{ "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-12T10:58:13Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 21.3, "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: 01a09543-ab37-7d71-b9fe-b9b07d529053\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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"0.1.0-research.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "XCT.QLT" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q1798991/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.lineation", "name": "lineation", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise, describe and evaluate geological lineation while separating observed linear fabric from interpretations of its origin.", "definition": "In geology, lineation is a descriptive and nongenetic term for any linear structure within or on a rock; identifying a lineation does not by itself establish how it formed.", "scope_statement": "This model owns geological lineation as a linear structure within or on rock, including its geometry, constituent markers and relationships to other structures; interpretations of origin are recorded separately from the descriptive identification.", "in_scope": [ "Evidence that a rock contains a reproducible linear feature or preferred linear orientation", "The mineral, aggregate, intersection or other markers defining the lineation", "Lineation orientation, spatial distribution and variation at a stated observation scale", "Relationships to foliation, folds and other associated structures", "Competing interpretations of formation and deformation significance" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Poetic lineation and the division of written language into lines", "Regional lineaments identified from landscape or remote sensing alone", "Foliation as a planar fabric independently of its relationship to lineation", "Complete rock classification and mineral chemistry", "Whole deformation histories unsupported by the observed lineation" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "A candidate must exhibit a linear feature or preferred direction; a planar fabric alone establishes foliation, not lineation.", "The defining markers must be identified: aligned elongate minerals and the intersection of two surfaces provide different evidence for a linear structure.", "An apparent line in a photograph or section must be distinguished from a reproducible direction in the rock.", "A landscape-scale lineament does not establish a rock-fabric lineation without supporting observations.", "A measured lineation direction does not, by itself, establish movement direction or shear sense." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Sense assignment", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "geological sense confirmed | geological sense provisional | different sense indicated", "why_it_matters": "The registry name lacks a definition and can refer to unrelated concepts." }, { "name": "Defining marker", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "elongate mineral | mineral aggregate | stretched object | surface intersection | fold-related linear feature | other documented marker | unresolved", "why_it_matters": "The physical marker constrains classification and interpretation." }, { "name": "Orientation", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "trend and plunge in degrees, with reference frame and uncertainty", "why_it_matters": "Orientation makes observations comparable and locatable in three dimensions." }, { "name": "Rake within a host plane", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "degrees from a specified reference direction within an identified plane; not applicable when no host plane is established", "why_it_matters": "A lineation measured within foliation requires the plane and angular convention to recover its spatial orientation." }, { "name": "Directional concentration", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "named orientation-dispersion statistic, value, sample count and sampling scale", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes a consistent preferred orientation from scattered or mixed observations." }, { "name": "Observation scale", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "thin section | hand specimen | outcrop | mapped population, with physical extent", "why_it_matters": "A feature established at one scale may not represent the wider rock body." }, { "name": "Associated planar structure", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "identified foliation, bedding or other surface; relationship measured | inferred | unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Constrains how the lineation sits within the surrounding structure." }, { "name": "Origin interpretation", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "uninterpreted | one supported hypothesis | competing hypotheses | interpretation contradicted", "why_it_matters": "Keeps observed geometry distinct from claims about formation." } ], "affordances": [ "Classify a candidate lineation from its defining markers while retaining unresolved alternatives.", "Record and compare orientations using explicit coordinate and measurement conventions.", "Separate multiple lineation populations where markers or orientations differ.", "Evaluate whether relationships with planar structures support a proposed origin.", "Identify observations needed before using lineation in a deformation interpretation.", "Flag apparent lineations that require additional views or measurements." ], "agent_conduct": { "may": [ "Describe observed geological lineation and its defining markers with traceable evidence.", "Report orientation, observation scale and relationships to associated structures with stated uncertainty.", "Compare interpretations of origin while distinguishing them from direct observations." ], "must_not": [ "Infer movement direction or shear sense from a lineation direction alone.", "Present an interpretation of formation as part of the descriptive definition.", "Invent observations, measurements or sources.", "Treat an apparent line in an image as confirmed rock lineation without supporting evidence." ], "requires_human": [ "Safety-critical geological or engineering decisions based on lineation interpretations require qualified human review." ] }, "ethics": { "considerations": [ "Accurate records and explicit uncertainty are necessary for reproducible geological interpretation.", "Unsupported structural interpretations can mislead research and decisions affecting land or infrastructure.", "Field observations and sampling must respect access permissions and geological heritage." ], "affected_parties": [ "Geologists and researchers rely on accurate structural observations.", "Landowners and local communities may be affected by fieldwork and resulting interpretations.", "Engineers and the public may be affected by decisions based on geological assessments." ] }, "owners": { "steward": "Nobody owns the geological concept; observers and custodians are responsible for the quality and provenance of their records.", "master_systems": [] }, "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Apparent lines in photographs or sections can be mistaken for reproducible linear structures in rock.", "Orientation errors or missing observation context can distort structural interpretations.", "Treating a lineation direction as proof of movement direction, shear sense or formation history can produce unsupported conclusions." ], "what_it_is_for": [ "Geological lineation is described in outcrops, hand specimens and thin sections where rocks display a preferred linear structure.", "Geologists record its orientation and constituent features during structural mapping and fabric analysis.", "Its relationship to folds, planar fabrics and other structures helps constrain deformation interpretations without assuming an origin from appearance alone." ], "visual_identification": [ "Elongated minerals or mineral aggregates can share a preferred direction within the rock.", "Repeated parallel ridges or grooves can define a linear fabric on a rock surface.", "The intersection of two planar fabrics can produce a visible line distinct from either plane.", "Aligned stretched clasts can mark a direction across multiple parts of a specimen." ], "facets_not_applicable": { "interfaces": "No generally applicable technical standard, law or official classification is required to identify geological lineation in this descriptive sense." } }, "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata item Q1798991: lineation", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1798991", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "identity and sense of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api" }, { "id": "wikipedia-en", "title": "Wikipedia: Lineation (geology)", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lineation_%28geology%29", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "general description of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api sitelink" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "lineation-identity", "name": "Lineation identity", "description": "Establish the intended sense and the observable feature being called lineation.", "rationale": "An undefined registry name and visually similar structures make premature classification unreliable.", "layers": [ { "id": "registry-sense", "name": "Registry sense", "description": "Resolve whether the entry denotes geological lineation.", "findings": [ { "id": "sense-evidence", "name": "Evidence for the geological sense", "description": "Record the registry provenance or reference definition supporting this provisional scope.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which registry source identifies lineation here as a geological concept?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "sense-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Does the intended definition include both penetrative linear fabrics and discrete linear structures?", "kind": "definition", "id": "sense-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "defining-markers", "name": "Defining markers", "description": "Identify what physically establishes the linear feature.", "findings": [ { "id": "marker-based-identification", "name": "Marker-based identification", "description": "Describe the visible markers before assigning a genetic label.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which minerals, aggregates, objects or surface intersections define the observed direction?", "kind": "definition", "id": "marker-based-identification-q01" }, { "text": "What observation distinguishes this feature from a scratch, fracture trace or sectioning artefact?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "marker-based-identification-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "orientation-and-observation", "name": "Orientation and observation", "description": "Make the lineation's three-dimensional geometry and observational limits explicit.", "rationale": "A direction is usable only when its reference frame, acquisition method and uncertainty are known.", "layers": [ { "id": "spatial-orientation", "name": "Spatial orientation", "description": "Describe the line direction using reproducible conventions.", "findings": [ { "id": "orientation-record", "name": "Orientation record", "description": "Capture direct orientation measurements or the information needed to reconstruct them.", "questions": [ { "text": "What are the trend and plunge, and which north reference and coordinate frame were used?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "orientation-record-q01" }, { "text": "If recorded as rake, what host-plane orientation, reference direction and angular convention were used?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "orientation-record-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "observation-reliability", "name": "Observation reliability", "description": "Assess how exposure, specimen orientation and measurement method affect the result.", "findings": [ { "id": "three-dimensional-support", "name": "Three-dimensional support", "description": "Identify whether the observation establishes a spatial line or only its projection.", "questions": [ { "text": "Was the lineation measured directly in three dimensions or inferred from a section or image?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "three-dimensional-support-q01" }, { "text": "What additional view or oriented sample would resolve the largest orientation uncertainty?", "kind": "action", "id": "three-dimensional-support-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "fabric-populations-and-relations", "name": "Fabric populations and relations", "description": "Describe variation among lineations and their relationships to neighbouring structures.", "rationale": "A single average direction can conceal distinct markers, structural domains or generations.", "layers": [ { "id": "lineation-populations", "name": "Lineation populations", "description": "Establish the scale and coherence of each observed population.", "findings": [ { "id": "population-separation", "name": "Population separation", "description": "Group observations using stated evidence rather than assuming every linear feature belongs together.", "questions": [ { "text": "At what sampling scale and with how many observations is a preferred orientation established?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "population-separation-q01" }, { "text": "Do differences in marker type, orientation or location justify separate lineation populations?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "population-separation-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "associated-structures", "name": "Associated structures", "description": "Relate each population to identifiable planes and folds.", "findings": [ { "id": "line-plane-and-fold-relations", "name": "Line, plane and fold relations", "description": "Record measured structural relationships without treating geometric agreement as proof of common origin.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the lineation lie within a measured foliation or bedding plane, and within what angular uncertainty?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "line-plane-and-fold-relations-q01" }, { "text": "If interpreted as an intersection or fold-related lineation, which observed surfaces or fold features support that assignment?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "line-plane-and-fold-relations-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "origin-and-interpretive-use", "name": "Origin and interpretive use", "description": "Evaluate formation hypotheses and constrain what an agent may infer from the lineation.", "rationale": "Similar linear geometries can support different geological explanations, so interpretive use needs evidence beyond orientation.", "layers": [ { "id": "formation-hypotheses", "name": "Formation hypotheses", "description": "Compare explanations tied to the observed markers and structural setting.", "findings": [ { "id": "origin-evidence", "name": "Origin evidence", "description": "Separate descriptive classification from hypotheses involving stretching, mineral growth, surface intersection or other processes.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which formation hypotheses fit the defining markers, and what evidence favours each?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "origin-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Which observable feature would distinguish the leading hypothesis from its strongest alternative?", "kind": "action", "id": "origin-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "deformation-inference", "name": "Deformation inference", "description": "Determine whether the lineation can support claims about strain, movement or relative timing.", "findings": [ { "id": "limits-on-kinematic-use", "name": "Limits on kinematic use", "description": "Require explicit corroboration for interpretations that go beyond the observed linear geometry.", "questions": [ { "text": "What independent evidence is needed before treating this lineation as a stretching or transport direction?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "limits-on-kinematic-use-q01" }, { "text": "Which observed overprinting or cross-cutting relationships constrain its timing relative to other fabrics?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "limits-on-kinematic-use-q02" }, { "text": "Which deformation claims must remain unresolved because the available observations do not distinguish them?", "kind": "action", "id": "limits-on-kinematic-use-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "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 ambiguous and no sense was supplied; this description provisionally selects the poetry and textual-studies sense.", "End-stopping and enjambment describe individual line endings and can coexist within one work.", "Historical line boundaries may reflect authorial, scribal, editorial, or printing decisions; attribution requires evidence from the relevant textual witnesses." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of lineation 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": [ "End-stopped lineation", "Enjambed lineation" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of lineation 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": [ "Composing verse through deliberate placement of line breaks", "Analysing how line boundaries shape emphasis, rhythm, and interpretation", "Comparing the arrangement of lines across manuscripts and editions", "Preserving meaningful line boundaries in transcription and digital encoding" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of lineation 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": "Line length measured in syllables", "typical_range": "Varies with language, verse form, and individual poem", "unit": "syllables per line" }, { "quantity": "Line count", "typical_range": "Varies with the work or verse form", "unit": "lines" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of lineation 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": [ "Automatic text wrapping can obscure or replace intentional line breaks.", "Transcription or OCR can merge lines or introduce spurious boundaries.", "Treating every line ending as a required pause can misrepresent enjambment.", "Attributing an editor's or compositor's line breaks to the author can distort interpretation." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of lineation 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": "Meter", "difference": "Meter concerns patterned rhythmic organisation; lineation concerns where lines begin and end, including in verse without regular meter." }, { "name": "Enjambment", "difference": "Enjambment occurs when syntax continues across a line boundary; it is one relationship between syntax and lineation." }, { "name": "Stanza", "difference": "A stanza groups lines into a larger unit; lineation establishes the lines themselves." }, { "name": "Text wrapping", "difference": "Text wrapping generally places breaks according to available display width; poetic lineation can specify breaks that remain meaningful across layouts." }, { "name": "Geological lineation", "difference": "Geological lineation is a linear fabric or alignment in rock, rather than the organisation of text into lines." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of lineation this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does vr.tr.lineation denote geological lineation, poetic line division, or another sense in its originating registry?", "Which reference definitions should govern the inclusion of discrete linear structures versus penetrative linear fabrics?", "Does an existing Vercy world model already own this concept or its intended sense?", "Which descriptive and genetic classification systems should be represented, and where do their boundaries disagree?", "Which measurement and sampling conventions are appropriate for comparing lineations across thin sections, specimens and outcrops?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 9, "findings": 14, "questions": 23 } }