{
  "vercy": "1.0-draft",
  "publication": {
    "status": "research-draft",
    "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed",
    "publishableCanonical": false,
    "generatedAt": "2026-09-11T05:41:46Z",
    "providers": [
      "Claude"
    ],
    "breadth": "written by Claude from model knowledge without web access - no source was read, every claim is a lead to verify",
    "pass": 2,
    "wave": 1,
    "engine": "claude",
    "enrichment": {
      "pass": 3,
      "engine": "claude",
      "producedAt": "2026-10-05T16:30:00Z",
      "ingestedAt": "2026-10-05T13:22:32+00:00",
      "fields": [
        "agent_conduct",
        "ethics",
        "owners"
      ]
    },
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      "version": "1.0",
      "at": "2026-10-06T19:51:54+00:00",
      "evidence": [
        "completeness 1.00",
        "sense: Wikidata description",
        "2 live sources",
        "review by codex: pass"
      ]
    }
  },
  "metaModel": {
    "id": "THING-Q167918",
    "registryId": "vr.tr.grandparent",
    "name": "grandparent",
    "version": "0.2.0-wave.1",
    "entryKind": "thing",
    "family": "Thing Registry",
    "domain": [
      "XCT.REL"
    ],
    "status": "research-draft"
  },
  "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q167918/",
  "model": {
    "registry_id": "vr.tr.grandparent",
    "name": "grandparent",
    "purpose": "Let an agent handle the grandparent relation as second-degree kinship with legal effects in contact, care, inheritance and immigration.",
    "definition": "A parent of one own parent: a grandfather or grandmother, maternal or paternal, including step and adoptive grandparents in social and often legal usage.",
    "what_it_is_for": "Defining family relationships and the roles of grandparents.",
    "affordances": [
      "establish the relationship by records",
      "seek contact or care arrangements, where law allows",
      "act as kinship carer",
      "translate kinship terms"
    ],
    "distinguishing_features": [
      "Second-degree lineal ascendant",
      "Maternal and paternal sides often named differently",
      "Legal rights to contact vary widely",
      "Kinship care by grandparents has its own rules"
    ],
    "appearance": "A relationship shown in family trees and records.",
    "visual_identification": [
      "Family trees two generations up",
      "Terms distinguishing maternal and paternal grandparents in many languages",
      "Records linking generations"
    ],
    "physical_properties": [],
    "families_and_kinds": [
      "maternal and paternal grandparents",
      "grandfather and grandmother",
      "step and adoptive grandparents",
      "great-grandparents"
    ],
    "related_models": [
      {
        "relation": "is a kind of",
        "target": "kinship",
        "why": "relation"
      },
      {
        "relation": "is the converse of",
        "target": "grandchild",
        "why": "relation"
      },
      {
        "relation": "has legal effect in",
        "target": "family law",
        "why": "contact and care"
      },
      {
        "relation": "is established by",
        "target": "civil records",
        "why": "evidence"
      }
    ],
    "identifiers": [],
    "standards_and_regulation": [
      "Family law on grandparent contact and kinship care",
      "Succession law",
      "Immigration rules on dependent relatives"
    ],
    "failure_modes_and_hazards": [
      "Assuming rights that the law does not give",
      "Sharing family data without consent",
      "Translation errors"
    ],
    "in_scope": [],
    "out_of_scope": [],
    "characteristics": [],
    "agent_conduct": {
      "may": [
        "Record family relationships the family has shared for genealogy or care.",
        "Help grandparents stay in touch with family when both sides wish it."
      ],
      "must_not": [
        "Exploit grandparents through scams posing as grandchildren in trouble.",
        "Disclose elderly people's personal or health data.",
        "Pressure grandparents into financial decisions.",
        "Assume biological ties from social ones."
      ],
      "requires_human": [
        "Decisions about care or finances for an elderly grandparent."
      ]
    },
    "ethics": {
      "considerations": [
        "Older people are targets of fraud and abuse.",
        "Grandparents often provide care and deserve recognition and respect."
      ],
      "affected_parties": [
        "Grandparents",
        "Grandchildren",
        "Carers"
      ]
    },
    "owners": {
      "steward": "Nobody owns a relationship; civil registers record births and adoptions.",
      "master_systems": [
        "Civil registers of births and adoptions"
      ]
    }
  },
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "wikidata",
      "title": "Wikidata item Q167918: grandparent",
      "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q167918",
      "url_status": "live",
      "what_it_supports": "identity and sense of the item",
      "checked_by": "wikidata-api"
    },
    {
      "id": "wikipedia-en",
      "title": "Wikipedia: Grandparent",
      "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandparent",
      "url_status": "live",
      "what_it_supports": "general description of the item",
      "checked_by": "wikidata-api sitelink"
    }
  ],
  "structure": {
    "bundles": [
      {
        "id": "relation",
        "name": "Relation",
        "description": "Which grandparent.",
        "rationale": "Side and type matter.",
        "layers": [
          {
            "id": "side",
            "name": "Side",
            "description": "Maternal or paternal.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "side-finding",
                "name": "Side",
                "description": "Side of family.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "Is this a maternal or paternal grandparent?",
                    "kind": "definition"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Is the relation biological, step or adoptive?",
                    "kind": "boundary"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "id": "evidence",
            "name": "Evidence",
            "description": "Records.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "evidence-finding",
                "name": "Evidence",
                "description": "Proof.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "Which records establish it?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Are they recognised here?",
                    "kind": "boundary"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "roles",
        "name": "Roles",
        "description": "Care and contact.",
        "rationale": "Grandparents often have caring roles.",
        "layers": [
          {
            "id": "care",
            "name": "Kinship care",
            "description": "Caring for grandchildren.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "care-finding",
                "name": "Kinship care",
                "description": "Kinship care arrangements.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "Is the grandparent a kinship carer, and under what arrangement?",
                    "kind": "definition"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "What support is available?",
                    "kind": "action"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "id": "contact",
            "name": "Contact",
            "description": "Rights to contact.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "contact-finding",
                "name": "Contact rights",
                "description": "Contact rights.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "Can grandparents apply for contact here?",
                    "kind": "boundary"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Through which court?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "language",
        "name": "Language",
        "description": "Kinship terms.",
        "rationale": "Many languages distinguish sides.",
        "layers": [
          {
            "id": "terms",
            "name": "Terms",
            "description": "Words used.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "terms-finding",
                "name": "Terms",
                "description": "Kinship terms.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "Which term applies in this language?",
                    "kind": "definition"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Does it mark maternal or paternal side?",
                    "kind": "boundary"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "id": "translation",
            "name": "Translation",
            "description": "Equivalents.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "translation-finding",
                "name": "Translation",
                "description": "Translation.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "How should it be translated?",
                    "kind": "action"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "What nuance is lost?",
                    "kind": "boundary"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "legal-and-privacy",
        "name": "Legal and privacy",
        "description": "Inheritance and data.",
        "rationale": "Law and privacy both apply.",
        "layers": [
          {
            "id": "inheritance",
            "name": "Inheritance",
            "description": "Succession.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "inheritance-finding",
                "name": "Inheritance",
                "description": "Inheritance.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "Do grandparents inherit in this situation?",
                    "kind": "boundary"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Under which rules?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "id": "privacy",
            "name": "Privacy",
            "description": "Family data.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "privacy-finding",
                "name": "Privacy",
                "description": "Data handling.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "Is family data being shared lawfully?",
                    "kind": "boundary"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Who else is affected?",
                    "kind": "boundary"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  "openQuestions": [
    "Should kinship relations be modelled as relations?",
    "How should kinship care be linked?",
    "How should step relations be recorded?"
  ],
  "statistics": {
    "bundles": 4,
    "layers": 8,
    "findings": 8,
    "questions": 16
  }
}