{ "model": { "rank": 1102, "code": "thing-q12206", "model_id": "vr.tr.diabetes", "name": "diabetes", "purpose": "Let an agent explain diabetes in general terms, prioritise emergencies such as severe hypoglycaemia and diabetic ketoacidosis, and point to clinical care and support, without diagnosis or personal treatment advice.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Information and virtual systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "INF", "domain": "INF.KNW", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q12206/", "tier": 2, "score": 182, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "Donohue syndrome", "congenital generalized lipodystrophy type 4", "Grinspan's syndrome", "diabulimia", "Rabson–Mendenhall syndrome", "insulin resistance", "diabetes mellitus,insulin dependent type with hyperosmolarity", "Wolfram-like syndrome", "diabetic ketoacidosis", "steroid diabetes", "Insulin-resistance syndrome type A", "Insulin-resistance syndrome type B", 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null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": "vr.tr.diabetes", "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q12206", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12206", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-11T11:26:49Z", "providers": [ "Claude" ], "breadth": "written by Claude from model knowledge without web access - no source was read, every claim is a lead to verify", "pass": 2, "wave": 1, "engine": "claude" }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q12206", "registryId": "vr.tr.diabetes", "name": "diabetes", "version": "0.2.0-wave.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "INF.KNW" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q12206/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.diabetes", "name": "diabetes", "purpose": "Let an agent explain diabetes in general terms, prioritise emergencies such as severe hypoglycaemia and diabetic ketoacidosis, and point to clinical care and support, without diagnosis or personal treatment advice.", "definition": "A group of metabolic conditions characterised by high blood glucose due to problems with insulin production or action, mainly type 1, type 2 and gestational diabetes, plus rarer genetic forms; managed with lifestyle, medicines and insulin under clinical care.", "what_it_is_for": "A common long-term condition needing reliable information and support.", "affordances": [ "recognise diabetes emergencies", "find reliable information and education", "find support organisations", "understand screening and risk in general terms" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "High blood glucose", "Insulin-related", "Long-term management", "Emergencies possible" ], "appearance": "Not visible in itself; signs may include thirst, frequent urination and tiredness.", "visual_identification": [ "Type 1, type 2, gestational", "HbA1c and glucose tests", "Diabetes insipidus is a different condition" ], "physical_properties": [], "families_and_kinds": [ "type 1 diabetes", "type 2 diabetes", "gestational diabetes", "monogenic and rare forms", "insulin resistance (related)" ], "related_models": [ { "relation": "is a kind of", "target": "glucose metabolism disease", "why": "category" }, { "relation": "involves", "target": "insulin", "why": "hormone" }, { "relation": "is managed by", "target": "diabetes care team", "why": "care" }, { "relation": "is related to", "target": "metabolic disease", "why": "category" } ], "identifiers": [ { "scheme": "ICD-11", "value_or_pattern": "5A10-5A14", "note": "diabetes mellitus" } ], "standards_and_regulation": [ "Clinical guidelines such as ADA and NICE", "Driving licence rules for diabetes" ], "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Missing hypoglycaemia or ketoacidosis", "Agents adjusting medication doses", "Stigmatising language" ], "in_scope": [], "out_of_scope": [], "characteristics": [] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "emergency", "name": "Emergency", "description": "Urgent signs.", "rationale": "Emergencies come first.", "layers": [ { "id": "hypo", "name": "Hypoglycaemia", "description": "Low glucose.", "findings": [ { "id": "hypo-finding", "name": "Hypoglycaemia", "description": "Severe hypoglycaemia.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is someone with diabetes confused, unconscious or unable to swallow?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "text": "Which emergency number should be called now?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "dka", "name": "Ketoacidosis", "description": "Very high glucose.", "findings": [ { "id": "dka-finding", "name": "Ketoacidosis", "description": "Diabetic ketoacidosis.", "questions": [ { "text": "Are there signs such as vomiting, rapid breathing or drowsiness in someone with diabetes?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "text": "Which urgent service should be contacted?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "care", "name": "Care", "description": "Clinical care.", "rationale": "Clinicians manage treatment.", "layers": [ { "id": "diagnosis", "name": "Diagnosis", "description": "Testing.", "findings": [ { "id": "diagnosis-finding", "name": "Diagnosis", "description": "Diagnosis.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is the user asking the agent to diagnose or adjust treatment?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "text": "How should they contact their clinician or diabetes team?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "education", "name": "Education", "description": "Structured programmes.", "findings": [ { "id": "education-finding", "name": "Education", "description": "Diabetes education.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which structured education programmes exist here?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "How can someone join?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "living", "name": "Living", "description": "Daily life.", "rationale": "Support helps.", "layers": [ { "id": "support", "name": "Support", "description": "Organisations.", "findings": [ { "id": "support-finding", "name": "Support", "description": "Support organisations.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which diabetes organisations offer support and helplines?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Is there support for eating distress related to insulin?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "rights", "name": "Rights", "description": "Work, school, driving.", "findings": [ { "id": "rights-finding", "name": "Rights", "description": "Rights and rules.", "questions": [ { "text": "What rules apply to driving, work or school with diabetes?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which authority must be told?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "prevention", "name": "Prevention", "description": "Risk.", "rationale": "Public guidance helps.", "layers": [ { "id": "screening", "name": "Screening", "description": "Risk checks.", "findings": [ { "id": "screening-finding", "name": "Screening", "description": "Screening.", "questions": [ { "text": "What screening or risk checks do health services offer?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Who is eligible?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "language", "name": "Language", "description": "Stigma.", "findings": [ { "id": "language-finding", "name": "Language", "description": "Respectful language.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the language avoid blame and stigma?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "text": "Is it person-first?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Should diabetes types be separate entries?", "How should support be localised?", "How should alias lists be curated?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 4, "layers": 8, "findings": 8, "questions": 16 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "discipline or field of knowledge", "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 diabetes, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Let an agent explain diabetes in general terms, prioritise emergencies such as severe hypoglycaemia and diabetic ketoacidosis, and point to clinical care and support, without diagnosis or personal treatment advice.", "characteristics": { "substance": "information", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "inert" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "read and interpreted" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: Donohue syndrome, congenital generalized lipodystrophy type 4, Grinspan's syndrome, diabulimia, Rabson–Mendenhall syndrome, insulin resistance, diabetes mellitus,insulin dependent type with hyperosmolarity, Wolfram-like syndrome, diabetic ketoacidosis, steroid diabetes, Insulin-resistance syndrome type A, Insulin-resistance syndrome type B.", "83 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 182 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 diabetes, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "content that has to be carried by something else", "physicalCharacter": [ "Does nothing on its own; everything it does, something else did to it.", "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": [ "read it and act on what it says" ], "howItIsRecognised": [], "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": [ "Donohue syndrome", "congenital generalized lipodystrophy type 4", "Grinspan's syndrome", "diabulimia", "Rabson–Mendenhall syndrome", "insulin resistance", "diabetes mellitus,insulin dependent type with hyperosmolarity", "Wolfram-like syndrome", "diabetic ketoacidosis", "steroid diabetes", "Insulin-resistance syndrome type A", "Insulin-resistance syndrome type B" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 182 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 83 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 diabetes from another, and a diabetes 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 diabetes, 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 diabetes, 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 diabetes 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 diabetes, 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 diabetes, 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 diabetes 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 diabetes 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 diabetes, 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 diabetes, 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 diabetes 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 diabetes from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a diabetes, 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 diabetes, 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 diabetes 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 diabetes 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 diabetes between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a diabetes, 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 diabetes, 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 diabetes 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 diabetes, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a diabetes 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 diabetes, 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 diabetes, 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 diabetes is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "content-and-access", "name": "Content, encoding and access", "description": "What a diabetes says, how it is encoded and who may read it.", "rationale": "An informational thing carries content that can be copied, versioned and withheld, none of which its physical carrier explains.", "layers": [ { "id": "content-and-encoding", "name": "Content and encoding", "description": "The content itself, its format and its language.", "findings": [ { "id": "content-and-format", "name": "Content, format and language", "description": "What a diabetes contains and in what form it is held.", "questions": [ { "id": "content-and-format-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the content of a diabetes, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "content-and-format-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the content of a diabetes, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "content-and-format-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the content of a diabetes is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "access-and-rights", "name": "Access, rights and retention", "description": "Who may read, copy or change it, and for how long it is kept.", "findings": [ { "id": "access-rules", "name": "Access rules and retention", "description": "The permissions attached to a diabetes and the period it survives.", "questions": [ { "id": "access-rules-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes access to a diabetes, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "access-rules-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about access to a diabetes, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "access-rules-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once access to a diabetes is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "subject-and-method", "name": "Subject matter and method", "description": "What diabetes studies and how it establishes anything.", "rationale": "A field is identified by its questions and its methods, and those are what distinguish it from the fields next to it.", "layers": [ { "id": "subject", "name": "Subject matter", "description": "The questions it takes as its own.", "findings": [ { "id": "subject-record", "name": "Questions and objects of study", "description": "What it is about, stated so a neighbouring field can be told apart.", "questions": [ { "id": "subject-record-q01", "text": "What questions and objects does diabetes take as its own?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "subject-record-q02", "text": "Which questions does it share with a neighbouring field, and who claims them?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "method", "name": "Method and evidence", "description": "How claims are established and what counts as evidence.", "findings": [ { "id": "method-record", "name": "Methods and standards of evidence", "description": "The methods used and what they are taken to establish.", "questions": [ { "id": "method-record-q01", "text": "By what methods does diabetes establish claims, and what counts as sufficient evidence?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "method-record-q02", "text": "What kind of claim can this field not settle, and where should an agent look instead?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "institutions-and-classification", "name": "Institutions and classification", "description": "Where diabetes is practised and how catalogues place it.", "rationale": "The institutional footprint is the evidence that a field exists as a field rather than as a topic.", "layers": [ { "id": "institutions", "name": "Institutional markers", "description": "Societies, journals, degrees and departments.", "findings": [ { "id": "institution-record", "name": "Bodies and venues", "description": "Where the field organises itself.", "questions": [ { "id": "institution-record-q01", "text": "Which societies, journals or degrees mark diabetes as an established field?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "institution-record-q02", "text": "What would show that it is emerging or dissolving rather than established?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "classification", "name": "Classification schemes", "description": "Where library and research classifications put it.", "findings": [ { "id": "classification-record", "name": "Codes and their disagreements", "description": "The classification codes that place it, and where they differ.", "questions": [ { "id": "classification-record-q01", "text": "Which classification schemes place diabetes, under what codes?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "classification-record-q02", "text": "Where do those schemes disagree about its scope?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a diabetes 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 diabetes and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a diabetes, 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 diabetes, 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 diabetes 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 diabetes is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a diabetes, 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 diabetes, 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 diabetes is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 12, "findings": 14, "questions": 38 } } } }