{ "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-12T09:43:20Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 21.5, "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: 01a094fe-dec9-77b2-8b90-d1bd77446dc5\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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[Vinkensport](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinkensport)", "Winning depends on counted qualifying songs, rather than plumage, flight speed or physical combat.", "A vocalisation must satisfy an explicit song-acceptance convention; detecting any sound from a bird is insufficient.", "A qualifying instance requires an organised competitive comparison; an individual finch singing or practising does not establish a contest.", "The named tradition and its rules must distinguish this entry from broader songbird competitions whose species or judging criteria differ." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Competition tradition", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Named local tradition and governing rule version; unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Determines whether an event belongs to this registry entry and which comparisons are meaningful." }, { "name": "Bird-entry identity", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Competing bird linked to keeper, entry identifier and assigned position", "why_it_matters": "Makes song counts and eligibility decisions attributable to the correct entrant." }, { "name": "Accepted song pattern", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Rule-defined qualifying phrase or ending, with accepted and rejected examples", "why_it_matters": "Separates countable songs from incomplete phrases and other vocalisations." }, { "name": "Counting interval", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Seconds, with actual start, stop and interruption records", "why_it_matters": "Establishes the exposure time behind a score." }, { "name": "Qualifying song total", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Accepted songs per recorded counting interval", "why_it_matters": "Provides the performance measure used to determine placement under the applicable rules." }, { "name": "Acoustic attribution", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Clear; uncertain; contested; unassessable", "why_it_matters": "Indicates whether counted sounds can reliably be assigned to the entered bird." }, { "name": "Contest disposition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Scheduled; counting; interrupted; completed; under review; void", "why_it_matters": "Controls whether further counting, adjudication or publication of a result is appropriate." }, { "name": "Participation suitability", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Unassessed; accepted under documented criteria; review required; withdrawn", "why_it_matters": "Keeps bird suitability and welfare concerns distinct from competitive performance." } ], "affordances": [ "Classify an observed event as Finch sport or flag an unresolved neighbouring tradition.", "Associate a bird and keeper with a contest position and counting record.", "Apply documented song-acceptance criteria and flag ambiguous vocalisations.", "Calculate provisional standings from accepted counts and valid intervals.", "Compare performances only when timing, rules and judging conditions support comparison.", "Flag a contested score or participation concern for the responsible human decision-maker." ], "agent_conduct": { "may": [ "Describe the history and rules of finch sport from cited sources.", "Report legal restrictions on keeping wild birds that apply to the activity." ], "must_not": [ "Help capture wild chaffinches or other protected birds.", "Recommend practices that cause birds suffering, such as blinding or harsh confinement.", "Present the activity as lawful where keeping wild-caught birds is prohibited.", "Stage or promote contests that ignore the birds' welfare." ], "requires_human": [ "Any decision about acquiring, keeping or transferring live finches." ] }, "ethics": { "considerations": [ "Captive songbirds can suffer from confinement, and historical practices included blinding.", "The tradition is valued by its communities but must meet modern welfare and conservation law." ], "affected_parties": [ "Chaffinches", "Bird keepers", "Wild bird populations" ] }, "owners": { "steward": "The keeper of each bird; wildlife authorities enforce rules on wild birds.", "master_systems": [ "Wildlife authority ringing and keeper records" ] }, "visual_identification": [ "Rows of small wooden cages placed along a street, each with a male chaffinch inside.", "Tally keepers sit by each cage marking song counts on sticks or sheets during a timed contest." ], "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Birds can suffer stress, injury or death from confinement and transport.", "Illegal capture of wild birds harms local populations." ], "standards_and_regulation": [ "Directive 2009/147/EC on the conservation of wild birds, European Union." ], "what_it_is_for": [ "Finch sport is encountered at traditional song-counting contests, especially in Flanders, where keepers enter captive male chaffinches.", "Participants and judges count qualifying song phrases during a defined period to compare performances and determine rankings." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata item Q140183604: Finch sport", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q140183604", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "identity and sense of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api" }, { "id": "wikipedia-en", "title": "Wikipedia: Vinkensport", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinkensport", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "general description of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api sitelink" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "tradition-and-contest-boundary", "name": "Tradition and contest boundary", "description": "Establishes which finch-song competitions instantiate this registered activity.", "rationale": "The registry supplies no definition, so the model must expose its interpretation and avoid absorbing unrelated songbird contests.", "layers": [ { "id": "finch-sport-identification", "name": "Finch sport identification", "description": "Connects the registry label to documented practice.", "findings": [ { "id": "vinkensport-identification", "name": "Vinkensport identification", "description": "Treat vinkensport as the working referent while retaining evidence needed to confirm the registry mapping.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the registry's originating record explicitly identify Finch sport with vinkensport?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "vinkensport-identification-q01" }, { "text": "Which neighbouring finch-song traditions share the name but differ enough to require a boundary decision?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "vinkensport-identification-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "applicable-song-contest-rules", "name": "Applicable song-contest rules", "description": "Identifies the authority defining the particular competition.", "findings": [ { "id": "rule-bound-contest-instance", "name": "Rule-bound contest instance", "description": "Record the organiser, rule version and competitive purpose so practice sessions and differently governed contests remain distinguishable.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which organiser and dated rules establish this session as a recognised competition?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "rule-bound-contest-instance-q01" }, { "text": "What makes this session a contest rather than song training, an exhibition or an informal count?", "kind": "definition", "id": "rule-bound-contest-instance-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "birds-keepers-and-entries", "name": "Birds, keepers and entries", "description": "Represents the bird-human relationships required to attribute participation and performance.", "rationale": "The bird produces the scored songs while people enter, manage and judge the performance.", "layers": [ { "id": "eligible-finch-entry", "name": "Eligible finch entry", "description": "Establishes which bird is entered and the evidence supporting its admission.", "findings": [ { "id": "bird-identity-and-eligibility", "name": "Bird identity and eligibility", "description": "Link the entrant to documented identity and the organiser's species, sex and identification requirements without assuming uniform eligibility rules.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which species, sex and identification requirements apply to this contest?", "kind": "definition", "id": "bird-identity-and-eligibility-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence connects the bird presented at the counting position to the registered entry?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "bird-identity-and-eligibility-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "keeper-and-counter-responsibilities", "name": "Keeper and counter responsibilities", "description": "Distinguishes responsibility for the bird from responsibility for its score.", "findings": [ { "id": "attributed-human-roles", "name": "Attributed human roles", "description": "Record the keeper, assigned counter and adjudicating authority, including any rule governing role conflicts.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who is responsible for the bird, and who records its qualifying songs?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "attributed-human-roles-q01" }, { "text": "What assignment or review is required if a counter has a conflict under the applicable rules?", "kind": "action", "id": "attributed-human-roles-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "song-recognition-and-counting", "name": "Song recognition and counting", "description": "Defines how an audible finch performance becomes an accepted count.", "rationale": "The core judgement concerns qualifying song units and their attribution, rather than undifferentiated vocal activity.", "layers": [ { "id": "qualifying-song-unit", "name": "Qualifying song unit", "description": "Makes the local acceptance convention explicit.", "findings": [ { "id": "accepted-phrase-boundary", "name": "Accepted phrase boundary", "description": "Retain the required phrase or ending, permitted variants and treatment of incomplete or repeated vocalisations.", "questions": [ { "text": "What audible phrase or terminal pattern makes one song count under these rules?", "kind": "definition", "id": "accepted-phrase-boundary-q01" }, { "text": "How are truncated phrases, variant endings and immediately repeated phrases treated?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "accepted-phrase-boundary-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "audible-source-and-tally", "name": "Audible source and tally", "description": "Connects accepted songs to the entered bird and the counting record.", "findings": [ { "id": "attributable-song-count", "name": "Attributable song count", "description": "Preserve the counting method, responsible counter and corrections needed to assess a total, with ambiguous attribution kept visible.", "questions": [ { "text": "How does the counter distinguish this bird's songs from neighbouring birds and other sounds?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "attributable-song-count-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence and procedure support correcting a missed, duplicated or misattributed count?", "kind": "action", "id": "attributable-song-count-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "timed-session-and-standings", "name": "Timed session and standings", "description": "Relates contest timing and physical conditions to defensible 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"id": "ranking-and-adjudication", "name": "Ranking and adjudication", "description": "Turns accepted totals into provisional or confirmed standings.", "findings": [ { "id": "defensible-finishing-order", "name": "Defensible finishing order", "description": "Apply documented ranking and tie procedures while preserving challenges and the authority confirming the result.", "questions": [ { "text": "How do accepted totals, ties and invalidated entries determine the finishing order?", "kind": "definition", "id": "defensible-finishing-order-q01" }, { "text": "Who can resolve a disputed tally and confirm or revise the published result?", "kind": "action", "id": "defensible-finishing-order-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "bird-welfare-and-participation-decisions", "name": "Bird welfare and participation decisions", "description": "Connects contest-specific welfare observations and entry conditions to accountable participation decisions.", "rationale": "A high song count cannot establish that a 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entrant's provenance and contest preparation to applicable requirements.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidenced-participation-basis", "name": "Evidenced participation basis", "description": "Reference dated requirements for bird provenance, preparation and handling, distinguishing organiser acceptance from any separate legal determination.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which current requirements apply to this bird's provenance and preparation in the event's jurisdiction?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "evidenced-participation-basis-q01" }, { "text": "What unresolved evidence or reported practice requires referral before the entry is accepted?", "kind": "action", "id": "evidenced-participation-basis-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 name is interpreted as the Flemish chaffinch singing sport; the registry provides no recorded sense to confirm this.", "Contest duration, qualifying-song rules and counting procedures should be checked against the relevant organising association.", "Current rules governing bird provenance, captivity and welfare require jurisdiction-specific verification; no regulatory claims are supplied from recall." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of Finch sport this model covers, and on 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"evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of Finch sport 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": [ "Disputes over whether a song phrase qualifies for counting.", "Counting errors or deliberate score manipulation.", "Bird welfare problems associated with confinement, handling and competitive training." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Finch sport 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": [ "Especially associated with Flanders in Belgium, where the activity is known as vinkensport.", "The characteristic qualifying song ending is commonly rendered as 'suskewiet' in Flemish usage." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of Finch sport 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": "Birdsong competition", "difference": "The broader category includes other species and judging systems; finch sport specifically centres on counting qualifying chaffinch song phrases." }, { "name": "Bird exhibition", "difference": "Exhibitions commonly judge birds against appearance or breed criteria; finch sport ranks their singing performance." }, { "name": "Chaffinch", "difference": "The chaffinch is the bird 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