{ "model": { "rank": 6082, "code": "thing-antibiotic", "model_id": "vr.tr.antibiotic", "name": "antibiotic", "purpose": "a chemical substance derivable from a mold or bacterium that can kill microorganisms and cure bacterial infections", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.OBJ", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/antibiotic/", "tier": 2, "score": 62, "payload": { "layer": "wordnet", "aliases": [ "actinomycin", "amoxicillin", "Amoxil", "Larotid", "Polymox", "Trimox", "Augmentin", "amphotericin", "ampicillin", "Principen", "Polycillin", "SK-Ampicillin", "antibiotic drug", "antimycin", "antineoplastic antibiotic", "aztreonam", "Azactam", "bacitracin", "carbomycin", "cefadroxil", "Ultracef", "cefoperazone", "Cefobid", "cefotaxime", "Claforan", "ceftazidime", "Fortaz", "Tazicef", "ceftriaxone", "Rocephin", "cefuroxime", "Ceftin", "Zinacef", "cephalexin", "Keflex", "Keflin", "Keftab", "cephaloglycin", "Kafocin", "cephaloridine" ], "aliasCount": 114, "merged": 62, "knownIn": 0, "facets": { "substance": "material", "origin": "manufactured", "agency": "inert", "mobility": "portable", "scale": "handheld", "affordances": [ "graspable", "consumable" ] }, "markers": [ "medicine" ], "lexicalClass": "noun.artifact", "senseRank": 0, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "oewn:2024", "synset": "oewn-02719777-n", "ili": "i50047", "license": "CC BY 4.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T11:25:35Z", "providers": [ "Codex", "Grok" ], "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "usd": 0.00593436, "turns": 1, "seconds": 14.8, "error": null }, "codex": { "seconds": 79.7, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.3\n--------\nworkdir: R:\\02_PROJECTS\\02_Meta_Models_Platforms\\Ver.cy\\current\\thing-registry-backlog\nmodel: gpt-6-astra\nprovider: openai\napproval: never\nsandbox: read-only\nreasoning effort: none\nreasoning summaries: none\nsession id: 01a07b9c-a4bb-77e0-a4b9-c99dce9b17f7\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. 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a host can kill or inhibit bacteria and is used to treat bacterial infection.", "scope_statement": "This model owns the antibiotic substance registered as vr.tr.antibiotic: its identity, biological derivation, antibacterial activity, resistance relationships and substance-level constraints, with links to preparations, batches, organisms and clinical decisions.", "in_scope": [ "Chemical identity and evidence of derivation from a mold or bacterium", "Antibacterial activity against identified organisms under specified conditions", "Mechanism of action and relationships to resistance mechanisms", "Substance potency, degradation and stability requirements", "Evidence and constraints relevant to a proposed antibacterial use" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Finished medicinal-product composition, packaging and marketing authorisation", "Manufacturing execution, batch release and supply-chain custody", "Bacterial taxonomy and complete organism or isolate descriptions", "Patient diagnosis, prescribing, dosing and treatment monitoring", "Infection episodes, transmission and population-level stewardship programmes" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Require a defined chemical substance or explicitly characterised substance mixture; a producing organism, mold culture or unspecified extract is not sufficient identification.", "Check documented derivation from a mold or bacterium against the registry definition; antibacterial activity alone does not settle membership for wholly synthetic substances.", "Require antibacterial evidence linked to an organism and test conditions; an antiviral or antifungal label alone does not establish the relevant activity.", "Distinguish evidence of inhibited growth from evidence of bacterial killing when evaluating the registry's wording.", "Separate the antibiotic substance from a tablet, injectable preparation or disinfectant product containing it; those products need linked models." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Chemical identity", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Preferred substance name, structural identifiers, stereochemistry and specified salt or derivative", "why_it_matters": "Prevents evidence for different chemical entities or forms from being treated as interchangeable." }, { "name": "Derivation relationship", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Linked producing organism, natural precursor and documented transformation route; unresolved where evidence is missing", "why_it_matters": "Supports membership decisions under the registry's biological-derivation definition." }, { "name": "Antibacterial effect", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Growth inhibition, killing, neither demonstrated or unresolved, qualified by organism and assay conditions", "why_it_matters": "Keeps different experimental endpoints distinct." }, { "name": "Minimum inhibitory concentration", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "mg/L, with isolate, method, conditions, endpoint and censoring qualifier", "why_it_matters": "Records an activity measurement without treating it as an unconditional property of the substance." }, { "name": "Susceptibility interpretation", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Reported category with organism, applicable standard, version and exposure assumptions; uninterpretable where these are absent", "why_it_matters": "Makes the basis and limits of an interpretation inspectable." }, { "name": "Antibacterial target or process", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Linked molecular target or bacterial process, supported mechanism and confidence", "why_it_matters": "Connects activity claims to mechanistic evidence and possible resistance relationships." }, { "name": "Resistance relationship", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Linked organism or isolate, resistance determinant or phenotype, evidence and observation date", "why_it_matters": "Prevents resistance from being recorded as a universal attribute of the antibiotic." }, { "name": "Assayed potency", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Method-defined activity units per mass or percentage of a specified reference potency", "why_it_matters": "Supports assessment of a sample while distinguishing biological activity from chemical purity." }, { "name": "Chemical integrity", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Within specified limits, outside specified limits or unassessed, with analytical evidence", "why_it_matters": "Identifies whether degradation or impurities undermine a proposed use." }, { "name": "Stability envelope", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Evidence-linked temperature, light, moisture, pH and duration conditions for a specified substance form", "why_it_matters": "Supports handling decisions without transferring storage claims between incompatible forms or preparations." } ], "affordances": [ "Resolve substance identity and flag uncertain membership under the registry definition.", "Retrieve and compare antibacterial measurements while preserving organism and assay 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"defined-antibiotic-entity", "name": "Defined antibiotic entity", "description": "Record the evidence needed to distinguish this antibiotic from synonyms, salts, derivatives and products containing it.", "questions": [ { "text": "What chemical structure, stereochemistry or defined mixture establishes the identity behind this name?", "kind": "definition", "id": "defined-antibiotic-entity-q01" }, { "text": "Which named forms represent this substance, and which require links to distinct substances or medicinal products?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "defined-antibiotic-entity-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "biological-origin", "name": "Biological origin", "description": "Examines derivation independently of the route used to manufacture a particular sample.", "findings": [ { "id": "documented-derivation", "name": "Documented derivation", "description": "Record evidence connecting the substance to a producing microorganism or biologically derived precursor.", "questions": [ { "text": "What source documents the producing mold or bacterium, natural precursor or derivation route?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "documented-derivation-q01" }, { "text": "Does the registry include this substance if its current manufacture is synthetic or it is a modified natural precursor?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "documented-derivation-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "antibacterial-activity-and-interpretation", "name": "Antibacterial activity and interpretation", "description": "Captures what activity has been demonstrated and the conditions under which it can be interpreted.", "rationale": "Activity must remain tied to the tested organism, method and endpoint to support a defensible assessment.", "layers": [ { "id": "experimental-activity", "name": "Experimental activity", "description": "Preserves the experimental basis of inhibition and killing claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "organism-specific-effect", "name": "Organism-specific effect", "description": "Record antibacterial measurements as contextual evidence rather than an unconditional spectrum label.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which organism or isolate was tested, using what method, concentration range, medium and exposure duration?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "organism-specific-effect-q01" }, { "text": "Does the measured endpoint establish growth inhibition, bacterial killing or another effect, and what uncertainty accompanies it?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "organism-specific-effect-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "interpretation-limits", "name": "Interpretation limits", "description": "Separates measured activity from susceptibility categories and proposed clinical relevance.", "findings": [ { "id": "qualified-susceptibility-claim", "name": "Qualified susceptibility claim", "description": "Record the rules and assumptions required to interpret an activity result.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which interpretive standard and version, if any, apply to this antibiotic, organism and test result?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "qualified-susceptibility-claim-q01" }, { "text": "What exposure, infection-site or other assumptions limit transfer of this interpretation to a proposed use?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "qualified-susceptibility-claim-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "mechanism-and-resistance", "name": "Mechanism and resistance", "description": "Connects antibacterial action to evidence about how organisms evade or lose susceptibility to it.", "rationale": "An agent needs to distinguish a supported mechanism from a class-based assumption and a resistance signal from demonstrated treatment relevance.", "layers": [ { "id": "mechanism-of-action", "name": "Mechanism of action", "description": "Identifies supported targets or bacterial processes involved in activity.", "findings": [ { "id": "supported-antibacterial-mechanism", "name": "Supported antibacterial mechanism", "description": "Record the mechanism claim, its evidence and the limits of extrapolation from related antibiotics.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which bacterial target or process is implicated, and what evidence directly supports that relationship for this substance?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "supported-antibacterial-mechanism-q01" }, { "text": "Which parts of the mechanism remain inferred from the antibiotic class rather than established for this substance?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "supported-antibacterial-mechanism-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "resistance-context", "name": "Resistance context", "description": "Qualifies resistance claims by organism, determinant, phenotype and evidence.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidenced-resistance-relationship", "name": "Evidenced resistance relationship", "description": "Record resistance evidence without treating a detected determinant or related-drug result as conclusive by default.", "questions": [ { "text": "What phenotypic or mechanistic evidence links this organism or isolate to reduced susceptibility to this antibiotic?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "evidenced-resistance-relationship-q01" }, { "text": "What additional testing or interpretation is required before using a resistance determinant or cross-resistance claim to constrain a proposed use?", "kind": "action", "id": "evidenced-resistance-relationship-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "potency-integrity-and-handling", "name": "Potency, integrity and handling", "description": "Determines whether a specified sample retains the chemical and antibacterial properties required for its intended role.", "rationale": "Correct identity alone cannot establish usable potency or justify handling conditions for a particular substance form.", "layers": [ { "id": "sample-quality", "name": "Sample quality", "description": "Links sample-specific analytical and activity evidence to explicit acceptance criteria.", "findings": [ { "id": "potency-and-integrity-evidence", "name": "Potency and integrity evidence", "description": "Distinguish chemical content, impurities and biological potency when assessing an antibiotic sample.", "questions": [ { "text": "What assays establish identity, content, relevant impurities and antibacterial potency for this sample?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "potency-and-integrity-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Which reference materials and acceptance criteria support the assessment, and are they applicable to the intended use?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "potency-and-integrity-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "stability-and-disposition", "name": "Stability and disposition", "description": "Relates exposure history to evidence-supported handling and assessment decisions.", "findings": [ { "id": "qualified-handling-decision", "name": "Qualified handling decision", "description": "Record whether stability evidence covers the actual form and exposure history of the material.", "questions": [ { "text": "What stability evidence covers this chemical form under its recorded temperature, moisture, light and solution conditions?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "qualified-handling-decision-q01" }, { "text": "Do the exposure history and available assays support continued use, additional testing or a hold pending authorised disposition?", "kind": "action", "id": "qualified-handling-decision-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "use-evidence-and-decision-boundaries", "name": "Use evidence and decision boundaries", "description": "Connects the substance to proposed uses while keeping product approval and individual treatment decisions in their owning models.", "rationale": "Antibacterial activity and acceptable material quality are insufficient on their own to authorise therapeutic use.", "layers": [ { "id": "therapeutic-evidence", "name": "Therapeutic evidence", "description": "Distinguishes laboratory activity from evidence relevant to treating bacterial infection.", "findings": [ { "id": "supported-use-context", "name": "Supported use context", "description": "Record the evidence and linked preparations underlying a proposed therapeutic role.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence supports the proposed infection-related use beyond laboratory antibacterial activity?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "supported-use-context-q01" }, { "text": "To which preparation, administration route, population and infection context does that evidence apply?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "supported-use-context-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "action-authority", "name": "Action authority", "description": "Identifies dependencies and authority needed before a substance-level assessment can support action.", "findings": [ { "id": "proposed-use-handoff", "name": "Proposed use handoff", "description": "Carry relevant evidence and unresolved constraints into the models responsible for the actual use decision.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which linked product and patient assessments must resolve exposure, toxicity, allergy, interactions and other applicable constraints?", "kind": "action", "id": "proposed-use-handoff-q01" }, { "text": "Which authority may approve the proposed use, and what missing evidence currently prevents that decision?", "kind": "action", "id": "proposed-use-handoff-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "beta-lactam (penicillins, cephalosporins, carbapenems, monobactams)", "macrolide", "tetracycline", "aminoglycoside", 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Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched.", "facetsInferred": false, "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. 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Form alone rarely separates two models that do very different things." ], "relatedModels": [ { "relation": "covers", "note": "Finer kinds folded into this entry because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it. Each is a model waiting to be split out when one does.", "targets": [ "actinomycin", "amoxicillin", "Amoxil", "Larotid", "Polymox", "Trimox", "Augmentin", "amphotericin", "ampicillin", "Principen", "Polycillin", "SK-Ampicillin" ] } ], "standing": "62 finer distinctions are held inside this entry as names rather than as separate models.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one antibiotic from another, and a antibiotic from things that resemble it.", "rationale": "Recognition comes before every other claim. Without stable identity nothing else in the model can be trusted to be about the same thing twice.", "layers": [ { "id": "naming-and-identifiers", "name": "Names and identifiers", "description": "The names this thing goes by and the identifiers that survive translation and time.", "findings": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases", "name": "Preferred name, aliases and local names", "description": "Which name to use, which names mean the same thing, and which merely sound similar.", "questions": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the name of a antibiotic, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the name of a antibiotic, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a antibiotic is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers", "name": "Stable identifiers and external keys", "description": "Identifiers that keep pointing at this kind of thing across systems and languages.", "questions": [ { "id": "stable-identifiers-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an identifier for a antibiotic, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a antibiotic, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a antibiotic is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "classification-and-granularity", "name": "Classification and granularity", "description": "Where a antibiotic sits among kinds, and how finely a task needs to cut it.", "findings": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents", "name": "Kind, parents and neighbouring kinds", "description": "The classes this thing belongs to and the ones it is next to.", "questions": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the kind of a antibiotic, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the kind of a antibiotic, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a antibiotic is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features", "name": "Distinguishing features", "description": "What separates a antibiotic from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a antibiotic, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a antibiotic, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a antibiotic is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "form-and-composition", "name": "Form, composition and condition", "description": "What a antibiotic is made of, what shape and size it takes, and what state it is in.", "rationale": "A physical thing can be measured, and a model that cannot record its measurements cannot support any decision that depends on them.", "layers": [ { "id": "form-and-dimensions", "name": "Form and dimensions", "description": "Shape, size, mass and the ranges these take across examples at handheld scale.", "findings": [ { "id": "measurable-dimensions", "name": "Measurable dimensions and their units", "description": "The quantities worth recording and the units they 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"parts-and-materials", "name": "Parts and materials", "description": "What a antibiotic is built from and which parts are replaceable.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a antibiotic, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "parts-and-materials-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the composition of a antibiotic, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "parts-and-materials-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the composition of a antibiotic is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-integrity", "name": "Condition and integrity", "description": "Wear, damage, health and the difference between working and broken.", "findings": [ { "id": "condition-assessment", "name": "Condition, damage and health", "description": "How the condition of a antibiotic is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a antibiotic, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "condition-assessment-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the condition of a antibiotic, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "condition-assessment-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the condition of a antibiotic is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "place-and-movement", "name": "Place and movement", "description": "Where a antibiotic is, how it got there and where it may go (portable).", "rationale": "A thing that can move needs its position recorded with a time, or every later claim about it is about a place it has left.", "layers": [ { "id": "location-and-placement", "name": "Location and placement", "description": "Position, containment and the reference frame the position is given in.", "findings": [ { "id": "position-and-frame", "name": "Position, container and reference frame", "description": "Where a antibiotic is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a antibiotic, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the location of a antibiotic, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the location of a antibiotic is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "movement-and-transfer", "name": "Movement and transfer", "description": "How a antibiotic is carried, installed or relocated.", "findings": [ { "id": "movement-events", "name": "Movement events and constraints", "description": "What counts as a movement, what records it and what limits it.", "questions": [ { "id": "movement-events-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the movement of a antibiotic, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the movement of a antibiotic, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the movement of a antibiotic is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "state-and-lifecycle", "name": "State and lifecycle", "description": "The states a antibiotic passes through and the events that move it between them.", "rationale": "Most decisions about a thing depend on what state it is in now, which is a claim with a time on it, not a property.", "layers": [ { "id": "lifecycle-stages", "name": "Lifecycle stages", "description": "From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.", "findings": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions", "name": "Stages and transitions", "description": "The stages worth naming and what moves a antibiotic between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a antibiotic, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a antibiotic, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a antibiotic is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "observations-and-status", "name": "Observations and current status", "description": "What is observed about a antibiotic, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a antibiotic is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.", "questions": [ { "id": "observation-record-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a antibiotic, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an observation of a antibiotic, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a antibiotic is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "function-and-principle", "name": "Function and operating principle", "description": "What antibiotic is for and how it achieves it.", "rationale": "Two devices with the same name can work on different principles, and the principle is what predicts failure and constrains use.", "layers": [ { "id": "intended-function", "name": "Intended function", "description": "The job it does, and the jobs it is used for anyway.", "findings": [ { "id": "function-record", "name": "Function, principle and variants", "description": "What it does, how, and which variants do it differently.", "questions": [ { "id": "function-record-q01", "text": "What function does antibiotic perform, on what operating principle, and which variants differ in that principle?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "function-record-q02", "text": "What use falls outside the intended function but happens in practice?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "capacity-and-rating", "name": "Capacity and rating", "description": "The numbers that say what it can do and where it stops.", "findings": [ { "id": "ratings", "name": "Ratings and their conditions", "description": "Rated capacity, power, throughput and the conditions each assumes.", "questions": [ { "id": "ratings-q01", "text": "What ratings characterise antibiotic, in what units, and under what stated conditions?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "ratings-q02", "text": "What happens beyond the rating - degradation, refusal, damage - and how is that detected?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "operation-and-state", "name": "Operation, controls and state", "description": "How antibiotic is operated and what state it is in right now.", "rationale": "An agent acting on a device needs its current state and the controls that change it, not just its specification.", "layers": [ { "id": "controls-and-modes", "name": "Controls and modes", "description": "What can be set, what that changes, and what is interlocked.", "findings": [ { "id": "control-surface", "name": "Control surface and interlocks", "description": "The settings available and the conditions that block them.", "questions": [ { "id": "control-surface-q01", "text": "What controls and modes does antibiotic have, and what does each change?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "control-surface-q02", "text": "Which actions are interlocked or forbidden in which state, and what must be true before acting?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-maintenance", "name": "Condition and maintenance", "description": "Wear, service intervals, consumables and the line between working and broken.", "findings": [ { "id": "service-record", "name": "Condition, service and consumables", "description": "What is consumed, what is serviced, and how condition is judged.", "questions": [ { "id": "service-record-q01", "text": "What consumables and service does antibiotic need, at what interval, and on whose authority?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "service-record-q02", "text": "What evidence separates a unit that is working from one that is out of service?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "kind-model-unit", "name": "Kind, model and unit", "description": "Whether a claim about antibiotic is about the kind, a product line, or one physical unit.", "rationale": "This is the boundary most often got wrong for made things, and getting it wrong mixes a catalogue entry with the machine in the yard.", "layers": [ { "id": "level-of-reference", "name": "Level of reference", "description": "The three levels and what belongs at each.", "findings": [ { "id": "level-rules", "name": "What belongs to kind, model and unit", "description": "Which properties are shared by all of them and which are not.", "questions": [ { "id": "level-rules-q01", "text": "Which facts about antibiotic hold for every one of them, which for a model, and which only for one unit?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "level-rules-q02", "text": "What identifies an individual unit, and what should an agent do when it has only the kind?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "standards-and-conformity", "name": "Standards and conformity", "description": "The standards a working example must meet and who attests it.", "findings": [ { "id": "conformity", "name": "Standards, marks and attestation", "description": "Which standard applies, who certifies, and what the mark means.", "questions": [ { "id": "conformity-q01", "text": "Which standards govern antibiotic, issued by whom, and what does conformity actually assert?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "conformity-q02", "text": "What may an agent conclude from a certification mark, and what may it not?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a antibiotic came from and when it held.", "rationale": "A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.", "layers": [ { "id": "source-and-authority", "name": "Source and authority", "description": "Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.", "findings": [ { "id": "claim-provenance", "name": "Claim provenance and confidence", "description": "The authority behind each claim about a antibiotic and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a antibiotic, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a claim about a antibiotic, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a antibiotic is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "time-and-versions", "name": "Time, versions and supersession", "description": "When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.", "findings": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession", "name": "Validity period and supersession", "description": "How an old claim about a antibiotic is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a antibiotic, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a antibiotic, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a antibiotic is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 8, "layers": 17, "findings": 19, "questions": 51 } } } }