{ "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-12T09:03:11Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 20.6, "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: 01a094da-52af-7550-b1d5-49335aa82509\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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"kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Commander or command office, superior formation, authority type and effective interval", "why_it_matters": "Separates administrative responsibility from operational control." }, { "name": "Organisational status", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Forming, active, inactive, reorganising, disbanded or unresolved, mapped to source terminology", "why_it_matters": "Prevents administrative existence from being mistaken for operational availability." }, { "name": "Continuity determination", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Documented continuation, successor relationship, separate formation or disputed", "why_it_matters": "Controls whether records across amalgamation or redesignation belong to one organisational identity." } ], "affordances": [ "Identify a demi-brigade from a dated designation and distinguish it from formations with reused numbers.", "Reconstruct its constituent units and command relationships for a specified date.", "Compare authorised and reported strength using compatible counting rules.", "Trace formation, amalgamation and redesignation without silently merging separate identities.", "Determine the recorded authority required to change its designation, composition or command assignment.", "Flag unsupported claims about echelon equivalence, continuity or organisational availability for review." ], "agent_conduct": { "may": [ "Describe the demi-brigade and its role in French Revolutionary armies from historical sources.", "Help researchers trace units and service records in archives." ], "must_not": [ "Treat it as the same as a brigade or a modern regiment without explanation.", "Attribute actions or atrocities to a named unit without evidence.", "Alter or remove documents from archives." ], "requires_human": [ "Publishing records that name individual soldiers." ] }, "ethics": { "considerations": [ "Military history shapes national memory and should be accurate.", "Revolutionary wars caused great suffering to soldiers and civilians." ], "affected_parties": [ "Historians and readers", "Descendants of soldiers", "Present-day units carrying the name" ] }, "owners": { "steward": "Nobody: a historical designation; current armed forces answer for revived units.", "master_systems": [ "National military archives" ] }, "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Confusing the many renumbered units leads to errors in research." ], "what_it_is_for": [ "The demi-brigade designation is encountered in French military history, particularly for infantry formations of the revolutionary period.", "It is also used in the names of certain later formations, so its organisational meaning must be interpreted using the unit and date concerned." ], "facets_not_applicable": { "interfaces": "No single designation-specific standard or official classification applies uniformly across the historical and later formations covered by this sense.", "recognition": "A demi-brigade is an organisational designation with no universal visual appearance, and uniforms or insignia identify particular units rather than the formation type." } }, "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata item Q968092: demi-brigade", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q968092", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "identity and sense of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api" }, { "id": "wikipedia-en", "title": "Wikipedia: Demi-brigade", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demi-brigade", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "general description of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api sitelink" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "designation-and-recognition", "name": "Designation and recognition", "description": "Establishes which formation is meant and why it qualifies as a demi-brigade in its own institutional context.", "rationale": "The name alone cannot establish a fixed size, universal echelon or identity across periods.", "layers": [ { "id": "attested-identity", "name": "Attested identity", "description": "Separates official designations from aliases, translations and reused identifiers.", "findings": [ { "id": "dated-designation", "name": "Dated designation", "description": "Record the formation's designation with the authority and interval supporting its use.", "questions": [ { "text": "What original-language title, number and qualifying terms identify this demi-brigade at the date under examination?", "kind": "definition", "id": "dated-designation-q01" }, { "text": "Which dated official record supports that designation, and which alternative names are editorial or retrospective?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "dated-designation-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "institutional-meaning", "name": "Institutional meaning", "description": "Locates the designation within a particular military system.", "findings": [ { "id": "demi-brigade-classification", "name": "Demi-brigade classification", "description": "Record the local criteria for this unit category without deriving them from the 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"dated-unit-membership-q01" }, { "text": "Which units belonged to its establishment, which were temporarily attached, and which remained members while detached?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "dated-unit-membership-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "command-and-organisational-state", "name": "Command and organisational state", "description": "Relates command authority to the formation's administrative existence and reported capacity.", "rationale": "A recognised demi-brigade may have changing superior formations, incomplete staffing or a status that limits what organisational actions are possible.", "layers": [ { "id": "authority-and-subordination", "name": "Authority and subordination", "description": "Identifies command offices and distinguishes different forms of control.", "findings": [ { "id": "command-mandate", "name": "Command mandate", "description": "Record who commands the demi-brigade and who can authorise changes to its organisation.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which command office 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"continuity-across-change-q01" }, { "text": "Does a shared number, title or honour indicate continuity, succession or commemorative inheritance in this case?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "continuity-across-change-q02" }, { "text": "Should the agent retain one identity, link separate predecessor and successor identities, or defer the decision pending evidence?", "kind": "action", "id": "continuity-across-change-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "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 is recorded, so this description covers the military designation rather than an individual unit.", "Check the relevant period and establishment before assigning personnel strength or battalion composition.", "The familiar amalgamation of one regular battalion with two volunteer battalions should not be assumed for every demi-brigade." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of demi-brigade 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": [ "Revolutionary line-infantry demi-brigade", "Revolutionary light-infantry demi-brigade", "Foreign Legion demi-brigade" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of demi-brigade 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": "French Army unit designation", "value_or_pattern": "13e demi-brigade de Légion étrangère (13e DBLE)", "note": "A specific unit bearing the designation, not an identifier for the general organizational type." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of demi-brigade 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": [ "Organizing French Revolutionary infantry into formations comparable to regiments.", "Combining regular-army and volunteer battalions through the Revolutionary amalgamation system.", "Preserving a distinctive organizational title and unit traditions in the French Foreign Legion." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of demi-brigade 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": "Constituent battalions", "typical_range": "Typically 3 in the standard Revolutionary infantry organization", "unit": "battalions" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of demi-brigade 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": [ "Differences in training and experience between amalgamated regular and volunteer battalions could complicate cohesion.", "Campaign losses and replacements could make actual strength differ substantially from authorized establishment." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of demi-brigade 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 designation is particularly associated with French military organization; its literal translation as 'half-brigade' does not establish a universal size.", "Later French 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