{ "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-12T10:41:12Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 18.0, "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: 01a09533-eebb-7f40-9cd0-701f99ad4c3a\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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"vr.tr.jewish-family-name", "name": "Jewish family name", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise and document a family name associated with Jewish naming contexts, assess the evidence for that association, and use it without inferring a bearer's religion or ancestry from the name alone.", "definition": "A Jewish family name is a surname historically used by Jewish families or communities, whose association with Jewish naming traditions does not by itself establish a bearer's ancestry, religion or identity.", "scope_statement": "This model owns the family-name designation, its documented forms, and its contextual association with Jewish families or communities; it distinguishes a name shared across unrelated families from its use within a particular lineage.", "in_scope": [ "Family-name forms, scripts, spellings and transliterations", "Evidence supporting a Jewish naming-context association", "Geographic, linguistic and historical limits of that association", "Documented derivations, adoption and changes of family-name forms", "Distinctions between name equivalence, shared spelling and shared lineage", "Permissible interpretation and use of name evidence" ], "out_of_scope": [ "A person's religious affiliation, ethnicity or eligibility for religious status", "Complete genealogies and biological ancestry", "Given names, patronymics, titles and ritual names except where their relationship to a family name requires clarification", "Jewish communities and their institutional histories as independent subjects", "Identity documents and archival collections as complete artifacts", "General models of surnames and personal naming systems" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "The designation functions as a family name in the documented context, rather than merely resembling a patronymic, title or given name.", "Its association with Jewish naming contexts has attributable evidence rather than resting on perceived spelling or sound.", "The association specifies a community, place, period or family where evidence permits, rather than treating Jewish usage as uniform.", "Identical spelling does not establish that separate bearers belong to one lineage.", "Classification of the name does not establish that every bearer is Jewish or that the name is exclusively Jewish." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Attested name form", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Exact recorded text with language and script where established", "why_it_matters": "Preserves evidence before normalization obscures spelling or script distinctions." }, { "name": "Family-name function", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Established family name; context-dependent; disputed; unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Separates surname use from other components of a personal name." }, { "name": "Jewish-context association", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Name linked to an evidenced family, community or naming practice with contextual limits", "why_it_matters": "Makes the basis of classification inspectable without classifying individual bearers." }, { "name": "Variant relationship", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Spelling variant; transliteration; translation; documented replacement; proposed relationship; unrelated homograph", "why_it_matters": "Supports retrieval while preventing unsupported merging of names." }, { "name": "Usage context", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Documented place, period, language and community, each allowing unknown values", "why_it_matters": "Limits conclusions to the settings supported by evidence." }, { "name": "Derivation assessment", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Supported; competing explanations; conjectural; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes researched etymology from resemblance and family tradition." }, { "name": "Family-specific name history", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Dated or approximately dated adoption, transmission or change linked to a documented family", "why_it_matters": "Prevents one family's naming history from becoming a claim about every bearer." }, { "name": "Evidence adequacy", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Direct attestation; attributed secondary account; uncorroborated report; conflicting evidence; insufficient evidence", "why_it_matters": "Determines which statements an agent may present as established and which need qualification." } ], "affordances": [ "Retrieve documented spelling and script variants while retaining their original forms.", "Explain why a name is associated with a particular Jewish naming context and cite the supporting evidence.", "Compare proposed name relationships and flag unsupported equivalence or lineage claims.", "Trace an evidenced family's name adoption or change without generalizing it to all bearers.", "Identify unresolved derivations or classifications and formulate targeted archival research questions.", "Produce qualified catalogue descriptions that do not infer an individual's religion or ancestry." ], "agent_conduct": { "may": [ "Explain the historical origins and naming traditions behind a surname from cited sources.", "State clearly that a surname alone does not establish anyone's ancestry, religion or identity." ], "must_not": [ "Infer or label a person as Jewish from their surname.", "Compile, sort or filter lists of people by supposedly Jewish surnames.", "Use surnames to target people for harassment, exclusion or discrimination.", "Repeat antisemitic claims about names or the people who bear them." ], "requires_human": [ "Any use of surname origin in research on identifiable living people.", "Genealogical claims about a specific family that could reveal sensitive heritage." ] }, "ethics": { "considerations": [ "Surname lists have been used to persecute Jews; inference from names must not be repeated.", "Religion and ethnic origin are special categories of personal data in many laws." ], "affected_parties": [ "Bearers of these surnames", "Jewish communities", "Families researching their history" ] }, "owners": { "steward": "Nobody owns a surname; the family and each bearer decide how it is used and described.", "master_systems": [] }, "visual_identification": [ "Appears in text as an ordinary surname; spelling, script or form never settles whether a bearer is Jewish.", "Scholarly onomastic dictionaries and archival records are the evidence for a name's history, not its appearance." ], "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Name-based inference produces false and harmful labels about individuals.", "Lists of names have been used to target people for persecution and hate." ], "standards_and_regulation": [ "General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679, European Union, which treats racial or ethnic origin and religious beliefs as special categories of personal data." ], "what_it_is_for": [ "Such surnames are encountered in family histories, archival records and studies of Jewish communities and migration.", "Genealogical and linguistic research examines their documented spellings, geographic contexts and transmission between generations.", "A surname's historical association provides research context but does not establish an individual bearer's religion, ancestry or identity." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata item Q612090: Jewish family name", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q612090", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "identity and sense of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api" }, { "id": "wikipedia-en", "title": "Wikipedia: Jewish surname", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_surname", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "general description of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api sitelink" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "family-name-boundary", "name": "Family-name boundary", "description": "Establishes which designation is being modelled and whether it functions as a family name.", "rationale": "A Jewish personal-name record may contain elements whose family-name status cannot be determined from position or appearance alone.", "layers": [ { "id": "name-function", "name": "Name function", "description": "Examines the role of the designation in its recorded naming context.", "findings": [ { "id": "surname-role-evidence", "name": "Evidence of surname function", "description": "Record why the designation is treated as a family name and preserve ambiguity where its role is unresolved.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence establishes that this designation functions as a family name in the relevant record or community?", "kind": "definition", "id": "surname-role-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Could it instead be a given name, patronymic, title or ritual-name element in this context?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "surname-role-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "name-and-lineage", "name": "Name and lineage", "description": "Separates a shared designation from family-specific instances of its use.", "findings": [ { "id": "shared-name-distinct-families", "name": "Shared name, distinct families", "description": "Record family-specific evidence without making the name itself stand for a single descent group.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the evidence concern the name generally or one identified family's use of it?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "shared-name-distinct-families-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence beyond matching surnames supports any proposed relationship between these families?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "shared-name-distinct-families-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "jewish-context-association", "name": "Jewish-context association", "description": "Documents the basis and limits of associating the family name with Jewish naming contexts.", "rationale": "The registry label requires an evidenced contextual interpretation rather than a rule for identifying Jewish people.", "layers": [ { "id": "association-basis", "name": "Association basis", "description": "Captures what a source actually establishes about Jewish usage of the name.", "findings": [ { "id": "attributable-association", "name": "Attributable association", "description": "Distinguish a source's explicit classification from evidence that only attests use by a particular family.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which source establishes Jewish-context usage, and what precisely does it claim?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "attributable-association-q01" }, { "text": "Is the association with a specific family, a community naming practice or a broader surname category?", "kind": "definition", "id": "attributable-association-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "association-limits", "name": "Association limits", "description": "Bounds the association by documented setting and avoids claims of exclusivity.", "findings": [ { "id": "context-without-identity-inference", "name": "Context without identity inference", "description": "Record the geographic, historical and community limits of usage while keeping bearer identity a separate question.", "questions": [ { "text": "For which places, periods and Jewish communities is this association actually documented?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "context-without-identity-inference-q01" }, { "text": "How should the description express the association without implying that every bearer is Jewish?", "kind": "action", "id": "context-without-identity-inference-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "forms-and-equivalence", "name": "Forms and equivalence", "description": "Organises attested written forms and the evidence connecting them.", "rationale": "Search across languages and scripts requires explicit relationships between name forms rather than automatic equivalence.", "layers": [ { "id": "attested-writing", "name": "Attested writing", "description": "Preserves original spellings and distinguishes source text from editorial rendering.", "findings": [ { "id": "original-and-rendered-forms", "name": "Original and rendered forms", "description": "Record the attested string alongside any transcription, transliteration or normalized search form.", "questions": [ { "text": "What exact family-name form appears in the source, and which script and language can be established?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "original-and-rendered-forms-q01" }, { "text": "Which characters or spelling choices were introduced by transcription, transliteration or editorial normalization?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "original-and-rendered-forms-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "variant-linking", "name": "Variant linking", "description": "Assesses whether different forms represent related names or merely resemble one another.", "findings": [ { "id": "supported-form-relationships", "name": "Supported form relationships", "description": "Type each proposed connection and preserve competing or unconfirmed matches.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence connects these forms as spelling variants, transliterations, translations or replacements?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "supported-form-relationships-q01" }, { "text": "Should retrieval expand to this form, or would doing so merge names whose relationship remains unproven?", "kind": "action", "id": "supported-form-relationships-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "derivation-and-family-history", "name": "Derivation and family history", "description": "Separates explanations of the name's formation from documented events in a family's use of it.", "rationale": "An etymological explanation and a family's reason for adopting a surname are different claims requiring different evidence.", "layers": [ { "id": "derivation-claims", "name": "Derivation claims", "description": "Records proposed linguistic or referential origins with their evidentiary status.", "findings": [ { "id": "qualified-etymology", "name": "Qualified etymology", "description": "Keep proposed meanings, source languages and derivations attributable, including disagreements.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which derivation is proposed, by whom, and from what linguistic or documentary evidence?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "qualified-etymology-q01" }, { "text": "Does the proposed meaning establish anything about a particular family's origin, or would that require separate evidence?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "qualified-etymology-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "adoption-and-change", "name": "Adoption and change", "description": "Captures evidenced adoption, inheritance and replacement in a particular family history.", "findings": [ { "id": "documented-name-events", "name": "Documented name events", "description": "Record who used which form and when, separating attested changes from inferred motives or general historical explanations.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which records establish the family's earlier and later name forms, and how narrowly can the transition be dated?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "documented-name-events-q01" }, { "text": "Is the stated reason for adoption or change documented for this family or inferred from wider circumstances?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "documented-name-events-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-agent-use", "name": "Evidence and agent use", "description": "Governs how an agent evaluates surname claims and applies them in descriptions, retrieval and record comparison.", "rationale": "Surname evidence must support useful research without turning uncertain associations into personal identity classifications.", "layers": [ { "id": "claim-assessment", "name": "Claim assessment", "description": "Evaluates support for each claim about Jewish usage, name forms and family history.", "findings": [ { "id": "traceable-surname-claims", "name": "Traceable surname claims", "description": "Attach an inspectable source passage or record reference to each substantive claim and distinguish independent evidence from repetition.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which inspected passage or record supports this specific claim about the name?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "traceable-surname-claims-q01" }, { "text": "Do apparently corroborating surname references supply independent evidence or repeat the same unsupported account?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "traceable-surname-claims-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "bounded-application", "name": "Bounded application", "description": "Determines what the evidence permits an agent to do with the name.", "findings": [ { "id": "qualified-retrieval-and-description", "name": "Qualified retrieval and description", "description": "Allow contextual description and candidate matching while requiring separate evidence for personal identity or kinship claims.", "questions": [ { "text": "Can this evidence support a catalogue association, a search expansion or only a research lead?", "kind": "action", "id": "qualified-retrieval-and-description-q01" }, { "text": "What additional evidence is required before linking records to one person or treating bearers as relatives?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "qualified-retrieval-and-description-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": [ "The registry provides no sense definition; this answer interprets the label as a category of surnames, not a particular surname.", "Specific surname etymologies, claimed lineages and adoption dates require documentary verification.", "The listed kinds overlap and are not exhaustive; this description is based on recall rather than consulted sources." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of Jewish family name 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": [ "Patronymic surnames", "Toponymic surnames", "Occupational surnames", "Surnames associated with priestly or Levitical lineage", "Ornamental surnames", "Matronymic surnames" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of Jewish family name 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": [ "Identifying individuals and families in civil and community records", "Tracing family histories through documentary evidence", "Studying migration, language contact and naming practices", "Linking historical records while accounting for spelling variants and name changes" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Jewish family name 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": [ "Treating a surname as proof of Jewish ancestry, religious affiliation or personal identity", "Assuming that unrelated bearers of the same surname share a recent ancestor", "Inferring priestly or Levitical status solely from a surname", "Missing or incorrectly merging records because of transliteration, spelling changes or surname adoption", "Using surname-based classification for discriminatory profiling" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Jewish family name 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": [ "Ashkenazi surname histories include Germanic, Yiddish and Slavic influences; the timing and circumstances of hereditary surname adoption differed by jurisdiction.", "Sephardi surname traditions include Iberian and other Mediterranean influences, with names changing across migration and language settings.", "Jewish communities in the Middle East and North Africa developed diverse local naming practices influenced by languages including Arabic, Persian and Hebrew." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of Jewish family name 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": "Surname", "difference": "A surname is the broader category; a Jewish family name has a historical association with Jewish families or naming traditions." }, { "name": "Hebrew personal name", "difference": "A Hebrew personal name can be a given name or a religious name and need not be an inherited family name." }, { "name": "Patronymic", "difference": "A patronymic identifies someone through a father or paternal ancestor; it functions as a surname only when established as a family name." }, { "name": "Jewish ancestry", "difference": "Ancestry concerns genealogical descent; a family name is a naming attribute and cannot independently establish that descent." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of Jewish family name this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "What operational definition should this registry adopt for 'Jewish family name': documented Jewish usage, association with a Jewish naming tradition, or an attributed scholarly classification?", "Which inspected sources provide adequate coverage across different Jewish communities, languages and historical periods?", "When should distinct derivations or unrelated uses of an identical spelling be represented as separate name senses within this entry?", "What evidence threshold should distinguish an accepted variant relationship from a tentative retrieval alias?", "How should context-dependent family-name status be represented when records do not clearly distinguish surnames from patronymics, titles or ritual-name elements?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 16, "questions": 26 } }