{ "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-12T10:49:27Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 18.5, "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: 01a0953b-6840-7901-9c70-931d098401cd\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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[JKKN cultural inventory](https://pemetaanbudaya.jkkn.gov.my/en/senibudaya/detail/870)", "Check the relationship between horse handling, group movement and musical accompaniment rather than classifying an isolated prop as the performance tradition.", "Record ritual or trance-associated elements where evidenced, but do not make their presence a universal recognition requirement.", "Treat names such as kuda lumping and jaran kepang as candidate contextual equivalences, not automatic evidence that every regional repertoire is interchangeable. [Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka terminology search](https://prpm.dbp.gov.my/Cari1?d=371752&keyword=kuda+kepang)" ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Community and lineage attribution", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Named community, locality, troupe and teacher lineage, with supporting testimony or documentation", "why_it_matters": "Grounds identification in practitioners rather than visual resemblance." }, { "name": "Performance framing", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Community-described ritual, staged presentation, teaching demonstration, mixed or unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Determines how movement, preparation and audience participation should be interpreted." }, { "name": "Horse-effigy convention", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Recorded silhouette, material, grip, carrying position and locally accepted substitutions", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes expressive requirements from the construction details of individual props." }, { "name": "Movement and music coupling", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Named movement or formation linked to musical cue, section and cue-giving role", "why_it_matters": "Captures coordinated performance knowledge that a prop inventory cannot express." }, { "name": "Performing complement", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Number of dancers and musicians, qualified by variant and documented occasion", "why_it_matters": "Supports presentation planning without imposing one troupe size on the whole tradition." }, { "name": "Trance-related account", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Reported, explicitly excluded, not observed or undocumented; attributed to an observer or practitioner", "why_it_matters": "Separates testimony and interpretation from unsupported claims about performers' internal states." }, { "name": "Transmission condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Actively taught, intermittently taught, interrupted, being revived or unknown, with date and evidence", "why_it_matters": "Helps identify whether repertoire and performance roles can still be passed on." }, { "name": "Presentation and documentation conditions", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Activity linked to relevant practitioners, consent, attribution, venue conditions and applicable dated requirements", "why_it_matters": "Supports decisions about a specific proposed use without assuming blanket permission." } ], "affordances": [ "Classify a candidate performance using community attribution, horse handling and musical organisation.", "Compare locally named variants while retaining disagreements about equivalence.", "Prepare a presentation brief identifying required performers, horse props, musical cues and omitted sections.", "Locate gaps in the transmission of movement, accompaniment and leadership roles.", "Determine which people and conditions must be consulted before recording, teaching or adapting a repertoire.", "Annotate recordings with performance sections and attributed interpretations without treating them as definitive editions." ], "agent_conduct": { "may": [ "Describe kuda kepang, its forms, music and history from reliable sources.", "Share recordings of performances with the performers' consent and credit." ], "must_not": [ "Film or share performers in trance without the group's permission.", "Present the ritual parts as superstition or entertainment to mock them.", "Encourage untrained people to imitate trance or ritual acts.", "Present the dance as belonging to a single country or community when it is shared." ], "requires_human": [ "Publishing footage of ritual or trance performances." ] }, "ethics": { "considerations": [ "Some forms carry spiritual meaning for the communities who perform them.", "Performers in trance are vulnerable and need protection and dignity." ], "affected_parties": [ "Performers", "Javanese communities in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore", "Audiences" ] }, "owners": { "steward": "The performing groups and communities who keep the tradition.", "master_systems": [] }, "visual_identification": [ "Dancers ride flat horse figures woven from bamboo or made of hide, held at the waist.", "Accompanied by gamelan-style percussion and often a whip-cracking leader." ], "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Trance segments carry risk of injury to performers and onlookers.", "Commercial staging can strip away meaning the community values." ], "what_it_is_for": [ "Kuda kepang is performed at community celebrations, cultural festivals and heritage presentations in Java and communities with Javanese cultural connections.", "Its dance and musical accompaniment support collective performance, cultural transmission and, in some traditions, ritual participation." ], "standards_and_regulation": [ "The Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, adopted by UNESCO in 2003, provides a framework for safeguarding performing traditions such as kuda kepang without implying individual inscription." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata item Q3181943: kuda kepang", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3181943", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "identity and sense of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api" }, { "id": "wikipedia-en", "title": "Wikipedia: Kuda Lumping", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuda_Lumping", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "general description of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api sitelink" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-local-variants", "name": "Identity and local variants", "description": "Establishes what practitioners mean by kuda kepang and which related names refer to the same or different forms.", "rationale": "The registry has no definition, and a shared horse-dance image is insufficient to establish cultural or repertoire equivalence.", "layers": [ { "id": "community-grounding", "name": "Community grounding", "description": "Connects the registered name to situated practice and its bearers.", "findings": [ { "id": "situated-tradition", "name": "Situated tradition", "description": "PUSAKA describes kuda kepang as a dance of Javanese origin practised by communities of Javanese lineage in Johor, particularly Batu Pahat and Muar; this establishes a documented context rather than an exhaustive geographical boundary. [PUSAKA community profile](https://www.pusaka.org/communities-kuda-kepang)", "questions": [ { "text": "Which community, locality and practitioners identify the documented practice as kuda kepang?", "kind": "definition", "id": "situated-tradition-q01" }, { "text": "What testimony or documentation connects this practice to a teacher lineage or earlier troupe?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "situated-tradition-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "names-and-equivalence", "name": "Names and equivalence", "description": "Tests relationships with neighbouring names without creating unsupported registry splits.", "findings": [ { "id": "qualified-name-mapping", "name": "Qualified name mapping", "description": "Record related names with speaker, locality and intended meaning; distinguish a synonym claim from a claim that repertoire and use conditions are identical.", "questions": [ { "text": "When practitioners use kuda lumping, jaran kepang or another related name, do they mean this form, a broader family or a distinct local practice?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "qualified-name-mapping-q01" }, { "text": "Which differences require variant annotations within this entry rather than a separate model?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "qualified-name-mapping-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "horse-dance-and-musical-organisation", "name": "Horse dance and musical organisation", "description": "Records how horse effigies, movement and accompaniment constitute a recognisable performance.", "rationale": "Kuda kepang cannot be represented adequately by either its horse props or its music in isolation.", "layers": [ { "id": "horse-handling-and-formation", "name": "Horse handling and formation", "description": "Captures embodied conventions and locally accepted variation.", "findings": [ { "id": "effigy-as-performance-interface", "name": "Effigy as performance interface", "description": "Model how the dancer carries and moves the horse effigy, including its relation to posture and formation; distinguish essential conventions from variable prop materials.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which carrying positions, steps and formations make the horse-riding representation recognisable to practitioners?", "kind": "definition", "id": "effigy-as-performance-interface-q01" }, { "text": "Which substitutions in prop shape, material or handling are accepted for this variant and presentation context?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "effigy-as-performance-interface-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "ensemble-cues-and-sequence", "name": "Ensemble cues and sequence", "description": "Connects accompaniment and leadership to the order and coordination of the dance.", "findings": [ { "id": "cue-linked-repertoire", "name": "Cue-linked repertoire", "description": "Record locally identified instruments, rhythmic sections and leadership signals against movement transitions, without assuming a universal ensemble or sequence.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which instruments and audible or visible signals cue entrances, formation changes and closure?", "kind": "definition", "id": "cue-linked-repertoire-q01" }, { "text": "How many dancers and musicians are required for the documented arrangement, and which roles can be combined?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "cue-linked-repertoire-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "ritual-framing-and-presentation", "name": "Ritual framing and presentation", "description": "Separates observable performance, practitioner interpretations and conditions governing a particular presentation.", "rationale": "An agent must neither reduce the tradition to trance nor erase ritual meanings where practitioners identify them.", "layers": [ { "id": "ritual-and-trance-attribution", "name": "Ritual and trance attribution", "description": "Records which elements are present and who supplies their interpretation.", "findings": [ { "id": "attributed-performance-states", "name": "Attributed performance states", "description": "Keep observed actions, practitioner descriptions of trance and spiritual explanations separately attributable; absence of documentation is not evidence of absence.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which preparations or performance sections do practitioners identify as ritual, and what meanings do they assign to them?", "kind": "definition", "id": "attributed-performance-states-q01" }, { "text": "Who described an episode as trance, and what observation or testimony supports that description?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "attributed-performance-states-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "context-specific-presentation", "name": "Context-specific presentation", "description": "Makes proposed presentation decisions sensitive to local expectations and dated requirements.", "findings": [ { "id": "presentation-conditions", "name": "Presentation conditions", "description": "Assess the actual proposed arrangement and location, recording community expectations and any applicable requirements with their authority and date rather than assigning a timeless permitted or prohibited status to the tradition.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which horse-dance or ritual sections are included, changed or omitted in this proposed presentation, and who accepts that framing?", "kind": "action", "id": "presentation-conditions-q01" }, { "text": "What current, location-specific conditions must be verified before the presentation proceeds?", "kind": "action", "id": "presentation-conditions-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "transmission-and-mediated-reuse", "name": "Transmission and mediated reuse", "description": "Tracks the survival of performance knowledge and the conditions for carrying it into teaching, recordings and adaptations.", "rationale": "A living dance tradition depends on embodied instruction; a recording preserves a particular rendition without replacing that knowledge.", "layers": [ { "id": "role-specific-transmission", "name": "Role-specific transmission", "description": "Assesses continuity across dancers, musicians and locally recognised leadership roles.", "findings": [ { "id": "teachable-repertoire-continuity", "name": "Teachable repertoire continuity", "description": "Assess whether people can still teach horse handling, formations, musical cues and any locally required preparation, rather than inferring vitality from the existence of a troupe name.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who currently teaches each essential dance, musical and leadership role, and when was that teaching last documented?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "teachable-repertoire-continuity-q01" }, { "text": "Which repertoire sections or roles lack an active learner or teacher?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "teachable-repertoire-continuity-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "renditions-recordings-and-adaptations", "name": "Renditions, recordings and adaptations", "description": "Links the tradition to particular expressions and media while preserving attribution and use conditions.", "findings": [ { "id": "documented-rendition-boundary", "name": "Documented rendition boundary", "description": "Distinguish the shared tradition from a troupe's arrangement, a particular performance and its recording; record whose contributions and consent are relevant to the proposed reuse.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does this record describe the tradition, a named arrangement, one performance or a recording of that performance?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "documented-rendition-boundary-q01" }, { "text": "What attribution, consent and access conditions apply to recording, teaching or adapting the documented horse-dance sequence?", "kind": "action", "id": "documented-rendition-boundary-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: confirm that the registry means the performance tradition rather than its woven horse prop.", "Check local terminology before treating kuda kepang, kuda lumping, jaran kepang or jathilan as either exact synonyms or separate kinds.", "Ritual content, accompaniment and religious restrictions vary by community; no universal specification is asserted here." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of kuda kepang 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": [ "Performance at weddings, community celebrations and cultural festivals.", "Transmission of Javanese cultural heritage through dance, music and troupe practice.", "Ritual performance in traditions that include spirit beliefs and trance." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of kuda kepang 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": [ "Some trance-associated performances include physically dangerous acts; these should not be treated as defining features of every performance.", "Presenting the tradition solely as entertainment can obscure its ritual significance for particular practitioners.", "Religious objections to spirit invocation or trance can create disputes over acceptable performance forms." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of kuda kepang 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 Malaysia, kuda kepang is particularly associated with Johor and its Javanese heritage.", "In Java, related woven-horse traditions use names including kuda lumping, jaran kepang and jathilan; terminology and performance conventions vary locally.", "Singapore has a kuda kepang tradition within its Malay-Javanese cultural setting." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of kuda kepang 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": "Kuda lumping", "difference": "Often an overlapping Indonesian designation for woven-horse dance rather than a separate art form; local usage must establish whether any distinction is intended." }, { "name": "Gamelan", "difference": "A musical ensemble tradition that can accompany performances, rather than the horse dance itself." }, { "name": "Wayang kulit", "difference": "Shadow-puppet theatre using manipulated puppets and a screen, rather than dancers carrying horse effigies." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of kuda kepang this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does the registry intend kuda kepang to cover the wider related Javanese horse-dance family or a more specific regional usage?", "Which movement, musical and horse-prop conventions are indispensable across practitioner accounts, and which belong only to particular lineages?", "How do communities distinguish staged presentations from ritual or trance-associated variants, and where do those classifications disagree?", "Which current local presentation requirements apply in the communities being modelled, and how do practitioners interpret their effect on repertoire?", "Which lineages, teaching roles and documentation permissions can be established through direct practitioner consultation?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 9, "findings": 13, "questions": 21 } }