kind": "definition", "id": "celebratory-sequence-q01" }, { "text": "What signs or participant requests should prompt a break, a different activity or an earlier ending?", "kind": "action", "id": "celebratory-sequence-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "conditions-for-celebration", "name": "Conditions for celebration", "description": "Identifies practical conditions that enable the chosen diversion and its coexistence with other uses of the setting.", "rationale": "Celebratory forms need workable arrangements, and their effects can extend beyond willing participants.", "layers": [ { "id": "access-to-diversion", "name": "Access to diversion", "description": "Examines whether intended participants can access the actual sources of enjoyment.", "findings": [ { "id": "accessible-festive-options", "name": "Accessible festive options", "description": "Connect participation needs to specific festive activities, including alternatives where the main form excludes someone.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which sensory, mobility, communication, dietary or remote-access needs affect participation in the chosen activities?", "kind": "action", "id": "accessible-festive-options-q01" }, { "text": "What alternative preserves the intended enjoyment for someone unable or unwilling to join the main activity?", "kind": "action", "id": "accessible-festive-options-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "shared-setting", "name": "Shared setting", "description": "Records how celebratory activity affects nearby people and other uses of its physical or digital setting.", "findings": [ { "id": "festivity-and-surroundings", "name": "Festivity and surroundings", "description": "Identify effects of the actual festive forms, such as amplified music, crowding or repeated digital notifications, and the agreed conditions for continuing them.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who outside the celebration is affected by its sound, movement, occupancy or digital activity?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "festivity-and-surroundings-q01" }, { "text": "What setting-specific limits or agreements govern these activities, and where are they recorded?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "festivity-and-surroundings-q02" }, { "text": "How can the celebration be adjusted if its effects interfere with others' use of the setting?", "kind": "action", "id": "festivity-and-surroundings-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-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "This describes the supplied broad sense; narrower uses of celebration require an occasion or object being honoured.", "The listed kinds overlap and do not constitute a standard taxonomy.", "No universal identifier, measurement scale or celebration-specific standard is confidently recalled; hazards depend on the activities involved." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of celebration this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Parties", "Feasts", "Revelry", "Festive dancing", "Carnival festivities" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of celebration this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Providing recreation and shared enjoyment", "Strengthening social relationships through festive participation", "Expressing collective or personal joy", "Marking occasions through enjoyable activities" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of celebration this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Crowded festivities can create risks of crushing and obstructed evacuation.", "Loud music or fireworks can expose participants and neighbours to harmful noise.", "Alcohol consumption, where present, can contribute to injury and impaired driving.", "Participation expectations can create social pressure or exclude people unable to take part." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of celebration this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Music, dance, food, dress and acceptable public behaviour vary across cultural settings.", "Religious and secular traditions differ in their acceptance of alcohol, dancing and mixed-gender participation.", "Some settings favour household gatherings, while others emphasise public or community festivities." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of celebration this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Commemoration", "difference": "Commemoration centres on remembering a person or event and can be solemn; joyous diversion need not have a commemorative object." }, { "name": "Recreation", "difference": "Recreation includes quiet, solitary and non-festive leisure; celebration foregrounds joyous or festive enjoyment." }, { "name": "Amusement", "difference": "Amusement can be a momentary feeling or entertaining stimulus; celebration is an activity or occasion of festive enjoyment." }, { "name": "Ritual", "difference": "Ritual involves conventionally patterned or symbolically significant action; celebration need not follow a prescribed form." }, { "name": "Festival", "difference": "A festival is an organised occasion or period of activities; celebration can occur informally without a festival." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of celebration this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does the registry intend 'any joyous diversion' to include every enjoyable recreational episode, or is a narrower distinction from recreation documented elsewhere?", "Does intended but unrealised joy qualify an activity as a celebration, or should it be represented only as an attempted celebration?", "How should registry fit be assessed when the same activity brings joy to some participants and distress or indifference to others?", "What evidence is sufficient to identify joyous diversion without inferring internal feelings from attendance, smiling or other ambiguous behaviour?", "How should a continuous festive gathering be divided into celebration instances when its activities, participants or focal subjects change?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 9, "findings": 14, "questions": 24 } }