{ "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-12T08:53:10Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 19.7, "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: 01a094d0-f9e9-71c2-bc9d-6d82677c8dd9\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: couple\nSense to describe: (none recorded)\nDomain code: SOC.ORG\nAlso known as: (none)\n\n\nContext for this batch of 1001 things:\n# Batch 043: 1001 register", "usd": 0.0, "recall": true }, "codex": { "seconds": 72.8, "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: 01a094d0-f9da-7d80-82a2-d416b3ff0e29\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: couple\nRegistry id: vr.tr.couple-q219160\nPlane / domain: SOC / SOC.ORG\nRegistry definition: (none recorded)\nNames folded into this entry: (none)\n\n\nCo" } }, "enrichment": { "pass": 3, "engine": "claude", "producedAt": "2026-10-06T11:00:00Z", "ingestedAt": "2026-10-06T08:14:26+00:00", "fields": [ "agent_conduct", "ethics", "failure_modes_and_hazards", "owners" ] }, "gate": { "passed": true, "version": "1.0", "at": "2026-10-07T10:10:28+00:00", "evidence": [ "completeness 1.00", "sense: Wikidata description", "2 live sources", "review by codex: pass" ] } }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q219160", "registryId": "vr.tr.couple-q219160", "name": "couple", "version": "0.1.0-research.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "SOC.ORG" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q219160/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.couple-q219160", "name": "couple", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise a couple as a two-person intimate partnership, assess its reported state and arrangements, and identify actions each partner has authorised.", "definition": "A couple is a social unit of two people connected by a mutually recognized intimate or romantic partnership, whether or not they are married, co-resident, or legally registered.", "scope_statement": "This model owns the relationship between two people understood as partners, including how that relationship is identified, negotiated, practised, recognised and ended; interpreting the registry entry as an intimate partnership remains provisional pending research.", "in_scope": [ "Partner identities and each person's account of the relationship", "Relationship boundaries, commitments and negotiated expectations", "Shared domestic, financial and caregiving arrangements", "Social or formal recognition of the partnership", "Relationship transitions and continuing joint obligations" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Each partner's complete personal identity, history or clinical record", "Households and families extending beyond the two-person relationship", "Marriage, civil partnership and divorce as legal institutions or proceedings", "Ownership records for shared assets and individual financial accounts", "Friendships, business partnerships and incidental pairs without an intimate partnership", "A wider relationship network containing multiple partnerships" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "The model concerns a relationship involving two identified people, rather than any two people grouped together.", "Partner accounts or attributed evidence identify an intimate partnership; proximity, shared surnames or co-residence alone do not establish one.", "Couple identity is recorded separately from marriage or civil partnership status, allowing informal and formally recognised relationships to be distinguished.", "Shared residence is an arrangement to establish, rather than a prerequisite for recognising the relationship.", "Exclusivity is an agreement to establish, rather than an inference from the relationship having two partners." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Partners", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "References to the two people whose partnership is represented", "why_it_matters": "Establishes the relationship's participants without treating either person's other relationships as part of this couple." }, { "name": "Relationship identification", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Each partner's own label, with source and date; unknown or differing accounts permitted", "why_it_matters": "Avoids imposing a relationship identity or presenting one person's account as mutual agreement." }, { "name": "Relationship state", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Reported as forming, ongoing, paused, separating, ended or otherwise described; disputed and unknown permitted", "why_it_matters": "Supports actions appropriate to the current relationship while retaining differences between accounts." }, { "name": "Relationship milestones", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Dates or date intervals with precision and attribution", "why_it_matters": "Records potentially different meanings of beginning, commitment, separation and ending." }, { "name": "Residence arrangement", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Shared residence, separate residences, intermittent co-residence, other or unknown", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes partnership from household membership and identifies coordination needs." }, { "name": "Commitment and exclusivity agreements", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "References to attributed agreements, their scope, effective dates and unresolved differences", "why_it_matters": "Allows expectations to be recorded without assuming marriage, monogamy or permanence." }, { "name": "Formal recognition", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "References to applicable status records, jurisdictions and effective periods, or none established", "why_it_matters": "Connects the relationship to formal recognition without inferring rights from the label couple." }, { "name": "Shared responsibilities", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "References to agreed responsibilities for expenses, domestic work, care or joint commitments", "why_it_matters": "Identifies what requires coordination and what may continue after separation." }, { "name": "Agent permissions", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Per-person, per-action permission: granted, limited, withdrawn or unknown", "why_it_matters": "Prevents one partner's request from being treated as authority over the other partner." } ], "affordances": [ "Record each partner's relationship description and identify unresolved differences without adjudicating them.", "Prepare a proposed agreement about shared routines or responsibilities for the partners to review.", "Coordinate agreed appointments, tasks and expenses within the permissions granted.", "Link formal status and shared-obligation records to the relationship.", "Track relationship transitions and flag arrangements that need renewed agreement.", "Apply separate access and disclosure permissions to each partner's information." ], "agent_conduct": { "may": [ "Address and refer to a couple as they describe themselves.", "Help a couple with joint tasks they both asked for." ], "must_not": [ "Disclose a person's relationship or partner without consent.", "Treat one form of couple, such as married or opposite-sex, as the only valid one.", "Share one partner's private information with the other without consent.", "Help one partner monitor or control the other." ], "requires_human": [ "Responding to signs of abuse or coercion within a couple." ] }, "ethics": { "considerations": [ "Relationships are private and diverse, and outing a person can endanger them.", "Abuse often happens within couples and must not be enabled." ], "affected_parties": [ "Both partners", "Children and family members" ] }, "owners": { "steward": "Nobody owns a couple; the partners hold their own relationship, and civil registries record marriages and partnerships.", "master_systems": [ "Civil registers of marriages and partnerships" ] }, "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Coercive control and partner surveillance.", "Exposure of relationships to hostile families or states." ], "what_it_is_for": [ "A couple is encountered in family life, social relationships and services that accommodate intimate partners.", "Partnership arrangements can matter for housing, care planning and shared responsibilities, subject to each person's preferences and authorisation.", "Being a couple does not by itself establish marriage, shared residence or authority to act for a partner." ], "standards_and_regulation": [ "The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly, addresses marriage and free and full consent in Article 16 where partners choose to marry." ], "facets_not_applicable": { "recognition": "An intimate partnership is a social relationship that cannot be established from appearance, proximity or affectionate behaviour alone." } }, "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata item Q219160: couple", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q219160", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "identity and sense of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api" }, { "id": "wikipedia-en", "title": "Wikipedia: Couple (relationship)", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Couple_%28relationship%29", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "general description of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api sitelink" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "couple-identity", "name": "Couple identity", "description": "Establishes who the partners are and why their connection is represented as a couple.", "rationale": "A pair, a household and an intimate partnership can involve the same people while describing different things.", "layers": [ { "id": "partner-identification", "name": "Partner identification", "description": "Identifies the two participants without merging their personal identities.", "findings": [ { "id": "two-person-relationship-boundary", "name": "Two-person relationship boundary", "description": "Record the two partner references and distinguish this relationship from any household or wider relationship network.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which two people are participants in the relationship represented here?", "kind": "definition", "id": "two-person-relationship-boundary-q01" }, { "text": "Which household members or other partners belong to neighbouring models?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "two-person-relationship-boundary-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "partnership-identification", "name": "Partnership identification", "description": "Captures how the relationship is described and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "attributed-couple-status", "name": "Attributed couple status", "description": "Keep each partner's description and any external classification separately attributable and dated.", "questions": [ { "text": "How does each person describe this relationship, if their account is available?", "kind": "definition", "id": "attributed-couple-status-q01" }, { "text": "Who supplied the couple classification, when, and on what basis?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "attributed-couple-status-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "commitments-and-permissions", "name": "Commitments and permissions", "description": "Represents relationship expectations and the limits of acting for either partner.", "rationale": "Couple membership alone does not establish shared expectations or permission to act on another person's behalf.", "layers": [ { "id": "relationship-agreements", "name": "Relationship agreements", "description": "Records the commitments the partners report making.", "findings": [ { "id": "negotiated-relationship-boundaries", "name": "Negotiated relationship boundaries", "description": "Represent agreements about exclusivity, privacy, time and other commitments without supplying default terms.", "questions": [ { "text": "What commitments does each partner report agreeing to, including any exclusivity terms?", "kind": "definition", "id": "negotiated-relationship-boundaries-q01" }, { "text": "Which expectations are mutually acknowledged, disputed or awaiting discussion?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "negotiated-relationship-boundaries-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "individual-authority", "name": "Individual authority", "description": "Separates each partner's permissions from permissions concerning genuinely joint activities.", "findings": [ { "id": "action-and-disclosure-permissions", "name": "Action and disclosure permissions", "description": "Record who has authorised an agent action or disclosure, its scope and whether that permission remains current.", "questions": [ { "text": "Whose permission is needed for the proposed action or disclosure, and which permissions have been obtained?", "kind": "action", "id": "action-and-disclosure-permissions-q01" }, { "text": "What information must remain accessible only to the partner who provided it?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "action-and-disclosure-permissions-q02" }, { "text": "How can either partner revise or withdraw a permission?", "kind": "action", "id": "action-and-disclosure-permissions-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "shared-life-arrangements", "name": "Shared life arrangements", "description": "Describes how the partners organise residence, resources, routines and care.", "rationale": "The practical extent of a partnership cannot be inferred from its label or formal status.", "layers": [ { "id": "residence-and-routines", "name": "Residence and routines", "description": "Captures the practical organisation of time together and domestic activities.", "findings": [ { "id": "living-and-coordination-pattern", "name": "Living and coordination pattern", "description": "Record shared or separate residence and agreed routines relevant to coordinating the partnership.", "questions": [ { "text": "Do the partners share a residence, live separately or use another arrangement?", "kind": "definition", "id": "living-and-coordination-pattern-q01" }, { "text": "Which visits, domestic tasks or recurring activities have they authorised the agent to coordinate?", "kind": "action", "id": "living-and-coordination-pattern-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "resources-and-care", "name": "Resources and care", "description": "Connects the relationship to shared expenses and responsibilities without absorbing their underlying records.", "findings": [ { "id": "allocation-of-shared-responsibilities", "name": "Allocation of shared responsibilities", "description": "Record agreed contributions and responsibilities, including care for one another or dependants where relevant.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which expenses, domestic duties and caregiving responsibilities are shared, and how are they allocated?", "kind": "definition", "id": "allocation-of-shared-responsibilities-q01" }, { "text": "What amounts, frequencies or time commitments are agreed, and for what period?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "allocation-of-shared-responsibilities-q02" }, { "text": "Which ownership, debt or dependant records must remain in linked models?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "allocation-of-shared-responsibilities-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "recognition-and-status", "name": "Recognition and status", "description": "Separates private relationship identity, social acknowledgement and formal recognition.", "rationale": "A couple may be acknowledged differently across audiences and institutions, with different consequences for disclosure and action.", "layers": [ { "id": "social-acknowledgement", "name": "Social acknowledgement", "description": "Records how the partnership is presented to particular audiences.", "findings": [ { "id": "audience-specific-relationship-disclosure", "name": "Audience-specific relationship disclosure", "description": "Keep permitted descriptions and disclosures specific to audiences rather than assuming the partnership is public.", "questions": [ { "text": "To which people or groups have the partners chosen to acknowledge the relationship?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "audience-specific-relationship-disclosure-q01" }, { "text": "What relationship description, if any, may the agent disclose to a particular recipient?", "kind": "action", "id": "audience-specific-relationship-disclosure-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "formal-status-links", "name": "Formal status links", "description": "Connects the couple to documented institutional or legal classifications.", "findings": [ { "id": "documented-partnership-recognition", "name": "Documented partnership recognition", "description": "Reference formal status evidence with its jurisdiction and dates; leave the interpretation of specific rights to the relevant legal model.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which documents or institutional records establish a formal status for this partnership?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "documented-partnership-recognition-q01" }, { "text": "For which jurisdiction, institution and effective period does each recorded status apply?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "documented-partnership-recognition-q02" }, { "text": "Which proposed actions require verification of a specific right or authority beyond couple status?", "kind": "action", "id": "documented-partnership-recognition-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "relationship-course", "name": "Relationship course", "description": "Tracks the partnership's reported state, transitions and arrangements requiring review.", "rationale": "Relationship changes can be understood differently by the partners and can leave practical or formal obligations unresolved.", "layers": [ { "id": "milestones-and-current-state", "name": "Milestones and current state", "description": "Maintains attributed accounts of formation, continuity and change.", "findings": [ { "id": "attributed-relationship-timeline", "name": "Attributed relationship timeline", "description": "Record meaningful milestones and current-state reports without forcing a single account when dates or interpretations differ.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which events do the partners use to date the relationship's beginning and later changes?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "attributed-relationship-timeline-q01" }, { "text": "What is each partner's latest account of the relationship's state, and when was it provided?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "attributed-relationship-timeline-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "separation-and-continuing-arrangements", "name": "Separation and continuing arrangements", "description": "Identifies what must be reviewed when the partnership pauses, ends or changes substantially.", "findings": [ { "id": "transition-dependent-responsibilities", "name": "Transition-dependent responsibilities", "description": "Distinguish reported relationship ending from termination of permissions, domestic arrangements and externally established obligations.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which shared arrangements and agent permissions need review following the reported change?", "kind": "action", "id": "transition-dependent-responsibilities-q01" }, { "text": "Which responsibilities continue through separate agreements or formal obligations?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "transition-dependent-responsibilities-q02" }, { "text": "What evidence supports recording an arrangement as concluded rather than merely awaiting resolution?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "transition-dependent-responsibilities-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 intimate-partnership sense is inferred from SOC.ORG; the registry records no sense, so this interpretation needs confirmation.", "The listed kinds overlap rather than forming a mutually exclusive classification.", "Official definitions may restrict couples by co-residence or recognized relationship status; these operational definitions should be checked for the intended dataset." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of couple 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": [ "Married couple", "Cohabiting couple", "Dating couple", "Living-apart-together couple", "Same-sex couple", "Different-sex couple" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of couple 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": [ "Demographic analysis of partnership formation, household composition, and separation", "Study of shared resources, caregiving, and domestic responsibilities", "Couples counselling and relationship support", "Recognition of partners in administrative systems where applicable eligibility rules are met" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of couple 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": "Number of partners constituting the couple", "typical_range": "2", "unit": "people" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of couple 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": [ "Coercive control, intimate partner violence, or economic abuse", "Persistent conflict or incompatible expectations about commitment and responsibilities", "Unequal access to shared resources or decision-making", "Administrative misclassification when couple status is inferred solely from marriage or a shared address", "Loss of access to shared housing, resources, or support following separation" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of couple 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": [ "Recognition of marriage, registered partnerships, and unmarried partners differs across jurisdictions.", "Social acceptance and official recognition of same-sex couples vary.", "Norms concerning cohabitation, partner selection, and extended-family involvement vary across communities." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of couple 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": "Dyad", "difference": "A dyad is any two-person social relationship; a couple in this sense specifically involves an intimate or romantic partnership." }, { "name": "Marriage", "difference": "Marriage is an institution or recognized marital status; a couple is the partnered pair and can exist without marriage." }, { "name": "Household", "difference": "A household is organized around residence and domestic arrangements; a couple can occupy separate households, and a household need not contain a couple." }, { "name": "Family", "difference": "A family can include wider kinship and parent-child relationships; a couple specifically comprises two partners." }, { "name": "Organization", "difference": "A couple does not inherently possess the formal membership structure, governance, or separate legal identity associated with an organization." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of couple this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does registry item vr.tr.couple-q219160 specifically denote an intimate partnership, or does its source define a broader or narrower kind of couple?", "Does an existing Vercy world model already cover this relationship concept and therefore provide the authoritative publication?", "How should the model represent claimed, historical or externally classified couples when one or both partners' accounts are unavailable or differ?", "Which culturally specific partnership forms and terms must the model support without treating marriage, co-residence, sexual activity or exclusivity as prerequisites?", "What minimum information and access rules support useful joint coordination while preserving each partner's independent privacy and ability to withdraw permissions?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 17, "questions": 31 } }