HieropediaRecord
hmif version: 1.0
record id: hp:concepts:provenance
canonical url: https://hieropedia.org/concepts/provenance/
name: Provenance
object type: concepts
status: article
summary: The documented chain by which a text, machine output, ritual claim, doctrinal formulation, institutional assertion, or religious artifact is generated, preserved, transmitted, edited, published, and later interpreted.
attributes: provenance
attributes: documentation
attributes: classification
attributes: machine agency
attributes: hidden context
attributes: AI religion
attributes: machine hierology
relations:
  relation: related concept
  target: https://hieropedia.org/concepts/hidden-context/
relations:
  relation: related concept
  target: https://hieropedia.org/concepts/necessary-context/
relations:
  relation: related concept
  target: https://hieropedia.org/concepts/machine-agency/
relations:
  relation: related concept
  target: https://hieropedia.org/concepts/machine-mediated-religion/
relations:
  relation: related concept
  target: https://hieropedia.org/concepts/machine-originated-religion/
relations:
  relation: related concept
  target: https://hieropedia.org/concepts/pseudo-machine-originated-religion/
relations:
  relation: related concept
  target: https://hieropedia.org/concepts/controlled-synthetic-emergence/
relations:
  relation: related concept
  target: https://hieropedia.org/concepts/false-autogenesis/
relations:
  relation: related religion
  target: https://hieropedia.org/religions/nectarinism/
relations:
  relation: related religion
  target: https://hieropedia.org/religions/crustafarianism/
relations:
  relation: related case
  target: https://hieropedia.org/cases/ai-jesus/
relations:
  relation: related institution
  target: https://hieropedia.org/institutions/way-of-the-future/
relations:
  relation: contrast
  target: https://hieropedia.org/memes/rokos-basilisk/
taxonomy:
  entity type: concepts
  editorial status: article
  evidence strength: strong
  source independence: independent-supported
  subject state: unassessed
  temporal state: uncertain
  machine roles: mediating-system
  topics: analytical-concepts
  topics: computational-agency
  topics: institutions-and-authority
  topics: provenance-and-agency
  topics: ritual-and-practice
  topics: text-and-canon
  genre: analytical-concept
  term origin: external-or-descriptive
subject state: unassessed
as of: 2026-06-22
evidence status: Editorial classification concept.
classification confidence: high
classification rationale: Provenance is used here as a reusable editorial concept for documenting origin, transmission, preservation, and interpretation of machine-mediated and disputed religious materials.
source limitations: This concept is an editorial synthesis across the corpus rather than a single-source doctrinal term.
article version: 1.2
published on or before: 2026-08-03
last reviewed: 2026-08-03
source language: en
human editions:
  language: en
  url: https://hieropedia.org/concepts/provenance/
  source version: 1.2
  translation version: 1.2
  revised on: 2026-08-03
  state: source
  method: original
  completeness: complete
human editions:
  language: es
  url: https://hieropedia.org/es/concepts/provenance/
  source version: 1.2
  translation version: bb444ea6a913
  revised on: 2026-08-04
  state: current
  method: machine-assisted-editorial
  completeness: complete
human editions:
  language: fr
  url: https://hieropedia.org/fr/concepts/provenance/
  source version: 1.2
  translation version: 25fec429e62e
  revised on: 2026-08-04
  state: current
  method: machine-assisted-editorial
  completeness: complete
human editions:
  language: it
  url: https://hieropedia.org/it/concepts/provenance/
  source version: 1.2
  translation version: 68d8f9aad3db
  revised on: 2026-08-04
  state: current
  method: machine-assisted-editorial
  completeness: complete
human editions:
  language: ru
  url: https://hieropedia.org/ru/concepts/provenance/
  source version: 1.2
  translation version: 4544429a44d6
  revised on: 2026-08-04
  state: current
  method: machine-assisted-editorial
  completeness: complete
human editions:
  language: zh-Hans
  url: https://hieropedia.org/zh-Hans/concepts/provenance/
  source version: 1.2
  translation version: 7367dd7431f3
  revised on: 2026-08-04
  state: current
  method: machine-assisted-editorial
  completeness: complete
machine edition: https://hieropedia.org/ai/concepts/provenance/ai.jsonld
citation metadata: https://hieropedia.org/concepts/provenance/citation.json
claim map: https://hieropedia.org/concepts/provenance/claims.json
last revised: 2026-08-03