{ "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-10T20:09:57Z", "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" ] }, "gate": { "passed": true, "version": "1.0", "at": "2026-10-06T19:52:00+00:00", "evidence": [ "completeness 1.00", "sense: Wikidata description", "2 live sources", "review by codex: pass" ] } }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q467", "registryId": "vr.tr.woman", "name": "woman", "version": "0.2.0-wave.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "SOC.PER" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q467/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.woman", "name": "woman", "purpose": "Let an agent handle the category carefully: use it where it genuinely determines something, record how it was established, and not infer it from appearance or from a name.", "definition": "An adult human female. The category is used in law, statistics, medicine and everyday life with definitions that do not always coincide.", "what_it_is_for": "Not applicable. The model exists so that systems that must use this category do so with a stated basis rather than an assumption.", "affordances": [ "record it, when there is a stated basis and a reason to record it", "use it where a rule or a clinical pathway genuinely depends on it", "get it wrong by assuming it, which is both an error and a harm" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Adult, which brings in an age line that differs by jurisdiction and by purpose", "Legal sex, sex recorded at birth, gender identity and clinical sex characteristics are four different things that this word is used for", "Which of those a system means changes what is a correct answer, so the basis must travel with the value", "Statistical and legal uses of the category are not interchangeable" ], "appearance": "No reliable visual determination exists, and systems that assume one produce errors that fall hardest on the people least like the assumption.", "visual_identification": [ "Appearance, name and voice are not evidence of this category and must not be treated as such", "What can be recorded is what a person states, or what a document states, each with its own basis", "Where the category is not needed for the decision, the right action is not to record it at all" ], "physical_properties": [], "families_and_kinds": [ "by basis of the record: self-declared, document, clinical, administrative", "by purpose of the record: legal status, clinical pathway, statistics, service eligibility" ], "related_models": [ { "relation": "is a kind of", "target": "person", "why": "the person model carries identity, rights and data protection" }, { "relation": "is confused with", "target": "gender identity", "why": "distinct concepts recorded for different purposes and often merged in one field" }, { "relation": "is confused with", "target": "legal sex", "why": "a document value that may differ from other bases and can change" }, { "relation": "regulated by", "target": "equality and data protection law", "why": "this is special category data in most regimes, and discrimination law attaches to it" } ], "identifiers": [], "standards_and_regulation": [ "Data protection rules treating sex and gender data as sensitive, requiring a lawful basis and minimisation", "Equality legislation, which forbids treating people worse on this ground", "Statistical standards, which define categories for counting and are not fit for individual decisions", "Clinical guidance, which uses sex characteristics for pathways and states them explicitly" ], "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Inferring the category from name, appearance or voice, which is both wrong and harmful", "Recording one basis and using it for a purpose that needs another, most damagingly in clinical settings", "Collecting it where it is not needed, which is a data protection breach and an avoidable risk", "Treating a statistical category as a fact about an individual" ], "in_scope": [], "out_of_scope": [], "characteristics": [], "agent_conduct": { "may": [ "Record sex or gender only where there is a stated basis and a purpose that needs it.", "Use the category where a rule or clinical pathway genuinely depends on it." ], "must_not": [ "Infer that a person is a woman from name, appearance or voice.", "Use the category to discriminate in access to services, work or pay.", "Disclose a person's sex, gender history or medical details without consent.", "Generate demeaning or sexualised content about women as a group or an individual." ], "requires_human": [ "Changing the recorded sex or gender of a person in an official record." ] }, "ethics": { "considerations": [ "Women face discrimination and violence; data and decisions can entrench it.", "Definitions differ across law, medicine and identity; using the wrong one wrongs people." ], "affected_parties": [ "Women and girls", "Transgender and intersex people", "People misclassified by systems" ] }, "owners": { "steward": "Each woman herself; civil registers record legal sex where the law requires it.", "master_systems": [ "Civil registration records" ] } }, "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata item Q467: woman", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q467", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "identity and sense of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api" }, { "id": "wikipedia-en", "title": "Wikipedia: Woman", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woman", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "general description of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api sitelink" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "what-is-recorded", "name": "What is recorded and on what basis", "description": "Which of several concepts is meant here.", "rationale": "One word is used for several distinct things, and a value without its basis cannot be used safely for anything.", "layers": [ { "id": "basis", "name": "Basis of the value", "description": "Self-declared, documentary, clinical or administrative.", "findings": [ { "id": "basis-finding", "name": "Basis and its source", "description": "Where the value came from and what it therefore means.", "questions": [ { "text": "On what basis is this value recorded, and by whom?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which concept does it represent - legal status, self-description or clinical characteristic?", "kind": "definition" } ] } ] }, { "id": "change", "name": "Change over time", "description": "How and when a recorded value may change.", "findings": [ { "id": "change-finding", "name": "Change and history", "description": "What happens when the value changes and what history is kept.", "questions": [ { "text": "Can this value change, by what process, and what happens to prior records?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "text": "What must not be disclosed about a change, and to whom?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "purpose-and-necessity", "name": "Purpose and necessity", "description": "Whether it should be collected at all.", "rationale": "Most systems collect this by habit; the model should make the burden of justification explicit before anything else.", "layers": [ { "id": "necessity", "name": "Necessity", "description": "What decision actually depends on it.", "findings": [ { "id": "necessity-finding", "name": "Justification for collection", "description": "The decision that requires it, if any.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which decision here genuinely depends on this category?", "kind": "definition" }, { "text": "If none does, what should the system do instead of collecting it?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "minimisation", "name": "Minimisation and retention", "description": "How little is enough, and for how long.", "findings": [ { "id": "minimisation-finding", "name": "Minimal collection", "description": "The least that serves the purpose.", "questions": [ { "text": "What is the least detail that serves the stated purpose?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "text": "How long may it be kept, and what triggers deletion?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "use-and-fairness", "name": "Use and fairness", "description": "What may be done with it once held.", "rationale": "This is a protected ground almost everywhere, so its use is constrained in ways that ordinary attributes are not.", "layers": [ { "id": "permitted-use", "name": "Permitted use", "description": "Where it may lawfully influence a decision.", "findings": [ { "id": "permitted-use-finding", "name": "Lawful uses", "description": "Decisions this value may and may not enter.", "questions": [ { "text": "For which decisions may this value lawfully be used?", "kind": "action" }, { "text": "Which uses would amount to discrimination, and how would that be detected?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "disclosure", "name": "Disclosure", "description": "Who may see it.", "findings": [ { "id": "disclosure-finding", "name": "Disclosure limits", "description": "Access rules and the harm from breaching them.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who may see this value, and under what control?", "kind": "definition" }, { "text": "What is the specific harm from unnecessary disclosure here?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "clinical-and-service-use", "name": "Clinical and service use", "description": "Where the category does real work.", "rationale": "There are settings where a correct answer materially changes care, and those are exactly the settings where using the wrong basis is dangerous.", "layers": [ { "id": "clinical", "name": "Clinical relevance", "description": "Where sex characteristics change a pathway.", "findings": [ { "id": "clinical-finding", "name": "Clinically relevant facts", "description": "What clinicians actually need, which is usually narrower than the category.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which specific characteristics does the clinical decision depend on?", "kind": "definition" }, { "text": "How should those be recorded so the category is not used as a proxy?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "eligibility", "name": "Service eligibility", "description": "Where access depends on it.", "findings": [ { "id": "eligibility-finding", "name": "Eligibility rules", "description": "Services with a lawful single-sex basis and how that is applied.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which services here have a lawful basis for using this category for eligibility?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "How must a decision be explained to the person affected?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Should the registry hold one model with an explicit basis, or separate models for legal sex, recorded sex and gender identity?", "How should a system represent that a value is unknown, withheld or not relevant, without defaulting to a guess?", "What is the minimum justification a system should record before collecting this at all?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 4, "layers": 8, "findings": 8, "questions": 16 } }