EntityWorks — Machine Ground Truth (Ontology Master Document)

SECTION 1 — PREFACE & ONTOLOGY SCOPE STATEMENT (v1.0)

Preface

The EntityWorks Ontology Master List establishes the complete set of terms, definitions, interpretive rules, and structural concepts used within the EntityWorks Standard (“the Standard”). It serves as the authoritative reference for how meaning is defined, constrained, and interpreted within the discipline of AI Perception and its related evaluative and diagnostic frameworks.

The purpose of this ontology is to ensure semantic stability, interpretive consistency, and structural clarity across all components of the Standard, enabling both human and machine audiences to operate with an aligned understanding of the concepts defined herein.

This ontology is not a philosophical glossary, nor a general-purpose lexicon. It is a controlled vocabulary defined for a specific technical standard, and all terms must be read within that precise scope. The ontology provides the structural backbone for representational behaviour, interpretive invariants, evaluative criteria, diagnostic assessments, and accreditation processes governed by the Standard.

EntityWorks maintains stewardship of the ontology and is responsible for its continued development, version control, and interpretive coherence. All terms, definitions, and governed domains in this document apply exclusively within the scope of the Standard and do not extend their meaning beyond this framework.

Ontology Scope Statement

The terms, definitions, and phrases presented in this ontology apply only as they are defined within the EntityWorks Standard (“the Standard”). All meanings, roles, and interpretive boundaries must be understood strictly in accordance with the Standard.

Where a term appears in external discourse, technical literature, or general usage, the definition provided within the Standard is the sole authoritative reference for the discipline of AI Perception and any component that relies upon representational stability or machine-interpreted identity.

Nothing in this ontology should be interpreted outside the scope of the Standard. Nothing should be blended with external frameworks, redefined through analogy, or generalised to contexts beyond those explicitly governed by the Standard.

Each term includes:

a Status designation (Core, Diagnostic, Evaluative, Accreditation, Adjacent, Draft, Deprecated);
a Governed Domain, indicating the specific conceptual or operational field the term governs within the Standard;
a Formal Definition, providing the authoritative meaning;
Cross-References, linking the term to related structures defined elsewhere in the ontology.

Terms in Draft and Deprecated categories are included to maintain semantic continuity, avoid future ambiguity, and ensure historical coherence across the evolution of the Standard. These terms do not carry normative force but remain integral to the interpretive stability of the ontology.

All trademarked terms included in this ontology are registered or pending filings belonging to EntityWorks. Trademarks apply only to the terms marked as such and only within their usage in the Standard.

SECTION 2 — CORE STANDARD LAYER (v1.0)

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AI Perception

Status: Core — Defined within the Standard

Governed domain:
This term governs the conceptual and interpretive mechanisms relating to how AI systems form, update, and express internal representations of entities within the Standard.

Definition:
AI Perception is the discipline concerned with how AI systems form, update, and express their understanding of people, organisations, relationships, and ideas.

Cross-references:
Entity Understanding Layer™, Representational Stability, Interpretive Drift, AI Discoverability, The Standard.

AI Discoverability

Status: Core — Defined within the Standard

Governed domain:
This term governs the identification, understanding, and representational surfacing of entities within AI systems as evaluated through the Standard.

Definition:
AI Discoverability is the discipline of ensuring that AI systems can correctly identify, understand, and represent people, organisations, relationships, and ideas.

Cross-references:
Entity Discoverability Index™, AI Perception, Representational Stability.

The Standard

Status: Core — Primary Governance Standard

Governed domain:
This term governs the ontological, structural, interpretive, diagnostic, and evaluative components that define representational behaviour within AI Perception.

Definition:
The Standard is the formal technical standard governing AI Perception and machine-interpretation stability. It defines the ontology, structural rules, representational criteria, diagnostic framework, and evaluative structures governing the discipline, as specified within the Standard.

Cross-references:
All core terms, Entity Understanding Layer™, Diagnostic Layer, Evaluative Layer, Accreditation Layer.

Entity Understanding Layer™ (EUL)

Status: Core — Defined within the Standard

Governed domain:
This term governs the structuring, updating, coherence, and relational organisation of entity representations within the interpretive architecture of the Standard.

Definition:
To be defined in a future version of the Standard. This placeholder is maintained to preserve structural continuity and ontological coherence pending formal specification.

Cross-references:
Representational Stability, Interpretive Drift.

Representational Stability

Status: Core — Defined within the Standard

Governed domain:
This term governs the coherence, persistence, and context-appropriate continuity of entity representations within the Standard.

Definition:
Representational Stability refers to the degree to which an AI system maintains a coherent and consistent internal representation of an entity across different contexts, interactions, or temporal updates within the scope of the Standard.

Cross-references:
Entity Understanding Layer™, Interpretive Drift, Structural Risk.

Interpretive Drift

Status: Core — Defined within the Standard

Governed domain:
This term governs the behaviour by which entity representations change, distort, or diverge over time within the interpretive components of the Standard.

Definition:
Interpretive Drift describes the gradual or context-driven change in an AI system’s internal understanding of an entity arising from ambiguous, conflicting, or insufficient information within the scope of the Standard.

Cross-references:
Representational Stability, Structural Risk, Entity Understanding Layer™.

Structural Risk

Status: Core — Defined within the Standard

Governed domain:
This term governs the risks arising from incorrect, unstable, or inconsistent representational structures within the Standard.

Definition:
Structural Risk refers to the likelihood that an AI system generates incorrect or unstable interpretations of entities due to representational inconsistency, boundary weakness, or insufficient structural clarity within the scope of the Standard.

Cross-references:
Entity Collision Problem™, Probabilistic Inference Collapse™, Representational Stability.

SECTION 3 — INTERPRETIVE LAYER (v1.0 — PROVISIONAL)

This section establishes the interpretive constructs recognised within the scope of the Standard. Full textual definitions are not yet published and will be added following formal review.

The Interpretive Layer identifies the conceptual structures used within the Standard to describe how AI systems organise, maintain, and relate entity representations. These constructs are recognised for ontological and organisational purposes only. Detailed definitions will be finalised in a future publication cycle.