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Phase 2: derive ambiguity from clashing readings and extend the gate to every reading kind #752
Part of #747. Phase 1 kept the ambiguity markers as explicit flags (may_be_given, may_be_name, may_be_initial). Phase 2 derives ambiguity from clashes between readings instead, and makes the gate a property of a reading rather than a rule written per class of word. Today's gates are six separate rules, each reading its own evidence:
ambiguous acronyms by periods, capitals and words to spare (rules/S3, S4, S6)
one-letter roman numerals by a word to spare (rules/S10)
a title that may be the name, by the title run's floor (rules/H3)
particles by position (rules/P4)
bound given names by a word to spare (rules/P5)
single-letter conjunctions by case (rules/P8)
A listed word none of them reaches is read wherever its position allows, which is why fils is excluded rather than gated. The vocabulary model RFC (docs/design/vocabulary-model-rfc.md) has the overview.
This is the first phase that changes behavior, so it needs its own spec, measurements and snapshot moves.
Questions it has to answer:
What cue the gate reads for each kind, starting from the rules above. An acronym's cues are periods and capitals, while a lowercase generation word like fils needs another, and an initial-shaped one (H., regnal I.) has S10's count against a period, which marks a one-letter word as an initial (rules/T5).
Whether a reading with no reliable cue is off unless a pack turns it on (default = false, e.g. Czech st.).
What a gate at the FRONT of a name looks like (a title that is also a given name).
How readings surface on a ParsedName (the reading not taken, on the ambiguity).
Decided already (decisions/vocabulary-model): vocabulary readings settle a clash; name readings only keep the gate on; bearer counts are provenance and never compute a reading.
Activity
Baron Davis→ title 'Baron', no given name) #348