{ "model": { "rank": 2324, "code": "thing-line-4", "model_id": "vr.tr.line-4", "name": "line", "purpose": "something (as a cord or rope) that is long and thin and flexible", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.OBJ", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/line-4/", "tier": 2, "score": 109, "payload": { "layer": "wordnet", "aliases": [ "agal", "apron string", "becket", "bola", "bootlace", "bowstring", "brace", "brail", "bungee", "bungee cord", "cable", "candlewick", "catgut", "gut", "chalk line", "snap line", "snapline", "chenille", "chenille cord", "clews", "clothesline", "cord", "cordage", "cotton", "dental floss", "floss", "drawstring", "drawing string", "string", "fishing line", "futtock shroud", "ground cable", "guide rope", "halyard", "halliard", "handline", "hand line", "hangman's rope", "hangman's halter", "halter" ], "aliasCount": 150, "merged": 109, "knownIn": 0, "facets": { "substance": "material", "origin": "manufactured", "agency": "inert", "mobility": "portable", "scale": "handheld", "affordances": [ "graspable" ] }, "markers": [ "artifact" ], "lexicalClass": "noun.artifact", "senseRank": 17, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "oewn:2024", "synset": "oewn-03676175-n", "ili": "i55708", "license": "CC BY 4.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T11:38:52Z", "providers": [ "Codex", "Grok" ], "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "usd": 0.01447856, "turns": 1, "seconds": 203.2, "error": null }, "codex": { "seconds": 76.8, "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: 01a07ba3-fed3-75b2-a4d0-dbf1439bf80b\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. 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flat strap, or a chain of links.", "scope_statement": "This model owns a discrete, long, thin, flexible physical article such as a cord or rope, including its construction, dimensions, continuity, ends, routing, tension, condition and evidenced use limits.", "in_scope": [ "The physical extent, ends and continuity of an individual line", "Material and construction relevant to bending, stretching, gripping and wear", "Length, cross-section and changes along the line", "Knots, splices, terminations and local attachments", "Current routing, slack, tension, tangles and contact points", "Condition and evidence supporting a proposed use" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Geometric lines, drawn marks and abstract paths", "Queues, production lines and communication services", "Rigid rods, poles and structural beams", "Fluid conduits whose defining function is carrying a flow", "Electrical or optical cables whose defining function is transmitting power or signals", "Complete lifting, climbing, mooring or restraint systems and their operating procedures" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "It is a tangible article with a traceable length and physical cross-section, rather than a geometric line or surface mark.", "Its longitudinal extent substantially exceeds its transverse dimensions; the boundary for short cut pieces remains to be settled.", "It can bend along its length during intended handling, distinguishing it from an article intended to retain a rigid shape.", "Its identity fits a cord-like or rope-like flexible article; a hollow passage, conductive core or broad flat profile requires checking the boundary with hose, cable or strap models.", "An individual line has traceable material continuity, including any joints; several contacting or tangled lines do not automatically constitute one line." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Material and construction", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Recorded material; laid, braided, monofilament, other or unknown construction", "why_it_matters": "Construction informs interpretation of flexibility, wear, grip and compatibility with terminations." }, { "name": "Length", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "m, with measurement method and tension condition", "why_it_matters": "Available reach and cut length depend on how the line was measured." }, { "name": "Cross-sectional dimensions", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "mm diameter or width and thickness, with position and measurement condition", "why_it_matters": "Cross-section affects fit through guides and fittings and helps locate deformation." }, { "name": "Bending behaviour", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Observed bend radius in mm under stated conditions; documented minimum bend radius if available", "why_it_matters": "A line that can physically bend around an object may still lack evidence that the bend is acceptable." }, { "name": "Extension under load", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "% extension at a stated force in N, duration and environmental condition", "why_it_matters": "Stretch affects reach, restraint and the interpretation of a tensioned arrangement." }, { "name": "Continuity and end configuration", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Open-ended, closed loop, joined, cut or uncertain; free, knotted, spliced or fitted ends", "why_it_matters": "Continuity and end treatment determine how the line can be threaded, attached or separated." }, { "name": "Routing and contacts", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Ordered endpoints, guides, supports, crossings and contact locations", "why_it_matters": "The route determines usable reach and locations where friction, bending or abrasion may occur." }, { "name": "Tension distribution", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "N at a stated segment and time, with measurement or estimation method", "why_it_matters": "A local tension reading does not necessarily describe every segment across knots or contact points." }, { "name": "Local condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Observed fraying, cuts, flattening, stiffness, contamination, discoloration or no visible anomaly; location and inspection coverage", "why_it_matters": "Condition must be located along the line, and an unobserved interior must remain distinguishable from an inspected surface." }, { "name": "Documented use limits", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Applicable manufacturer information, test evidence or procedure, with configuration and conditions", "why_it_matters": "A proposed use requires evidence applicable to this line and arrangement, rather than an inferred rating from appearance." } ], "affordances": [ "Trace, measure and mark the line or a selected segment.", "Coil, uncoil, route or untangle it while accounting for attached ends and tension.", "Tie, untie, splice or terminate it using a method supported for its construction and intended use.", "Attach, pull, tension or release it within evidenced limits for the complete arrangement.", "Inspect and isolate a suspect segment, or remove the line from a proposed use pending assessment.", "Cut it into separately identified pieces after accounting for stored tension and connected objects." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "iso-1968", "title": "ISO 1968: Fibre ropes and cordage - Vocabulary", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Specialist terms for rope, cordage, construction, and related line types; basis for the definition and the construction kinds." }, { "id": "iso-2307", "title": "ISO 2307: Fibre ropes - Determination of certain physical and mechanical properties", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Measured quantities used on fibre line: diameter, linear density, elongation, and breaking force." }, { "id": "iso-9554", "title": "ISO 9554: Fibre ropes - General specifications", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Product classification of fibre ropes by material and construction, and general performance specification." }, { "id": "ci-1500", "title": "CI-1500 Test Methods for Fiber Rope", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Industry test methods and the quantities (breaking strength, elongation, linear density) recorded for fibre rope in trade." }, { "id": "nfpa-1983", "title": "NFPA 1983: Standard on Life Safety Rope and Equipment for Emergency Services", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Life-safety rope as a distinct kind; inspection, retirement, and failure practice in rescue and fire service." }, { "id": "en-892", "title": "EN 892: Mountaineering equipment - Dynamic mountaineering ropes - Safety requirements and test methods", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Dynamic kernmantle climbing rope as a regulated kind, with impact-force and elongation criteria." }, { "id": "ocimf-meg4", "title": "Mooring Equipment Guidelines (MEG4)", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Ship mooring and towing lines in steel wire and high-modulus synthetics; snap-back hazard and in-service retirement practice." }, { "id": "osha-1926-251", "title": "29 CFR 1926.251 Rigging equipment for material handling", "url": "https://www.osha.gov/laws-regs/regulations/standardnumber/1926/1926.251", "what_it_supports": "Workplace use and inspection of fibre rope and wire rope as lifting and rigging gear in the United States.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "ashley-knots", "title": "The Ashley Book of Knots", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Traditional English distinction of rope, line, and small stuff, and the working constructions still named in marine practice." }, { "id": "wikipedia-rope", "title": "Rope", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rope", "what_it_supports": "Overview of fibre and wire constructions, materials, and the ordinary range of uses against which the specialist sources sit.", "url_status": "live" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "physical-identity-and-extent", "name": "Physical identity and extent", "description": "Establish which flexible article is being modelled and where its material extent begins and ends.", "rationale": "Coils, loops and tangles can obscure whether an observer is seeing one continuous line, a segment or several lines.", "layers": [ { "id": "line-recognition", "name": "Line recognition", "description": "Record the evidence that this article belongs to the registry's physical line concept.", "findings": [ { "id": "cord-like-flexible-form", "name": "Cord-like flexible form", "description": "Capture observable slenderness and bending behaviour without assuming that every elongated flexible article is a line.", "questions": [ { "text": "What observations establish a long, thin, flexible physical article of the cord or rope kind?", "kind": "definition", "id": "cord-like-flexible-form-q01" }, { "text": "Does its profile, construction or defining function place it instead with a strap, hose, cable, wire or rigid rod?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "cord-like-flexible-form-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "continuity-and-segments", "name": "Continuity and segments", "description": "Resolve individual identity through ends, joins, loops and selected working portions.", "findings": [ { "id": "traceable-material-extent", "name": "Traceable material extent", "description": "Record the continuous path of the article and distinguish physical boundaries from temporary working-segment boundaries.", "questions": [ { "text": "Can the line be traced between its physical ends or around a closed loop, and where are any joins or obscured portions?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "traceable-material-extent-q01" }, { "text": "What are its total and selected working lengths, and under what tension were they measured?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "traceable-material-extent-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "construction-and-response", "name": "Construction and response", "description": "Describe the line's material makeup and its evidenced response to bending and pulling.", "rationale": "Similar-looking lines can behave differently when bent, gripped or tensioned, so appearance alone cannot support handling decisions.", "layers": [ { "id": "material-and-cross-section", "name": "Material and cross-section", "description": "Characterise strands, core, covering and dimensions where these can be established.", "findings": [ { "id": "verified-line-construction", "name": "Verified line construction", "description": "Separate observed construction from identification supplied by labels or product records.", "questions": [ { "text": "What material, strand arrangement, core and covering are established, and which remain unknown?", "kind": "definition", "id": "verified-line-construction-q01" }, { "text": "Which markings, product records or examinations support that identification?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "verified-line-construction-q02" }, { "text": "What cross-sectional dimensions occur along the line, and how were compression and irregular shape handled during measurement?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "verified-line-construction-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "bending-and-extension", "name": "Bending and extension", "description": "Record mechanical response under specified conditions without converting observations into unsupported ratings.", "findings": [ { "id": "conditioned-mechanical-response", "name": "Conditioned mechanical response", "description": "Describe bending, extension and recovery using applicable documentation or bounded observations.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence describes extension and recovery at stated loads, durations and environmental conditions?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "conditioned-mechanical-response-q01" }, { "text": "What bend-radius constraints apply to the intended guide, knot or storage arrangement, and where are those constraints documented?", "kind": "action", "id": "conditioned-mechanical-response-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "routing-and-force-transfer", "name": "Routing and force transfer", "description": "Represent how the line is arranged, connected and carrying or awaiting tension.", "rationale": "A line's usable function depends on its route, terminations and local tension as well as its material properties.", "layers": [ { "id": "route-and-slack", "name": "Route and slack", "description": "Trace the working route through guides, contacts, crossings and stored portions.", "findings": [ { "id": "working-path-and-obstructions", "name": "Working path and obstructions", "description": "Distinguish useful free length from length occupied by coils, knots, wraps, snags or inaccessible sections.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which ordered contacts and guides define the route, and which crossings are actual entanglements?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "working-path-and-obstructions-q01" }, { "text": "How much slack and free working length are available between the relevant connection points?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "working-path-and-obstructions-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "terminations-and-tension", "name": "Terminations and tension", "description": "Record local attachments and the force-transfer configuration of the line.", "findings": [ { "id": "connected-and-loaded-segments", "name": "Connected and loaded segments", "description": "Identify knots, splices and fittings and associate tension evidence with the segments it actually describes.", "questions": [ { "text": "How is each working end or intermediate attachment secured, and what evidence supports compatibility with this line?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "connected-and-loaded-segments-q01" }, { "text": "Which segments are slack or tensioned, and what measured or estimated force applies at each assessed location?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "connected-and-loaded-segments-q02" }, { "text": "What connected objects or tensioned segments would move or unload if a selected attachment were released?", "kind": "action", "id": "connected-and-loaded-segments-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-use-decisions", "name": "Condition and use decisions", "description": "Connect inspection evidence and service history to a particular proposed action.", "rationale": "Visible condition, hidden portions, previous exposure and configuration-specific limits must remain distinct when deciding whether a line is fit for a use.", "layers": [ { "id": "wear-and-inspection-coverage", "name": "Wear and inspection coverage", "description": "Locate observed changes and state what the inspection could establish.", "findings": [ { "id": "located-condition-evidence", "name": "Located condition evidence", "description": "Record anomalies by position and distinguish absence of observed damage from evidence of remaining capacity.", "questions": [ { "text": "Where are cuts, fraying, flattened areas, stiffness, contamination or other changes, and how extensive are they?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "located-condition-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Which surfaces, interiors, knots and covered sections were examined, and which could not be assessed?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "located-condition-evidence-q02" }, { "text": "What is known about prior loading, abrasion, heat, chemical exposure and storage, and what supports that history?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "located-condition-evidence-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "use-limits-and-interventions", "name": "Use limits and interventions", "description": "Evaluate a proposed operation against applicable evidence and record the effect of any intervention.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidenced-action-eligibility", "name": "Evidenced action eligibility", "description": "Record whether a specific use is supported, unresolved or excluded, including the consequences of cutting or changing terminations.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which documented limits and rejection criteria apply to this line's identity, condition, terminations and proposed operation?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "evidenced-action-eligibility-q01" }, { "text": "Does the available evidence support the proposed action, or is inspection, replacement or another assessment needed first?", "kind": "action", "id": "evidenced-action-eligibility-q02" }, { "text": "If the line is cut, spliced or reterminated, which length, identity, condition and use-limit records must be reassessed?", "kind": "action", "id": "evidenced-action-eligibility-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "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": [ "Laid (twisted) fibre rope, typically three-strand or cable-laid", "Plaited and braided fibre rope (eight-strand, twelve-strand, solid braid, double braid)", "Kernmantle rope with a load-bearing core and a woven sheath (dynamic and low-stretch/static)", "Wire rope and wire line (stranded steel or other metal wires, sometimes fibre-cored)", "High-modulus synthetic line (HMPE, aramid, and similar low-stretch, high-strength constructions)", "Natural-fibre cordage (manila, hemp, sisal, coir, cotton)", "Fishing line (monofilament, fluorocarbon, and braided superline)", "Small stuff: cord, twine, marline, and accessory cord below ordinary rope diameters" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of line this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "Wikidata", "value_or_pattern": "Q11010", "note": "Item for rope; English \"line\" in the cord/rope sense is usually treated as rope or cordage in use, not as a separate item." }, { "scheme": "Harmonized System", "value_or_pattern": "5607", "note": "Twine, cordage, ropes and cables, whether or not plaited or braided and whether or not coated or sheathed." }, { "scheme": "ISO vocabulary", "value_or_pattern": "ISO 1968", "note": "Defines the fibre-rope and cordage terms used in product standards; it is a vocabulary, not a product code." }, { "scheme": "Harmonized System", "value_or_pattern": "9507", "note": "Fishing rods, fish-hooks and other line-fishing tackle; fishing line as a retail/fishing-tackle article is classified here rather than under 5607 when put up as fishing tackle." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of line this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation", "name": "Standards and regulation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "ISO 1968 Fibre ropes and cordage - Vocabulary (International Organization for Standardization)", "ISO 2307 Fibre ropes - Determination of certain physical and mechanical properties (ISO)", "ISO 9554 Fibre ropes - General specifications (ISO)", "ISO 1140 / 1141 / 1346 and related material-specific fibre-rope product standards for polyamide, polyester, and polypropylene (ISO)", "EN 892 Dynamic mountaineering ropes (CEN)", "EN 1891 Personal protective equipment for the prevention of falls from a height - Low stretch kernmantel ropes (CEN)", "NFPA 1983 Standard on Life Safety Rope and Equipment for Emergency Services (National Fire Protection Association)", "Cordage Institute CI-1500 and related CI fibre-rope test, inspection, and retirement guidelines (Cordage Institute)", "OCIMF Mooring Equipment Guidelines, MEG4 (Oil Companies International Marine Forum)", "IMO SOLAS regulation II-1/3-8 and associated circulars on ship towing and mooring equipment (International Maritime Organization)", "OSHA 29 CFR 1926.251 Rigging equipment for material handling (U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration)", "UIAA 101 Dynamic Ropes, aligned with EN 892 (International Climbing and Mountaineering Federation)" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of line this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Ship and boat mooring, towing, and sail handling (hawsers, warps, sheets, halyards, painters, anchor rodes)", "Lifting and rigging: block-and-tackle, crane tag lines, slings, and winch lines on construction and industrial sites", "Climbing, caving, arboriculture, and rescue: belay, rappel, and life-safety ropes", "Cargo and equipment tie-down, guy lines for tents and masts, flag and clothesline halyards", "Commercial and sport fishing: handlines, longlines, and reel line", "Theatrical and stage flying systems", "Oilfield wireline and well-logging cable as a specialised wire line", "Binding and whipping with small stuff in sail lofts, packing, and traditional rigging" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of line this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "Diameter", "typical_range": "About 0.1-2 mm for fishing line; about 3-24 mm for general working cordage; up to about 80-120 mm for large hawsers", "unit": "mm" }, { "quantity": "Minimum breaking force / minimum breaking load", "typical_range": "From roughly 0.05-0.5 kN for light cord, through tens of kN for climbing and mooring lines, to well above 1 MN for large synthetic or wire hawsers", "unit": "kN" }, { "quantity": "Elongation at working load or at break", "typical_range": "About 1-5% working elongation for HMPE and many wire ropes; about 5-15% for polyester; about 10-25% or more for nylon; dynamic climbing ropes are specified by peak impact force and sheath slippage rather than a single stretch figure", "unit": "%" }, { "quantity": "Linear density (mass per unit length)", "typical_range": "On the order of 1 g/m for light cord, tens of g/m for climbing and dinghy line, to several kg/m for large hawsers", "unit": "g/m" }, { "quantity": "Length as supplied or as fitted", "typical_range": "Coils and reels commonly 30-220 m; ship mooring lines often around 100-200 m; climbing ropes commonly 50-80 m", "unit": "m" }, { "quantity": "Number of strands or braid pattern", "typical_range": "1 (monofilament) through 3 (common laid rope) to 8 or 12 (plaited/braided); kernmantle is core-plus-sheath rather than a strand count", "unit": "count" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of line this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Abrasion through on chocks, fairleads, winch drums, rock, or cargo edges", "Tensile rupture with snap-back; stored elastic energy in nylon is a known killing hazard on mooring decks", "Ultraviolet, chemical, and heat damage to synthetics (polypropylene is notably UV-weak; friction can glaze or melt fibres)", "Rot, mildew, and embrittlement of natural-fibre cordage when stored wet", "Hidden core damage under an intact sheath on kernmantle rope", "Strength loss at knots, tight splices, and sharp bends, often on the order of 20-50% depending on knot and fibre", "Wire-rope broken wires, birdcaging, kinking, crushing, and corrosion", "Overload, cyclic fatigue, and shock loading in towing, lifting, and fall-arrest service", "Incorrect retirement: a line that still looks serviceable can have lost a large fraction of rated strength" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of line this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "In English maritime practice, manufactured cordage is \"rope\" in the coil and becomes a \"line\" once it is named and put to work; a few shipboard pieces keep the word rope (bell rope, bolt rope, tiller rope). Ashore, \"rope\" and \"line\" are often used interchangeably.", "Traditional British and older American sizing was by circumference in inches; modern catalogues and ISO product standards use diameter in millimetres.", "United States fire and rescue service splits \"life safety rope\" from \"utility rope\" under NFPA 1983; that split is not universal outside North American emergency services.", "Coir and other local vegetable fibres remain ordinary marine and agricultural cordage in parts of South and Southeast Asia, where manila/abaca and sisal also have long trade histories.", "Large towing and mooring pieces are still called hawsers in many fleets; high-modulus synthetics have replaced much steel wire for tanker mooring under OCIMF practice, but steel wire remains common elsewhere.", "Climbing rope certification is effectively EN 892 / UIAA 101 in Europe and in much of the global market; North American rescue rope is more often bought to NFPA 1983." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of line this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Rope", "difference": "Rope is the manufactured cordage as a product; a line is that product assigned a job. In non-marine English the two names overlap, so construction, diameter, and rated strength - not the name - decide what you have." }, { "name": "Cord / small stuff / twine", "difference": "Same family, smaller diameter and usually not load-rated as working rope. If it is sold as twine or accessory cord and is below ordinary rope sizes (typically a few millimetres), it is cord, not a working line." }, { "name": "Cable", "difference": "Either an electrical conductor, a very large fibre rope made by laying three hawsers together (cable-laid), or a shorthand for wire rope. A line is not an insulated conductor; cable-laid fibre is identified by that three-rope construction." }, { "name": "Webbing / strap", "difference": "A flat woven textile. The cross-section is planar rather than approximately round, and hardware (buckles, ratchets) differs from rope fittings." }, { "name": "Chain", "difference": "Articulated rigid metal links, not a continuous fibre or wire strand assembly. It does not knot like a line and fails by link deformation or weld/pin fracture rather than fibre rupture." }, { "name": "Yarn", "difference": "A constituent strand used to build rope or cloth, not the finished tensile member. If it has not been laid, plaited, or braided into cordage, it is yarn." }, { "name": "Solid wire or rod", "difference": "A single rigid or only slightly flexible metal element. Wire rope is built from many wires in strands; a rod is meant to take compression and bending as well as tension." }, { "name": "Hose", "difference": "A hollow flexible tube whose job is to carry fluid. A line is solid (or a fibre assembly) in cross-section and carries tension, not a fluid." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of line this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Where does the registry place the boundaries between line, string, thread, wire, cable, strap and hose, especially for articles with multiple functions?", "Does a short offcut retain line identity, and how should closed loops, joined lengths and branches be individuated?", "Which construction-specific inspection methods and rejection criteria can support decisions about condition beyond visible surface observations?", "Which authoritative sources establish use limits for knots, splices, bends, environmental exposure and repeated loading for each identified line product?", "How should an agent assess an unmarked line with unknown service history when its proposed use requires dependable load capacity?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 9, "findings": 16, "questions": 28 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "device, machine or tool", "method": "Written from the archetype playbook - what this kind of thing needs beyond identity and provenance - and from the structure that recurred across 6,333 models already researched by two engines. 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. Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.", "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a line, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "something (as a cord or rope) that is long and thin and flexible", "characteristics": { "substance": "material", "origin": "manufactured", "agency": "inert", "mobility": "portable", "scale": "handheld" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "picked up and handled" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: agal, apron string, becket, bola, bootlace, bowstring, brace, brail, bungee, bungee cord, cable, candlewick.", "109 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it." ], "openQuestionsForResearch": [ "Which of the bundles below does a real task actually need, and which are ceremony?", "What does this thing have that the facets do not capture at all?", "Which neighbouring kind is most often confused with a line, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "matter you can touch", "physicalCharacter": [ "Fits in a hand and is carried without help.", "Moved by a person without machinery.", "Does nothing on its own; everything it does, something else did to it." ], "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [ "pick it up, hold it, put it somewhere else" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "Recognised by form, by the arrangement of its controls, and by markings - a plate, a model number, a certification mark. 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": [ "agal", "apron string", "becket", "bola", "bootlace", "bowstring", "brace", "brail", "bungee", "bungee cord", "cable", "candlewick" ] } ], "standing": "109 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 line from another, and a line 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 line, 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 line, 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 line 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 line, 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 line, 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 line 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 line 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 line, 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 line, 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 line 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 line from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a line, 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 line, 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 line 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 line 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 are recorded in.", "questions": [ { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the dimensions of a line, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the dimensions of a line, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the dimensions of a line is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "material-and-composition", "name": "Material and composition", "description": "Materials, parts and how they are put together.", "findings": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials", "name": "Parts and materials", "description": "What a line is built from and which parts are replaceable.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a line, 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 line, 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 line 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 line is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a line, 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 line, 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 line 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 line 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 line is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a line, 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 line, 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 line 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 line 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 line, 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 line, 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 line 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 line 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 line between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a line, 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 line, 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 line 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 line, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a line 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 line, 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 line, 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 line 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 line 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 line 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 line, 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 line 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 line 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 line 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 line 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 line 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 line, 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 line 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 line and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a line, 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 line, 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 line 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 line is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a line, 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 line, 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 line 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 } } } }