{ "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-11T04:26:33Z", "providers": [ "Claude" ], "breadth": "written by Claude from model knowledge without web access - no source was read, every claim is a lead to verify", "pass": 2, "wave": 1, "engine": "claude", "enrichment": { "pass": 3, "engine": "claude", "producedAt": "2026-10-05T15:00:00Z", "ingestedAt": "2026-10-05T13:11:18+00:00", "fields": [ "agent_conduct", "ethics", "owners" ] }, "revisions": [ { "at": "2026-10-06T22:51:00+00:00", "engine": "codex", "fields": [ "definition", "distinguishing_features", "purpose", "visual_identification" ], "answering_review": "8037b1c1c3445a00deb1d11c5c64fca9521f2a3d26a045beca59ae9a3f428a71" } ], "gate": { "passed": true, "version": "1.0", "at": "2026-10-07T10:10:30+00:00", "evidence": [ "completeness 1.00", "sense: Wikidata description", "2 live sources", "review by codex: pass" ] } }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q3914", "registryId": "vr.tr.school", "name": "school", "version": "0.2.0-wave.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "SOC.ORG" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q3914/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.school", "name": "school", "purpose": "Let an agent handle a school as an educational institution, facility or building, describe the institution's legal status, stage, curriculum and duties of care, distinguish institutional records from premises records, and distinguish these senses from education as an activity.", "definition": "An institution that provides organised education to learners, usually in groups, following a curriculum and staffed by teachers, often at defined stages of schooling, or a facility or building used for such education.", "what_it_is_for": "Educating learners in a structured way, and certifying their progress.", "affordances": [ "enrol a learner, subject to admission rules and capacity", "inspect and rate it, which public bodies do in most countries", "contact it through its official channels for records and decisions", "open, merge or close it, through a regulated procedure" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "A school can be an institution identified by registration and governance or a facility or building used for education.", "A school institution operates at a stage of education defined by the national system.", "A school institution carries duties of care toward minors that most organisations do not.", "Schools are funded and governed publicly, privately or in mixtures that change what rules apply." ], "appearance": "Usually one or more buildings with classrooms and outdoor space; but a school can be online, can share buildings, and can outlive the building it started in.", "visual_identification": [ "Signage and an official registration number help identify the institution, while premises information identifies a school facility or building.", "A campus may host several schools, and one school may use several sites.", "Uniforms, where used, identify a school only locally and are easily copied." ], "physical_properties": [], "families_and_kinds": [ "by stage: pre-primary, primary, lower and upper secondary, vocational", "by funding: public, private, publicly funded independent", "by admission: comprehensive, selective, specialist", "by mode: day, boarding, online, home-school umbrella" ], "related_models": [ { "relation": "is a kind of", "target": "organisation", "why": "inherits identity, governance and legal status" }, { "relation": "occupies", "target": "building", "why": "the building is a separate model and can change" }, { "relation": "employs", "target": "teacher", "why": "teachers are the occupation model, with their own qualifications" }, { "relation": "is confused with", "target": "school of thought", "why": "a homonym; this entry is the educational institution" } ], "identifiers": [ { "scheme": "national school register number", "value_or_pattern": "country-specific", "note": "the authoritative identifier, for example a URN in England" }, { "scheme": "ISCED level", "value_or_pattern": "0-3 for school stages", "note": "places the school stage in an international classification" } ], "standards_and_regulation": [ "National education acts and curriculum regulations", "UNESCO ISCED 2011 classification of education levels", "Safeguarding and child protection law in each jurisdiction", "Data protection law covering records of minors" ], "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Confusing the school with its building or its site", "Treating ratings from different inspectorates or dates as comparable", "Disclosing information about children beyond what the law permits", "Missing a closure or merger, so enquiries go to an institution that no longer exists" ], "in_scope": [], "out_of_scope": [], "characteristics": [], "agent_conduct": { "may": [ "Find and report public information about a school, such as status, stage and inspection results.", "Help families contact a school through its official channels." ], "must_not": [ "Disclose pupils' personal data or records beyond what the law permits.", "Contact pupils directly bypassing the school and their parents.", "Present inspection ratings from different bodies or dates as directly comparable.", "Impersonate a school or its staff in messages to parents or pupils." ], "requires_human": [ "Enrolment, exclusion or transfer decisions about a learner.", "Reporting a safeguarding concern about a pupil or staff member." ] }, "ethics": { "considerations": [ "Schools hold children in their care; safeguarding comes first.", "School choice and ratings affect equality of opportunity across communities." ], "affected_parties": [ "Pupils and learners", "Parents and carers", "Teachers and staff" ] }, "owners": { "steward": "The governing body or proprietor; the education authority for public schools.", "master_systems": [ "National register of schools", "Education inspectorate records" ] } }, "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata item Q3914: school", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3914", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "identity and sense of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api" }, { "id": "wikipedia-en", "title": "Wikipedia: School", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "general description of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api sitelink" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-status", "name": "Identity and status", "description": "Which school, run by whom, under what status.", "rationale": "Schools are identified by registration and operator; 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