{ "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-12T08:30:26Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 18.6, "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: 01a094bc-27de-7603-9521-aa9e16b2f553\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: Cemaat\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": 72.4, "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: 01a094bc-27e2-78c2-a318-88060cb456b7\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: Cemaat\nRegistry id: vr.tr.cemaat\nPlane / domain: SOC / SOC.ORG\nRegistry definition: (none recorded)\nNames folded into this entry: (none)\n\n\nContext fo" } }, "enrichment": { "pass": 3, "engine": "claude", "producedAt": "2026-10-06T12:00:00Z", "ingestedAt": "2026-10-06T08:44:09+00:00", "fields": [ "agent_conduct", "ethics", "failure_modes_and_hazards", "owners" ] }, "gate": { "passed": true, "version": "1.0", "at": "2026-10-07T10:10:29+00:00", "evidence": [ "completeness 1.00", "sense: Wikidata description", "2 live sources", "review by codex: pass" ] } }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q2633842", "registryId": "vr.tr.cemaat", "name": "Cemaat", "version": "0.1.0-research.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "SOC.ORG" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q2633842/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.cemaat", "name": "Cemaat", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise a cemaat, assess its communal continuity and authority, and determine who may participate, represent it or act on its behalf.", "definition": "Cemaat is a Turkish term for a congregation or community, especially one connected by religious affiliation or practice, and does not by itself denote a particular organisation or legal form.", "scope_statement": "This draft provisionally models Cemaat (vr.tr.cemaat) as a religious community or congregation in Turkish usage, with the intended registry sense still requiring verification; it owns communal identity, participation, religious authority, collective practices and organisational continuity without presuming incorporation or a particular named movement.", "in_scope": [ "The locally intended meaning of cemaat and evidence identifying the community", "Boundaries between participants, adherents, leaders and affiliated organisations", "Shared religious practices and the relationships sustaining collective life", "Religious authority, representation and community decision rights", "Institutional relationships, resource stewardship and continuity through change" ], "out_of_scope": [ "The architecture and ownership details of a mosque or other meeting building", "Religious doctrines considered independently of their adoption by this community", "Individual biographies and private religious beliefs", "Detailed models of affiliated foundations, associations, schools or businesses", "Individual worship events and their full ritual procedures", "A particular named movement inferred solely from the word Cemaat" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Resolve whether the name denotes a particular congregation, an enduring community or a broader religious unity: documented usages include worshippers following an imam and Muslim religious unity, so the label alone is insufficient ([TDV: congregational sense](https://islamansiklopedisi.org.tr/cemaat--namaz), [TDV: unity sense](https://islamansiklopedisi.org.tr/cemaat)).", "Test whether collective identity persists between gatherings before treating recurring attendance as an enduring organisation.", "Require evidence of a specific order, lineage or initiation practice before identifying the cemaat with a tarikat.", "Distinguish authority to lead worship from authority to govern, hold property or represent the community.", "Identify the community independently of its meeting place and any foundation or association serving it." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Intended cemaat sense", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Worship congregation; enduring religious community; named movement usage; other documented sense; unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Determines whether organisational continuity and governance apply." }, { "name": "Basis of belonging", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Self-identification; recognised affiliation; recurring participation; formal admission; other documented basis; disputed", "why_it_matters": "Prevents attendance or outside labelling from being treated as membership." }, { "name": "Religious affiliation", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Attributed links to a tradition, teaching, lineage or wider community, with evidence and dates", "why_it_matters": "Locates the community without assuming a particular denomination or spiritual order." }, { "name": "Authority arrangement", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Documented distribution of ritual, teaching, administrative and representative authority", "why_it_matters": "Shows whose decisions or statements bind which activities." }, { "name": "Participation scale", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Persons, with date, locality, counting method and participant category", "why_it_matters": "Separates gathering attendance from estimates of enduring affiliation." }, { "name": "Institutional embodiment", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Links to verified legal entities, including jurisdiction, identifier and relationship type where available", "why_it_matters": "Identifies entities capable of holding assets or entering agreements." }, { "name": "Communal continuity", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Active; intermittent; dormant; divided; merged; ended; uncertain, as of a stated date", "why_it_matters": "Supports decisions about current contacts, representation and historical succession." } ], "affordances": [ "Disambiguate a cemaat reference using locality, period, self-description and religious context.", "Identify documented participation routes and gathering arrangements.", "Find the appropriate contact for worship, teaching, administration or external representation.", "Map relationships to meeting places and affiliated legal entities without conflating their identities.", "Assess continuity and competing succession claims after leadership changes or division.", "Flag unsupported affiliation claims and unresolved authority before acting on them." ], "agent_conduct": { "may": [ "Explain the Turkish term and its general meaning of a religious community.", "Distinguish the general term from any specific group it is used to refer to." ], "must_not": [ "Label a person as a member of a religious community without evidence.", "Use the term to imply that a named group is criminal or terrorist without an official finding.", "Compile lists of people by religious affiliation.", "Present one group as the only meaning of the word." ], "requires_human": [ "Any report or decision that links a named person to a religious community." ] }, "ethics": { "considerations": [ "In some contexts the word is tied to political accusations, and loose use can endanger people.", "Religious affiliation is sensitive personal information." ], "affected_parties": [ "Members of religious communities", "People wrongly accused of affiliation", "Readers" ] }, "owners": { "steward": "Nobody owns the term; each community governs itself under the law where it operates.", "master_systems": [] }, "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Guilt by association when the term is applied loosely to people." ], "what_it_is_for": [ "The term is used in Turkish religious and social settings for a congregation or community connected through shared practice or affiliation.", "It may refer to people gathered for worship or to a more enduring religious community.", "Its meaning depends on context, and the term alone establishes neither formal membership nor authority to represent others." ], "facets_not_applicable": { "interfaces": "The term itself specifies no legal form or official classification, so applicable rules require identification of the particular community and jurisdiction.", "recognition": "Shared religious affiliation and communal authority cannot be established from appearance, clothing or gathering place alone." } }, "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata item Q2633842: Cemaat", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2633842", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "identity and sense of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api" }, { "id": "wikipedia-en", "title": "Wikipedia: Cemaat", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cemaat", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "general description of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api sitelink" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "communal-identity", "name": "Communal identity", "description": "Establish which collective the term cemaat identifies in this record.", "rationale": "The registry supplies no definition, and the term does not by itself establish an enduring organisation.", "layers": [ { "id": "name-and-sense", "name": "Name and sense", "description": "Resolve the meaning and referent of the community label.", "findings": [ { "id": "attested-community-reference", "name": "Attested community reference", "description": "Record the evidence connecting the registry label to a community type or particular collective.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does this entry mean a worship congregation, an enduring religious community or another documented usage?", "kind": "definition", "id": "attested-community-reference-q01" }, { "text": "Which originating registry record or source establishes that meaning and its geographic and historical context?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "attested-community-reference-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "identity-boundaries", "name": "Identity boundaries", "description": "Separate communal identity from adjacent religious and institutional identities.", "findings": [ { "id": "community-versus-associated-entities", "name": "Community versus associated entities", "description": "Determine whether the collective is distinct from a gathering, spiritual order, named movement or supporting institution.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence distinguishes this cemaat from its worship gatherings and meeting place?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "community-versus-associated-entities-q01" }, { "text": "Are links to a tarikat, wider movement or foundation identities, affiliations or merely external attributions?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "community-versus-associated-entities-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "belonging-and-participation", "name": "Belonging and participation", "description": "Describe how people participate and how communal affiliation is recognised.", "rationale": "A community's participants cannot safely be inferred from visitors, donors or people appearing at a religious event.", "layers": [ { "id": "affiliation-boundaries", "name": "Affiliation boundaries", "description": "Identify the community's own distinctions between attendance and belonging.", "findings": [ { "id": "recognised-belonging", "name": "Recognised belonging", "description": "Record explicit affiliation criteria and disagreements about their application.", "questions": [ { "text": "What distinguishes a visitor, recurring participant and recognised adherent in this community's own terms?", "kind": "definition", "id": "recognised-belonging-q01" }, { "text": "How can affiliation be established or ended, and whose recognition is involved?", "kind": "action", "id": "recognised-belonging-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "participation-patterns", "name": "Participation patterns", "description": "Assess participation without converting activity counts into unsupported membership totals.", "findings": [ { "id": "participation-scale-and-access", "name": "Participation scale and access", "description": "Record dated participation estimates and documented access conditions.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does each reported count measure worship attendance, regular participation, households or declared adherents?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "participation-scale-and-access-q01" }, { "text": "Which gatherings are open to visitors, and what invitation or participation conditions are documented?", "kind": "action", "id": "participation-scale-and-access-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "religious-life-and-transmission", "name": "Religious life and transmission", "description": "Identify the practices and teaching relationships through which the cemaat sustains collective life.", "rationale": "Religious community requires a model of shared practice and transmission, beyond an institutional chart.", "layers": [ { "id": "shared-practice", "name": "Shared practice", "description": "Establish which recurring activities express this community's collective identity.", "findings": [ { "id": "community-forming-activities", "name": "Community-forming activities", "description": "Distinguish documented communal activities from practices merely associated with the broader tradition.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which worship, study, service or fellowship activities are actually organised by this cemaat?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "community-forming-activities-q01" }, { "text": "Which activities define continuing participation, and which are occasional events?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "community-forming-activities-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "teaching-and-affiliation", "name": "Teaching and affiliation", "description": "Record how teachings and religious affiliations are adopted and communicated.", "findings": [ { "id": "recognised-teaching-relationships", "name": "Recognised teaching relationships", "description": "Identify recognised teachers and reference traditions without assuming a single doctrinal authority.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which teachers, texts or traditions does the community explicitly recognise?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "recognised-teaching-relationships-q01" }, { "text": "Who may teach in the community's name, and how are differences in interpretation handled?", "kind": "action", "id": "recognised-teaching-relationships-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "authority-and-representation", "name": "Authority and representation", "description": "Map who can lead religious activities, make collective decisions and speak for the cemaat.", "rationale": "Religious standing, practical leadership and legal authority may belong to different people or bodies.", "layers": [ { "id": "leadership-mandates", "name": "Leadership mandates", "description": "Identify the basis and limits of recognised leadership.", "findings": [ { "id": "role-specific-authority", "name": "Role-specific authority", "description": "Separate worship leadership, teaching authority and community administration.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who leads worship, provides religious guidance and administers communal activities?", "kind": "definition", "id": "role-specific-authority-q01" }, { "text": "How is each role selected or recognised, and what evidence establishes its mandate?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "role-specific-authority-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "collective-decisions", "name": "Collective decisions", "description": "Determine how decisions and public statements acquire communal authority.", "findings": [ { "id": "representation-and-accountability", "name": "Representation and accountability", "description": "Record decision procedures, spokesperson mandates and routes for contesting authority.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who may approve commitments or issue statements in the cemaat's name, and for which matters?", "kind": "action", "id": "representation-and-accountability-q01" }, { "text": "How can participants challenge a decision, raise a complaint or withdraw recognition from a representative?", "kind": "action", "id": "representation-and-accountability-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "institutional-support-and-continuity", "name": "Institutional support and continuity", "description": "Connect communal life to supporting entities and trace identity through organisational change.", "rationale": "A cemaat may continue while its venues, administrators or supporting institutions change.", "layers": [ { "id": "venues-resources-and-entities", "name": "Venues, resources and entities", "description": "Establish responsibility for the places and resources supporting community activities.", "findings": [ { "id": "supporting-institution-relationships", "name": "Supporting institution relationships", "description": "Record documented links between the community and those controlling premises, funds and formal agreements.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which people or entities hold or administer meeting premises and communal funds, and what evidence links them to the cemaat?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "supporting-institution-relationships-q01" }, { "text": "Which verified entity or representative can authorise venue use, receive designated donations or enter an agreement?", "kind": "action", "id": "supporting-institution-relationships-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "succession-and-change", "name": "Succession and change", "description": "Track the continuity of the community through leadership transitions, division and inactivity.", "findings": [ { "id": "continuity-and-successor-claims", "name": "Continuity and successor claims", "description": "Evaluate claims of continued identity without treating control of a name or building as decisive.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence supports continued communal identity after relocation, leadership succession, merger or division?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "continuity-and-successor-claims-q01" }, { "text": "What dated evidence establishes whether the community is active, dormant, divided or ended?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "continuity-and-successor-claims-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": [ "No sense is recorded, so the generic Turkish religious-community meaning is used provisionally.", "Check whether the registry intends the generic term or a particular movement before assigning organisational facts.", "Legal status, governance, membership and applicable regulation require a specific community and jurisdiction." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of Cemaat 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": [ "Congregation assembled for communal prayer", "Organised Islamic religious community", "Non-Muslim religious community" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of Cemaat 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": [ "Describing the people participating in communal worship", "Naming communities that organise religious instruction, charity and mutual assistance", "Referring to non-Muslim religious communities in Ottoman and Turkish contexts" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Cemaat 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": [ "Mistaking a generic community designation for a uniquely identified organisation", "Assuming that a community has legal personality or formally registered membership", "Conflating a religious community with its associated foundations, schools or other institutions" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Cemaat 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": [ "In Turkish usage, the term can describe a local congregation or a wider religious community.", "Ottoman historical usage includes non-Muslim communities; its institutional meaning depends on the period and context." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of Cemaat 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": "Tarikat", "difference": "A tarikat is a Sufi order defined by a spiritual tradition and lineage; a cemaat need not be a Sufi order." }, { "name": "Vakıf", "difference": "A vakıf is an endowment or foundation; a cemaat is the community that may establish, support or benefit from it." }, { "name": "Mosque", "difference": "A mosque is a place or institution of worship; its cemaat is the congregation." }, { "name": "Gülen movement", "difference": "The Gülen movement is a particular movement sometimes called 'the Cemaat' in Turkish discourse; cemaat also has broader generic meanings." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of Cemaat this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Which source record underlies vr.tr.cemaat, and does it denote a generic religious community, a prayer congregation or a specific named collective?", "Does the intended scope include non-Muslim communities described as cemaat, or is it restricted to a particular Islamic usage?", "Is enduring organisational identity appropriate for this registry sense, or should some governance and lifecycle elements be conditional?", "Which community-specific evidence establishes affiliation, leadership and institutional relationships without relying on outsider labels?", "Does an existing Vercy world model already cover the resolved concept and therefore require a link instead of a separate publication?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 16, "questions": 26 } }