{ "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-12T09:42:49Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 26.2, "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: 01a094fe-6fea-7be1-bbb2-f55d633893b5\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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representation, typically narrative, whose invented characters, events or situations are presented without an undertaking that they occurred in the actual world.", "scope_statement": "This model owns fiction as a creative category and the fiction-specific features of works presented for imaginative engagement, across media, while linking to models for work identity, carriers, rights and distribution.", "in_scope": [ "Evidence that content is offered or received as fiction, including disputed and mixed cases", "Imagined entities, events, settings and rules represented within a work", "Narration, perspective, temporal organisation and audience access to information", "Relationships between fictional continuity, versions, adaptations and related works", "Fiction-specific conditions for interpretation, attribution and reuse" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Physical copies, file formats, storage and delivery infrastructure", "General bibliographic administration of expressions, editions and items", "Full legal models of copyright, licensing and jurisdiction", "Real-world biographies or historical events represented in fiction", "Deception, misinformation and factual error as independent categories", "Comprehensive models of individual media such as novels, cinema and games" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Invented content alone is insufficient: record evidence of an invitation to imagine, distinguishing fiction from mistakes and deceptive factual assertions.", "A work may qualify as fiction while incorporating real people, places and accurate statements; classification concerns its framing and use, not the falsity of every sentence.", "Narrative form alone does not establish fictionality: memoir, reporting and history can also organise events into stories.", "Fiction can occur in prose, performance, audiovisual and interactive forms; neither a literary format nor a particular carrier is required.", "A hypothetical example or simulation may involve imagination without being 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"category", "unit_or_values": "Explicitly represented; character belief; narrator assertion; inferred; contradicted; unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Separates what a work establishes from what a speaker within it claims." }, { "name": "Continuity membership", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Links to named storyworlds, timelines or continuity groupings, with attribution and scope", "why_it_matters": "Prevents facts from incompatible versions or adaptations from being merged." }, { "name": "Narrative completion", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Complete; ongoing; fragmentary; abandoned; unknown, at a specified work or serial scope", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes intentional ambiguity from gaps caused by unfinished or unavailable material." }, { "name": "Interpretive support", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Textually supported; externally attributed; contested; speculative; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Allows an agent to discuss interpretations without presenting them as settled fictional facts." }, { "name": "Disclosure boundary", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Links from information to chapters, episodes, scenes or interactive paths where it becomes available", "why_it_matters": "Supports summaries and answers that respect the audience's progress and spoiler preferences." } ], "affordances": [ "Classify a candidate as fiction or a mixed case with attributable framing evidence.", "Answer questions about a fictional world while distinguishing established events, speaker beliefs and interpretation.", "Produce summaries constrained by edition, continuity, audience progress and spoiler preference.", "Compare adaptations and versions without silently combining incompatible fictional facts.", "Identify contradictions, unresolved threads and missing evidence within a specified continuity.", "Prepare quotation, adaptation or continuation requests with the relevant work, rights and attribution dependencies identified." ], "agent_conduct": { "may": [ "Write, summarise and analyse fiction, labelling it clearly as fiction.", "Help a writer with their own fiction at their direction." ], "must_not": [ "Present fictional events as true or dress fiction up as news or testimony.", "Use a fictional frame to deliver content it would refuse to give directly, such as harmful instructions.", "Write fiction that defames real, identifiable people.", "Reproduce substantial parts of another author's protected work." ], "requires_human": [ "Publishing fiction about real, living people.", "Publishing fiction under a person's name." ] }, "ethics": { "considerations": [ "Fiction can build empathy, but it can also be used to spread falsehoods disguised as stories.", "Authors' rights and livelihoods depend on respect for their work." ], "affected_parties": [ "Readers", "Authors", "Real people portrayed" ] }, "owners": { "steward": "The author holds the work; publishers and rights holders manage editions.", "master_systems": [ "National library catalogues and copyright registries" ] }, "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Fiction mistaken for fact can spread misinformation.", "Fiction about real people can defame them or invade their privacy." ], "what_it_is_for": [ "Fiction is encountered in novels, short stories and other imaginative written works read for entertainment, reflection or artistic experience.", "Its study examines narrative, characterization and interpretation while distinguishing imagined events from claims about actual events." ], "standards_and_regulation": [ "The Library of Congress Classification, issued by the Library of Congress, provides literature classes used to organize fiction by language and literary tradition." ], "facets_not_applicable": { "recognition": "Fiction is an interpretive category that cannot be established from a work's visual appearance alone." } }, "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata item Q8253972: fiction", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8253972", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "identity and sense of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api" }, { "id": "wikipedia-en", "title": "Wikipedia: Fiction books", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiction_books", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "general description of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api sitelink" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "fictionality-and-framing", "name": "Fictionality and framing", "description": "Establishes why content is treated as fiction and where that assessment applies.", "rationale": "An agent must distinguish imaginative presentation from factual assertion without equating fiction with falsehood.", "layers": [ { "id": "imaginative-invitation", "name": "Imaginative invitation", "description": "Records evidence for the communicative status of the work.", "findings": [ { "id": "fictional-framing-evidence", "name": "Fictional framing evidence", "description": "Record the evidence and attribution supporting a fiction classification, including disagreement between creator framing and reception.", "questions": [ { "text": "What label, paratext, statement or reception evidence supports treating this content as fiction?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "fictional-framing-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Does that evidence apply to the whole work, a component, or only a particular presentation?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "fictional-framing-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "mixed-assertion-boundaries", "name": "Mixed assertion boundaries", "description": "Separates fictional presentation from embedded factual claims and neighbouring imaginative practices.", "findings": [ { "id": "local-communicative-status", "name": "Local communicative status", "description": "Record changes in framing across passages or components rather than assigning every statement the same status.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which components, if any, are presented as factual commentary, documentary material or testimony?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "local-communicative-status-q01" }, { "text": "What distinguishes this case from a hypothetical example, simulation, memoir or deceptive factual account?", "kind": "definition", "id": "local-communicative-status-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "fictional-world-and-evidence", "name": "Fictional world and evidence", "description": "Captures what is represented within the fiction and how confidently it can be asserted.", "rationale": "Fictional-world answers require evidence sensitive to speakers, ambiguity and the difference between representation and reality.", "layers": [ { "id": "entities-and-world-rules", "name": "Entities and world rules", "description": "Identifies represented entities, their relationships and the constraints under which events occur.", "findings": [ { "id": "represented-world-commitments", "name": "Represented world commitments", "description": "Record supported properties of characters, settings and world rules without filling narrative gaps automatically.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which entities, relationships and world rules are explicitly established, and where?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "represented-world-commitments-q01" }, { "text": "Where a real person or place appears, which properties belong to this fictional representation rather than to the real-world referent?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "represented-world-commitments-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "belief-ambiguity-and-contradiction", "name": "Belief, ambiguity and contradiction", "description": "Tracks differences between represented events, reports, beliefs and interpretive conclusions.", "findings": [ { "id": "qualified-fictional-claims", "name": "Qualified fictional claims", "description": "Attach a speaker, evidence location and uncertainty status to claims whose standing inside the fiction is not straightforward.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is this claim established by represented events, asserted by a narrator, believed by a character or inferred by a reader?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "qualified-fictional-claims-q01" }, { "text": "What conflicting evidence or unresolved ambiguity must accompany an answer about this claim?", "kind": "action", "id": "qualified-fictional-claims-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "narration-and-audience-access", "name": "Narration and audience access", "description": "Describes how the fiction presents events and controls access to information.", "rationale": "Event order, perspective and audience participation affect what an agent can accurately summarise or reveal.", "layers": [ { "id": "event-order-and-perspective", "name": "Event order and perspective", "description": "Distinguishes the sequence of represented events from their presentation and the viewpoints through which they are available.", "findings": [ { "id": "narrative-access-pattern", "name": "Narrative access pattern", "description": "Record presentation order, temporal shifts and viewpoint limits where these affect comprehension.", "questions": [ { "text": "How does presentation order differ from the chronology of represented events, where that chronology is recoverable?", "kind": "definition", "id": "narrative-access-pattern-q01" }, { "text": "Whose perceptions or knowledge constrain each relevant section, and where does that constraint change?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "narrative-access-pattern-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "participation-and-disclosure", "name": "Participation and disclosure", "description": "Tracks audience choices and progress-dependent knowledge.", "findings": [ { "id": "path-sensitive-disclosure", "name": "Path-sensitive disclosure", "description": "Associate events and revelations with the sections or interactive paths through which an audience encounters them.", "questions": [ { "text": "Can audience choices change events, their order or only their presentation, and which path is being described?", "kind": "definition", "id": "path-sensitive-disclosure-q01" }, { "text": "What may an agent disclose given the audience's stated progress and spoiler preference?", "kind": "action", "id": "path-sensitive-disclosure-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "versions-adaptations-and-continuity", "name": "Versions, adaptations and continuity", "description": "Locates fictional content within its work, expression and continuity relationships.", "rationale": "Shared titles or characters do not establish that different editions, adaptations or continuities support the same claims.", "layers": [ { "id": "content-bearing-version", "name": "Content-bearing version", "description": "Identifies the expression or version that supplies the fictional evidence.", "findings": [ { "id": "version-specific-content", "name": "Version-specific content", "description": "Link each analysis to the relevant work and expression, using manifestation or item details when needed to locate evidence.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which work, language expression, revision or release supplies the content being analysed?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "version-specific-content-q01" }, { "text": "Does a difference alter fictional content, translate its expression or only change its packaging and carrier?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "version-specific-content-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "continuity-and-transformation", "name": "Continuity and transformation", "description": "Records attributed continuity membership and the changes introduced by related works.", "findings": [ { "id": "attributed-continuity", "name": "Attributed continuity", "description": "Record adaptation, sequel, retelling and continuity relationships without assuming identical events or universal agreement about canon.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who treats these works as sharing a continuity, and what is the stated scope of that grouping?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "attributed-continuity-q01" }, { "text": "Which characters, events or world rules are retained, changed or incompatible across the related works?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "attributed-continuity-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "interpretation-and-permitted-use", "name": "Interpretation and permitted use", "description": "Supports evidence-based reading and actions that depend on the fiction's identity and reuse conditions.", "rationale": "An agent must distinguish interpretation from represented fact and connect proposed creative uses to the applicable source material and permissions.", "layers": [ { "id": "interpretive-claims", "name": "Interpretive claims", "description": "Records themes, genre readings and other interpretations with their supporting evidence and attribution.", "findings": [ { "id": "supported-and-contested-readings", "name": "Supported and contested readings", "description": "Keep interpretive proposals identifiable as readings, including alternatives and limits on attributing beliefs to creators.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which passages or formal features support the proposed interpretation, and whose interpretation is it?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "supported-and-contested-readings-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence would justify attributing a view to the creator rather than to a narrator or character?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "supported-and-contested-readings-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "reuse-and-generated-extensions", "name": "Reuse and generated extensions", "description": "Connects quotation, adaptation and continuation to relevant rights records and provenance labels.", "findings": [ { "id": "fiction-reuse-dependencies", "name": "Fiction reuse dependencies", "description": "Identify the material a proposed use draws on and distinguish newly generated additions from the source fiction.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which underlying work, translation, adaptation or illustration would the proposed use draw on, and which rights records require checking?", "kind": "action", "id": "fiction-reuse-dependencies-q01" }, { "text": "How will an agent label invented continuations or reconstructed gaps so they cannot be mistaken for source content or authorised canon?", "kind": "action", "id": "fiction-reuse-dependencies-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": [ "No sense was recorded; this description treats fiction as a creative category across media, rather than only prose literature.", "The definition is a practical synthesis; 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"evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "ISBN", "value_or_pattern": "13 digits with a 978 or 979 prefix", "note": "Identifies a particular publication edition and product format, not fiction as a category or the abstract work; older ISBNs have 10 characters." }, { "scheme": "ISAN", "value_or_pattern": "International Standard Audiovisual Number", "note": "Identifies audiovisual works, including fictional works; version identifiers distinguish versions." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of fiction this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation", "name": "Standards and regulation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "IFLA Library Reference Model, issued by the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, distinguishes work, expression, manifestation and item.", "RDA: Resource Description and Access, maintained by the RDA Steering Committee, provides instructions for describing and relating bibliographic resources.", "ISO 2108, issued by the International Organization for Standardization, specifies the International Standard Book Number.", "Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, administered by WIPO, establishes international copyright protections relevant to fictional works." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of fiction 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": [ "Entertainment through reading, performance, audiovisual media and games", "Artistic exploration of character, experience and imagined worlds", "Teaching through invented scenarios and narratives", "Social criticism, satire and political commentary", "Preservation and reinterpretation of cultural narratives" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of fiction 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": [ "Readers or viewers may mistake invented events for factual reporting when framing is ambiguous.", "Catalogues may conflate a fictional work with its translation, edition, file or individual copy.", "Depictions can reinforce stereotypes or misrepresent actual communities and historical events.", "Use of existing protected expression can create copyright disputes.", "Recognizable portrayals of real people can raise privacy or defamation issues, depending on jurisdiction." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of fiction 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": [ "Literary and performance traditions differ in how they distinguish fiction, history, myth and testimony.", "Copyright terms, exceptions and moral-rights protections vary by jurisdiction.", "Content restrictions and classification practices vary by country and medium." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of fiction 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": "Nonfiction", "difference": "Nonfiction ordinarily undertakes to represent actual subjects truthfully; factual error alone does not turn it into fiction." }, { "name": "Narrative", "difference": "Narrative represents events in a connected account and can be either fictional or factual." }, { "name": "Novel", "difference": "A novel is an extended prose narrative form within fiction; fiction also includes other forms and media." }, { "name": "Fantasy", "difference": "Fantasy is a genre involving departures from ordinary reality, often supernatural ones; fiction can instead be entirely realistic." }, { "name": "Falsehood", "difference": "A falsehood is an untrue statement; fiction need not assert its invented content as actual fact." }, { "name": "Myth", "difference": "Myth is distinguished by its traditional and cultural significance, often including sacred authority, rather than necessarily by an acknowledged fictional status." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of fiction this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does the registry intend fiction to cover imaginative works across all media, or primarily literary fiction?", "Which existing Vercy models already own creative-work identity, narrative, storyworlds and bibliographic relationships, and where should this model link to them?", "What evidence standard should resolve competing classifications of autofiction, myth, docudrama and other mixed or culturally variable cases?", "How should continuity claims be represented when creators, publishers and audience communities disagree or revise their positions?", "How should the model represent fiction with minimal narrative, unstable worlds or emergent events that have no single fixed expression?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 18, "questions": 28 } }