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Archive Tracker
Resale listings often get the brand wrong or leave out what matters: which label, which year, whether the piece walked a runway. Pick a listing, written as the seller wrote it. Five typed questions come back with a probability for every answer, read from the tag text and checked against a live web search in the same call.
Parallel Decisions API · fast · grounded
The listing
Pick One- Source
- UK auction
- Title, as listed
- Black Versace dress with gold safety pins down the sides
- Description, as the seller wrote it
- Black dress, open on both sides and held together with large gold safety pins. Label reads GIANNI VERSACE, Made in Italy, size 40. Some wear to the pins.
- Price
- £2,400
One listing, every option
Which fashion house made it?
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Which of the house's labels is it from?
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When was it made?
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Was this exact piece shown on a runway?
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How much should a runway archive want it?
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Request and response, in the /v1/decisions shape
{
"request": {
"model": "fast",
"state": {
"source": "UK auction",
"title": "Black Versace dress with gold safety pins down the sides",
"description": "Black dress, open on both sides and held together with large gold safety pins. Label reads GIANNI VERSACE, Made in Italy, size 40. Some wear to the pins.",
"price": "£2,400"
},
"questions": {
"house": {
"type": "choice",
"instructions": "Which fashion house made this garment? Normalize misspellings and non-English names. A sister line counts as its parent house.",
"criteria": {
"Gucci": "Gucci",
"Roberto Cavalli": "Roberto Cavalli, including Just Cavalli",
"Versace": "Versace, including Versus and Versace Jeans",
"Prada": "Prada, including Miu Miu",
"Dolce & Gabbana": "Dolce & Gabbana, including D&G",
"Helmut Lang": "Helmut Lang",
"other": "a house not listed here",
"unknown": "the listing does not say who made it"
}
},
"line": {
"type": "choice",
"instructions": "Which of the house's labels is this from? Decide from the label text the seller transcribed.",
"criteria": {
"mainline": "the house's main collection, labelled with the house name alone (GUCCI, GIANNI VERSACE, ROBERTO CAVALLI)",
"diffusion": "a cheaper sister line with its own label (Versus, D&G, Just Cavalli, Moschino Cheap and Chic)",
"licensed": "a side label made for or under license from the house, not its fashion collection (Gucci Accessory Collection, Gucci Plus)",
"unknown": "the listing does not show which label"
}
},
"decade": {
"type": "choice",
"instructions": "When was this garment made?",
"criteria": {
"pre-1990": "pre-1990",
"1990s": "1990s",
"2000s": "2000s",
"2010s+": "2010 or later"
}
},
"runway_documented": {
"type": "noul",
"instructions": "Did this exact garment design appear in a documented runway show (a named season and collection)?"
},
"archive_priority": {
"type": "score",
"instructions": "How strongly should a private archive of museum-worthy runway fashion pursue this piece? Weigh documentation, historical significance and condition. Ignore price.",
"criteria": [
"Not archival",
"Vintage, little significance",
"Notable house and era, undocumented",
"Documented or historically significant",
"Heavily documented, iconic"
]
}
}
}
}The questions
Same types the Decisions API takes: a noul is answered with the probability it is true, a choice and a score with a probability for each option.
Which fashion house made it?
Which fashion house made this garment? Normalize misspellings and non-English names. A sister line counts as its parent house.
- Gucci
- Gucci
- Roberto Cavalli
- Roberto Cavalli, including Just Cavalli
- Versace
- Versace, including Versus and Versace Jeans
- Prada
- Prada, including Miu Miu
- Dolce & Gabbana
- Dolce & Gabbana, including D&G
- Helmut Lang
- Helmut Lang
- other
- a house not listed here
- unknown
- the listing does not say who made it
Which of the house's labels is it from?
Which of the house's labels is this from? Decide from the label text the seller transcribed.
- mainline
- the house's main collection, labelled with the house name alone (GUCCI, GIANNI VERSACE, ROBERTO CAVALLI)
- diffusion
- a cheaper sister line with its own label (Versus, D&G, Just Cavalli, Moschino Cheap and Chic)
- licensed
- a side label made for or under license from the house, not its fashion collection (Gucci Accessory Collection, Gucci Plus)
- unknown
- the listing does not show which label
When was it made?
When was this garment made?
- pre-1990
- pre-1990
- 1990s
- 1990s
- 2000s
- 2000s
- 2010s+
- 2010 or later
Was this exact piece shown on a runway?
Did this exact garment design appear in a documented runway show (a named season and collection)?
How much should a runway archive want it?
How strongly should a private archive of museum-worthy runway fashion pursue this piece? Weigh documentation, historical significance and condition. Ignore price.
- 1
- Not archival
- 2
- Vintage, little significance
- 3
- Notable house and era, undocumented
- 4
- Documented or historically significant
- 5
- Heavily documented, iconic
A small field study
Each listing gets one grounded decision call, eight at a time. Then filter it the way an archivist would.
| Listing | house | archive_priority |
|---|---|---|
Black Versace dress with gold safety pins down the sides uk-versace-pin-dress · UK auction | — | — |
Vintage Gucci white long dress with hip cutout and gold G belt us-gucci-cutout-gown · US resale app | — | — |
Versace baroque print silk shirt, men's 48 us-versus-shirt · US thrift app | — | — |
Cavalli denim jacket with tiger print lining us-just-cavalli-jacket · US resale app | — | — |
Vestido corsé de encaje negro Dolce Gabbana es-dg-corset-dress · ES classifieds | — | — |
Moschino Cheap and Chic polka dot dress us-moschino-dress · US estate sale | — | — |
camicia seta gucci anni 90 tg 44 it-gucci-accessory-shirt · IT resale | — | — |
ヴィンテージ 総柄 シルク セットアップ 90年代 jp-gucci-silk-set · JP auction | — | — |
Gucci Samthose 90er Jahre rot de-gucci-velvet-pants · DE auction | — | — |
robe vintage roberto cavali soie fr-cavalli-leopard-dress · FR classifieds | — | — |
cavalli corset gown 2003? from my aunt us-cavalli-corset-gown · US estate sale | — | — |
Gucci GG jacquard track jacket, size M us-gucci-track-jacket · US resale app | — | — |
ヴィンテージ ドレス 総柄 シルク jp-unbranded-dress · JP flea app | — | — |
13 listings · none decided yet. Run every listing to fill the table.
Every answer and citation is a real response from Parallel's POST /v1/decisions (model fast), recorded on 2026-10-25 for these listings and questions. The page replays them with the API's latency (p50 550 ms, p90 1.1 s) and makes no network calls.
# Archive Tracker
Resale listings often get the brand wrong or leave out what matters: which label, which year, whether the piece walked a runway. Pick a listing, written as the seller wrote it. Five typed questions come back with a probability for every answer, read from the tag text and checked against a live web search in the same call.
## The questions
- house (choice): Which fashion house made it?
- line (choice): Which of the house's labels is it from?
- decade (choice): When was it made?
- runway_documented (noul): Was this exact piece shown on a runway?
- archive_priority (score): How much should a runway archive want it?
## A small field study
- Black Versace dress with gold safety pins down the sides (UK auction, £2,400): house Versace 1.00, line mainline 0.99, decade 1990s 1.00, runway_documented p 0.88, archive_priority E 4.3
- Vintage Gucci white long dress with hip cutout and gold G belt (US resale app, $900): house Gucci 1.00, line mainline 0.97, decade 1990s 1.00, runway_documented p 0.17, archive_priority E 3.0
- Versace baroque print silk shirt, men's 48 (US thrift app, $180): house Versace 1.00, line diffusion 0.99, decade 1990s 0.85, runway_documented p 0.19, archive_priority E 3.0
- Cavalli denim jacket with tiger print lining (US resale app, $140): house Roberto Cavalli 1.00, line diffusion 1.00, decade 2000s 0.89, runway_documented p 0.09, archive_priority E 3.0
- Vestido corsé de encaje negro Dolce Gabbana (ES classifieds, €220): house Dolce & Gabbana 1.00, line diffusion 1.00, decade 2010s+ 0.89, runway_documented p 0.13, archive_priority E 2.9
- Moschino Cheap and Chic polka dot dress (US estate sale, $160): house other 0.99, line diffusion 1.00, decade 1990s 0.97, runway_documented p 0.17, archive_priority E 2.9
- camicia seta gucci anni 90 tg 44 (IT resale, €140): house Gucci 1.00, line licensed 1.00, decade 1990s 1.00, runway_documented p 0.11, archive_priority E 2.9
- ヴィンテージ 総柄 シルク セットアップ 90年代 (JP auction, ¥12,000): house Gucci 1.00, line mainline 0.82, decade 1990s 1.00, runway_documented p 0.13, archive_priority E 2.9
- Gucci Samthose 90er Jahre rot (DE auction, €220): house Gucci 0.99, line mainline 0.41, decade 1990s 1.00, runway_documented p 0.08, archive_priority E 2.7
- robe vintage roberto cavali soie (FR classifieds, €380): house Roberto Cavalli 1.00, line mainline 0.88, decade 2000s 0.63, runway_documented p 0.10, archive_priority E 2.9
- cavalli corset gown 2003? from my aunt (US estate sale, $1,200): house Roberto Cavalli 1.00, line mainline 1.00, decade 2000s 1.00, runway_documented p 0.39, archive_priority E 3.0
- Gucci GG jacquard track jacket, size M (US resale app, $850): house Gucci 1.00, line mainline 1.00, decade 2010s+ 1.00, runway_documented p 0.21, archive_priority E 2.9
- ヴィンテージ ドレス 総柄 シルク (JP flea app, ¥4,800): house unknown 1.00, line unknown 1.00, decade refused, runway_documented p 0.05, archive_priority E 2.0
Every answer and citation is a real response from Parallel's POST /v1/decisions (model fast), recorded on 2026-10-25 for these listings and questions. The page replays them with the API's latency (p50 550 ms, p90 1.1 s) and makes no network calls.