{ "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-12T08:53:20Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 22.0, "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: 01a094d1-19cb-7431-b596-cf60afab9dd7\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: creation\nSense to describe: the event that occurred at the beginning of something\nDomain code: ACT.EVT\nAlso known as: (none)\n\n\nContext for this batch of", "usd": 0.0, "recall": true }, "codex": { "seconds": 74.0, "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: 01a094d1-19bd-7893-bc6c-3660c8a13f1c\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: creation\nRegistry id: vr.tr.creation-event\nPlane / domain: ACT / ACT.EVT\nRegistry definition: the event that occurred at the beginning of something\nN" } }, "enrichment": { "pass": 3, "engine": "claude", "producedAt": "2026-10-05T23:50:00Z", "ingestedAt": "2026-10-05T20:45:39+00:00", "fields": [ "agent_conduct", "ethics", "failure_modes_and_hazards", "owners" ] }, "gate": { "passed": true, "version": "1.0", "at": "2026-10-07T12:16:27+00:00", "evidence": [ "completeness 1.00", "sense: WordNet gloss", "2 live sources", "review by codex: pass" ] } }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-CREATION-EVENT", "registryId": "vr.tr.creation-event", "name": "creation", "version": "0.1.0-research.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "ACT.EVT" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/creation-event/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.creation-event", "name": "creation", "purpose": "Enable an agent to identify and assess an event claimed to mark the beginning of something, distinguish competing origin claims, and decide how that beginning may be recorded or used.", "definition": "Creation is the event through which something comes into existence, with its beginning determined by the criteria used to identify that thing.", "scope_statement": "This model owns creation as a beginning event in ACT / ACT.EVT: what began, the criterion for its beginning, the event's temporal extent, its participants and antecedents, and the evidence supporting or contesting its identification.", "in_scope": [ "Identification of the thing whose beginning the event marks", "Criteria distinguishing its creation from preparation, transformation, discovery, or recognition", "Dates, intervals, temporal precision, and competing accounts of when creation occurred", "Creators, other participants, enabling conditions, and attributed causal roles", "Evidence and authority for accepting, qualifying, or disputing a creation claim", "Immediate consequences of treating the thing as having begun" ], "out_of_scope": [ "The created thing's complete structure, properties, and subsequent lifecycle", "The full production or development process beyond its relevance to the beginning", "General biographies or organisational profiles of attributed creators", "Ownership, copyright, and other rights determinations belonging to legal models", "Discovery, naming, publication, registration, or inauguration events unless the stated beginning criterion makes them constitutive", "Cosmological or theological accounts beyond recording their attributed claims about a beginning" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "A creation claim identifies what began and under which identity criterion; merely saying that something changed is insufficient.", "Discovery establishes that something became known, while creation claims that it began; the two coincide only under an explicitly justified criterion.", "Where an existing thing supplies material or components, the account explains why the result counts as a new thing rather than continuation of the predecessor.", "A later announcement, registration, or release is treated as creation only when the relevant criterion makes that milestone constitutive.", "An attributed intentional creator is optional; the model can represent a beginning whose agency is unknown, disputed, or absent." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Thing begun", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Identified entity or explicitly bounded candidate entity", "why_it_matters": "A beginning cannot be assessed without knowing which thing is claimed to have begun." }, { "name": "Beginning criterion", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "First material formation, first distinct identity, first functional existence, constitutive declaration, or another explicitly defined criterion", "why_it_matters": "Different criteria can assign different creation events to the same thing." }, { "name": "Temporal extent", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Instant or bounded interval with calendar or time scale, precision, uncertainty, and dating source", "why_it_matters": "Creation may be dated approximately or occur across a threshold interval rather than at a known instant." }, { "name": "Predecessor relationship", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "No predecessor identified, material precursor, identity predecessor, parent entity, or disputed relationship", "why_it_matters": "It separates creation of a new thing from modification, copying, restoration, or continuation." }, { "name": "Agency attribution", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Participant linked to an asserted role, claimant, supporting evidence, and dispute status", "why_it_matters": "Participation, causal contribution, and credit for creation are different claims." }, { "name": "Beginning claim assessment", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Unassessed, supported under a stated criterion, disputed, contradicted, or indeterminate", "why_it_matters": "It governs whether an agent may present a creation event as established or must preserve qualifications." }, { "name": "Existence immediately after the event", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Meets the beginning criterion, provisionally meets it, fails it, or unknown", "why_it_matters": "An attempted creation may end without the intended thing ever beginning." } ], "affordances": [ "Link a claimed creation event to the thing it is said to originate.", "Compare candidate beginning events using explicit identity and existence criteria.", "Separate creation from discovery, release, registration, restoration, and later recognition.", "Record uncertain dates and incompatible origin accounts without forcing a single chronology.", "Attribute contributions and causal explanations to their claimants and evidence.", "Qualify or revise an origin statement when evidence or the applicable beginning criterion changes." ], "agent_conduct": { "may": [ "Link a claimed creation event to the thing it is said to begin, with evidence and source.", "Record competing or uncertain origin accounts side by side without forcing one date.", "Separate creation from discovery, registration, release or later recognition." ], "must_not": [ "Assign authorship or invention to a person without evidence.", "Treat a registration or first publication date as the moment of creation when evidence shows otherwise.", "Erase the contributions of earlier or less powerful creators.", "Settle a rights or priority dispute that belongs to a court or registry." ], "requires_human": [ "Deciding priority between rival claims of origin.", "Recording a creation date that will be used for legal rights." ] }, "ethics": { "considerations": [ "Credit for creating something brings recognition, income and rights; misattribution wrongs real people.", "Origin accounts of peoples, nations and religions are held deeply and must be reported with respect." ], "affected_parties": [ "Creators and contributors", "Communities with origin traditions", "Rights holders" ] }, "owners": { "steward": "Nobody owns the event; the creator or the register that records it answers for the account.", "master_systems": [] }, "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Misattribution of authorship or invention to the wrong person.", "False priority claims built on backdated or forged records.", "Confusing creation with discovery, so that a found thing is credited to its finder as its maker." ], "what_it_is_for": [ "Creation events are recorded in histories, scientific accounts and information systems to mark when an identified thing begins to exist.", "They support provenance and lifecycle tracking, with the recorded beginning depending on the criteria used to identify the thing." ], "facets_not_applicable": { "interfaces": "No single standard, law or official classification governs creation events across all kinds of entities.", "recognition": "A creation event is an abstract category whose identification depends on evidence and identity criteria rather than distinctive visual cues." } }, "sources": [ { "id": "oewn", "title": "Open English WordNet 2024, synset oewn-07343542-n", "url": "https://en-word.net/id/oewn-07343542-n", "what_it_supports": "sense and gloss of the concept", "url_status": "live", "checked_by": "http 200" }, { "id": "wiktionary-en", "title": "Wiktionary: creation", "url": "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/creation", "what_it_supports": "word senses and usage", "url_status": "live", "checked_by": "http 200" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-at-beginning", "name": "Identity at beginning", "description": "Establishes what is claimed to have begun and what makes its beginning a creation event.", "rationale": "Creation is relative to the identity of a particular thing; the same occurrence may create one thing while modifying another.", "layers": [ { "id": "thing-and-existence-threshold", "name": "Thing and existence threshold", "description": "Identifies the referent and the minimum condition under which it counts as existing.", "findings": [ { "id": "explicit-beginning-criterion", "name": "Explicit beginning criterion", "description": "Record the condition claimed to distinguish the thing's nonexistence from its existence, including whose criterion it is.", "questions": [ { "text": "What exactly began: an individual thing, a version, a collection, an institution, or something else?", "kind": "definition", "id": "explicit-beginning-criterion-q01" }, { "text": "What condition must first be satisfied for that particular thing to count as existing?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "explicit-beginning-criterion-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "precursors-and-continuity", "name": "Precursors and continuity", "description": "Tests whether the event begins a distinct thing or continues something already present.", "findings": [ { "id": "new-identity-versus-continuation", "name": "New identity versus continuation", "description": "Make explicit how precursor materials, earlier versions, or predecessor entities relate to the claimed new identity.", "questions": [ { "text": "What existed beforehand, and why is the resulting thing counted as distinct from it?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "new-identity-versus-continuation-q01" }, { "text": "Could this occurrence instead be a modification, restoration, copy, or reactivation under the applicable identity rule?", "kind": "definition", "id": "new-identity-versus-continuation-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "locating-the-beginning", "name": "Locating the beginning", "description": "Locates the creation event in time and distinguishes it from nearby milestones.", "rationale": "Preparation, first existence, completion, and recognition can supply different dates that must not be silently substituted for one another.", "layers": [ { "id": "creation-time-and-extent", "name": "Creation time and extent", "description": "Captures whether the beginning is instantaneous, extended, approximately dated, or only relatively ordered.", "findings": [ { "id": "bounded-creation-time", "name": "Bounded creation time", "description": "Represent the earliest and latest defensible limits of the beginning with the precision and temporal conventions supported by evidence.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is the claimed beginning an instant, an interval of emergence, or an event known only to precede or follow another event?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "bounded-creation-time-q01" }, { "text": "Which source supports the date or limits, and what calendar, time scale, and precision does it use?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "bounded-creation-time-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "neighbouring-origin-milestones", "name": "Neighbouring origin milestones", "description": "Separates the creation event from steps that enable, complete, announce, or acknowledge it.", "findings": [ { "id": "constitutive-versus-reporting-milestone", "name": "Constitutive versus reporting milestone", "description": "Identify why a selected milestone establishes the beginning rather than merely reporting or celebrating an earlier one.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does conception, assembly, first operation, declaration, release, or another milestone satisfy the stated beginning criterion?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "constitutive-versus-reporting-milestone-q01" }, { "text": "Who selected the conventional creation date, and what evidence distinguishes it from a commemorative or reporting date?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "constitutive-versus-reporting-milestone-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "genesis-and-contribution", "name": "Genesis and contribution", "description": "Describes what brought the thing into existence without assuming that every beginning has an intentional creator.", "rationale": "A creation account needs to distinguish agency, enabling conditions, and credit rather than reducing all three to a creator label.", "layers": [ { "id": "roles-in-creation", "name": "Roles in creation", "description": "Records participants and their specific relationships to the beginning.", "findings": [ { "id": "creator-and-contributor-attribution", "name": "Creator and contributor attribution", "description": "Keep assertions of origination, execution, authorisation, and assistance distinct and attributable.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which participants are claimed to have originated, executed, authorised, or enabled the creation?", "kind": "definition", "id": "creator-and-contributor-attribution-q01" }, { "text": "Who attributes each role, and does the evidence support participation, causal contribution, or credit specifically?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "creator-and-contributor-attribution-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "antecedents-and-emergence", "name": "Antecedents and emergence", "description": "Captures proposed causal paths from prior conditions to the thing's first existence.", "findings": [ { "id": "claimed-path-to-existence", "name": "Claimed path to existence", "description": "Record the asserted mechanism or constitutive act and distinguish demonstrated causes from proposed explanations.", "questions": [ { "text": "What process, interaction, or act is claimed to have crossed the existence threshold?", "kind": "definition", "id": "claimed-path-to-existence-q01" }, { "text": "Which antecedents are supported as causes or enabling conditions, and which are only known to have occurred earlier?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "claimed-path-to-existence-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "origin-evidence-and-disagreement", "name": "Origin evidence and disagreement", "description": "Organises evidence for the beginning and preserves competing accounts.", "rationale": "A first surviving record, retrospective account, or traditional origin story does not by itself establish when the thing began.", "layers": [ { "id": "evidence-of-first-existence", "name": "Evidence of first existence", "description": "Evaluates what each source establishes about creation rather than treating every mention as direct evidence.", "findings": [ { "id": "attestation-versus-creation", "name": "Attestation versus creation", "description": "Separate evidence that the thing already existed from evidence that identifies its beginning.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the source document creation itself, attest later existence, or retrospectively assert an origin?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "attestation-versus-creation-q01" }, { "text": "What temporal bound does the evidence justify, and what additional inference would be needed to assign a creation date?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "attestation-versus-creation-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "competing-origin-accounts", "name": "Competing origin accounts", "description": "Distinguishes factual disagreement from accounts that apply different beginning criteria.", "findings": [ { "id": "structured-origin-dispute", "name": "Structured origin dispute", "description": "Preserve each account's referent, criterion, event, date, attribution, and evidential basis so disagreements remain interpretable.", "questions": [ { "text": "Do competing accounts disagree about evidence, the thing's identity, its beginning criterion, or the attribution of creation?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "structured-origin-dispute-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence or declared interpretive rule would justify preferring one account, and what remains unresolved?", "kind": "action", "id": "structured-origin-dispute-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "creation-outcome-and-use", "name": "Creation outcome and use", "description": "Assesses whether the claimed beginning occurred and how that assessment may guide subsequent records.", "rationale": "An agent must distinguish successful creation from an attempt and understand which downstream statements depend on accepting the event.", "layers": [ { "id": "threshold-outcome", "name": "Threshold outcome", "description": "Tests whether anything meeting the stated identity and existence conditions resulted.", "findings": [ { "id": "creation-versus-attempt", "name": "Creation versus attempt", "description": "Assess existence at the claimed beginning independently of later success, survival, or recognition.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence shows that the intended or resulting thing met the beginning criterion by the end of the event?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "creation-versus-attempt-q01" }, { "text": "If the result failed or immediately ceased to exist, did it nevertheless exist long enough to satisfy that criterion?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "creation-versus-attempt-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "using-and-revising-the-origin", "name": "Using and revising the origin", "description": "Controls statements and dependent chronology built from the assessed creation claim.", "findings": [ { "id": "qualified-origin-use", "name": "Qualified origin use", "description": "Carry the accepted criterion and uncertainty into origin statements, age calculations, and revisions of dependent records.", "questions": [ { "text": "May the agent state this as the creation event, or must it present a qualified claim or multiple alternatives?", "kind": "action", "id": "qualified-origin-use-q01" }, { "text": "Which age calculations, predecessor links, or lifecycle records require revision if the accepted beginning changes?", "kind": "action", "id": "qualified-origin-use-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "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": [ "The listed kinds are descriptive distinctions, not an asserted standard taxonomy.", "Any particular creation date requires evidence and an explicit criterion for when the entity counts as existing.", "W3C provenance generation is a related formal concept; its applicability depends on how the entity is individuated." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of creation 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": [ "Physical formation", "Biological origination", "Institutional establishment", "Digital object creation" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of creation this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation", "name": "Standards and regulation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "W3C PROV-O represents an entity's generation, a related provenance concept describing the beginning of its existence." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of creation 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": [ "Recording when a document, dataset or other digital object first existed.", "Establishing when an organisation or institution came into existence.", "Tracing the origins of an object through provenance records.", "Distinguishing an entity's initial existence from later modifications." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of creation this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "Time of occurrence", "typical_range": "No universal range; an instant or bounded interval may be recorded.", "unit": "Calendar date or timestamp with stated calendar, time basis and precision" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of creation 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": [ "Confusing creation with discovery, naming, registration or first observation.", "Treating a gradual emergence as a precisely dated event without stating the boundary criterion.", "Confusing the creation event with the activity that produced it or the resulting entity.", "Treating a copied or altered digital creation timestamp as conclusive evidence of origin.", "Assuming creation necessarily involves an intentional creator." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of creation 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": [ "Legal criteria for an institution's establishment depend on jurisdiction.", "Calendars, time zones and date conventions affect how a creation event is recorded." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of creation 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": "Beginning", "difference": "A beginning can mark a phase or activity involving an existing thing; creation marks the thing's coming into existence." }, { "name": "Production", "difference": "Production denotes an activity or process yielding an outcome; creation in this sense denotes the outcome's inception." }, { "name": "Discovery", "difference": "Discovery establishes awareness of something that may already exist." }, { "name": "Birth", "difference": "Birth is a specific biological event and need not mark the organism's earliest existence." }, { "name": "Creation as a product", "difference": "A created work or object is an entity resulting from creation, rather than the event itself." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of creation this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does the registry intend creation to include unintentional natural beginnings, or is a narrower distinction from formation or emergence required?", "Which neighbouring registered models own the full creation process, discovery, founding, birth, and transformation, and where should their event boundaries meet?", "How should a gradual beginning be individuated when no single threshold is accepted by the relevant authorities?", "When do recreation, copying, restoration, or a new version establish a new thing rather than continue an existing identity?", "For kinds whose existence depends on recognition or declaration, whose authority makes that act constitutive, and how should conflicting authorities be represented?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 18, "questions": 28 } }