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  "vercy": "1.0-draft",
  "publication": {
    "status": "research-draft",
    "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed",
    "publishableCanonical": false,
    "generatedAt": "2026-10-21T20:57:11Z",
    "providers": [
      "Claude"
    ],
    "breadth": "researched by Claude against the sources listed below",
    "pass": 2,
    "wave": 5,
    "engine": "claude",
    "gate": {
      "passed": true,
      "version": "1.0",
      "at": "2026-10-21T21:11:59+00:00",
      "evidence": [
        "completeness 1.00",
        "sense: Wikidata description",
        "3 live sources",
        "review by codex: pass"
      ]
    }
  },
  "metaModel": {
    "id": "THING-Q106645134",
    "registryId": "vr.tr.companion-q106645134",
    "name": "companion",
    "version": "0.2.0-wave.5",
    "entryKind": "thing",
    "family": "Thing Registry",
    "domain": [
      "SOC.PER"
    ],
    "status": "research-draft"
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    "registry_id": "vr.tr.companion-q106645134",
    "name": "companion",
    "purpose": "Let an agent describe a companion by who or what accompanies whom, in which situation and for how long, and link specialised senses to their own entries.",
    "definition": "An entity in the role of accompanying another entity in a particular situation or activity, such as a person who keeps someone company, a companion animal, or a body bound to another in astronomy; companionship need not imply friendship, romance or a lasting bond.",
    "what_it_is_for": "Naming the relation of accompanying another entity.",
    "affordances": [
      "identify the companion and the accompanied entity",
      "record the situation or activity",
      "link specialised senses (companion animal, binary star companion)",
      "tell the role apart from order ranks named Companion"
    ],
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      "A companion occupies the accompanying role in a relationship; it is a participant, not the relationship itself.",
      "No physical properties are shared by all companions; properties belong to the participating entity.",
      "'Companion' as a rank in orders of chivalry is a different sense."
    ],
    "appearance": null,
    "visual_identification": [
      "Depends on the sense; not identifiable as such"
    ],
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    "families_and_kinds": [
      "human companion",
      "companion animal",
      "astronomical companion"
    ],
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      {
        "relation": "is a kind of",
        "target": "role",
        "why": "participant role"
      },
      {
        "relation": "is related to",
        "target": "companion animal",
        "why": "specialised sense"
      },
      {
        "relation": "is related to",
        "target": "binary star",
        "why": "astronomy sense"
      },
      {
        "relation": "is distinct from",
        "target": "Companion (order rank)",
        "why": "honour sense"
      }
    ],
    "identifiers": [],
    "standards_and_regulation": [],
    "failure_modes_and_hazards": [
      "Mixing senses"
    ],
    "agent_conduct": {
      "may": [
        "clarify the sense and describe relations"
      ],
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        "mix senses without saying so"
      ],
      "requires_human": []
    },
    "ethics": {
      "considerations": [
        "clarity"
      ],
      "affected_parties": [
        "users"
      ]
    },
    "owners": {
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      "master_systems": []
    },
    "facets_not_applicable": {
      "properties": "No physical properties are shared by all companions; they belong to each participating entity.",
      "interfaces": "A role: rules belong to specific senses, such as animal welfare law for companion animals.",
      "hazards": "A role poses no hazards; ambiguity risks are listed as failure modes."
    },
    "in_scope": [],
    "out_of_scope": [],
    "characteristics": []
  },
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "SRC-001",
      "title": "Q106645134",
      "publisher": "Wikidata",
      "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q106645134",
      "what_it_supports": "identity of the registry item, labels and sitelinks",
      "url_status": "live"
    },
    {
      "id": "SRC-002",
      "title": "Companion",
      "publisher": "Cambridge University Press",
      "url": "https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/companion",
      "what_it_supports": "Accompanying people, animals and matching objects; distinction between an entity and its relationship.",
      "url_status": "live"
    },
    {
      "id": "SRC-003",
      "title": "Companion noun",
      "publisher": "Oxford University Press",
      "url": "https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/companion",
      "what_it_supports": "Accompaniment and association senses.",
      "url_status": "live"
    },
    {
      "id": "SRC-004",
      "title": "VerbNet Annotation Guidelines",
      "publisher": "University of Colorado Boulder",
      "url": "https://verbs.colorado.edu/verb-index/VerbNet_Guidelines.pdf",
      "what_it_supports": "Semantic participant roles, including co-agents, relevant to auditing the merged role labels.",
      "url_status": "unverified"
    }
  ],
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      {
        "id": "parties",
        "name": "Parties",
        "description": "Who accompanies whom.",
        "rationale": "A role needs both sides.",
        "layers": [
          {
            "id": "companion",
            "name": "Companion",
            "description": "The accompanying entity.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "companion",
                "name": "Companion",
                "description": "Entity and kind.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "Who or what is the companion?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Is it a person, animal or other entity?",
                    "kind": "boundary"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "id": "accompanied",
            "name": "Accompanied",
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              {
                "id": "accompanied-entity",
                "name": "Accompanied entity",
                "description": "Entity.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "Whom or what does it accompany?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Since when?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "context",
        "name": "Context",
        "description": "Situation and duration.",
        "rationale": "Accompaniment holds in a context.",
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            "id": "situation",
            "name": "Situation",
            "description": "Activity or setting.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "situation",
                "name": "Situation",
                "description": "Activity.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "In which situation or activity does accompaniment hold?",
                    "kind": "definition"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Where?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "id": "duration",
            "name": "Duration",
            "description": "Time span.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "duration",
                "name": "Duration",
                "description": "Start and end.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "How long does it last?",
                    "kind": "measurement"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Is it occasional or ongoing?",
                    "kind": "boundary"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "nature",
        "name": "Nature",
        "description": "Kind of bond.",
        "rationale": "Bonds vary.",
        "layers": [
          {
            "id": "bond",
            "name": "Bond",
            "description": "Formal or informal.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "bond",
                "name": "Bond",
                "description": "Nature.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "What is the nature of the bond, if any?",
                    "kind": "definition"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Is it formal, paid or informal?",
                    "kind": "boundary"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "id": "responsibilities",
            "name": "Responsibilities",
            "description": "Duties.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "responsibility",
                "name": "Responsibility",
                "description": "Duty.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "Does the companion have duties, such as care?",
                    "kind": "boundary"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Under which arrangement?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "senses",
        "name": "Senses",
        "description": "Links to specialised entries.",
        "rationale": "Specialised senses have their own models.",
        "layers": [
          {
            "id": "specialised-senses",
            "name": "Specialised senses",
            "description": "Animal, astronomy.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "link",
                "name": "Link",
                "description": "Entry.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "Is a specialised entry more suitable?",
                    "kind": "boundary"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Which one?",
                    "kind": "definition"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "id": "other-senses",
            "name": "Other senses",
            "description": "Order ranks and labels.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "other-sense",
                "name": "Other sense",
                "description": "Sense.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "Is an order rank or another label meant instead?",
                    "kind": "boundary"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Which entry covers it?",
                    "kind": "definition"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  "openQuestions": [
    "The registry merges order ranks and semantic-role labels (co-agent, contracting party); they need individual review and separate entries."
  ],
  "statistics": {
    "bundles": 4,
    "layers": 8,
    "findings": 8,
    "questions": 16
  }
}