IMP-16 — Referenced-Figure Pages + Relationship Map (~16 people) — Design

Status: Approved 2026-07-01
Source item: IMP-16 (work/IMPROVEMENTS.md) — the missing heart of IMP-9: people referenced within the works.
Branch: pluck/imp-16-referenced-people-relationships

Goal

Create entity-person pages for the notable figures mentioned within the
corpus's books and articles (beyond the 61 existing people), with a structured
relationship type, so the pages form a navigable map of Fuller's
relationships to other notable people.

Context

Reuses the person-entity model (docs/superpowers/specs/2026-07-01-person-entity-pages-design.md).
No seed collection. These figures are discovered by mining name mentions
across raw/repos, raw/articles, and wiki/topics, ranked by mention count
(scan already run), and deduped against the 61 existing people (all candidates
below are confirmed new).
Adds the "mapping" payoff: a controlled relationship: field + a graph
centered on the r-buckminster-fuller node.

Architecture

Person pages (category: topic, entity-person) with a new controlled
relationship: frontmatter field and a mirrored relationship-<type> tag.
Each page links to r-buckminster-fuller (to center the relationship graph) and
bidirectionally to the works where the figure appears. Registered in the unified
fuller-people.md.

Components

1. The batch (~16, from the mention scan; validate at write time)

Figure	slug	mentions	relationship	source anchor
Albert Einstein	albert-einstein	21	influence-on-fuller	../../raw/repos/nine-chains-to-the-moon.md
Anne Hewlett Fuller	anne-hewlett-fuller	12	family	compiled-from: conversation
Lloyd Kahn	lloyd-kahn	11	contemporary	../../raw/repos/dome-cookbook-of-geodesic-geometry.md
Isamu Noguchi	isamu-noguchi	11	friend	../../raw/repos/we-are-all-astronauts.md
John Cage	john-cage	11	contemporary	../../raw/repos/the-experimenters.md
Josef Albers	josef-albers	10	contemporary	../../raw/repos/the-experimenters.md
Marshall McLuhan	marshall-mcluhan	9	influence-on-fuller	../../raw/repos/i-seem-to-be-a-verb.md
Frank Lloyd Wright	frank-lloyd-wright	9	contemporary	compiled-from: conversation
Le Corbusier	le-corbusier	8	contemporary	compiled-from: conversation
Norbert Wiener	norbert-wiener	6	influence-on-fuller	compiled-from: conversation
Margaret Fuller	margaret-fuller	6	family	compiled-from: conversation
John McHale	john-mchale	5	collaborator	../../raw/repos/world-design-science-decade-document-1.md
Merce Cunningham	merce-cunningham	5	contemporary	../../raw/repos/the-experimenters.md
Thomas Edison	thomas-edison	5	forebear	compiled-from: conversation
Henry Ford	henry-ford	5	forebear	compiled-from: conversation
Leonardo da Vinci	leonardo-da-vinci	5	forebear	compiled-from: conversation

Target ~14–16; drop or swap any figure whose corpus mentions prove too thin
to ground a page, and note it.

2. `relationship:` controlled vocabulary

The figure's primary relation to Fuller (one value per page; nuance in prose):

collaborator · influence-on-fuller · influenced-by-fuller · friend ·
family · contemporary · rival-critic · forebear · chronicler
(documented / wrote about Fuller; added in IMP-18)

3. Page model

Frontmatter: title, category: topic, created/updated/verified: 2026-07-01,
confidence, volatility: cold, aliases, summary; relationship: <type>;
sources: (a resolvable raw pointer) or compiled-from: conversation;
tags = entity-person + relationship-<type> + about-buckminster-fuller
(family/collaborators/close figures) or fuller-adjacent + 1–3 topic tags.

Body: # <Name> + one-line identity; a short reworded description; ## Relationship to Fuller (the explicit relationship narrative — e.g. Einstein's never-confirmed
endorsement of Nine Chains; Noguchi's lifelong friendship and the chrome bust;
McHale's World Design Science Decade co-authorship); ## See Also (bidirectional
to the works where they appear and to r-buckminster-fuller, plus related
people); ## Sources.

4. Bidirectional links + registry

## See Also holds only figure↔work and figure↔person links, each of which
gets its reciprocal (work→figure, person→figure). Lint requires See Also links
to be bidirectional, so the Fuller hub is not linked in See Also (that would
demand a reciprocal from r-buckminster-fuller, bloating that hub across every
figure).
The graph is centered on Fuller two ways instead: the structured
relationship: <type> field, and a prose link to r-buckminster-fuller in
the ## Relationship to Fuller section (a body link, not a See Also peer, so no
reciprocal is required). This keeps the relationship map Fuller-centric while
keeping See Also reciprocity clean.
Add the ~16 to fuller-people.md (unified registry), alphabetical.
Update wiki/topics/_index.md, master .wiki/_index.md article count
(+~16 → ~208) and Recent Changes, log.md.

5. Verify

/wiki:lint --local-equivalent: 0 broken links, ## See Also bidirectional
(figure↔work, figure↔person), sources: resolve or compiled-from: conversation,
every relationship: value in the controlled set, indexes/counts consistent.

Deferred (later, re-filed in housekeeping)

The long tail of lesser-mentioned figures (Sontag, Warhol, Rauschenberg,
Gropius, Duchamp, Tesla, Salk, Whitehead, Kepler, Russell, Chomsky, …).
Backfilling relationship: onto the existing 61 person pages so the entire
people graph is relationship-typed.

Testing / verification

Content task, no unit tests. Success = ~14–16 referenced-figure pages, each with
a valid relationship: type, a "Relationship to Fuller" section, bidirectional
figure↔work links, a body link to Fuller, registry + indexes updated, lint-clean.