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    "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed",
    "publishableCanonical": false,
    "generatedAt": "2026-09-11T20:44:32Z",
    "providers": [
      "Claude"
    ],
    "breadth": "written by Claude from model knowledge without web access - no source was read, every claim is a lead to verify",
    "pass": 2,
    "wave": 2,
    "engine": "claude",
    "enrichment": {
      "pass": 3,
      "engine": "claude",
      "producedAt": "2026-10-05T23:50:00Z",
      "ingestedAt": "2026-10-05T20:49:56+00:00",
      "fields": [
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        "ethics",
        "owners"
      ]
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      "at": "2026-10-07T12:16:35+00:00",
      "evidence": [
        "completeness 1.00",
        "sense: WordNet gloss",
        "2 live sources",
        "review by codex: pass"
      ]
    }
  },
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    "id": "THING-STATUS",
    "registryId": "vr.tr.status",
    "name": "status",
    "version": "0.2.0-wave.2",
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    "domain": [
      "XCT.STA"
    ],
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    "registry_id": "vr.tr.status",
    "name": "status",
    "purpose": "Let an agent explain social status and rank, describe how status is conferred and signalled, analyse status in organisations neutrally, and separate the sense of status as current state.",
    "definition": "The relative position or standing of a person, group or thing within a society, organisation or system, conferred by rank, achievement, wealth, office, birth or recognition, and expressed through titles, roles and treatment; status is studied in sociology and psychology, and the word also denotes the current state of a process or system, a separate sense.",
    "what_it_is_for": "Understanding social standing.",
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      "explain how status is conferred and measured",
      "describe status systems and ranks",
      "analyse status dynamics in groups",
      "separate the state sense"
    ],
    "distinguishing_features": [
      "Relative position",
      "Socially conferred",
      "Signalled by markers",
      "Ascribed or achieved"
    ],
    "appearance": "Not physical; a social position.",
    "visual_identification": [
      "Rank and standing",
      "Titles and treatment",
      "Status as state describes a process, not a person"
    ],
    "physical_properties": [],
    "families_and_kinds": [
      "ascribed status such as birth and caste",
      "achieved status through occupation or accomplishment",
      "formal ranks and offices",
      "informal status in groups",
      "legal status such as citizenship"
    ],
    "related_models": [
      {
        "relation": "is a kind of",
        "target": "social position",
        "why": "category"
      },
      {
        "relation": "is related to",
        "target": "hierarchy",
        "why": "ranking"
      },
      {
        "relation": "is related to",
        "target": "aristocrat",
        "why": "hereditary status"
      },
      {
        "relation": "is related to",
        "target": "social group",
        "why": "status within groups"
      }
    ],
    "identifiers": [],
    "standards_and_regulation": [
      "Anti-discrimination law limiting status-based treatment",
      "Protocol and precedence rules for formal ranks"
    ],
    "failure_modes_and_hazards": [
      "Reinforcing stereotypes",
      "Confusing senses",
      "Treating status as fixed"
    ],
    "in_scope": [],
    "out_of_scope": [],
    "characteristics": [],
    "agent_conduct": {
      "may": [
        "Describe a person's or group's status only from public, sourced records such as titles or offices.",
        "Explain how status is conferred in a given society or organisation."
      ],
      "must_not": [
        "Infer or assign social status to individuals from personal data.",
        "Treat people differently by perceived status where law or fairness forbids it.",
        "Mock or demean people of low status.",
        "Misstate titles or ranks."
      ],
      "requires_human": [
        "Decisions that grant or remove status, such as titles or membership."
      ]
    },
    "ethics": {
      "considerations": [
        "Status hierarchies shape access to power and respect; reinforcing them can entrench injustice.",
        "Loss of status harms dignity and wellbeing."
      ],
      "affected_parties": [
        "People of low status",
        "Holders of titles"
      ]
    },
    "owners": {
      "steward": "Nobody owns the concept; the body that confers a title or rank answers for it.",
      "master_systems": []
    }
  },
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "oewn",
      "title": "Open English WordNet 2024, synset oewn-13968971-n",
      "url": "https://en-word.net/id/oewn-13968971-n",
      "what_it_supports": "sense and gloss of the concept",
      "url_status": "live",
      "checked_by": "http 200"
    },
    {
      "id": "wiktionary-en",
      "title": "Wiktionary: status",
      "url": "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/status",
      "what_it_supports": "word senses and usage",
      "url_status": "live",
      "checked_by": "http 200"
    }
  ],
  "structure": {
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      {
        "id": "define",
        "name": "Define",
        "description": "What status is.",
        "rationale": "Ascribed and achieved.",
        "layers": [
          {
            "id": "kinds",
            "name": "Kinds",
            "description": "Kinds of status.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "kinds-finding",
                "name": "Kinds",
                "description": "Kinds.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "Is this status ascribed, achieved or formally conferred, and by whom?",
                    "kind": "definition"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "What markers signal it?",
                    "kind": "definition"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "id": "measure",
            "name": "Measure",
            "description": "Measuring status.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "measure-finding",
                "name": "Measure",
                "description": "Measurement.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "How do sociologists measure socioeconomic and occupational status?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "What are the limits of such measures?",
                    "kind": "boundary"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "systems",
        "name": "Systems",
        "description": "Status systems.",
        "rationale": "Ranks and precedence.",
        "layers": [
          {
            "id": "ranks",
            "name": "Ranks",
            "description": "Formal ranks.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "ranks-finding",
                "name": "Ranks",
                "description": "Ranks.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "How does the rank or precedence system of this institution or society work, according to its rules?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "How are ordinal positions such as first or former used to express status?",
                    "kind": "definition"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "id": "mobility",
            "name": "Mobility",
            "description": "Changing status.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "mobility-finding",
                "name": "Mobility",
                "description": "Mobility.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "What does research say about social mobility and how status changes over generations?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Which factors matter?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "dynamics",
        "name": "Dynamics",
        "description": "Status in groups.",
        "rationale": "Psychology.",
        "layers": [
          {
            "id": "groups",
            "name": "Groups",
            "description": "Status in groups.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "groups-finding",
                "name": "Groups",
                "description": "Groups.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "How does status emerge and operate in small groups and workplaces, according to research?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "How can status differences be managed fairly?",
                    "kind": "action"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "id": "fairness",
            "name": "Fairness",
            "description": "Status and discrimination.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "fairness-finding",
                "name": "Fairness",
                "description": "Fairness.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "Does this treatment based on status breach anti-discrimination law?",
                    "kind": "boundary"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Are stereotypes about status groups avoided?",
                    "kind": "boundary"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "senses",
        "name": "Senses",
        "description": "Disambiguation.",
        "rationale": "Status as state.",
        "layers": [
          {
            "id": "state",
            "name": "State",
            "description": "Status as current state.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "state-finding",
                "name": "State",
                "description": "State sense.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "Is status meant as the current state of an order, system or process?",
                    "kind": "boundary"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Which entry fits?",
                    "kind": "action"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "id": "legal",
            "name": "Legal",
            "description": "Legal status.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "legal-finding",
                "name": "Legal",
                "description": "Legal status.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "Is a legal status such as residency, marital or refugee status meant?",
                    "kind": "boundary"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Which entry fits?",
                    "kind": "action"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  "openQuestions": [
    "Should legal status be a separate entry?",
    "How should sociological sources be linked?",
    "How should the state sense be split?"
  ],
  "statistics": {
    "bundles": 4,
    "layers": 8,
    "findings": 8,
    "questions": 16
  }
}