{ "model": { "rank": 1731, "code": "thing-q11009", "model_id": "vr.tr.nut", "name": "nut", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a biological nut, assess its shell, kernel and potential viability, and determine suitable handling or use from recorded evidence.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.OBJ", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q11009/", "tier": 2, "score": 130, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "beechnut", "kola nut", "Ginnan" ], "aliasCount": 3, "merged": 3, "knownIn": 130, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": "vr.tr.nut-artifact", "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q11009", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11009", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-06T21:44:17Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "missingProviders": [ "Grok" ], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "usd": null, "turns": null, "seconds": 2.3, "error": "Error: Internal error: {\n \"message\": \"API error (status 402 Payment Required): Grok Build usage balance exhausted\",\n \"http_status\": 402\n}", "retried": true }, "codex": { "seconds": 60.3, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.3\n--------\nworkdir: R:\\02_PROJECTS\\02_Meta_Models_Platforms\\Ver.cy\\current\\thing-registry-backlog\nmodel: gpt-6-astra\nprovider: openai\napproval: never\nsandbox: read-only\nreasoning effort: none\nreasoning summaries: none\nsession id: 01a078ac-fb82-7b50-9b91-3afcc74c6e86\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. 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"Identity of the nut and the meaning of the name applied to it", "Physical form, including whether shell and kernel remain associated", "Shell integrity, kernel accessibility and recoverable contents", "Maturity, deterioration and evidence relevant to food suitability", "Potential viability and constraints on storage, opening or planting" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Threaded mechanical nuts and their fastening interfaces", "The parent plant as a whole organism", "Orchard management and cultivation systems", "Nut butters, oils, flours and other transformed products", "Commercial lot sampling, inventory and packaging systems", "An individual consumer's allergy diagnosis or dietary requirements" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Establish biological origin and enclosing plant tissues to distinguish the item from a threaded fastener.", "Record fruit and seed anatomy to test whether 'nut' describes a botanical fruit type or a culinary grouping.", "Check whether the item is an intact enclosing structure, an extracted kernel or an empty shell before treating those forms as equivalent.", "Distinguish a naturally hard enclosing tissue from a hard coating added during processing.", "Identify the source plant where possible; a common name containing 'nut' alone does not establish botanical identity or food suitability." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Source plant identity", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Scientific identification with confidence and method; unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Identity governs interpretation of anatomy, possible uses and species-specific constraints." }, { "name": "Basis for the nut designation", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Botanical designation; culinary designation; both; unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Prevents a common label from silently determining the model boundary." }, { "name": "Presented form", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "With outer covering; in shell; partially opened; extracted kernel; fragment; empty shell", "why_it_matters": "Determines what can be inspected and which actions preserve the item." }, { "name": "Shell integrity", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Apparently intact; cracked; perforated; opened; absent; unassessed", "why_it_matters": "Affects protection of the kernel, access and interpretation of damage." }, { "name": "Dimensions and mass", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Length, width and thickness in mm; mass in g; measured component stated", "why_it_matters": "Supports identification, opening-tool selection and comparison of shell and kernel yield." }, { "name": "Kernel occupancy", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Filled; partially filled; empty; inaccessible; unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Separates an apparently complete nut from one lacking usable internal contents." }, { "name": "Moisture content", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Percent, with wet or dry basis, sampled tissue and method recorded", "why_it_matters": "Supports 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designation is botanical or culinary.", "Inspect or image the shell and kernel while recording limits of visibility.", "Open the enclosing tissues and recover the kernel using an appropriate method.", "Select storage or drying conditions from identity, moisture and intended-use evidence.", "Route the nut for food assessment, propagation assessment or exclusion from an intended use.", "Test viability or initiate a documented germination procedure when identity and condition support it." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "nut-identity-and-boundary", "name": "Nut identity and boundary", "description": "Establish what the item is and why it is being treated as a nut.", "rationale": "Botanical and culinary uses of 'nut' can produce different membership and component boundaries.", "layers": [ { "id": "designation-and-identification", "name": "Designation and identification", "description": "Separate the applied name from the evidence identifying the source plant.", "findings": [ { "id": "basis-of-nut-identification", "name": "Basis of nut identification", "description": "Record the proposed identity, supporting observations and interpretation of the word 'nut'.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does 'nut' refer here to a botanical fruit type, a culinary grouping or an unresolved common name?", "kind": "definition", "id": "basis-of-nut-identification-q01" }, { "text": "What specimen features or traceable source records support the plant identification?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "basis-of-nut-identification-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "specimen-and-component-boundary", "name": "Specimen and component boundary", "description": "Determine which enclosing tissues and internal contents constitute the modelled item.", "findings": [ { "id": "included-nut-components", "name": "Included nut components", "description": "Make the boundary between outer covering, shell, seed tissues and detached remnants explicit.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which visible tissues are an outer covering, a hard enclosing structure or part of the seed?", "kind": "definition", "id": "included-nut-components-q01" }, { "text": "After shelling, does the extracted kernel retain this item's identity or require a linked component record?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "included-nut-components-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "shell-and-kernel-access", "name": "Shell and kernel access", "description": "Describe the enclosing structure and how access affects the kernel.", "rationale": "Opening a nut changes its protective boundary and may damage contents needed for food assessment or propagation.", "layers": [ { "id": "enclosure-condition", "name": "Enclosure condition", "description": "Assess the shell or other hard enclosing tissue before opening.", "findings": [ { "id": "shell-integrity-and-entry-points", "name": "Shell integrity and entry points", "description": "Record cracks, holes, seams and other features relevant to protection and access.", "questions": [ { "text": "Where are cracks, perforations or openings, and do they expose the kernel?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "shell-integrity-and-entry-points-q01" }, { "text": "Which features appear natural, and which have evidence of handling damage or pest activity?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "shell-integrity-and-entry-points-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "opening-and-recovery", "name": "Opening and recovery", "description": "Choose access methods appropriate to the shell and the intended condition of the recovered kernel.", "findings": [ { "id": "kernel-preserving-access", "name": "Kernel-preserving access", "description": "Record how the nut can be opened and what is recovered or damaged.", "questions": [ { "text": "What opening method is supported for this nut's identity, dimensions and intended use?", "kind": "action", "id": "kernel-preserving-access-q01" }, { "text": "What mass of kernel is recovered, and what fraction remains whole or contains shell fragments?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "kernel-preserving-access-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "kernel-development-and-viability", "name": "Kernel development and viability", "description": "Assess internal development and evidence for possible germination.", "rationale": "Shell appearance, kernel filling and propagation potential are distinct judgements.", "layers": [ { "id": "internal-development", "name": "Internal development", "description": "Determine whether internal contents are present and developed as expected for the identified nut.", "findings": [ { "id": "kernel-filling-and-maturity", "name": "Kernel filling and maturity", "description": "Record occupancy, development and evidence supporting a maturity judgement.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is the enclosing structure empty, partially filled or filled, and how was that established?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "kernel-filling-and-maturity-q01" }, { "text": "Which identity-specific observations support the proposed maturity stage?", "kind": "definition", "id": "kernel-filling-and-maturity-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "propagation-potential", "name": "Propagation potential", "description": "Keep viability, dormancy and germination evidence separate.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-for-germination-potential", "name": "Evidence for germination potential", "description": "Record tests and treatment history without inferring viability solely from appearance.", "questions": [ { "text": "What test, observed germination or treatment record supports the current viability assessment?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "evidence-for-germination-potential-q01" }, { "text": "What identity-specific procedure would assess germination potential, including any unresolved dormancy requirements?", "kind": "action", "id": "evidence-for-germination-potential-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "nut-condition-and-food-assessment", "name": "Nut condition and food assessment", "description": "Record deterioration and the evidence required to judge an intended food use.", 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"What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a nut 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 nut 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 nut, 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 nut, 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 nut 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 nut from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a nut, 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 nut, 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 nut 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 nut 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 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"parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a nut, 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 nut, 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 nut 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", 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"position-and-frame-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the location of a nut 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 nut 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 nut, 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 nut, 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 nut 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 nut 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 nut between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a nut, 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 nut, 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 nut 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 nut, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a nut 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 nut, 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 nut, 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 nut 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 nut 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 nut 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 nut, 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 nut 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 nut 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 nut 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 nut 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 nut 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 nut, 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 nut 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 nut and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a nut, 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 nut, 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 nut 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 nut is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a nut, 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 nut, 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 nut is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, 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