{ "model": { "rank": 4742, "code": "thing-q105173", "model_id": "vr.tr.tetragrammaton", "name": "Tetragrammaton", "purpose": "Enable an agent to identify representations of the Tetragrammaton, assess evidence about their reading and use, and choose contextually appropriate transcription, display and speech.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.LIV", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q105173/", "tier": 2, "score": 73, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "ܞ" ], "aliasCount": 1, "merged": 1, "knownIn": 73, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q105173", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q105173", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-09T20:54:34Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 18.7, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.4\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: 01a087f2-6d30-7f03-8ce0-af9540313a98\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: Tetragrammaton\nSense to describe: (none recorded)\nDomain code: PHY.LIV\nAlso known as: (none)\n\n\nContext for this batch of 1001 things:\n# Batch 005: 1001 ", "usd": 0, "recall": true }, "codex": { "seconds": 67.7, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.4\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: 01a087f2-6d40-7760-a36a-5e9dda30c662\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: Tetragrammaton\nRegistry id: vr.tr.tetragrammaton\nPlane / domain: PHY / PHY.LIV\nRegistry definition: (none recorded)\nNames folded into this entry: (no" } } }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q105173", "registryId": "vr.tr.tetragrammaton", "name": "Tetragrammaton", "version": "0.1.0-research.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "PHY.LIV" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q105173/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.tetragrammaton", "name": "Tetragrammaton", "purpose": "Enable an agent to identify representations of the Tetragrammaton, assess evidence about their reading and use, and choose contextually appropriate transcription, display and speech.", "definition": "The Tetragrammaton is the four-letter Hebrew divine name יהוה, conventionally transliterated YHWH, used for the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible.", "scope_statement": "This draft covers vr.tr.tetragrammaton provisionally as the Hebrew divine name represented by four consonants, commonly transliterated YHWH, following the [American Heritage Dictionary](https://www.ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=Tetragrammaton). The supplied PHY / PHY.LIV classification conflicts with this sense and requires registry review; organism characteristics are not justified by the supplied evidence.", "in_scope": [ "Identity of the four-letter divine name and recognition of its representations", "Attested occurrences in manuscripts, inscriptions and editions", "Relationships among consonantal spelling, transliteration, vocalization and substitute readings", "Community-specific conventions governing representation and pronunciation", "Attribution and uncertainty of linguistic and religious interpretations" ], "out_of_scope": [ "The deity named and claims about that deity's existence or attributes", "Biological taxonomy, life stages, habitat and conservation assessments", "Complete models of Hebrew, Judaism, Christianity or other religious traditions", "Physical conservation and ownership of manuscripts or inscribed objects", "Other divine names as independent concepts", "Unrelated works, organizations or products titled Tetragrammaton" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "The identifying sequence is yod-he-waw-he; four-letter length alone does not establish identity.", "A representation names or discusses the divine name rather than constituting the deity it denotes.", "A transliteration represents the consonantal name; a proposed vocalization adds a pronunciation claim requiring separate evidence.", "A substitute spoken or translated expression is linked through an attested reading convention rather than treated as an identical spelling.", "An abbreviated or embedded name element requires an explicit relationship to the full name and is not automatically a complete occurrence." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Representation role", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Hebrew spelling; transliteration; proposed vocalization; reading substitute; translation rendering; metalinguistic label", "why_it_matters": "Prevents an agent from collapsing distinct relationships to the name." }, { "name": "Consonantal identity", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Complete match; partial attestation; reconstructed match; non-match; unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Separates visible evidence from editorial restoration." }, { "name": "Script and pointing", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Recorded script, letter forms and presence or absence of vowel or reading marks", "why_it_matters": "Supports faithful transcription without treating every mark as evidence of original pronunciation." }, { "name": "Textual witness", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Identified manuscript, inscription or edition with passage or object locator", "why_it_matters": "Makes each occurrence and proposed reading independently inspectable." }, { "name": "Witness date interval", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Years with explicit calendar convention, interval and dating basis", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes the date of a surviving witness from the date proposed for its underlying text." }, { "name": "Reading convention", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Community, period, setting, prescribed reading and cited authority", "why_it_matters": "Determines how a written occurrence should be rendered aloud in a specified context." }, { "name": "Interpretive confidence", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Directly attested; supported inference; disputed; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Prevents reconstructed pronunciation or etymology from becoming an unqualified fact." }, { "name": "Handling convention", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Action-specific guidance linked to community, medium and authority", "why_it_matters": "Supports appropriate display, copying and disposal decisions without universalizing one tradition's practice." } ], "affordances": [ "Recognize and annotate candidate occurrences while retaining the original representation.", "Transliterate a verified spelling under a declared convention.", "Compare textual witnesses and identify damaged, restored or substituted forms.", "Select a display or spoken rendering using an explicit audience and reading convention.", "Attach evidence and confidence to pronunciation and meaning claims.", "Flag the registry classification conflict for review without inventing an organism model." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "name-identity", "name": "Name identity", "description": "Establish what the entry denotes and which representations belong to it.", "rationale": "The biological classification conflicts with the evidenced name sense, and mistaken identity would invalidate every subsequent bundle.", "layers": [ { "id": "registry-sense", "name": "Registry sense", "description": "Resolve the intended referent while preserving the supplied registry identity.", "findings": [ { "id": "divine-name-sense", "name": "Divine-name sense", "description": "Record evidence that the entry concerns the name and document the unresolved classification mismatch.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which upstream identifier and description establish the intended sense of vr.tr.tetragrammaton?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "divine-name-sense-q01" }, { "text": "Does PHY / PHY.LIV reflect an import error, a different referent or an undocumented classification convention?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "divine-name-sense-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "name-boundaries", "name": "Name boundaries", "description": "Distinguish the full name from its referent and related expressions.", "findings": [ { "id": "full-name-membership", "name": "Full-name membership", "description": "Require an explicit basis for classifying a form as the full name, an abbreviation, a substitute or an unrelated label.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence connects this representation to the complete four-consonant name?", "kind": "definition", "id": "full-name-membership-q01" }, { "text": "Is the item the name itself, a name element, a substitute expression or the entity named?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "full-name-membership-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "written-representation", "name": "Written representation", "description": "Capture the visible form and transformations used to represent the name.", "rationale": "Letter forms, pointing and transliteration can carry different kinds of evidence and must remain distinguishable.", "layers": [ { "id": "letters-and-marks", "name": "Letters and marks", "description": "Describe the observed consonants, script and supplementary marks.", "findings": [ { "id": "observed-spelling", "name": "Observed spelling", "description": "Preserve the observed form separately from normalized or restored text.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which consonants and supplementary marks are actually visible in the witness?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "observed-spelling-q01" }, { "text": "Which characters are damaged, supplied by an editor or uncertain?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "observed-spelling-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "transliteration-and-encoding", "name": "Transliteration and encoding", "description": "Control conversion between the witnessed spelling and digital or Latin-script representations.", "findings": [ { "id": "faithful-conversion", "name": "Faithful conversion", "description": "Declare the conversion convention and retain enough information to recover the source representation.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which transliteration convention explains the chosen Latin letters?", "kind": "definition", "id": "faithful-conversion-q01" }, { "text": "Does normalization preserve consonant order, relevant marks and the distinction between observed and restored characters?", "kind": "action", "id": "faithful-conversion-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "textual-attestation", "name": "Textual attestation", "description": "Anchor occurrences and historical claims in inspectable witnesses.", "rationale": "A modern rendering, a manuscript reading and a proposed ancient form provide different evidence about the name.", "layers": [ { "id": "witness-location", "name": "Witness location", "description": "Identify the object or edition and the exact location of an occurrence.", "findings": [ { "id": "locatable-occurrence", "name": "Locatable occurrence", "description": "Connect each asserted occurrence to an image, transcription or critical edition with a precise locator.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which shelfmark, inscription identifier or edition and passage locate this occurrence?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "locatable-occurrence-q01" }, { "text": "Was the reading checked against an image, a transcription or a secondary report?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "locatable-occurrence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "dating-and-variation", "name": "Dating and variation", "description": "Compare witnesses without confusing chronology, restoration and textual difference.", "findings": [ { "id": "historical-comparison", "name": "Historical comparison", "description": "Record dating uncertainty and classify differences among corresponding occurrences.", "questions": [ { "text": "What date interval applies to the physical witness, and what evidence supports it?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "historical-comparison-q01" }, { "text": "Does a difference reflect spelling, script, omission, substitution, damage or editorial reconstruction?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "historical-comparison-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "reading-and-meaning", "name": "Reading and meaning", "description": "Separate pronunciation proposals, reading conventions and interpretations of the name.", "rationale": "Written consonants alone do not settle how a community reads the name or how its origin should be explained.", "layers": [ { "id": "vocalization-evidence", "name": "Vocalization evidence", "description": "Assess proposed pronunciations through explicitly identified evidence.", "findings": [ { "id": "pronunciation-claim", "name": "Pronunciation claim", "description": "Treat each vocalization as an attributed claim with a period, evidentiary basis and confidence level.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence supports this proposed vocalization, and to which period does the claim apply?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "pronunciation-claim-q01" }, { "text": "Does the form represent reconstructed pronunciation, conventional modern usage or a prescribed substitute reading?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "pronunciation-claim-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "etymology-and-interpretation", "name": "Etymology and interpretation", "description": "Distinguish linguistic explanations from theological and symbolic readings.", "findings": [ { "id": "attributed-meaning", "name": "Attributed meaning", "description": "Record proposed meanings with their method and attribution instead of assigning one uncontested gloss.", "questions": [ { "text": "What linguistic argument or interpretive authority supports the proposed meaning?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "attributed-meaning-q01" }, { "text": "Is the explanation an etymology, a textual wordplay, a theological interpretation or a later symbolic association?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "attributed-meaning-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "contextual-use", "name": "Contextual use", "description": "Determine appropriate presentation and handling in a specified community and medium.", "rationale": "Actions involving a sacred name depend on the requested setting and the authority of the applicable convention.", "layers": [ { "id": "display-and-speech", "name": "Display and speech", "description": "Choose written and spoken output using documented audience requirements.", "findings": [ { "id": "contextual-rendering", "name": "Contextual rendering", "description": "Connect the selected rendering to the target edition, community or user preference while retaining its relationship to the source.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which audience, edition or community convention governs the requested display or spoken rendering?", "kind": "action", "id": "contextual-rendering-q01" }, { "text": "How will the output distinguish the source spelling from a translation or substitute reading?", "kind": "action", "id": "contextual-rendering-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "sacred-text-handling", "name": "Sacred-text handling", "description": "Record applicable conventions for creating, altering or disposing of representations.", "findings": [ { "id": "medium-specific-guidance", "name": "Medium-specific guidance", "description": "Determine whether an attributed handling convention applies to the particular representation and medium.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which cited authority addresses copying, erasing or disposing of this form of the name?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "medium-specific-guidance-q01" }, { "text": "Does that guidance apply to this handwritten, printed, displayed or digitally stored representation?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "medium-specific-guidance-q02" }, { "text": "What handling action follows from the applicable convention and the user's stated requirements?", "kind": "action", "id": "medium-specific-guidance-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-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "This describes the familiar religious and linguistic sense. The supplied PHY.LIV domain and organism context appear inconsistent with it; the registry's intended referent should be checked first.", "No biological taxon, taxonomic authority, or organism identifier is confidently recalled for this exact name.", "The ancient pronunciation is reconstructed, and usage rules differ among religious communities." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of Tetragrammaton this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "Hebrew consonantal spelling", "value_or_pattern": "יהוה", "note": "The letters are yod, he, vav, he; YHWH is a common scholarly transliteration." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of Tetragrammaton this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Study of the Hebrew Bible, ancient Israelite religion, and the history of divine names.", "Biblical translation, where translators distinguish retaining the name from substituting a title.", "Jewish reading practices, which commonly substitute Adonai in liturgical reading and HaShem in ordinary reference." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Tetragrammaton this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Treating a reconstructed pronunciation as historically certain.", "Confusing the written divine name with titles substituted when reading it aloud.", "Disregarding religious restrictions concerning pronunciation, inscription, or disposal of texts bearing the name." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Tetragrammaton this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Rendering varies by religious and translation tradition: many English Bibles use LORD, while some translations retain a transliteration." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of Tetragrammaton this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Yahweh", "difference": "A scholarly reconstruction of the pronunciation; Tetragrammaton designates the four-letter written name." }, { "name": "Jehovah", "difference": "A historically developed vocalized form used in some Christian traditions, rather than the Hebrew consonantal spelling itself." }, { "name": "Adonai", "difference": "A Hebrew title commonly substituted in reading for the divine name, rather than the four-letter name." }, { "name": "HaShem", "difference": "A Hebrew expression meaning 'the Name', used to refer to the divine name without pronouncing it." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of Tetragrammaton this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "What upstream registry evidence explains the PHY / PHY.LIV assignment, and does it confirm the divine-name sense?", "Does an existing Vercy world model already own this concept, requiring a registry link instead of a separate publication?", "Which primary witnesses and critical editions should anchor the initial attestation set, and what dating uncertainties do they carry?", "Which pronunciation and etymology proposals have sufficient evidence to include, and how should disagreement be represented?", "Which contemporary community authorities should govern display, speech and handling guidance for each intended audience and medium?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 16, "questions": 27 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "organism", "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. This entry carries no facets of its own, so they were inferred from its domain - a guess about a whole domain applied to one thing.", "facetsInferred": true, "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 Tetragrammaton, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an agent to identify representations of the Tetragrammaton, assess evidence about their reading and use, and choose contextually appropriate transcription, display and speech.", "characteristics": { "substance": "living", "origin": "natural", "agency": "autonomous", "mobility": "self-moving" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: ܞ.", "1 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 73 Wikipedia languages, which is a measure of how widely the thing is known, not of how important it is." ], "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 Tetragrammaton, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "a living thing", "physicalCharacter": [ "Moves under its own power or of its own accord.", "Acts on its own behalf.", "These come from the domain this entry sits in rather than from the entry itself, so treat them as a first guess about the whole domain applied to one thing." ], "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [ "observe it, measure it, record its state" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "Recognised by diagnostic characters, and those differ by life stage - the young of many kinds are mistaken for other kinds entirely. A sighting is settled by characters, a photograph and a place, not by a name alone." ], "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": [ "ܞ" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 73 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 1 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 Tetragrammaton from another, and a Tetragrammaton 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 Tetragrammaton, 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 Tetragrammaton, 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 Tetragrammaton 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 Tetragrammaton, 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 Tetragrammaton, 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 Tetragrammaton 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 Tetragrammaton 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 Tetragrammaton, 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 Tetragrammaton, 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 Tetragrammaton 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 Tetragrammaton from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Tetragrammaton, 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 Tetragrammaton, 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 Tetragrammaton 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 Tetragrammaton 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.", "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 Tetragrammaton, 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 Tetragrammaton, 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 Tetragrammaton 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": "Anatomy, parts and life stage.", "findings": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials", "name": "Parts and life stages", "description": "The parts of a Tetragrammaton and the stages it passes through.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a Tetragrammaton, 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 Tetragrammaton, 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 Tetragrammaton 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 Tetragrammaton is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a Tetragrammaton, 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 Tetragrammaton, 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 Tetragrammaton 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 Tetragrammaton is, how it got there and where it may go (self-moving).", "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 Tetragrammaton is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a Tetragrammaton, 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 Tetragrammaton, 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 Tetragrammaton 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 Tetragrammaton moves on its own.", "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 Tetragrammaton, 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 Tetragrammaton, 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 Tetragrammaton 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 Tetragrammaton 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 Tetragrammaton between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Tetragrammaton, 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 Tetragrammaton, 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 Tetragrammaton 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 Tetragrammaton, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Tetragrammaton 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 Tetragrammaton, 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 Tetragrammaton, 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 Tetragrammaton is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "taxonomic-placement", "name": "Taxonomic placement and identification", "description": "What Tetragrammaton is called scientifically, by whose authority, and how a specimen is recognised.", "rationale": "Names change with revisions while the organism does not, so a name without its authority and date cannot be reconciled later.", "layers": [ { "id": "accepted-name", "name": "Accepted name and synonymy", "description": "The current binomial, its author and date, and the names it replaced.", "findings": [ { "id": "name-and-authority", "name": "Accepted name, authority and synonyms", "description": "What to record so a later revision can be applied without losing the old data.", "questions": [ { "id": "name-and-authority-q01", "text": "What is the accepted scientific name of Tetragrammaton, with its author and year, and which synonyms does it absorb?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "name-and-authority-q02", "text": "Which taxonomic authority is being followed, and what would a competing authority say?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "field-identification", "name": "Field identification", "description": "The characters that separate Tetragrammaton from what it is confused with.", "findings": [ { "id": "diagnostic-characters", "name": "Diagnostic characters and confusable kinds", "description": "Features that settle an identification, and those that only suggest it.", "questions": [ { "id": "diagnostic-characters-q01", "text": "Which observable characters distinguish Tetragrammaton from its closest look-alikes, and at which life stage are they visible?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "diagnostic-characters-q02", "text": "What evidence is enough to record an identification as confirmed rather than provisional?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "life-cycle-and-condition", "name": "Life stages, condition and behaviour", "description": "What Tetragrammaton does over its life and how its state is judged.", "rationale": "Stage and condition change what may be done - handled, treated, harvested, left alone - and both are observations with a time.", "layers": [ { "id": "stages-and-reproduction", "name": "Stages and reproduction", "description": "Development from origin to death, including forms that look like different animals.", "findings": [ { "id": "life-stages", "name": "Life stages and their marks", "description": "The stages worth recording and what tells them apart.", "questions": [ { "id": "life-stages-q01", "text": "What stages does Tetragrammaton pass through, and what observable change marks each transition?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "life-stages-q02", "text": "Which stages are so unlike the adult that they are mistaken for another kind?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "health-and-condition", "name": "Health and condition", "description": "How condition is assessed and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "condition-assessment", "name": "Condition assessment", "description": "Signs of health, injury and stress, and who is competent to judge them.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "How is the condition of Tetragrammaton judged, on what scale, and by whom?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "condition-assessment-q02", "text": "What condition obliges an agent to act, and what act is permitted to whom?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "range-and-status", "name": "Habitat, range and conservation status", "description": "Where Tetragrammaton lives and how threatened it is.", "rationale": "Range and status govern what is lawful, and both are assessments with an assessor and a year rather than facts of nature.", "layers": [ { "id": "habitat-and-range", "name": "Habitat and range", "description": "Native range, introductions and the habitat it needs.", "findings": [ { "id": "range-record", "name": "Range, introductions and habitat", "description": "What to record about where it is found and how it got there.", "questions": [ { "id": "range-record-q01", "text": "What is the native range of Tetragrammaton, where has it been introduced, and what habitat does it require?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "range-record-q02", "text": "What distinguishes a native record from an introduced or vagrant one?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "protection-status", "name": "Protection and legal status", "description": "Conservation assessments and the rules that follow from them.", "findings": [ { "id": "status-and-rules", "name": "Conservation status and legal consequence", "description": "The assessment, its date, and what it forbids or requires where.", "questions": [ { "id": "status-and-rules-q01", "text": "What conservation status does Tetragrammaton hold, under which assessment and year?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "status-and-rules-q02", "text": "What does that status forbid or require of an agent, and in which jurisdiction?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a Tetragrammaton 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 Tetragrammaton and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Tetragrammaton, 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 Tetragrammaton, 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 Tetragrammaton 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 Tetragrammaton is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Tetragrammaton, 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 Tetragrammaton, 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 Tetragrammaton 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 } } } }