{ "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-12T10:42:48Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 21.6, "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: 01a09535-8cec-77e2-971d-b809612d32f6\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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agent to identify a Kampfgruppe, reconstruct its changing composition and command relationships, and judge which organizational claims the evidence supports.", "definition": "A Kampfgruppe is a German military battle group assembled under a single commander for a particular mission, especially in Second World War usage, with composition and size determined by operational needs rather than a fixed establishment.", "scope_statement": "For vr.tr.kampfgruppe, provisionally model the military sense of a task-organized combat formation, commonly associated with German combined-arms practice, while leaving the registry's intended historical and service coverage unresolved.", "in_scope": [ "Formation identity, contemporary designations, aliases and historical context", "Formation authority, assigned task and command relationships", "Time-dependent membership of constituent units and detachments", "Reported strength, combined-arms composition and support dependencies", "Reorganization, 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2025](https://history.army.mil/Portals/143/Images/Publications/ArmyHistoryMag/pdf/AH135.pdf).", "Distinguish similarly named formations through dates, commander, parent command and constituent units; a shared commander-derived name alone cannot establish identity.", "Resolve service and period before classification; the German word alone does not establish that the referent belongs to the military sense provisionally modeled here." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Attested designation", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Source spelling, abbreviation, language and dated aliases", "why_it_matters": "Supports identification without merging unrelated formations carrying similar names." }, { "name": "Historical and service context", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "State or belligerent, armed service, period and theater; unknown permitted", "why_it_matters": "Constrains interpretation of the designation and organizational conventions." }, { "name": "Formation basis", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Documented order, reported field assembly, retrospective attribution or unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Separates documented establishment from later historical labeling." }, { "name": "Assigned task", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Link to a documented mission or operation with issuing authority and effective interval", "why_it_matters": "Explains the grouping's organizational purpose and possible endpoint." }, { "name": "Command relationships", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Commander, superior command, authority scope and effective interval", "why_it_matters": "Identifies who directed the grouping and prevents confusion with administrative ownership." }, { "name": "Constituent attachments", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Unit or detachment, relationship type, effective dates and source", "why_it_matters": "Makes changes in composition explicit without treating every supporting unit as a member." }, { "name": "Reported strength", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Personnel count and equipment counts by type, report date, coverage and counting basis", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes nominal allocation, present strength and serviceable resources." }, { "name": "Lifecycle status", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Forming, active, reorganizing, dissolved, absorbed or unknown; dated and evidenced", "why_it_matters": "Prevents an obsolete name or old composition from being treated as current." } ], "affordances": [ "Resolve a historical designation to a formation instance using dated contextual evidence.", "Reconstruct composition and command relationships for a specified date.", "Compare organizational snapshots while exposing reporting gaps and incompatible counting bases.", "Flag unsupported assumptions about combined-arms composition, strength or independence.", "Link formation records to parent units, commanders and operations without duplicating those models.", "Record reorganization or dissolution while preserving uncertain continuity as an explicit question." ], "agent_conduct": { "may": [ "Describe the Kampfgruppe concept and its wartime use from historical sources.", "Help researchers trace battle groups in archives and unit histories." ], "must_not": [ "Produce content that glorifies Nazi-era forces or presents their war as heroic.", "Omit or excuse war crimes committed by units it describes.", "Use the history to promote extremist symbols or groups.", "Attribute crimes to named individuals without evidence." ], "requires_human": [ "Publishing material on units linked to atrocities." ] }, "ethics": { "considerations": [ "The Second World War killed tens of millions; units of that army took part in genocide and crimes against civilians.", "Military history attracts extremist misuse that agents must not feed." ], "affected_parties": [ "Victims and their descendants", "Historians and readers", "Communities targeted by extremists" ] }, "owners": { "steward": "Nobody: a historical designation; archives hold records of wartime units.", "master_systems": [ "National military archives" ] }, "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Romanticized accounts are used in extremist propaganda.", "Ad hoc groupings make records confusing and easy to misattribute." ], "what_it_is_for": [ "The designation occurs in German military histories, orders and operational records, especially those concerning the Second World War.", "It identifies forces grouped under one commander for a particular mission, with composition and strength that can change over time.", "Researchers use dated records to reconstruct its constituent units and distinguish it from formations with fixed establishments." ], "facets_not_applicable": { "interfaces": "No generally applicable standard or official fixed-size classification defines this historical military designation across its uses.", "recognition": "An organizational grouping cannot be reliably identified by visual appearance because its personnel and equipment do not establish its command relationships." } }, "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata item Q656187: Kampfgruppe", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q656187", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "identity and sense of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api" }, { "id": "wikipedia-en", "title": "Wikipedia: Kampfgruppe", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kampfgruppe", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "general description of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api sitelink" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "designation-and-identity", "name": "Designation and identity", "description": "Establish which formation a Kampfgruppe reference identifies.", "rationale": "Names alone cannot resolve changing commanders, reused designations or different historical meanings.", "layers": [ { "id": "term-and-context", "name": "Term and context", "description": "Locate the designation within its documentary, service and historical setting.", "findings": [ { "id": "attested-kampfgruppe-sense", "name": "Attested Kampfgruppe sense", "description": "Record how a source uses the term before applying the provisional task-organized formation interpretation.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the source identify a particular formation, describe an organizational type or use Kampfgruppe in another sense?", "kind": "definition", "id": "attested-kampfgruppe-sense-q01" }, { "text": "Which dated source establishes the designation, service and historical context?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "attested-kampfgruppe-sense-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "formation-continuity", "name": "Formation continuity", "description": "Resolve aliases and distinguish continuity from name reuse.", "findings": [ { "id": "dated-identity-chain", "name": "Dated identity chain", "description": "Connect references through documented command, composition and continuity rather than designation alone.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence shows that references before and after a commander or designation change describe the same formation?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "dated-identity-chain-q01" }, { "text": "Which dated records distinguish this formation from another Kampfgruppe with the same or a similar name?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "dated-identity-chain-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "task-and-command", "name": "Task and command", "description": "Describe why the grouping existed and how authority over it was assigned.", "rationale": "A formation assembled for a task needs an evidenced mandate and command boundary, rather than assumed corporate governance.", "layers": [ { "id": "formation-mandate", "name": "Formation mandate", "description": "Capture establishment evidence and the assigned organizational purpose.", "findings": [ { "id": "assembly-and-assignment", "name": "Assembly and assignment", "description": "Distinguish the authority that formed the grouping from later accounts explaining its purpose.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which order or contemporary account identifies who assembled the Kampfgruppe and when?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "assembly-and-assignment-q01" }, { "text": "What documented task defined the grouping's remit and any intended duration?", "kind": "definition", "id": "assembly-and-assignment-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "authority-over-elements", "name": "Authority over elements", "description": "Separate formation command, superior command and the authority retained by contributing units.", "findings": [ { "id": "command-scope", "name": "Command scope", "description": "Represent authority as dated relationships using the source's terminology rather than silently imposing modern command categories.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who commanded the Kampfgruppe, to whom did that commander report, and during which intervals?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "command-scope-q01" }, { "text": "Which decisions over attached elements belonged to the Kampfgruppe commander, and which remained with their parent commands?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "command-scope-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "composition-and-support", "name": "Composition and support", "description": "Reconstruct constituent elements, reported resources and dependencies at a stated time.", "rationale": "A task-organized formation cannot be understood through a fixed establishment or a name-based assumption of strength.", "layers": [ { "id": "dated-force-composition", "name": "Dated force composition", "description": "Track constituent units and detachments as attachments change.", "findings": [ { "id": "membership-and-arms", "name": "Membership and arms", "description": "Record actual elements and represented arms, distinguishing membership from external support.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which units or detachments belonged to the Kampfgruppe on the date being modeled, and what supports each attachment?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "membership-and-arms-q01" }, { "text": "Which arms were represented internally, and which capabilities came from supporting formations outside its command?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "membership-and-arms-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "strength-and-dependencies", "name": "Strength and dependencies", "description": "Qualify strength reports and identify reliance on parent or external services.", "findings": [ { "id": "reported-resources-and-support", "name": "Reported resources and support", "description": "Keep personnel and equipment figures tied to their reporting basis while recording documented supply, maintenance and medical dependencies.", "questions": [ { "text": "What personnel and equipment counts are reported, for what date, and do they describe assigned, present or serviceable resources?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "reported-resources-and-support-q01" }, { "text": "Which internal elements or external commands supplied transport, replenishment, maintenance and medical support?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "reported-resources-and-support-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "reorganization-and-end-state", "name": "Reorganization and end state", "description": "Track organizational change and establish when the formation ceased to exist or changed identity.", "rationale": "Changing attachments, reassignment and disappearance from records must not automatically imply either continuity or dissolution.", "layers": [ { "id": "organizational-transitions", "name": "Organizational transitions", "description": "Record changes to task, superior command and constituent elements.", "findings": [ { "id": "reorganization-boundary", "name": "Reorganization boundary", "description": "Evaluate whether a documented change updates an existing formation or establishes a successor.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which dated changes affected the Kampfgruppe's task, command or composition?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "reorganization-boundary-q01" }, { "text": "Does the evidence describe continued existence, reconstitution or a newly formed grouping?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "reorganization-boundary-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "termination-and-record-status", "name": "Termination and record status", "description": "Separate documented organizational endings from gaps in the surviving record.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidenced-end-state", "name": "Evidenced end state", "description": "Record dissolution, absorption or another documented outcome without equating last mention with termination.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence establishes the end date and disposition of the headquarters and constituent elements?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "evidenced-end-state-q01" }, { "text": "Should the agent close the formation record, link a successor or retain an unknown end state given the available evidence?", "kind": "action", "id": "evidenced-end-state-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 supplies no sense; this description assumes the military tactical formation, especially its Second World War land-force usage.", "Composition, duration and naming practices varied; combined arms and temporary status should not be treated as exceptionless defining requirements.", "This is a recall-based description; no sources were consulted." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of Kampfgruppe 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": [ "Armoured battle group", "Infantry battle group", "Mixed-arms battle group" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of Kampfgruppe 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": "Military unit designation", "value_or_pattern": "Kampfgruppe followed by a commander's surname or another distinguishing designation", "note": "A historical naming practice rather than a globally unique identifier; identification requires date and parent formation." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of Kampfgruppe 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": [ "Combining available infantry, armour, artillery and supporting elements for a specific tactical mission.", "Creating a temporary force from elements of different parent formations.", "Organising surviving or detached troops into a functioning command during disrupted operations." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Kampfgruppe 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": "Personnel strength", "typical_range": "No fixed establishment; varied substantially with mission and available troops.", "unit": "personnel" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of Kampfgruppe 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": [ "Units assembled at short notice may lack shared procedures and familiarity.", "Mixed parent formations can complicate communications, command relationships and supply.", "Improvised composition may leave gaps in artillery, engineering, reconnaissance or other support.", "Actual combat strength may differ sharply from what a designation suggests." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Kampfgruppe 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": [ "The term is particularly associated with German land forces during the Second World War.", "English translations include battle group and combat group, but similarly named formations in other militaries need not have identical organisation.", "East Germany's Kampfgruppen der Arbeiterklasse were a distinct paramilitary organisation and should not be conflated with this tactical formation." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of Kampfgruppe 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": "Battlegroup", "difference": "A broader term used across military systems; Kampfgruppe denotes a German-language formation whose precise meaning depends on historical context." }, { "name": "Regiment", "difference": "A regiment normally has an established organisational identity; a Kampfgruppe is constituted around operational requirements and may draw on several established units." }, { "name": "Task force", "difference": "Task force is a broader mission-organised grouping that can operate in any service and at different command levels." }, { "name": "Kampfgruppen der Arbeiterklasse", "difference": "This names East Germany's Workers' Combat Groups, a particular paramilitary institution rather than the generic tactical grouping." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of Kampfgruppe this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does vr.tr.kampfgruppe denote the task-organized military formation specifically, or a broader range of service-specific and historical uses?", "Does an existing Vercy world model already cover this concept, requiring a registry link instead of a separate publication?", "Which authoritative sources establish whether temporary organization and combined-arms composition are defining requirements or common characteristics within the intended scope?", "What evidence threshold should distinguish a contemporary formation designation from a retrospective historian's label?", "How should identity continuity be adjudicated when commander, constituent units and assignment change together and no explicit reconstitution order survives?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 9, "findings": 16, "questions": 24 } }