{ "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-12T08:40:24Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 18.1, "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: 01a094c5-4b15-7492-87f9-778be8d4ef9c\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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recognise a choronym, resolve the territory it names in context, and select an appropriate regional name without confusing naming practice with territorial authority.", "definition": "A choronym is a geographical name designating a region or territory, such as a country, province or landscape region, rather than the area itself.", "scope_statement": "This model owns the identity, forms, territorial reference, attested history and contextual use of a geographical area's proper name, following the broad definition in the [ICOS terminology list](https://icosweb.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/ICOS-Terms-en.pdf); the proposed recording requirements below distinguish the name from the territory itself.", "in_scope": [ "Proper names of countries, regions and larger geographical or administrative land areas", "Language-specific forms, scripts, spelling variants and transliterations of regional names", "Name-to-territory relationships qualified by period, source and usage context", "Attested regional naming practices and attributed official or preferred forms", "Ambiguity between regional names and identical names used for other referents" ], "out_of_scope": [ "The territory's physical geography, population and economy", "Sovereignty, jurisdiction and border adjudication", "Names used solely for settlements, waterways, roads or individual landforms", "Names of inhabitants, peoples or languages as independent naming objects", "Maps, gazetteers and documents as publications or physical carriers" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "The expression functions as a proper name for an area, rather than merely describing a location such as 'the northern district'.", "The named referent is a geographical or administrative land area; a use naming only a city, river or mountain requires another toponym classification.", "The object being recorded is the name and its territorial reference, rather than the territory or government bearing that name.", "Classification depends on the particular use: an identical spelling can name both a region and a settlement without making those referents identical.", "A demonym identifies inhabitants, whereas a choronym identifies their region; derivation between the expressions does not erase that distinction." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Attested name form", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Exact spelling, including diacritics, spacing and any article", "why_it_matters": "Preserves the observed expression before search normalization or editorial alteration." }, { "name": "Language and script", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Recorded language and script identifiers, with unknown permitted", "why_it_matters": "Supports appropriate display and prevents different linguistic forms from being treated as spelling errors." }, { "name": "Territorial referent", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Links to area records qualified by source, period and interpretation", "why_it_matters": "Separates the name's identity from the changing or contested extent of the land it denotes." }, { "name": "Area classification", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Country, administrative region, historical region, cultural region, geographical region, continent, other or unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Tests whether a particular naming use belongs within choronym scope." }, { "name": "Form relationship", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Spelling variant, transliteration, translated form, abbreviation, historical replacement or unresolved relationship", "why_it_matters": "Supports retrieval without assuming that every similar expression is interchangeable." }, { "name": "Attested usage period", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Dated occurrences and supported usage intervals, including uncertain or open endpoints", "why_it_matters": "Allows historical interpretation without presenting earliest known evidence as the name's invention date." }, { "name": "Naming status in context", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Official, preferred, customary, historical, deprecated, disputed or unknown, each attributed to an authority or community and period", "why_it_matters": "Prevents a preference held by one institution or community from becoming an unqualified global rule." }, { "name": "Referential resolution", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Resolved in context, ambiguous, contested or insufficiently evidenced", "why_it_matters": "Determines whether an agent can link a name automatically or must preserve multiple interpretations." } ], "affordances": [ "Resolve a regional name in a document to candidate territories using language, date and surrounding context.", "Retrieve attested alternative forms while preserving their linguistic and historical qualifications.", "Choose a display form for a specified audience, date and naming policy.", "Compare uses across periods to distinguish renaming from changes in territorial reference.", "Flag ambiguous or disputed naming uses for review instead of silently merging territories.", "Explain a regional-name selection with the evidence and attributed preference supporting it." ], "agent_conduct": { "may": [ "Explain what a choronym names and how it differs from the region itself.", "Record choronyms with their languages, variants and periods of use." ], "must_not": [ "Treat a contested regional name as neutral without noting the dispute.", "Replace a community's own name for its region with an outsider's name without explanation.", "Use a regional name to make territorial claims." ], "requires_human": [ "Choosing a name for a disputed region in official or published material." ] }, "ethics": { "considerations": [ "Place names carry identity and political claims; choosing one can take a side.", "Endonyms of minority communities are often erased by official names." ], "affected_parties": [ "Communities of the region", "Neighbouring states and peoples", "Map users" ] }, "owners": { "steward": "Nobody owns a name; national naming authorities standardize official forms.", "master_systems": [ "National geographical names databases" ] }, "standards_and_regulation": [ "Resolutions on the standardization of geographical names, United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names." ], "what_it_is_for": [ "Choronyms occur in maps, gazetteers, addresses and historical writing as names of countries, regions or other territories.", "Geographical information systems and language resources use them to connect regional names, spelling variants and historical usages to the intended territory." ], "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Confusing identical or similar regional names can associate information with the wrong territory.", "Treating a historical name as a current administrative designation can misrepresent boundaries or jurisdiction.", "Presenting a disputed regional name as proof of sovereignty can mislead users and reinforce political bias." ], "facets_not_applicable": { "recognition": "A choronym is identified by what a name denotes in context rather than by its visual form." } }, "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata item Q11420631: choronym", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11420631", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "identity and sense of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api" }, { "id": "wikipedia-en", "title": "Wikipedia: Choronym", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choronym", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "general description of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api sitelink" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "regional-name-identity", "name": "Regional name identity", "description": "Establishes whether an expression functions as a choronym in the occurrence being modelled.", "rationale": "A regional proper name must be distinguished from a description and from identical expressions naming other kinds of places.", "layers": [ { "id": "proper-name-function", "name": "Proper-name function", "description": "Examines whether speakers or documents use the expression to identify a particular area.", "findings": [ { "id": "regional-naming-evidence", "name": "Regional naming evidence", "description": "Record evidence of use as an area's proper name; capitalization alone should not settle classification.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which attested occurrence shows this expression naming a particular region rather than describing an arbitrary area?", "kind": "definition", "id": "regional-naming-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Does the relevant language or naming tradition treat the expression as a proper name, and on what evidence?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "regional-naming-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "toponym-type-boundaries", "name": "Toponym type boundaries", "description": "Separates regional uses from settlement, water-feature and landform uses of the same expression.", "findings": [ { "id": "use-specific-classification", "name": "Use-specific classification", "description": "Assign choronym classification to an evidenced territorial use rather than to every occurrence of a character string.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does this occurrence designate a region, a settlement, a landform or another kind of referent?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "use-specific-classification-q01" }, { "text": "Which contextual clues distinguish a regional use from other uses with the same spelling?", "kind": "definition", "id": "use-specific-classification-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "territorial-reference", "name": "Territorial reference", "description": "Connects a choronym to the area intended by a particular source or community.", "rationale": "Regional names may refer to differently delimited areas, making an unqualified name-to-polygon link misleading.", "layers": [ { "id": "referent-and-extent", "name": "Referent and extent", "description": "Records the named area and how precisely its extent is supported.", "findings": [ { "id": "qualified-area-link", "name": "Qualified area link", "description": "Link to an independently modelled territory and retain whether the source supplies an administrative boundary, an approximate extent or no delimitation.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which territory does this source identify with the choronym?", "kind": "definition", "id": "qualified-area-link-q01" }, { "text": "Does the evidence support a precise boundary, an approximate regional extent or only a general location?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "qualified-area-link-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "competing-regional-senses", "name": "Competing regional senses", "description": "Distinguishes administrative, cultural, historical and geographical interpretations.", "findings": [ { "id": "parallel-referent-interpretations", "name": "Parallel referent interpretations", "description": "Retain distinct sourced senses when the same name denotes areas that overlap without being equivalent.", "questions": [ { "text": "Do administrative and cultural uses of this name denote the same extent in the period under consideration?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "parallel-referent-interpretations-q01" }, { "text": "What source or contextual evidence permits an agent to choose among the competing regional senses?", "kind": "action", "id": "parallel-referent-interpretations-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "linguistic-forms", "name": "Linguistic forms", "description": "Organises the expressions through which a regional name is written and used across languages.", "rationale": "An agent needs form relationships precise enough for multilingual retrieval and faithful display.", "layers": [ { "id": "recorded-expression", "name": "Recorded expression", "description": "Preserves source spellings and separates them from normalized search representations.", "findings": [ { "id": "faithful-form-record", "name": "Faithful form record", "description": "Keep the attested form alongside language, script and any derived normalization.", "questions": [ { "text": "What exact spelling, diacritics and article appear in the source?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "faithful-form-record-q01" }, { "text": "Which normalization operations support matching without changing the form displayed as attested?", "kind": "action", "id": "faithful-form-record-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "cross-language-name-relations", "name": "Cross-language name relations", "description": "Records how alternative expressions relate without treating translation and transliteration as identical operations.", "findings": [ { "id": "supported-form-equivalence", "name": "Supported form equivalence", "description": "Record the evidence connecting forms to the same regional sense and qualify any local or external naming classification.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is the alternative expression a transliteration, translation, spelling variant or independently used name for this area?", "kind": "definition", "id": "supported-form-equivalence-q01" }, { "text": "Which source establishes shared territorial reference and, if asserted, endonym or exonym status in the relevant language context?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "supported-form-equivalence-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "attestation-and-change", "name": "Attestation and change", "description": "Records evidence for regional-name usage and distinguishes changes to names from changes to their referents.", "rationale": "Historical interpretation requires dated evidence and must not collapse territorial succession into simple renaming.", "layers": [ { "id": "dated-name-evidence", "name": "Dated name evidence", "description": "Anchors claims about usage to inspectable occurrences.", "findings": [ { "id": "traceable-attestation", "name": "Traceable attestation", "description": "Record the source location, date and relevant wording, distinguishing original usage from later historical reporting.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which map, gazetteer, document or recorded utterance attests this regional name, and where can the occurrence be inspected?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "traceable-attestation-q01" }, { "text": "Is the source contemporary with the claimed usage, or does it retrospectively describe an earlier naming practice?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "traceable-attestation-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "name-and-referent-transitions", "name": "Name and referent transitions", "description": "Separates replacement names, continuing alternative names and shifts in the area denoted.", "findings": [ { "id": "qualified-naming-transition", "name": "Qualified naming transition", "description": "Describe the evidenced transition without assuming that a new official form immediately replaces every previous use.", "questions": [ { "text": "Did the name change, the territorial referent change, or both?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "qualified-naming-transition-q01" }, { "text": "What dated evidence establishes adoption of the new form and continued use or abandonment of the earlier form?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "qualified-naming-transition-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "contextual-name-selection", "name": "Contextual name selection", "description": "Supports accountable use of regional names in labels, text and entity linking.", "rationale": "Choosing a regional name requires an explicit audience and time context, especially where naming preferences differ.", "layers": [ { "id": "attributed-naming-preferences", "name": "Attributed naming preferences", "description": "Records who prescribes or prefers a form and where that preference applies.", "findings": [ { "id": "bounded-name-status", "name": "Bounded name status", "description": "Attach official, preferred or deprecated status to an identified authority or community, application context and period.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which authority or community supports this naming status, and for what language, territory and period?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "bounded-name-status-q01" }, { "text": "Does the preference govern administrative documents, cartography, ordinary usage or another specified context?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "bounded-name-status-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "selection-and-ambiguity-handling", "name": "Selection and ambiguity handling", "description": "Determines when an agent can choose a form or resolve a reference and when it must retain alternatives.", "findings": [ { "id": "explainable-regional-label", "name": "Explainable regional label", "description": "Choose a form using the requested language, historical frame and naming policy, retaining evidence and unresolved alternatives.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which attested form best fits the requested audience, date and naming policy?", "kind": "action", "id": "explainable-regional-label-q01" }, { "text": "If territorial reference or naming preference remains unresolved, should the agent show a qualifier, present alternatives or request clarification?", "kind": "action", "id": "explainable-regional-label-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": [ "This is recall-based content; no sources were consulted.", "Check the intended terminological tradition before imposing subtypes or deciding whether particular named areas qualify.", "INF.MED should not be taken to imply that a choronym is a creative work or publication; it is a geographical proper name." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of choronym 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": [ "Labelling countries, territories and regions on maps.", "Indexing regional names and their variants in gazetteers.", "Studying territorial identity and historical changes in regional naming.", "Identifying regional references in historical texts." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of choronym 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 the name with the territory it designates.", "Assuming that a regional name denotes the same boundaries across historical periods.", "Treating alternative names as interchangeable despite differences in language, historical usage or political significance.", "Confusing identical names used for different regions." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of choronym 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": [ "A region may have different names in different languages, including locally used names and externally used names.", "Official administrative names may coexist with vernacular or historical regional names.", "The scope of the term choronym varies across scholarly traditions." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of choronym 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": "toponym", "difference": "Toponym is the broader category of geographical names; a choronym specifically names a region or territory." }, { "name": "region", "difference": "A region is the geographical referent; a choronym is its name." }, { "name": "hydronym", "difference": "A hydronym names a water feature; a choronym names a region or territory." }, { "name": "demonym", "difference": "A demonym designates inhabitants or people associated with a place; a choronym names the territory." }, { "name": "ethnonym", "difference": "An ethnonym names a people or ethnic group; a choronym names a territory, even when their names are historically related." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of choronym this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Which terminological convention should govern borderline cases such as small administrative areas, islands and named natural regions?", "What identity rule should distinguish variants of one choronym from separate names sharing a territorial referent?", "How should descriptive administrative expressions be classified when their proper-name status differs between languages or scholarly traditions?", "Which sources and adjudication rules should govern endonym, exonym and preferred-form classifications in multilingual or disputed regions?", "Does the existing Vercy catalogue already contain a toponym or regional-name model that should own this concept, with vr.tr.choronym linking to it?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 15, "questions": 25 } }