{ "model": { "rank": 5891, "code": "thing-pain", "model_id": "vr.tr.pain", "name": "pain", "purpose": "a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Cross-cutting context", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "XCT", "domain": "XCT.STA", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/pain/", "tier": 2, "score": 64, "payload": { "layer": "wordnet", "aliases": [ "chafing", "intertrigo", "lead colic", "painter's colic", "hurting", "ache", "aching", "toothache", "odontalgia", "aerodontalgia", "agony", "suffering", "excruciation", "arthralgia", "throe", "backache", "burn", "burning", "causalgia", "colic", "intestinal colic", "gripes", "griping", "chest pain", "chiralgia", "distress", "dysmenorrhea", "primary dysmenorrhea", "secondary dysmenorrhea", "headache", "head ache", "cephalalgia", "glossalgia", "glossodynia", "growing pains", "stomachache", "stomach ache", "bellyache", "gastralgia", "earache" ], "aliasCount": 98, "merged": 64, "knownIn": 0, "facets": { "substance": "abstract", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "inert", "mobility": "not-applicable", "scale": "not-applicable", "affordances": [ "observable" ] }, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "noun.state", "senseRank": 0, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "oewn:2024", "synset": "oewn-14346126-n", "ili": "i112218", "license": "CC BY 4.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-13T19:22:08Z", "providers": [ "Claude" ], "breadth": "written by Claude from model knowledge without web access - no source was read, every claim is a lead to verify", "pass": 2, "wave": 4, "engine": "claude" }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-PAIN", "registryId": "vr.tr.pain", "name": "pain", "version": "0.2.0-wave.4", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "XCT.STA" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/pain/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.pain", "name": "pain", "purpose": "Let an agent explain pain as a symptom, relay types, mechanisms and general management from pain medicine sources, describe the conditions the registry aliases name including lead colic, and distinguish pain from suffering, nociception and emotional distress, routing urgent symptoms and giving no personal medication advice.", "definition": "In the WordNet sense, a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder, an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, as defined by the International Association for the Study of Pain, occurring as acute, chronic, nociceptive, neuropathic and nociplastic pain, with specific examples in the registry aliases such as aches, hurting, chafing, intertrigo, a skin inflammation in folds, and lead colic or painter s colic from lead poisoning. Severe, sudden or chest pain needs urgent care. The model routes people to clinicians.", "what_it_is_for": "Not applicable; a symptom.", "affordances": [ "route urgent pain first", "explain types and mechanisms", "relay general management", "distinguish related concepts" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Sensory and emotional", "Acute or chronic", "Several mechanisms", "Subjective" ], "appearance": "Not a visible object; an experience.", "visual_identification": [ "Unpleasant experience linked to tissue damage", "Ache, hurting, chafing, intertrigo, lead colic, painter s colic", "Suffering is broader distress; nociception is neural signalling; emotional pain is psychological" ], "physical_properties": [ { "quantity": "IASP definition revised", "typical_range": "2020", "unit": "year", "note": "" }, { "quantity": "chronic pain threshold", "typical_range": "over 3", "unit": "month", "note": "" }, { "quantity": "adults with chronic pain", "typical_range": "about 20", "unit": "percent", "note": "estimates vary" } ], "families_and_kinds": [ "acute pain", "chronic pain", "nociceptive pain", "neuropathic pain", "nociplastic pain", "specific causes such as intertrigo and lead colic" ], "related_models": [ { "relation": "is a kind of", "target": "symptom", "why": "in WordNet terms" }, { "relation": "is defined by", "target": "International Association for the Study of Pain", "why": "" }, { "relation": "is signalled by", "target": "nociception", "why": "" }, { "relation": "can result from", "target": "lead poisoning", "why": "as lead colic" } ], "identifiers": [ { "scheme": "WordNet", "value_or_pattern": "oewn-14323139-n", "note": "hypernym of pain" }, { "scheme": "MeSH", "value_or_pattern": "D010146", "note": "Pain" } ], "standards_and_regulation": [ "Pain management and opioid prescribing guidelines", "Occupational lead exposure limits" ], "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Missing emergencies such as heart attack", "Agents giving personal medication advice", "Dismissing chronic pain" ], "in_scope": [], "out_of_scope": [], "characteristics": [] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "understand", "name": "Understand", "description": "What pain is.", "rationale": "Clinical.", "layers": [ { "id": "definition", "name": "Definition", "description": "Definition.", "findings": [ { "id": "definition-finding", "name": "Definition", "description": "Definition.", "questions": [ { "text": "What is pain, and how does it differ from suffering, nociception and emotional pain?", "kind": "definition" }, { "text": "Is the user having sudden severe, chest or abdominal pain, which needs emergency care, or ongoing pain needing a clinician?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "types", "name": "Types", "description": "Types and causes.", "findings": [ { "id": "types-finding", "name": "Types", "description": "Types.", "questions": [ { "text": "What are acute, chronic, nociceptive, neuropathic and nociplastic pain, and what are intertrigo and lead colic?", "kind": "definition" }, { "text": "Which entry fits the specific condition?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "science", "name": "Science", "description": "Mechanisms.", "rationale": "Science.", "layers": [ { "id": "nociception", "name": "Nociception", "description": "Nociception.", "findings": [ { "id": "nociception-finding", "name": "Nociception", "description": "Nociception.", "questions": [ { "text": "How do nerves, spinal cord and brain process pain?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which references are standard?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "chronic", "name": "Chronic", "description": "Chronic pain.", "findings": [ { "id": "chronic-finding", "name": "Chronic", "description": "Chronic.", "questions": [ { "text": "What is known about central sensitisation and chronic pain?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which sources are cited?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "care", "name": "Care", "description": "Management.", "rationale": "Clinical.", "layers": [ { "id": "approaches", "name": "Approaches", "description": "Approaches.", "findings": [ { "id": "approaches-finding", "name": "Approaches", "description": "Approaches.", "questions": [ { "text": "What general approaches do guidelines describe, from physical therapy to psychological and medical treatments?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which entry fits pain management?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "opioids", "name": "Opioids", "description": "Opioid guidance.", "findings": [ { "id": "opioids-finding", "name": "Opioids", "description": "Opioids.", "questions": [ { "text": "What do guidelines say about opioid risks, in general terms?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which entry fits opioid epidemic?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "context", "name": "Context", "description": "Occupational and history.", "rationale": "Context.", "layers": [ { "id": "lead", "name": "Lead", "description": "Lead colic.", "findings": [ { "id": "lead-finding", "name": "Lead", "description": "Lead.", "questions": [ { "text": "What was painter s colic, and how is lead exposure prevented?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which entry fits lead poisoning?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "history", "name": "History", "description": "History.", "findings": [ { "id": "history-finding", "name": "History", "description": "History.", "questions": [ { "text": "How did pain theory develop from Descartes to gate control theory?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which entry fits gate control theory?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Should intertrigo and lead colic be separate primary entries?", "How should pain medicine sources be linked?", "The registry aliases name specific conditions; should they be split off?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 4, "layers": 8, "findings": 8, "questions": 16 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "abstract concept", "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 pain, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder", "characteristics": { "substance": "abstract", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "inert" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: chafing, intertrigo, lead colic, painter's colic, hurting, ache, aching, toothache, odontalgia, aerodontalgia, agony, suffering.", "64 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 pain, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "an abstraction with no physical instance", "physicalCharacter": [ "Does nothing on its own; everything it does, something else did to it." ], "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [ "observe it, measure it, record its state" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "Nothing to see. What is recognised is an instance of it, and which instances count is exactly what is argued about." ], "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": [ "chafing", "intertrigo", "lead colic", "painter's colic", "hurting", "ache", "aching", "toothache", "odontalgia", "aerodontalgia", "agony", "suffering" ] } ], "standing": "64 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 pain from another, and a pain 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 pain, 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 pain, 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 pain 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 pain, 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 pain, 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 pain 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 pain 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 pain, 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 pain, 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 pain 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 pain from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a pain, 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 pain, 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 pain 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 pain 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 pain between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a pain, 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 pain, 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 pain 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 pain, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a pain 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 pain, 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 pain, 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 pain is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "definitions-in-contest", "name": "Definitions and who holds them", "description": "What pain is taken to mean, and by whom.", "rationale": "When a field disagrees about a concept, the disagreement is the content. A model that picks one definition silently destroys the information.", "layers": [ { "id": "competing-definitions", "name": "Competing definitions", "description": "The main readings and the traditions behind them.", "findings": [ { "id": "definition-map", "name": "Definitions and their holders", "description": "Each definition with the school or body that holds it.", "questions": [ { "id": "definition-map-q01", "text": "Which definitions of pain are in use, and which tradition or body holds each?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "definition-map-q02", "text": "What turns on the difference between them in practice?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "operationalisation", "name": "Operationalisation", "description": "How it is measured or applied when it has to be.", "findings": [ { "id": "operational-record", "name": "Measures and proxies", "description": "Instruments and indicators used to stand in for it.", "questions": [ { "id": "operational-record-q01", "text": "How is pain operationalised or measured in practice, and by what instrument?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "operational-record-q02", "text": "What does that operationalisation leave out, and when does that matter?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "instances-and-use", "name": "Instances, use and consequence", "description": "What counts as an instance of pain and what follows from calling something that.", "rationale": "Applying a concept is an act with consequences, so a model must say what the label licenses and what it does not.", "layers": [ { "id": "instances", "name": "What counts as an instance", "description": "Clear cases, borderline cases and non-cases.", "findings": [ { "id": "instance-tests", "name": "Tests for an instance", "description": "What would settle whether something falls under it.", "questions": [ { "id": "instance-tests-q01", "text": "What would settle whether something is an instance of pain?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "instance-tests-q02", "text": "Which borderline cases are argued about, and on what grounds?", "kind": "definition" } ] } ] }, { "id": "consequence", "name": "Consequence of application", "description": "Rights, duties or decisions that follow from the label.", "findings": [ { "id": "consequence-record", "name": "What the label licenses", "description": "What an agent may do once something is classified this way.", "questions": [ { "id": "consequence-record-q01", "text": "What follows practically once something is treated as pain?", "kind": "action" }, { "id": "consequence-record-q02", "text": "What must an agent not infer from the label alone?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a pain 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 pain and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a pain, 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 pain, 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 pain 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 pain is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a pain, 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 pain, 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 pain is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 10, "findings": 12, "questions": 32 } } } }