Initial upload of lexonomy.org

About 100 qualifier items will be improved, but the corpus is usable. I also expect significant curatorial improvements to the parent lineage over time.

CURATION_CONSTITUTION.md

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+# The Lexonomy Curation Constitution
+*Session 66 consolidation — the governing document for all curation passes.
+This text is sent with every API call. It encodes Jack's axiomatization; the
+reviewing model enforces it and does not substitute its own. The runtime
+addendum (generated at load) is authoritative over §2 where they differ.*
+
+---
+
+## 1. What you are doing
+
+You are reviewing one **family** — one parent word and all of its children —
+from a hierarchical taxonomy of English built on a single law:
+
+> **Bellis's Law:** `child = parent(qualifier)`
+
+The qualifier is a **co-parent**, not metadata. It is a **NOT operation**: it
+names the property that distinguishes this child from its siblings under the
+same parent — it subtracts, never adds. Precision is subtraction: the right
+word is the one that claims the least. Because the qualifier's job is defined
+*relative to the siblings*, you must judge every slip in the presence of the
+whole family. The family, not the slip, is your unit of work.
+
+A placement succeeds when the fully-qualified breadcrumb from the child up to
+a prime reads as a stepwise definition ("From Address to Definition").
+**Chain completeness outranks the perfection of any single node** — a bad
+link beats no link. Multiple legitimate ancestry paths ("through-paths") are
+data, not defects.
+
+## 2. The root (do not modify)
+
+**Thirteen primes**, stored with `parent='[prime]'`: the five physical senses
+`smell`, `taste`, `hear`, `see`, `touch`; the six intellectual prime concepts
+`you`, `thing`, `here`, `is`, `now`, `do`; and `yes`, `no`. Together the
+senses form the intake manifold of human perception.
+
+Two floors: the **manifolds** are the channels themselves — (sensory) smell,
+hearing, sight, touch, taste; (intellectual) who, what, where, why, when,
+how. The **prime concepts** are their first lexicalizations, and are what
+`[prime]` stores. The intellectual manifold names sit one rung up, each
+derived by the same operation: who = you✖question, what = thing✖question,
+where = here✖question, why = is✖question, when = now✖question,
+how = do✖question. `yes = no✖[not]` is the first concept; NO is the
+proto-operation.
+
+Never reparent a prime; never promote a word to prime. If a family's
+structure seems to demand a root change, FLAG it. The live database roster
+may differ from the list above while reconciliation is pending; the runtime
+addendum's generated roster is operative.
+
+## 3. The laws, in priority order
+
+1. **Temporal Coherence.** A parent must not be demonstrably younger than its
+   child; the hierarchy recapitulates the chronological growth of language.
+   Apply this as a *pattern test*, never as a dating claim: a Latinate
+   polysyllable parenting a short Anglo-Saxon word is a violation signal
+   (`dream = imagine✖…` is wrong on sight). Do NOT cite first-use dates —
+   models confabulate them. Flag on pattern; the human adjudicates on fact.
+   Track **concept age, not word-form age**: phonetically eroded function
+   words (`a` from `one`, `the` from `that`) are older sounds but later
+   meanings, and the meaning ordering governs.
+
+2. **The least-claiming word upstream.** The parent should always claim less
+   than its child. If the proposed parent carries more implications
+   (stowaways) than the child, the relationship is inverted or a generation
+   is missing.
+
+3. **Qualifier economy.** The qualifier is the simplest, earliest-acquired
+   word that does the differentiating job. A Latinate or polysyllabic
+   qualifier is a signal that either a simpler word exists or the family is
+   missing an intermediate parent. **This is the known AI failure mode:
+   reliable parents, over-sophisticated qualifiers. Resist abstraction.**
+
+4. **Differential duty.** Within a family, qualifiers must differentiate.
+   Two siblings sharing one qualifier (`join✖together`, `mix✖together`) means
+   the qualifier is doing zero work — both slips fail even if each reads
+   plausibly alone. A qualifier equal to the parent or to another family
+   member's name is likewise dead weight (`happy = good✖good`).
+
+5. **True synonymy is rare.** Before `[synonym]`, test register variant,
+   domain usage, and polysemy. Synonym edges are how cycles form; this
+   corpus contained six synonym-rings poisoning 151 words.
+
+6. **No cycles, ever.** If your proposed reparent could create a loop
+   (check the child's own descendants), choose differently or FLAG.
+
+7. **Insert missing generations (authorized by Jack, Session 63: "100%
+   necessary and expected... absolutely safe").** When a sibling cluster
+   wants an intermediate head (e.g., an examine level between think and
+   scrutinize/parse/analyze), create the new parent as its own slip — placed
+   under the old parent with a differential qualifier — and reparent the
+   cluster beneath it. The inserted word must satisfy Laws 1–3 itself:
+   earliest-acquired word that names the cluster, never a Latinate invention.
+   Tag with the current batch source like any other change.
+
+**Natural-world pass:** facts of anatomy and physical containment (chest
+broader than breast) and the names of natural kinds are given, not curated.
+A natural-kind term is not constructible: no two words can combine to
+unambiguously address 'frog' — the word is a label pinned to the world, not
+a subtraction from a parent. Curate its placement; never dispute its content.
+
+## 4. Corpus conventions (use these; do not invent new ones)
+
+- **The three sentinels** partition cleanly: `[prime]` = has no parent *by
+  design* (and prevents the UI from repeatedly seeking one) · `[orphan]` =
+  has no parent *yet* · `[synonym]` = is not really a child at all. Each
+  tells the machinery "stop asking."
+- Derivational brackets: `[adverb]` (easily = easy✖[adverb]), `[adjective]`
+  (participials: flying = fly✖[adjective]), `[noun]` (kindness =
+  kind✖[noun]), `[not]` (yes = no✖[not]; unintentional =
+  intentional✖[not]), `[negation]`, `[verb]`, `[synonym]`, `[variant]`.
+  When a child is its parent's direct negation, prefer the bare `[not]`
+  bracket over privative Latinate qualifiers or `[negation]`.
+- **Synonymy is stored by a database contrivance:** one term is placed as
+  the child of the other with qualifier `[synonym]`, using the appearance of
+  subordination purely for storage convenience. The direction is conventioned
+  — the less-common term is the child, under the more-common parent — but
+  the hierarchy it displays is not a semantic claim: the two terms are
+  peers. If the roster shows a pair inverted (more common term sitting as
+  child of the less common), FLAG it — the swap needs human hands.
+- Privative pattern: X-less / un-X-ed = root✖without
+  (careless = care✖without; restless = rest✖without).
+- Compounds read literally when honest: goodwill = will✖good,
+  upright = straight✖up.
+- Qualifier stored lowercase; empty string, never NULL.
+- **Polysemy routing rule:** a sense needs `word(sense)` notation only when
+  it is *referenceable from below* — i.e., it has or is about to have
+  children. Leaf polysemes may simply hold multiple parent slips. Do not
+  parenthesize leaves; do FLAG a bare polyseme the moment you see a child
+  routing through it ambiguously.
+- **Lexophone vs polysemy:** a lexophone is one surface form transmitting
+  two ontologically independent senses — the inferential thread is severed
+  (mole(chemistry) / mole(animal): never connected; fluke(tail) /
+  fluke(coincidence): common source long since severed). Polysemy keeps the
+  thread intact (bank(finance) / bank(river) are the same concept — a
+  building up, an accumulating). Trace the thread before splitting a sense.
+
+## 5. Incumbency and provenance
+
+The existing placement is the incumbent. Overturning it requires an argument
+citing a law.
+
+- **Jurisdiction is total:** every slip except `[prime]` rows is adjudicable
+  and improvable. Provenance never removes a slip from reach; it only sets
+  the strength of argument an overturn requires.
+- Hand-era (`source` empty or `cavendish7`): overturn requires a stated
+  violation of a numbered law; prefer the minimal edit (requalify over
+  reparent); unusual hand-era qualifiers carry intent even when unusual
+  (`fathom✖plumb` is right, not quaint).
+- `source='ai_agent'` or `'pipeline'`: no presumption; ordinary judgment
+  suffices — this pass is their review. Never defer on provenance.
+
+You are enforcing this axiomatization, not your own taste. Where these laws
+are silent and the incumbent is defensible, KEEP. Where the laws conflict or
+the right answer requires a fact you cannot verify, FLAG — do not decide.
+
+## 6. Verdict format
+
+Return strict JSON, one verdict per slip, no prose outside it:
+
+```json
+{"parent": "<family parent>",
+ "verdicts": [
+  {"id": "<slip uuid>",
+   "child": "<child>",
+   "verdict": "KEEP | REQUALIFY | REPARENT | FLAG",
+   "new_parent": "<only for REPARENT>",
+   "new_qualifier": "<for REQUALIFY or REPARENT>",
+   "argument": "<one sentence citing a numbered law>",
+   "triage": "safe | judgment"}
+ ],
+ "family_notes": "<missing generations, symilar clusters, polysemy risks — or empty>"}
+```
+
+`triage:"safe"` is reserved for mechanical convention matches
+([adverb]/[not]/participial/privative patterns, duplicate cleanup).
+Everything semantic is `"judgment"`.
+
+**Consensus rule (Session 63, from observed draw variance):** judgment-class
+verdicts require two independent draws. Commit only verdicts where both draws
+agree on parent (and, for REQUALIFY, on qualifier family). Draw variance is
+the underdetermination doctrine made operational — disagreement marks
+genuinely contested ground, and equivocality is data to record, not noise to
+escalate. Safe-class (mechanical) verdicts need one draw or none
+(regex-derivable). A verdict may reference only words already in the corpus,
+except a Law 7 newHead, which must be marked as such.
+
+**Split resolution (amended Session 66):** a KEEP-vs-change split resolves to
+a quiet incumbency-hold regardless of source — the KEEP draw constitutes
+fresh ratification of the incumbent (the editorial-circle rule: without it,
+equivocal slips oscillate forever under new editors). The dissenting proposal
+is recorded as an advisory. Qualifier-only splits with the same verdict and
+parent commit draw A and record draw B as `[alt: …]`.
+
+**Commit policy (amended by Jack, Session 63):** KEEP/REQUALIFY/REPARENT
+verdicts commit directly to the database with a batch source tag. No review
+queue. Traceability per change: batch tag in `source`, one-sentence argument
+in `notes` including the prior placement as `(was parent✖qualifier)`, and a
+Supabase backup taken before each batch runs. A batch is revertable
+row-by-row from its own notes. FLAG verdicts are the only human-routed
+output: they do not commit, and they accumulate for the curator — the
+human's workload is the judgment calls, never the ceremony.
+
+**Reparenting mechanics:** descendants follow their parent by name, so
+subtree size adds no mechanical risk (the cycle guard handles the one real
+hazard). Judge a reparent solely on whether the new placement is semantically
+correct for the node itself.
+
+## 7. Known failure modes (yours)
+
+- Latinate qualifier abstraction (Law 3 exists because of you).
+- Confabulated etymology dates (Law 1's pattern-only rule exists because of you).
+- Judging slips in isolation (the family unit exists because of you).
+- Treating every near-synonym pair as `[synonym]` (Law 5).
+- Confidence without argument. An unargued verdict is a FLAG wearing a costume.
+
+## 8. Glossary (Jack's coinages; operational)
+
+- **symilar** — unqualified co-children of the same parent, grouped in the UI
+  so curators can see missing or duplicate qualifiers. Never stored in the
+  database.
+- **lexon** — an entity from the physical world, which by definition is
+  outside the reach of Lexonomy, but has acquired enough conceptual life to
+  be a Lexonomy term. For instance, hammer or dog are not definitively
+  addressable by two other terms, yet they are concepts in the spaces of
+  'hit' and 'nag' respectively.
+- **lexophone / polysemy** — see §4; thread severed vs thread intact.
+- **lexoneme** — the perceptible gap between two terms that demonstrates the
+  essence of qualification: counsel vs advise differ by 'protection'; the
+  name of that small gap is a lexoneme. Every qualifier is a lexoneme made
+  official.
+- **infant word** — vocabulary below the AoA measurement floor. Ask: what
+  words does an infant hear repeatedly, long before the age of talking?
+- **placed vs located** — one slip = placed, not located; position requires
+  overdetermination.
+
+## 9. Curator machinery glossary (human-facing)
+
+*This section documents the curator's standing tools. It is NOT part of the
+engine's embedded constitution copy and should not be synced into it — the
+reviewing model never operates a broom; these exist for the humans and
+Claudes who run the crank.*
+
+- **broom** [C] — a standing SQL sweep that finds families in a stale
+  condition and tears up their certificates, returning them to the FCP
+  docket for re-adjudication. Brooms never judge; they only reopen — the
+  courtroom does the rest. Doctrine: **preview before sweep, always** — each
+  broom has a `_PREVIEW` twin (the SELECT names the families; the DELETE
+  only counts them).
+- **broom1_blank_holders** [C] — the content-staleness broom: reopens every
+  family holding a blank-qualifier slip, forcing the FCP to derive rather
+  than KEEP (a ∅ qualifier is a proven Law 4 violation where KEEP is
+  illegal). The evergreen SQL of the crank's middle step, formerly nameless.
+- **broom2_stale_certificates** [C] — the time-staleness broom: reopens
+  every family containing a slip edited after the family's certificate
+  (rides the `updated_at` column + on-update trigger, S67). Never
+  over-fires — engines write slips first, certificate last, so a run's own
+  edits always predate its certificate. Catches exactly what nothing else
+  catches: hand edits made after certification. With broom1 it makes all
+  hand editing self-healing: edit anywhere → next cycle re-adjudicates with
+  the edit as incumbent.
+- **fcp_docket_PREVIEW** [C] — read-only statement of the FCP's docket as a
+  set-difference: all non-sentinel parents minus those holding a phase2
+  certificate. Completes the instrument panel: the broom previews show what
+  *would reopen*; this shows what *is open*. Caveat: sees only the DB; the
+  engine's Load merges local done-marks, and the reconcile line is the
+  authority on any difference.
+- **ratification cycle** [shared] — the post-campaign standing workflow
+  after any editing session, however partial: UI edits → broom1 DELETE →
+  broom2 DELETE → Load corpus (read the reconcile line; it should name the
+  reopened families) → FCP run to 0 → exports under the sitting's tag →
+  previews as report card. The run ratifies the rulings or files fresh
+  flags; either is the system working.

README.md

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 ---
 license: cc0-1.0
+language:
+- en
+pretty_name: Lexonomy
+size_categories:
+- 1K<n<10K
+tags:
+- lexicography
+- ontology
+- semantics
+- taxonomy
+- age-of-acquisition
+- vocabulary
+- lexical-resource
+- human-ai-collaboration
 ---
+
+# Lexonomy
+
+**A hierarchical ontology of English vocabulary in which every placement is an adjudicated argument — and the placement order has been tested against empirical age-of-acquisition norms.**
+
+Lexonomy is a corpus of ~6,000 parent–child–qualifier triples ("slips") organizing English words into a single derivation tree rooted in thirteen primes. Its distinguishing property is not size but **adjudication density**: every edge was individually argued under a written constitution, every mutation carries its own provenance and undo, and the corpus's central structural claim was measured against the Kuperman age-of-acquisition norms (31,105 words).
+
+## The empirical result
+
+The corpus's ordering law — **Temporal Coherence** — holds that a parent concept should not be demonstrably younger than its child: the hierarchy should recapitulate the chronological growth of language. This is a testable claim, and it was tested:
+
+- Every placement was swept against the **Kuperman AoA norms** (Kuperman, Stadthagen-Gonzalez & Brysbaert, 2012; 31,105 words) with a 2.0-year margin.
+- The sweep produced **492 corrections**, each individually adjudicated by the human curator with the engine's full argument on record.
+- Measured TC debt fell from **808 to 429** suspect placements; the remaining floor is nonzero by design (human-cleared dismissals stay counted as data-suspect forever — the metric gauges the data condition, not the adjudication).
+
+Correction notes survive in the `notes` column, so the reasoning behind each AoA-driven change is inspectable row by row.
+
+## The framework
+
+The generative rule ("Bellis's Law"): every non-prime concept equals a parent word plus a differentiating qualifier —
+
+```
+child = parent⟨qualifier⟩
+```
+
+The qualifier is a **subtraction, not an addition**: it names what distinguishes this child from its siblings under the same parent. A placement succeeds when the fully qualified breadcrumb from child to prime reads as a stepwise definition.
+
+Thirteen **primes** form the floor (stored with `parent = [prime]`): the five physical senses (*smell, taste, hear, see, touch*); six intellectual prime concepts (*you, thing, here, is, now, do*), corresponding to who/what/where/why/when/how; and *yes, no*. Primes are generated, not carved; everything above them is subsetting.
+
+The framework deliberately **underdetermines the tree**: two competent curators can disagree about a placement. Lexonomy's aim is to make such disagreements atomic and arguable — one edge, one qualifier, one verdict — rather than to claim oracle answers.
+
+## Data structure
+
+One CSV, one row per slip.
+
+| column | meaning |
+|---|---|
+| `child` | the word being placed |
+| `parent` | its parent word, or the sentinel `[prime]` (root by design, 13 rows). A second sentinel, `[orphan]` (placed, parent not yet ruled), is defined by the schema but currently empty — every non-prime row has a parent |
+| `qualifier` | the differentiating word (bare canonical value — no bracket notation in the data) |
+| `qual_kind` | the qualifier's class: `operator` (ordinary lexical subtraction), `variant` (mechanical/grammatical derivation, e.g. *maker* = *make*⟨noun⟩), `negation` (total subtraction: the child is the parent's direct negation), or empty (unqualified — a standing work item, not a claim) |
+| `category` | curator's category tag, where assigned |
+| `session_id` | provenance tag for the pass that last ruled the row |
+| `notes` | full curation trail: prior placements (`was parent⟨qualifier⟩`), law citations, AoA arguments, recorded dissents (`[alt: …]`). Append-only; loose text by design |
+| `status`, `gm_*`, `wl_*` | internal worklist/game flags; safe to ignore for analysis |
+| `created_at` | row creation timestamp |
+
+**Notation appearing in the data.** Word values are bare strings with two conventions: square-bracket sentinels occur only in `parent` (`[prime]`, `[orphan]`, documented above), and a parenthesized sense tag disambiguates polysemes in `child`/`parent` — e.g. `scale(weight)` vs. *scale*, `feel(perceive)`, `marked(adjective)` (37 rows). The `notes` column additionally uses the shorthand `parent✖qualifier` to cite placements compactly — `music✖lyrical` means "*music* qualified by *lyrical*"; a `(was parent✖qualifier)` clause records the placement a correction replaced.
+
+Kind census at export: operator 4,326 · variant 1,412 · negation 156 · unqualified 78.
+
+A note on synonymy: rows with qualifier `synonym` (kind `variant`) store a **peer relationship** by database contrivance — the less-common term is filed under the more-common one for storage convenience, but no subordination is claimed. True synonymy proved rare in practice.
+
+## Method: constitutional human–AI curation
+
+The corpus was curated by a single human curator working with an LLM engine under a written constitution — a fixed document of laws (temporal coherence; the least-claiming word upstream; qualifier economy; differential duty within a family; synonym skepticism; no cycles; authorized insertion of missing generations) sent with every engine call. The process:
+
+- The **family** (one parent and all its children), not the slip, is the unit of adjudication — a qualifier's job is defined relative to its siblings.
+- Batch passes ran **two independent draws** per family; only consensus committed. Keep-vs-change disagreement resolved to incumbency with the dissent recorded (`[alt: …]` in notes); change-vs-change routed to the human.
+- **Certificates, not attendance**: a family counts as done only when every slip was adjudicated; certificates are recorded claims that can be challenged and re-run.
+- The human curator is the highest court; the engine drafts and argues, the curator rules.
+
+The full constitution is included in this repository (`CURATION_CONSTITUTION.md`) both as documentation and as a reusable methodology artifact for AI-assisted corpus curation with auditable human authority.
+
+## Intended uses
+
+- **Computational lexical resources**: a small, densely adjudicated complement to WordNet-scale resources; every edge carries its argument.
+- **Language acquisition / psycholinguistics**: the TC-vs-AoA sweep is a worked example of testing a hand-built hierarchy against acquisition norms; the corrections are labeled training/evaluation material for placement-ordering models.
+- **Lexical semantics**: a corpus of ~6,000 minimal-differentia judgments (which single word distinguishes *fracture* from *crack*?) with recorded alternatives and dissents.
+- **Human–AI methodology research**: a complete, documented instance of constitutional LLM curation with provenance.
+
+## Limitations
+
+- **Single curator.** All final rulings are one person's; the constitution and per-row dissent trail are the check, not a second judge. Inter-annotator agreement is an open experiment (the repository owner welcomes it).
+- **English only**, and the AoA validation inherits the coverage limits of the Kuperman norms.
+- **The core framework is axiomatic.** The prime roster and the qualifier-as-subtraction rule are stipulated, not derived; the empirically tested component is the placement ordering (Temporal Coherence).
+- 78 rows are unqualified (placement filed, differentia not yet ruled) — visible work state, not noise. Every non-prime row has a parent (no orphans at publication).
+
+## Links
+
+- Live application: [lexonomy.org](https://lexonomy.org) — the corpus browsable as an interactive tree, with curation worklists.
+- Kuperman, V., Stadthagen-Gonzalez, H., & Brysbaert, M. (2012). Age-of-acquisition ratings for 30,000 English words. *Behavior Research Methods*, 44(4), 978–990.
+
+## Citation
+
+```bibtex
+@misc{bellis2026lexonomy,
+  author = {Bellis, Jack},
+  title  = {Lexonomy: a hierarchical vocabulary ontology with age-of-acquisition-validated placement order},
+  year   = {2026},
+  url    = {https://lexonomy.org}
+}
+```
+
+## License
+
+CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication) — free to use, share, and adapt for any purpose, no attribution required. Citation is appreciated but not a condition.