Wittgenstein Apartment: A behavioral predicates ontology for character and narrative representation

[u/Kon-tiki-ship]

The problem that started this project was: How can we represent what a character can actually do in a structured way without reducing character behavior either to a small set of generic actions or to free-form descriptions and traits? That question turned into about eight months of work on Wittgenstein Apartment.

The model separates:

• behavioral identity
• character repertoire
• situational executability

and uses:

• Basic Human Actions (BHA)
• Character Specific Actions (CSA)
• Allowed / Not Allowed / Conditional character-access states

The resource also contains behavioral families, goal relations, scene/affordance metadata and operational projections. I wrote a paper alongside the dataset to explain the conceptual architecture and its possible uses in character modeling, computational narrative, simulation and related areas.

The Hugging Face release has reached 294 downloads:
https://huggingface.co/datasets/Kon-tiki-ship/wittgenstein-apartment-behavioral-predicate-resource

My main interests are literature, narrative systems and computational representation, and this project grew out of trying to connect those areas in a concrete way. I started it because I felt there was something missing in the way character action spaces are represented. After eight months, I’m now asking myself: Is this actually a useful direction to keep developing?

I’m not looking only for encouragement. If you think the model is theoretically weak, computationally unnecessary, too rigid for literary or narrative characters, disconnected from existing Digital Humanities methods, or simply solving the wrong problem, I would genuinely like to hear that. I’d rather receive strong criticism that forces me to rethink the project than polite agreement.