Subclass of:

• crm:E2 Temporal Entity

Superclass of:

• aaao:ZE2 Appellative Status
• aaao:ZE11 Membership Status
• aaao:ZE12 Referential Status
• aaao:ZE4 Classificatory Status
• aaao:ZE14 Similarity Status
• aaao:ZE15 Set Status
• aaao:ZE25 Dating Status
• aaao:ZE30 Property Right Status
• aaao:ZE55 Social Relation Status
• aaao:ZE45 Promisory Status

Scope note:

An instance of institutional fact is an ascription of a status function to an object by a community. The institutional fact is a concretization of a collective intentionality of the community in question towards a certain object over a certain period of time.

An instance of institutional fact is recognizable to a competent speaker/member of a symbolic community (native or learner with sufficient competence). It may not be perceived through a single sense impression but through multiple experiences and implicit reasonings (e.g.: embedded participation, behavioural observation, linguistic evidence and interview), yet typically such intermediate observations and inferences are not necessarily recorded or accessible. The historical statement is typically the assertion of the institutional fact, that such and such a fact was the case, and was in force for a given given community, at some time. The epistemic veridicality of the stated /reference instance of institutional fact is always open to contestation. The means of contestation involve analyzing the sources which support it.

Instances of institutional fact come into existence based on conventions establishing the conditions under which they come into effect. Typically, an instance of institutional fact will come into existence either because of the performance of its stipulated, initiating speech act (e.g.: state of being married via marriage) or as a result of events fulfilling existing norm prescriptions in the community (e.g.: state of being uncle as result of birth of child of sister).  An institutional fact comes to be through the agreed fiat of a community. It typically ceases to exist either because of a stipulated, nullifying speech act (e.g. divorce proceeding), because a community ceases to support the effective rule supporting its declaration (e.g.: ownership of people) or force majeure (e.g.: object ascribed function/status or community perceiving status is eliminated).

Examples:

• The Ownership Status (ZE8) of the Gʼpsgolox totem pole (E22) as 'has current owner' the Haisla people (E74) from 1872 - 2012 holds for the Haisla people (E74) and as 'has current owner' the Swedish National Museum of Ethnography (E74) from 1929 - 2006 held by the Swedish Polity. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%CA%BCpsgolox_totem_pole)
• The Classifactory Status (ZE4) of the "French baguette" (E55) as 'has type' "Intangible Cultural Heritage" (E55) 2022 - Present holds for UNESCO (E74) (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63800674)

In First Order Logic:

• ZE1(x) ⇒ E2(x)

Outgoing properties:

• aaao:ZP1 has intentional subject (is intentional subject of) → crm:E1 CRM Entity
• aaao:ZP2 ascribes intentional target (is intentional target ascribed by) → crm:E1 CRM Entity
• aaao:ZP3 ascribes intentional relation (is intentional relation ascribed by) → crm:E55 Type
• aaao:ZP4 holds for (holds) → crm:E74 Group
• aaao:ZP75 applies for context (is context for) → crm:E5 Event
• aaao:ZP76 applies for context type (is context type for) → crm:E55 Type
• aaao:ZP113 has successor status (is successor status of) → aaao:ZE1 Institutional Fact
• aaao:ZP114 has geographic scope (is geographic scope of) → crm:E53 Place
• aaao:ZP115 holds over (is held over by) → aaao:ZE37 Population

Incoming properties:

• aaao:ZE52 Transformative Symbolic Act → aaao:ZP42 intentionally initiated (was intentionally initiated by)
• aaao:ZE52 Transformative Symbolic Act → aaao:ZP52 intentionally terminated (was intentionally terminated by)
• aaao:ZE53 Symbolic Act → aaao:ZP100 challenged (was challenged by)
• aaao:ZE53 Symbolic Act → aaao:ZP101 affirmed (was affirmed by)
• crm:E5 Event → aaao:ZP111 initiated (was initiated by)
• crm:E5 Event → aaao:ZP112 terminated (was terminated by)
• aaao:ZE1 Institutional Fact → aaao:ZP113 has successor status (is successor status of)