{ "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-12T10:45:54Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 19.4, "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: 01a09538-3292-78b0-bdee-b92cfe12830d\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: King\nSense to describe: (none recorded)\nDomain code: SOC.PER\nAlso known as: (none)\n\n\nContext for this batch of 1001 things:\n# Batch 043: 1001 registered", "usd": 0.0, "recall": true }, "codex": { "seconds": 71.6, "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: 01a09538-3283-7482-a82d-35f7321b9d63\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: King\nRegistry id: vr.tr.king-q503463\nPlane / domain: SOC / SOC.PER\nRegistry definition: (none recorded)\nNames folded into this entry: (none)\n\n\nContex" } }, "enrichment": { "pass": 3, "engine": "claude", "producedAt": "2026-10-06T12:00:00Z", "ingestedAt": "2026-10-06T08:56:34+00:00", "fields": [ "agent_conduct", "ethics", "failure_modes_and_hazards", "owners", "visual_identification" ] } }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q503463", "registryId": "vr.tr.king-q503463", "name": "King", "version": "0.1.0-research.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "SOC.PER" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q503463/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.king-q503463", "name": "King", "purpose": "Enable an agent to identify a king as a royal role, distinguish its holder from the office, and assess the authority, obligations and transitions attached to that role.", "definition": "A king is a male monarch whose title and position within a monarchy are established by the relevant constitutional, legal or customary order, with powers ranging from ceremonial representation to personal government.", "scope_statement": "This model owns the socially or institutionally recognised role titled king, including its relationship to a realm, its basis of legitimacy, its permitted powers and its occupancy over time, without assuming that every king exercises sovereign government.", "in_scope": [ "The royal title and its meaning within a particular political or customary tradition", "The relationship between the kingship, its realm or community, and its holder", "Accession, succession, tenure and termination of occupancy", "Constitutional, customary, ceremonial and religious responsibilities attached to the role", "Recognition, competing claims, delegated authority and restrictions on royal action" ], "out_of_scope": [ "The holder's complete biography, family history and personal characteristics", "The kingdom's population, territory, economy and government as complete systems", "Royal dynasties, households and courts as independent organisations or kinship structures", "Queens, princes, emperors and other titles except where needed to distinguish or relate roles", "Chess kings, playing-card kings, surnames and figurative uses of king", "CH-124 Sea King aircraft, whose name does not make it a subtype of the royal role" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "The title denotes a royal role within an identifiable tradition; personal dominance or the nickname king is insufficient.", "The kingship and its occupant remain distinguishable: a change of holder need not create a new office.", "Whether the holder is a reigning monarch, a consort or a claimant must be established rather than inferred from the word king.", "Royal status does not by itself establish sovereign independence, executive control or unrestricted authority.", "A local title translated as king requires contextual evidence; translation alone does not establish equivalence with every other kingship." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Royal title and local designation", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Attested title, language, translation and contextual usage", "why_it_matters": "Separates the registered role from loose translations, nicknames and neighbouring royal titles." }, { "name": "Realm or recognised community", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Links to the kingdom, constituent polity, people or customary community concerned", "why_it_matters": "Identifies the collective to which the kingship relates without assuming territorial sovereignty." }, { "name": "Holder and tenure", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Person holding or claiming the role, with start and end dates and their evidential basis", "why_it_matters": "Keeps the office separate from individuals and allows overlapping or contested tenures." }, { "name": "Institutional standing", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Sovereign, constituent or subordinate, customary, titular, or unresolved; qualified by context", "why_it_matters": "Prevents royal rank from being treated as proof of state sovereignty." }, { "name": "Occupancy and claim status", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Occupied, vacant, disputed, abolished or unresolved, with time and recognising authority", "why_it_matters": "Supports decisions about whether an operative office or only a claim presently exists." }, { "name": "Basis of accession", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Hereditary succession, election, appointment, other attested mechanism, or unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Identifies how entitlement is established without assuming automatic inheritance." }, { "name": "Royal powers and conditions", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Links to particular powers, governing rules, required approvals and applicable periods", "why_it_matters": "Allows an agent to evaluate a specific proposed act instead of treating the title as general permission." }, { "name": "Exercise of royal functions", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Personally exercised, exercised through a regent, delegated, suspended or unresolved, by function", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes entitlement to the office from capacity to perform its functions." } ], "affordances": [ "Resolve an occurrence of king to a royal role, a particular holder, a claim or an unrelated use of the word.", "Trace who held or claimed a kingship at a specified time and on what basis.", "Check whether a proposed royal act falls within an attested power and satisfies its required approvals.", "Identify the succession or regency process relevant to a vacancy or incapacity.", "Compare competing recognition claims while retaining their sources and unresolved disagreements.", "Identify the appropriate royal representative or institution for a ceremonial or official interaction." ], "agent_conduct": { "may": [ "Report a king's title, reign and constitutional role from official and scholarly sources.", "Use proper forms of address when the context calls for them." ], "must_not": [ "Impersonate a king or issue statements in a monarch's name.", "Fabricate quotes, decrees or private details about a reigning or past king.", "Help evade laws that protect or criticise a monarch, or use such laws to target critics.", "Present claims of pretenders as recognised titles." ], "requires_human": [ "Publishing critical material about a reigning monarch where the law restricts it." ] }, "ethics": { "considerations": [ "Monarchs are public figures but also people with a right to accurate representation.", "Laws against insulting monarchs can be used against free expression." ], "affected_parties": [ "The king and royal family", "Subjects and citizens", "Critics and journalists" ] }, "owners": { "steward": "The constitutional or customary order of the monarchy defines the office.", "master_systems": [ "Official gazettes and royal household records" ] }, "visual_identification": [ "Crown, regalia or royal insignia worn on state occasions.", "Named by title and regnal number in official texts." ], "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Disinformation about a monarch can provoke unrest.", "Lese-majesty laws can lead to prosecution for speech." ], "what_it_is_for": [ "The King is a domestic pigeon breed kept for meat production and exhibition.", "It is encountered in pigeon breeding facilities, lofts and poultry shows, with selection differing between utility and exhibition lines." ], "standards_and_regulation": [ "The King breed standard published by the National Pigeon Association provides conformation criteria for judging exhibition birds." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata item Q503463: King", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q503463", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "identity and sense of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api" }, { "id": "wikipedia-en", "title": "Wikipedia: King pigeon", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_pigeon", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "general description of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api sitelink" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "royal-identity-and-boundaries", "name": "Royal identity and boundaries", "description": "Establishes what king means in the relevant tradition and what entity the model represents.", "rationale": "The same English title can describe materially different royal positions, while also appearing in unrelated names.", "layers": [ { "id": "title-and-translation", "name": "Title and translation", "description": "Examines the attested designation and the grounds for treating it as king.", "findings": [ { "id": "attested-royal-designation", "name": "Attested royal designation", "description": "Record the local title and contextual evidence for its royal meaning, leaving uncertain equivalences explicit.", "questions": [ { "text": "What title is used locally, and what does king translate or designate in this context?", "kind": "definition", "id": "attested-royal-designation-q01" }, { "text": "Which institutional records or historical sources attest this usage?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "attested-royal-designation-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "office-holder-and-adjacent-roles", "name": "Office, holder and adjacent roles", "description": "Separates the kingship from its occupant and neighbouring royal positions.", "findings": [ { "id": "royal-role-classification", "name": "Royal role classification", "description": "Identify whether a reference concerns a reigning role, consort designation, titular position or claim, subject to the registry's eventual verified boundary.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does this reference identify the royal office, its holder, a consort or a claimant?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "royal-role-classification-q01" }, { "text": "Which features distinguish this position from a prince, emperor, chief or other locally adjacent role?", "kind": "definition", "id": "royal-role-classification-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "realm-and-recognition", "name": "Realm and recognition", "description": "Connects the kingship to its political or customary setting and records who recognises it.", "rationale": "A king's relevant community and recognised standing cannot be inferred from the title alone.", "layers": [ { "id": "realm-relationship", "name": "Realm relationship", "description": "Identifies the polity or community associated with the kingship and the character of that association.", "findings": [ { "id": "royal-jurisdiction-and-standing", "name": "Royal jurisdiction and standing", "description": "Record whether the role concerns a sovereign realm, a constituent polity, a customary community or another attested setting.", "questions": [ { "text": "Over which realm or community is this kingship recognised, and during which period?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "royal-jurisdiction-and-standing-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence establishes its relationship to any superior, federal or neighbouring authority?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "royal-jurisdiction-and-standing-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "recognition-and-contestation", "name": "Recognition and contestation", "description": "Preserves differences between recognition of the institution and recognition of a particular claimant.", "findings": [ { "id": "attributed-recognition", "name": "Attributed recognition", "description": "Attach recognition or rejection to a named authority or community and a time rather than asserting universal legitimacy.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who recognises the kingship and who recognises this particular holder or claimant?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "attributed-recognition-q01" }, { "text": "Do rival claims dispute the succession, the office's continued existence or the extent of its authority?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "attributed-recognition-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "accession-succession-and-tenure", "name": "Accession, succession and tenure", "description": "Describes how the role is acquired, occupied and relinquished.", "rationale": "Hereditary entitlement, selection, accession and coronation must not be treated as one universal process.", "layers": [ { "id": "eligibility-and-accession", "name": "Eligibility and accession", "description": "Identifies applicable eligibility rules and the event or decision that establishes occupancy.", "findings": [ { "id": "accession-mechanism", "name": "Accession mechanism", "description": "Record the locally applicable succession or selection mechanism and distinguish constitutive requirements from subsequent ceremonies.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which rules determine eligibility and selection for this kingship?", "kind": "definition", "id": "accession-mechanism-q01" }, { "text": "Which event establishes accession, and what legal or customary effect does coronation have?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "accession-mechanism-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "tenure-end-and-vacancy", "name": "Tenure end and vacancy", "description": "Tracks termination of a holder's tenure separately from abolition or suspension of the institution.", "findings": [ { "id": "royal-transition", "name": "Royal transition", "description": "Record the asserted end of tenure, its basis and the process governing any resulting vacancy or disputed transition.", "questions": [ { "text": "What event ended or is alleged to have ended the holder's tenure, and who accepts that effect?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "royal-transition-q01" }, { "text": "Which institution or rule determines the next holder or administers an interregnum?", "kind": "action", "id": "royal-transition-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "royal-authority-and-valid-action", "name": "Royal authority and valid action", "description": "Maps specific royal powers, their restrictions and the actors required to exercise them.", "rationale": "The title king does not establish which acts the holder can perform independently or validly.", "layers": [ { "id": "powers-and-constraints", "name": "Powers and constraints", "description": "Associates each claimed power with its governing basis and procedural conditions.", "findings": [ { "id": "conditioned-royal-power", "name": "Conditioned royal power", "description": "Record formal powers separately from customary practice and observed influence, including any required advice, assent or countersignature.", "questions": [ { "text": "What source grants or limits the particular royal power being considered?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "conditioned-royal-power-q01" }, { "text": "What advice, approval, countersignature or other condition is required for this act?", "kind": "action", "id": "conditioned-royal-power-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "regency-and-delegation", "name": "Regency and delegation", "description": "Distinguishes the king's occupancy from another actor's authority to perform royal functions.", "findings": [ { "id": "authorised-exercise-of-functions", "name": "Authorised exercise of functions", "description": "Record when a regent or delegate may act, the functions covered and the conditions that begin or end that authority.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who may exercise royal functions during minority, absence or incapacity, and under which rule?", "kind": "action", "id": "authorised-exercise-of-functions-q01" }, { "text": "Which functions remain reserved to the king, and when does the substitute authority expire?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "authorised-exercise-of-functions-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "royal-duties-and-institutional-resources", "name": "Royal duties and institutional resources", "description": "Captures obligations and the institutional means associated with fulfilling the kingship.", "rationale": "A kingship can carry ceremonial, religious and public obligations whose resources and responsibilities differ from the holder's private affairs.", "layers": [ { "id": "ceremonial-and-public-obligations", "name": "Ceremonial and public obligations", "description": "Identifies duties attached to the role and the conventions governing their performance.", "findings": [ { "id": "role-bound-obligations", "name": "Role-bound obligations", "description": "Record attested ceremonial, religious and public responsibilities without assuming every kingship combines them.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which ceremonies, oaths, religious responsibilities or public duties attach to this kingship?", "kind": "definition", "id": "role-bound-obligations-q01" }, { "text": "Which duties require the king's personal participation, and which permit a representative?", "kind": "action", "id": "role-bound-obligations-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "office-resources-and-private-boundary", "name": "Office resources and private boundary", "description": "Relates the kingship to its supporting institutions and resources while preserving ownership and control distinctions.", "findings": [ { "id": "institutional-resource-entitlements", "name": "Institutional resource entitlements", "description": "Identify resources available through the office and distinguish access or custody from personal ownership.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which household services, residences, regalia or funds are available by virtue of holding the kingship?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "institutional-resource-entitlements-q01" }, { "text": "Who owns or administers those resources, and what restrictions govern their use or transfer at succession?", "kind": "action", "id": "institutional-resource-entitlements-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": [ "SOC.PER supports interpreting King as the royal role; no recorded sense independently confirms this interpretation.", "The listed kinds overlap: hereditary or elective succession is separate from the degree of constitutional constraint.", "No sources were consulted; jurisdiction-specific powers, succession rules and title conventions require verification." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of King 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": [ "Constitutional king", "Absolute king", "Hereditary king", "Elective king" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of King this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "Regnal name and ordinal", "value_or_pattern": " , qualified by realm", "note": "Identifies a titleholder within a realm's numbering tradition; neither the name nor the ordinal is globally unique." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of King 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": [ "Holding the office of sovereign or head of state in a kingdom.", "Performing ceremonial and representative duties associated with the Crown.", "Exercising governmental powers where the governing order assigns them to the monarch.", "Providing dynastic continuity through succession." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of King 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": "Length of reign", "typical_range": "No universal range; measured from accession to the legally or historically recognized end of the reign.", "unit": "days or years" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of King 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": [ "Disputed succession or competing claims to the throne.", "Constitutional conflict over the extent or exercise of royal powers.", "Incapacity or minority requiring a regency.", "Abuse of concentrated authority where effective checks are absent.", "Conflation of the individual titleholder, the royal office and the state." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of King 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": [ "Succession may be hereditary or elective, with eligibility determined by the particular monarchy.", "The king's authority may be constitutionally limited, conventionally constrained or personally exercised.", "Some kings are sovereign rulers, while others hold traditional or subnational kingships within a larger state." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of King 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": "Monarch", "difference": "Monarch is the broader category; a king is a monarch with a particular male royal title." }, { "name": "Queen regnant", "difference": "A queen regnant holds the monarchy in her own right under a female royal title." }, { "name": "Royal consort", "difference": "A consort's status derives from marriage to the monarch rather than necessarily holding the sovereign office." }, { "name": "Regent", "difference": "A regent exercises royal functions on behalf of a monarch without thereby becoming king." }, { "name": "Emperor", "difference": "Emperor is a distinct sovereign title; territorial size or actual power alone does not determine which title applies." }, { "name": "CH-124 Sea King", "difference": "This is a helicopter designation containing the word King, not a narrower kind of royal role." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of King this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does registry entity vr.tr.king-q503463 denote only a male reigning monarch, or does its intended extension include consort, customary and titular usages?", "Does an existing Vercy world model already own this concept, requiring a registry link rather than a separate publication?", "Which authoritative sources establish the title's cross-cultural boundaries and the treatment of local titles translated as king?", "How should abolished kingships, pretenders and disputed restorations be represented without treating a claim as an operative office?", "Which representative kingships must be researched to validate the proposed distinctions between sovereign, subordinate and customary authority?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 18, "questions": 28 } }