{ "model": { "rank": 4085, "code": "thing-q1233836", "model_id": "vr.tr.fallopian-tube", "name": "fallopian tube", "purpose": "Enable an agent to identify a fallopian tube, represent its anatomical and functional state, and determine what evidence and clinical authorization are needed before acting on it.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.OBJ", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q1233836/", "tier": 2, "score": 78, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "right uterine tube", "left uterine tube" ], "aliasCount": 2, "merged": 2, "knownIn": 78, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q1233836", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1233836", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-09T19:26:27Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 22.5, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.4\n--------\nworkdir: R:\\02_PROJECTS\\02_Meta_Models_Platforms\\Ver.cy\\current\\thing-registry-backlog\nmodel: gpt-6-astra\nprovider: openai\napproval: never\nsandbox: read-only\nreasoning effort: none\nreasoning summaries: none\nsession id: 01a087a1-dc75-70b2-ad52-a8d865fa2377\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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the site of fertilization, and transports the early embryo toward the uterine cavity.", "scope_statement": "This model owns the fallopian tube as an individual reproductive organ, including its regions, tissue organization, connections, transport functions, and local alterations; human anatomy is the provisional reference, with species recorded explicitly.", "in_scope": [ "Identity, laterality, presence, and completeness of an individual tube", "Infundibulum and fimbriae, ampulla, isthmus, and uterine portion", "Tubal lumen, mucosal folds, ciliated and secretory epithelium, muscular wall, and outer covering", "Oocyte capture and transport of gametes and the early embryo", "Local patency, inflammation, dilation, adhesions, tissue damage, and intervention history" ], "out_of_scope": [ "The ovary, ovarian follicles, and ovulation as independently modeled structures and processes", "The uterus and endometrium beyond their interface with the uterine portion of the tube", "The reproductive system or organism as a whole", "An embryo, pregnancy, or ectopic pregnancy as an independently modeled entity", "Infertility diagnoses, treatment protocols, and outcomes as independent clinical models", "Taxonomic populations, conservation status, and habitat" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Identify a uterine tube with a uterine connection and a distal abdominal opening; document congenital, pathological, or surgical departures from this organization.", "Distinguish its fimbrial region near the ovary from ovarian tissue: proximity does not make the tube a direct continuation of the ovary.", "Distinguish it from the ureter by its reproductive connections and tubal regions rather than a kidney-to-bladder course.", "Distinguish its uterine portion from the surrounding uterine wall by continuity with the tubal lumen.", "Distinguish it from the vas deferens by reproductive anatomy and tissue organization rather than by the generic property of transporting gametes." ], "characteristics": 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"Localizes observations and limits conclusions to the affected region." }, { "name": "Regional dimensions", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Length in mm; lumen and external diameters in mm; region, method, and tissue condition required", "why_it_matters": "Supports comparison of narrowing or dilation without assuming measurements from different methods are interchangeable." }, { "name": "Luminal patency", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Patent; partially obstructed; obstructed; indeterminate; not assessed, with location, method, and date", "why_it_matters": "Records passage evidence while avoiding the inference that an open lumen proves normal transport." }, { "name": "Fimbrial and mucosal integrity", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Described regional findings; observed alteration; no alteration detected; indeterminate; not assessed", "why_it_matters": "Captures tissue features relevant to capture and transport that patency alone does not describe." }, { "name": "Transport function evidence", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Directly observed component; indirectly inferred function; suspected impairment; unknown, with supporting method", "why_it_matters": "Separates ciliary or muscular observations from claims about successful reproductive transport." }, { "name": "Local pathological alteration", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Inflammation; fibrosis; adhesion; fluid distension; lesion; rupture; other described alteration; none detected; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Allows multiple coexisting abnormalities without turning the organ model into a disease classification." }, { "name": "Procedural alteration", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Linked procedure, date, side, region, extent, and supporting record", "why_it_matters": "Explains changed anatomy and constrains interpretation of later observations." } ], "affordances": [ "Identify and annotate a tube and its regions in anatomical, imaging, operative, or specimen records.", "Associate patency and tissue observations with the correct side, region, date, and examination method.", "Compare serial findings while accounting for different methods and prior procedures.", "Flag discordance between luminal patency, tissue integrity, and inferred transport function for clinical review.", "Link local abnormalities to independently modeled diagnoses, pregnancies, or treatment episodes.", "Support clinician-authorized assessment or intervention planning by exposing anatomical uncertainty and the evidence supporting each proposed action." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "tubal-identity-and-connections", "name": "Tubal identity and connections", "description": "Establish which tube is represented and how it relates to the uterus, ovary, and peritoneal space.", "rationale": "Laterality and anatomical connections distinguish this organ and prevent findings from being assigned to a neighboring structure.", "layers": [ { "id": "individual-tube-identification", "name": "Individual tube identification", "description": "Resolve species, side, and whether the record describes an intact organ or a remnant.", "findings": [ { "id": "tube-side-and-presence", "name": "Tube side and presence", "description": "Record organ identity, laterality, and observed presence without interpreting nonvisualization as absence.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which organism, species, and side does this tube belong to?", "kind": "definition", "id": "tube-side-and-presence-q01" }, { "text": "What examination or operative record establishes its presence, absence, or partial removal?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "tube-side-and-presence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "tubal-regions-and-interfaces", "name": "Tubal regions and interfaces", "description": "Locate tubal regions and define their interfaces with adjacent anatomy.", "findings": [ { "id": "regional-continuity", "name": "Regional continuity", "description": "Represent the course from the 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"lumen-and-fold-observations", "name": "Lumen and fold observations", "description": "Keep measured geometry separate from impressions and preserve the region and acquisition conditions.", "questions": [ { "text": "Where are narrowing, dilation, or altered mucosal folds observed, and what dimensions were actually measured?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "lumen-and-fold-observations-q01" }, { "text": "Were observations made in situ, under contrast distension, or in a processed specimen?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "lumen-and-fold-observations-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "epithelium-muscle-and-surface", "name": "Epithelium, muscle, and surface", "description": "Capture observations of ciliated and secretory cells, muscular tissue, and the external surface.", "findings": [ { "id": "regional-tissue-integrity", "name": "Regional tissue integrity", "description": "Localize epithelial damage, muscular alteration, fibrosis, and external adhesions to the tissue actually assessed.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which epithelial, muscular, or surface alterations are supported by direct observation?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "regional-tissue-integrity-q01" }, { "text": "How much of the tube was sampled or visualized, and which regions remain unassessed?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "regional-tissue-integrity-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "capture-patency-and-transport", "name": "Capture, patency, and transport", "description": "Separate fimbrial capture, passage through the lumen, and physiological transport.", "rationale": "Evidence of an open tube does not by itself establish effective capture or movement of gametes and the early embryo.", "layers": [ { "id": "fimbrial-capture-interface", "name": "Fimbrial capture interface", "description": "Represent the distal opening, fimbrial configuration, and local relationships relevant to oocyte capture.", "findings": [ { "id": "distal-access-and-mobility", "name": "Distal access and mobility", "description": "Record observed fimbrial 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where was obstruction suspected or demonstrated?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "patency-versus-transport-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence beyond patency supports a conclusion about transport function?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "patency-versus-transport-evidence-q02" }, { "text": "What limitations or alternative explanations must be reviewed before using this result to guide a clinical action?", "kind": "action", "id": "patency-versus-transport-evidence-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "tubal-alteration-and-clinical-context", "name": "Tubal alteration and clinical context", "description": "Represent local disease-related changes, procedural changes, and the limits of organ-level clinical interpretation.", "rationale": "A tube may be obstructed, damaged, removed, or involved in another clinical entity; those states must remain traceable without conflating the organ with a diagnosis.", "layers": [ { "id": "local-abnormalities-and-linked-diagnoses", "name": "Local abnormalities 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fallopian tube, 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 fallopian tube 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 fallopian tube from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a fallopian tube, 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 fallopian tube, by which 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"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 fallopian tube, 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 fallopian tube, 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 fallopian tube 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 fallopian tube is built from and which parts are replaceable.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a fallopian tube, 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 fallopian tube, 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 fallopian tube 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 fallopian tube is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a fallopian tube, 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 fallopian tube, 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 fallopian tube 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 fallopian tube 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 fallopian tube is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a fallopian tube, 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 fallopian tube, 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 fallopian tube 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 fallopian tube 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 fallopian tube, 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 fallopian tube, 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 fallopian tube 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 fallopian tube 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 fallopian tube between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a fallopian tube, 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 fallopian tube, 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 fallopian tube 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 fallopian tube, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a fallopian tube 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 fallopian tube, 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 fallopian tube, 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 fallopian tube 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 fallopian tube 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 fallopian tube 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 fallopian tube, 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 fallopian tube 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 fallopian tube 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 fallopian tube 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 fallopian tube 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 fallopian tube 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 fallopian tube, 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 fallopian tube 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 fallopian tube and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a fallopian tube, 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 fallopian tube, 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 fallopian tube 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 fallopian tube is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a fallopian tube, and in what units or vocabulary?", 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