Pilot evidence · Live Meaning Resolver

Same term. Different governed meaning. Both valid.

The word Risk is governed in two namespaces in this organisation — each with a different authoritative owner, a different provenance trail, and a different operational scope. Both definitions are correct. The resolver selects which authoritative meaning applies based on the context the question is asked in, and records the provenance of the answer.

governance::risk

Risk

Risk is the possibility that an event or decision will prevent the organisation from achieving an approved business objective, expressed as the combination of likelihood and impact on that objective.

Owner: Chief Risk Officer · Accountable for enterprise risk taxonomy
Version: v2 (eff. 2026-04-30)
Status: Approved canonical

Applicable contexts

Enterprise risk reporting
Board and committee papers
Risk appetite statements
Internal audit scoping

Provenance

Enterprise Risk Management Policy ERM-01 — Section 3.2 — definition of risk for governance reporting
Board Risk Committee minutes — 12 Apr 2026 — Approved harmonised definition across business units

iso_31000::iso31000-risk

Risk

Risk is the effect of uncertainty on objectives (ISO 31000:2018, clause 3.1). An effect is a deviation from the expected — positive, negative or both — and risk is usually expressed in terms of risk sources, potential events, their consequences and their likelihood.

Owner: Head of Risk Methodology · Owns ISO 31000 alignment for the risk function
Version: v1 (eff. 2026-01-15)
Status: Approved canonical

Applicable contexts

Risk methodology documents
ISO/IEC alignment workstreams
Quantitative risk modelling
External assurance reviews

Provenance

ISO 31000:2018 — Risk management guidelines — Clause 3.1 definition referenced verbatim
Risk Methodology Manual RM-MET-02 — Section 1.4 adopts ISO 31000 wording for methodology work

Resolve by context

Ask “what does Risk mean here?”

Pick a context, or paste your own. The resolver picks the governed meaning and shows the provenance trail — the same contract an AI agent would call.

Resolved meaning

governance::riskApproved canonical

Risk is the possibility that an event or decision will prevent the organisation from achieving an approved business objective, expressed as the combination of likelihood and impact on that objective.

Owner: Chief Risk Officer · Accountable for enterprise risk taxonomy
Version: v2 (eff. 2026-04-30)
Confidence: 92 / 100

Provenance

Enterprise Risk Management Policy ERM-01 — Section 3.2 — definition of risk for governance reporting
Board Risk Committee minutes — 12 Apr 2026 — Approved harmonised definition across business units

The resolver here mirrors the production WikiSure Meaning Resolver service contract — organizational memory first, deterministic rules second, AI inference only when ambiguous. AI proposes. WikiSure governs.

Detects Semantic Debt

‘Risk’ used in board papers and ISO 31000 methodology is the same surface word with two different governed meanings. Without governance, every downstream system inherits both.

Resolves scoped meaning

The resolver picks one governed record per call, scoped to the question’s context — and records which one it picked.

Preserves provenance

Every resolved meaning carries its owner, version, effective date and the source documents that approved it. Auditable end-to-end.

Grounds AI and humans

The same resolution endpoint serves analysts, dashboards, audit teams and AI agents. One governed answer per context.

Proof-surface records used here

Imported to support this evidence — not a registry expansion

These records exist only to support Discovery Report #002 and the resolver demo. Each one is governed, owner-accountable and resolvable by the same contract.

Risk — multiple governed namespaces

governance::riskRiskChief Risk Officer · v2
iso_31000::iso31000-riskRiskHead of Risk Methodology · v1

Compliance — EU AI Act & DORA

eu_ai_act::euai-high-risk-aiHigh-Risk AI SystemAI Governance Lead · v1
eu_ai_act::euai-human-oversightHuman OversightAI Governance Lead · v1
eu_ai_act::euai-conformity-assessmentConformity AssessmentHead of Regulatory Affairs · v1
dora::ict-riskICT RiskHead of Operational Resilience · v1

Claim — operational, financial, actuarial

insurance_ops::claim-eventClaim — EventHead of Claims Operations · v1
insurance_ops::claim-notificationClaim — NotificationHead of Customer Service · v1
insurance_finance::claim-paymentClaim — PaymentGroup Financial Controller · v2
insurance_actuarial::claim-reserveClaim — ReserveChief Actuary · v3
insurance_recoveries::claim-recoveryClaim — RecoveryHead of Recoveries · v1

Discovery Report #002 — Claim

The same pattern applied to the most operationally loaded noun in insurance.

Discovery Report #001 — Coverage

The reference Discovery Report format.

Semantic Debt Score

Measure the cost of leaving terms ungoverned.

Governed Concept Record — Coverage

A resolved meaning published as an audit-ready record.