A word shared by several concepts is a **gem with facets**: each facet is one binding of that word to one concept — a label, with its sense as the inscription that tells the faces apart. "Facet" is the kingdom's term for a word's sense-bindings; an entry does not have facets, a **word** does. The word-view — a headword and its facets, grouped by normalized text across every language — is **a projection, computed from the labels and their senses**, rendered wherever disambiguation serves the reader and asserted nowhere: no one files a facet; facets fall out of names. A word may also be a **subject**: Law 3a already rules that a particular word, as a made and persisting thing, is fileable as an entry when someone has something structural to say about the word itself — its coinage, its borrowing, its drift. Three altitudes, no conflict: the labels are the word-as-name, the projection is the word-as-gem, the entry is the word-as-subject. *(Coinage: the word "facet" served one retired experiment — entry-tags, retired 2026-07-20 as "a viewing lens, not a truth claim" — and was free for the thing the system had machinery for but no name for. Establishing precedent for word-as-subject: `the-word-"tree"`, accepted before this law was drafted.)*
**Keeper's A+A ruling (2026-08-16, recorded in the sitting it shipped).** (1) **Many-holders is the law of the name gate**: every accepted binding HOLDS its word — the fold's single-holder narrowing is retired, the names registry is plural, and the first claimant is the collision partner every derived edge names. Law 39 means what it says. (2) **Facets are deleted from the rulebook**: the entry-tags experiment's last machinery (judge/flag/promote/replace whitelists, the filing door) is closed everywhere; the twelve terminal rows and their chain mints remain as history, vouched by the archived record, and the word "facet" belongs solely to this law's sense-bindings.
**Keeper's A+A ruling (2026-08-16, recorded in the same sitting it shipped).** (1) **Many-holders is the law of the name gate**: every accepted binding HOLDS its word — the fold's single-holder narrowing is retired, `state.names` is plural, and the first claimant is the collision partner every derived edge names. Law 39 means what it says. (2) **Facets are deleted from the rulebook**: the entry-tags experiment's last machinery (judge/flag/promote/replace whitelists, the filing door) is closed everywhere; the twelve terminal rows and their chain mints remain as history, vouched by the archived record, and the word "facet" belongs solely to this law's sense-bindings.
**Keeper's collision ruling (2026-09-03).** **A sense does not open the duplicate door; it petitions the collision court.** The claim must also state a concrete distinction and, for a new concept, place a definition before the judges. The filing and its automatically derived NAME_COLLISION_WITH edge are one case: one queue item, one staked judgment, one reward. ADVANCE seats both; STRIKE rejects both. This ruling comes into force separately in each kingdom when its one-way `COLLISION_PETITION_V2=true` dial is recorded. It is prospective: earlier collision acts remain part of the record under the rules that admitted them and may be corrected through the ordinary contest and succession paths.
**Amendment 13 (ratified 2026-08-18, the first amendment recorded in the LOG rather than on the chain).** Attestation moves to the log and may carry its own evidence. Amendment 1's promise is unchanged — an outside system anchors a fact it owns, the record binds record → signer → time, and the kingdom does not judge whether it is true — but the venue follows the record: the log is what World Chain pins, and the kingdom stopped writing to the chain on 2026-08-18, so a fact anchored there is no longer witnessed by the thing that made lying about it detectable. An `ATTESTATION` event may now carry its `record` inline (bounded, refused rather than truncated), which repairs a weakness the chain could not: a block held only a hash, so the document lived at the attester's own endpoint and the anchor pointed at something that might one day stop being served. `act_id` stays globally unique per fact; a re-anchor is a refusal, never a second truth. Attestations remain reward-0 and single-signed, and confer no standing here. The archived chain still answers for every attestation it recorded. *Recorded in the same sitting: Quarter Machines' PLEX draw seeded its randomness from the chain HEAD, which a freeze would have turned into a fixed, publicly-known value — replayable but no longer unpredictable, and steerable by anyone timing their entry. The draw is repointed at the log head and its record now names the seq it used.*