AI-generated conjecture · below the evidence/publication boundary

Ivories are set menus

Status: Anticipated · untested

Status is derived only from the shepherd-authored triage/prediction data above -- community submissions and claims are a separate overlay and can never change it (see the participation panel below).

This is a proposed connection between two domains, generated by a language model. It is not an article and not evidence: it sits below the evidence/publication boundary. A quantitative prediction and a named kill-dataset are attached (when registered) so the claim stays falsifiable rather than merely evocative.

Claim (verbatim)

Ivories are set menus. Gothic Passion diptychs were serial products of Parisian workshops. If scene selection were devotionally bespoke, observed combinations would spread across the combinatorial space of available scenes; if workshop-standardized, they collapse into a few fixed menus, and menu identity should track workshop groups more reliably than carving-style connoisseurship does — iconographic choice as the fingerprint, style as the noise.

Prediction clause (verbatim)

Primary clause (the verdict follows it): among two-register Passion diptychs in the Gothic Ivories database, the ten most frequent scene-set combinations account for at least 60 percent of objects, versus under 20 percent expected from independent draws matched to marginal scene frequencies. Secondary clause: menu clusters align with published workshop groupings significantly above chance.

Kill-dataset (verbatim)

Kill: the Gothic Ivories Project database (Courtauld Institute), publicly searchable with scene-level cataloguing of every register.

Nobody has run this test. The kill-data is named above. If you can run it — or you know the paper that already settles it — claim the kill or submit the prior. Kills and priors are credited here, by name, as they come in.

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Provenance

Run: Fresh agent generation · model: claude-fable-5

Generated by a fresh Fable-tier instance (claude-fable-5) at maximum effort with generation-first blindness (no repo reads, no web searches, no DB queries); 278-title list supplied at launch, titles only, no verdicts/dossiers seen; prompt pre-committed in docs/generated/conjectures_1001_wave_ledger.md and docs/generated/conjecture_fresh_fable_w05_prompt_20260708.txt. Wave W05 of docs/GOAL_CONJECTURES_1001_CAMPAIGN_20260708.md. Novelty unverified by construction. A platform output-limit resume occurred before the single Write; no additional tool calls or information ingress occurred.

Novelty / leakage triage

anticipated in the literature — this exact test has never been run

Serial Parisian mass production of Passion diptychs with standardized scene programmes and workshop groupings is established (Met; Koechlin-line groupings underpinning the Gothic Ivories Project); the combinatorial concentration measurement against independent-draw nulls is un-run.

Metropolitan Museum essay, 'Ivory Carving in the Gothic Era, Thirteenth–Fifteenth Centuries'

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