{ "model": { "rank": 498, "code": "thing-q1072", "model_id": "vr.tr.heart", "name": "heart", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a biological heart, assess the evidence about its pumping state and identify actions appropriate to its organism, condition and care context.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.OBJ", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q1072/", "tier": 2, "score": 256, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "beef heart", "human heart", "human female heart", "human male heart", "two-chambered heart", "Branchial heart" ], "aliasCount": 6, "merged": 6, "knownIn": 256, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": "vr.tr.heart-artifact", "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q1072", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1072", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": 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gradient driving blood or hemolymph through an animal's vascular circuits.", "scope_statement": "This model owns a biological heart as an individual muscular circulatory pump, including its intrinsic anatomy, excitation, contraction, tissue supply and organ-level condition, whether in an organism or maintained outside one; interpretation must be specific to species and developmental stage.", "in_scope": [ "Identification of the heart and its relationship to an organism or specimen", "Chambers, partitions, valves where present, and connections governing flow through the heart", "Intrinsic excitation, rhythm and coordinated contraction", "Filling, ejection and contribution to circulatory flow", "Myocardial perfusion, tissue integrity and organ-level abnormalities", "Heart-directed observation, support and intervention constraints" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Whole-body circulation and systemic vascular disease beyond their effects on the heart", "Blood composition and blood-cell disorders as independently managed entities", "Lung function and gas exchange beyond their relationship to cardiac loading and output", "Whole-organism diagnosis, prognosis and treatment planning", "Design and maintenance of artificial hearts, pacemakers and other devices", "Symbolic hearts, emotional states and heart-shaped objects" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Establish that the referent is a biological organ with muscular pumping tissue, rather than a symbol, image label or mechanical pump.", "Identify an organised pumping compartment or compartments connected to the organism's circulatory pathways, rather than assuming any pulsating vessel is a heart.", "Distinguish the whole heart from a valve, myocardial fragment, vessel or cultured cardiac tissue using anatomical boundaries and specimen provenance.", "Check identification against the species and developmental stage rather than requiring adult human chamber anatomy.", "Retain heart identity when contraction has stopped; activity establishes functional state, not organ identity." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Organism and developmental context", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Organism or donor reference; taxon; developmental stage", "why_it_matters": "Determines which anatomy and functional comparisons are applicable." }, { "name": "Anatomical configuration", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Observed pumping compartments, partitions, valves and vessel connections; unknown components explicit", "why_it_matters": "Establishes the route of blood flow and prevents inappropriate anatomical assumptions." }, { "name": "Physical situation", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "In situ, explanted, transplanted, ex vivo perfused or preserved; with timestamp", "why_it_matters": "Changes how function can be assessed and which actions are possible." }, { "name": "Cardiac rate", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Beats/min with method, observation interval and physiological context", "why_it_matters": "Describes contraction or electrical event frequency while preserving how it was measured." }, { "name": "Rhythm and activation pattern", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Observed regularity, activation origin and conduction pattern; spontaneous, paced or unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Supports assessment of coordinated excitation without treating rate alone as sufficient." }, { "name": "Flow output", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Volume/time, such as mL/min or L/min; route, method and any normalisation stated", "why_it_matters": "Records effective pumping rather than inferring it from visible or electrical activity." }, { "name": "Filling and ejection pressures", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Pa or mmHg with compartment, cardiac phase, reference and method", "why_it_matters": "Helps relate pumping performance to the conditions under which the heart is operating." }, { "name": "Myocardial tissue condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Observed perfusion, injury, scarring, inflammation or viability evidence by region; unknown permitted", "why_it_matters": "Separates tissue condition from rhythm and overall output." }, { "name": "Support dependence", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Linked pacing, medication, mechanical support or perfusion system with active settings and observation time", "why_it_matters": "Prevents supported performance from being mistaken for unassisted function." } ], "affordances": [ "Identify and map the heart's anatomy using observations appropriate to the organism or specimen.", "Record and compare rhythm, flow and tissue observations under documented conditions.", "Flag findings that require qualified clinical, veterinary or research review.", "Track the observed response to an authorised heart-directed intervention.", "Assess whether proposed imaging, sampling, pacing, support or preservation actions meet documented prerequisites.", "Link the heart to its organism, circulation and supporting devices for coordinated assessment." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "gray", "title": "Gray's Anatomy: The Anatomical Basis of Clinical Practice (Elsevier)", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Human cardiac anatomy, chambers, valves, conduction tissue, and relations in the mediastinum." }, { "id": "guyton", "title": "Guyton and Hall Textbook of Medical Physiology (Elsevier)", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Pump function, cardiac cycle, heart rate, stroke volume, cardiac output, and failure of the pump." }, { "id": "wikidata-q1072", "title": "Wikidata item Q1072, Heart (Wikimedia Foundation)", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1072", "what_it_supports": "Canonical identifier and cross-walks to FMA, MeSH, SNOMED CT, and other schemes.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "uberon", "title": "Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology, UBERON:0000948 heart (OBO Foundry)", "url": "http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0000948", "what_it_supports": "Comparative anatomical class covering vertebrate and some invertebrate hearts.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "fipat-ta", "title": "Terminologia Anatomica (FIPAT / International Federation of Associations of Anatomists)", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Official Latin/English anatomical name Cor / heart and the A12 cardiac chapter." }, { "id": "ase-chambers-2015", "title": "Recommendations for Cardiac Chamber Quantification by Echocardiography in Adults (American Society of Echocardiography / European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging, 2015)", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Typical adult ranges for chamber size, wall thickness, and ejection fraction." } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "cardiac-identity-and-anatomy", "name": "Cardiac identity and anatomy", "description": "Establish which heart is represented and how its pumping structures connect.", "rationale": "Heart recognition must accommodate species differences, developmental changes and altered anatomy.", "layers": [ { "id": "organ-identity", "name": "Organ identity", "description": "Resolve biological identity, ownership and the boundary of the represented organ.", "findings": [ { "id": "identified-biological-heart", "name": "Identified biological heart", "description": "Record the evidence identifying the referent as a heart and linking it to an organism or specimen.", "questions": [ { "text": "What observations establish that this is a heart rather than a vessel, tissue fragment or artificial pump?", "kind": "definition", "id": "identified-biological-heart-q01" }, { "text": "Which organism or donor, species and developmental stage does this heart belong to, and how was that association established?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "identified-biological-heart-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "pumping-anatomy", "name": "Pumping anatomy", "description": "Describe compartments and connections without imposing one species' anatomy.", "findings": [ { "id": "cardiac-flow-path", "name": "Cardiac flow path", "description": "Record observed chambers, partitions, valves where present, and inflow and outflow connections.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which pumping compartments and connections are present, and what evidence establishes their arrangement?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "cardiac-flow-path-q01" }, { "text": "Where does this model's heart boundary end at vessels, surrounding tissues and attached devices?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "cardiac-flow-path-q02" }, { "text": "Which observed structures reflect developmental anatomy, variation, disease or previous reconstruction?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "cardiac-flow-path-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "excitation-and-contraction", "name": "Excitation and contraction", "description": "Represent how cardiac activation relates to muscular pumping activity.", "rationale": "Electrical events, contractions and effective circulation are distinct observations that must be reconciled.", "layers": [ { "id": "rhythm-and-conduction", "name": "Rhythm and conduction", "description": "Characterise activation timing, origin and propagation.", "findings": [ { "id": "observed-activation-pattern", "name": "Observed activation pattern", "description": "Record rate and rhythm with the signal source, interpretation and uncertainty.", "questions": [ { "text": "What rate, regularity and conduction pattern were observed, using which signals and observation interval?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "observed-activation-pattern-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence distinguishes spontaneous activation, paced activation and recording artefact?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "observed-activation-pattern-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "mechanical-coordination", "name": "Mechanical coordination", "description": "Assess the timing and distribution of contraction relative to activation.", "findings": [ { "id": "activation-contraction-relationship", "name": "Activation-contraction relationship", "description": "Record whether observed activation corresponds to coordinated chamber or regional contraction.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which regions or compartments contract, and how does their timing relate to recorded activation?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "activation-contraction-relationship-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence shows that observed contractions produce ejection rather than motion alone?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "activation-contraction-relationship-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "filling-and-circulatory-output", "name": "Filling and circulatory output", "description": "Assess blood entry, passage and delivery under the observed operating conditions.", "rationale": "Pumping adequacy depends on both heart performance and the loads and demands placed on it.", "layers": [ { "id": "filling-and-flow-restrictions", "name": "Filling and flow restrictions", "description": "Represent filling conditions and impediments or abnormal routes within the heart.", "findings": [ { "id": "intracardiac-flow-conditions", "name": "Intracardiac flow conditions", "description": "Record filling, pressure differences and evidence of restricted or abnormal flow.", "questions": [ { "text": "What filling volumes, pressures or flow observations are available, and at which locations and cardiac phases?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "intracardiac-flow-conditions-q01" }, { "text": "Is there evidence of obstruction, reverse flow or an abnormal connection, and where is it located?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "intracardiac-flow-conditions-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "effective-output", "name": "Effective output", "description": "Relate delivered flow to demand, loading and support.", "findings": [ { "id": "contextual-pumping-performance", "name": "Contextual pumping performance", "description": "Record output and its interpretation under specified physiological or experimental conditions.", "questions": [ { "text": "What forward output was measured or estimated, by what method and with what uncertainty?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "contextual-pumping-performance-q01" }, { "text": "Which activity, loading, temperature and support conditions accompanied the observation?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "contextual-pumping-performance-q02" }, { "text": "What evidence belongs to the heart assessment, and what additional organism-level evidence is needed to judge whether output is adequate?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "contextual-pumping-performance-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "myocardial-supply-and-integrity", "name": "Myocardial supply and integrity", "description": "Assess the supply and condition of the tissue that performs cardiac work.", "rationale": "A heart's current motion does not by itself establish adequate tissue supply or preserved tissue integrity.", "layers": [ { "id": "myocardial-perfusion", "name": "Myocardial perfusion", "description": "Represent the heart's own tissue supply using anatomy appropriate to the organism.", "findings": [ { "id": "tissue-supply-evidence", "name": "Tissue supply evidence", "description": "Record evidence about myocardial blood supply and suspected regional deficits.", "questions": [ { "text": "How is myocardial tissue supplied in this organism, and which supplying structures have been identified?", "kind": "definition", "id": "tissue-supply-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "What observations support adequate or impaired tissue perfusion, and which regions and times do they cover?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "tissue-supply-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "tissue-injury-and-remodelling", "name": "Tissue injury and remodelling", "description": "Track structural tissue changes and the evidence supporting their interpretation.", "findings": [ { "id": "regional-tissue-condition", "name": "Regional tissue condition", "description": "Separate observed tissue changes from inferred causes and reversibility.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence identifies injury, scarring, inflammation or altered myocardial thickness, and where?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "regional-tissue-condition-q01" }, { "text": "Which claims about cause, timing and reversibility are established, and which remain unresolved?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "regional-tissue-condition-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "cardiac-course-and-action", "name": "Cardiac course and action", "description": "Connect changes in heart state to support, intervention history and permitted next actions.", "rationale": "Deciding what may be done requires knowing how the heart reached its current state and which prerequisites govern an action.", "layers": [ { "id": "state-and-support-history", "name": "State and support history", "description": "Track organ transitions and distinguish intrinsic from supported performance.", "findings": [ { "id": "cardiac-state-trajectory", "name": "Cardiac state trajectory", "description": "Record comparable observations across interventions, support changes and changes of physical situation.", "questions": [ { "text": "What sequence of observations establishes improvement, deterioration or stability, and are their measurement conditions comparable?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "cardiac-state-trajectory-q01" }, { "text": "Which operations, transplant events, pacing changes or support changes preceded the observed state?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "cardiac-state-trajectory-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "heart-directed-action-constraints", "name": "Heart-directed action constraints", "description": "Specify evidence, authority and monitoring requirements for proposed actions.", "findings": [ { "id": "action-readiness", "name": "Action readiness", "description": "Record whether a proposed heart-directed action is supported by the available evidence and applicable care or research protocol.", "questions": [ { "text": "For the proposed imaging, sampling, pacing, support or preservation action, what prerequisites, contraindications and qualified authorisation apply?", "kind": "action", "id": "action-readiness-q01" }, { "text": "Which cardiac observations must be monitored, and what protocol-defined findings require stopping or escalation?", "kind": "action", "id": "action-readiness-q02" }, { "text": "Which decisions require assessment of the whole organism or a linked device beyond this heart model?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "action-readiness-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": [ "Four-chambered mammalian heart (complete pulmonary-systemic separation; left aortic arch)", "Four-chambered avian heart (complete separation; right aortic arch)", "Three-chambered heart of amphibians and most non-crocodilian reptiles (two atria, one ventricle)", "Two-chambered piscine heart (chambers in series on a single gill circuit, often with sinus venosus and conus/bulbus arteriosus)", "Crocodilian heart (four chambers plus foramen of Panizza and cog-tooth valve)", "Fetal mammalian heart (foramen ovale and ductus arteriosus still patent)", "Invertebrate ostiate or tubular heart (e.g. arthropod dorsal vessel)", "Lymph hearts (accessory pulsatile lymph pumps in amphibians and some reptiles, distinct from the blood heart)" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of heart 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": "Q1072", "note": "Item for the anatomical organ, not the playing-card suit or the emotion sense." }, { "scheme": "UBERON", "value_or_pattern": "UBERON:0000948", "note": "Multi-species class 'heart'." }, { "scheme": "FMA", "value_or_pattern": "FMA:7088", "note": "Foundational Model of Anatomy; human heart." }, { "scheme": "Terminologia Anatomica", "value_or_pattern": "A12.1.00.001", "note": "Cor / heart." }, { "scheme": "MeSH", "value_or_pattern": "D006321", "note": "Descriptor Heart." }, { "scheme": "SNOMED CT", "value_or_pattern": "80891009", "note": "Heart structure (body structure)." }, { "scheme": "NCI Thesaurus", "value_or_pattern": "C12727", "note": "Heart." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of heart 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": [ "Terminologia Anatomica - FIPAT / International Federation of Associations of Anatomists (anatomical nomenclature).", "ICD-11, diseases of the circulatory system - World Health Organization (classifies pathology of the heart, not the organ as an entity).", "WHO Guiding Principles on Human Cell, Tissue and Organ Transplantation - World Health Organization.", "Directive 2010/53/EU on quality and safety of human organs intended for transplantation - European Union.", "ISHLT guidelines for listing and care of heart-transplant candidates - International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation.", "ISO 5840 series, Cardiovascular implants - Cardiac valve prostheses - International Organization for Standardization (governs devices implanted in the heart, not the native organ)." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of heart 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": [ "Clinical examination and imaging of living patients: apex beat, valve auscultation, ECG, echocardiography, cardiac MRI, and catheterisation.", "Cardiac surgery, coronary grafting, valve replacement, transplantation, and mechanical circulatory support.", "Veterinary diagnosis and meat-inspection of the organ as offal.", "Forensic pathology when assigning a cardiac cause of death.", "Anatomy teaching on cadaveric or plastinated specimens.", "Culinary use as a muscle-offal cut." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of heart 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": "Resting heart rate (adult human)", "typical_range": "60-100", "unit": "beats/min" }, { "quantity": "Heart mass (adult human)", "typical_range": "250-350", "unit": "g" }, { "quantity": "Stroke volume (adult rest)", "typical_range": "60-100", "unit": "mL" }, { "quantity": "Cardiac output (adult rest)", "typical_range": "4-8", "unit": "L/min" }, { "quantity": "Left-ventricular ejection fraction (adult)", "typical_range": "50-70", "unit": "%" }, { "quantity": "LV wall thickness at end-diastole (adult echo)", "typical_range": "6-11", "unit": "mm" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of heart 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": [ "Pump failure (reduced or preserved ejection fraction) with inadequate cardiac output or elevated filling pressures.", "Coronary occlusion and myocardial infarction, including free-wall rupture and post-infarct septal defect.", "Tachyarrhythmia or bradyarrhythmia, including ventricular fibrillation and asystole, causing sudden cardiac death.", "Valvular stenosis or regurgitation overloading chambers or restricting forward flow.", "Cardiomyopathy, myocarditis, and pericardial tamponade.", "Congenital structural defects (septal, outflow, looping).", "Allograft rejection after transplantation.", "Blunt or penetrating trauma to the cardiac chambers." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of heart 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": [ "Traditional Chinese medicine uses Heart/Xin for a functional viscus that includes mental activity and is not coextensive with the anatomical organ.", "Ayurvedic hridaya is likewise a broader functional seat than the dissected pump.", "English collapses anatomical, affective, and graphic senses in one word; Japanese (心臓 vs 心) and some other languages split them.", "As food, naming and butchery of heart offal vary (corazón, coeur, Herz) and inspection rules differ by jurisdiction." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of heart 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": "Pericardium", "difference": "Fibrous and serous sac around the heart; separated on dissection and on imaging by the epicardial surface versus the pericardial layers and cavity." }, { "name": "Great arteries (aorta, pulmonary trunk)", "difference": "Elastic vessels arising beyond the semilunar valves; distinguished from myocardium by the valve plane and by histology." }, { "name": "Thymus", "difference": "Anterior mediastinal lymphoid organ that can silhouette like heart on a child's chest radiograph; CT/MRI location and tissue character separate it from cardiac chambers." }, { "name": "Lymph heart", "difference": "Accessory lymph pump in some amphibians and reptiles; it does not open into the blood-filled cardiac chambers." }, { "name": "Total artificial heart or ventricular assist device", "difference": "Manufactured blood pump; distinguished by implant record, serial identification, and absence of native myocardium." }, { "name": "Graphic or affective 'heart'", "difference": "Metaphor or playing-card/emoji shape; no anatomical structure and no UBERON/FMA organ identifier." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of heart this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does the registry intend heart to cover all biological hearts, including accessory hearts and developmental forms, or a narrower taxonomic scope?", "Where should the organ boundary fall for the pericardium, supplying vessels, great-vessel roots and surgically attached material?", "Which species-, stage- and context-specific reference sources should govern interpretation of anatomy, rate, pressures and output?", "What evidence standards should distinguish absent pumping, reversible dysfunction, tissue nonviability and suitability for transplantation or research?", "How should organ identity persist across transplantation, partial reconstruction and replacement of substantial structures with artificial components?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 18, "questions": 31 } }, "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. 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Form alone rarely separates two models that do very different things." ], "relatedModels": [ { "relation": "covers", "note": "Finer kinds folded into this entry because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it. Each is a model waiting to be split out when one does.", "targets": [ "beef heart", "human heart", "human female heart", "human male heart", "two-chambered heart", "Branchial heart" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 256 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 6 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 heart from another, and a heart 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 heart, 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 heart, 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 heart 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 heart, 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 heart, 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 heart 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 heart 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 heart, 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 heart, 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 heart 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 heart from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a heart, 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 heart, 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 heart 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 heart 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 heart, 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 heart, 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 heart 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 heart is built from and which parts are replaceable.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a heart, 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 heart, 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 heart 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 heart is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a heart, 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 heart, 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 heart 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 heart is, how it got there and where it may go (varies).", "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 heart is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a heart, 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 heart, 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 heart 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 heart 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 heart, 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 heart, 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 heart 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 heart 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 heart between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a heart, 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 heart, 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 heart 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 heart, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a heart 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 heart, 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 heart, 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 heart 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 heart 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 heart 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 heart, 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 heart 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 heart 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 heart 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 heart 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 heart 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 heart, 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 heart 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 heart and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a heart, 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 heart, 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 heart 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 heart is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a heart, 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 heart, 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 heart 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 } } } }