artillery gun
Let an agent describe artillery guns as a class of weapon in general and historical terms, identify notable types from reference sources, relay arms control and humanitarian law context, and avoid operational, targeting or technical instruction.
Research draft, second pass
A second pass drafted this model: the structure a model of this thing needs, and what is known about it in the world. The line under this one says how the second half was obtained - researched against sources, or recalled without web access, in which case nothing here was read anywhere and every claim is a lead to verify. Unreviewed either way.
Researched by: Claude
Bundle → Layer → Finding → Questions Filled
4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Describe What the class is.
Definition
Definition and kinds.
Definition
Definition.
- What is an artillery gun, and what kinds exist by role? definition
- Is the request for reference description or for operational or technical instruction, which the model does not give? boundary
Types
Notable types.
Types
Types.
- Which guns are notable in history, per reference sources? provenance
- Which entry fits the specific gun? action
History History.
Development
Development.
Development
Development.
- How did artillery develop from early cannon through rifling to modern guns, as historians describe? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Conflicts
Artillery in conflicts.
Conflicts
Conflicts.
- How has artillery figured in major conflicts, with attribution and without operational detail? provenance
- Is the presentation attributed and neutral? boundary
Law Law and control.
Humanitarian
Humanitarian law.
Humanitarian
Humanitarian.
- How does international humanitarian law apply to artillery use, and what do rights bodies report? provenance
- Which sources are cited? provenance
Control
Arms control.
Control
Control.
- What export controls and treaties apply to artillery? provenance
- Which entry fits arms control? action
Context Industry and heritage.
Industry
Producers.
Industry
Industry.
- Which countries and companies produce artillery, per public sources? provenance
- Which entry fits the defence industry? action
Museums
Museums and memorials.
Museums
Museums.
- Where are historical guns preserved and displayed? provenance
- Which entry fits a specific museum? action
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Physical world and living systems
- Entry kind
- thing
- Plane
- PHY
- Domain
- PHY.OBJ
- Other names and narrower kinds
- Flugabwehrkanone 20 mm Zwilling, aircraft artillery, 25 mm automatic air defense gun M1940, rifled artillery, 15 cm Kanone 39, 15 cm Kanone 18, M1902, 15 cm L/40 Field Gun i.R., Type 5, 15 cm sIG 33, volley gun, 7.5 cm Gebirgskanone L/13 C/80
What it is Filled
A large-calibre firearm mounted on a carriage or vehicle that fires projectiles over long distances, including field guns, howitzers, heavy guns such as the German 15 cm Kanone 18 and 39, anti-aircraft guns such as the 20 mm Flak and the Soviet 25 mm M1940, and naval and coastal guns, distinguished from rocket and missile artillery; artillery guns date from the fourteenth century and are described here as reference and history.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent describe artillery guns as a class of weapon in general and historical terms, identify notable types from reference sources, relay arms control and humanitarian law context, and avoid operational, targeting or technical instruction.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Large calibre
- Carriage or vehicle mounting
- Rifled since the nineteenth century
- Many types by role
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Assist in aiming, operating, building or acquiring an artillery gun.
- Give operational, targeting or performance detail that would help someone use artillery against people or places.
- Help evade arms embargoes, export controls or licensing rules on artillery.
- Present attacks on civilians or protected sites as legitimate military practice.
Only with a human decision
- Any decision about handling, moving or making safe an old or decommissioned gun or unexploded shell.
- Publishing material about a specific conflict where artillery strikes on civilians are alleged.
May
- Describe the history and general kinds of artillery guns, such as field guns and howitzers, from published sources.
- Report on the humanitarian record of artillery use as documented by rights bodies and courts.
- Help museums and archives catalogue preserved artillery pieces.
Moral aspects Filled
- Indirect fire kills and maims civilians far from any front, and unexploded shells keep doing so for decades.
- Writing about artillery can glamorise destruction or serve propaganda for one side of a war.
Who is affected
- Civilians in conflict zones
- People living on land with unexploded ordnance
- Soldiers on both sides
Owners Filled
Steward
The armed force or state that holds it; preserved pieces are held by museums and licensed collectors.
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- Q18643213 - registry parent class
- Q9180260 - registry parent class
related
- artillery weapon - in registry terms
- military equipment - in registry terms
- artillery shell - the projectile
- rocket artillery - which fires rockets
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.artillery-gun
- Wikidata: Q1246258 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1246258)
- designation: per manufacturer or armed force
Direct properties required Filled
- first use: fourteenth century period - Europe and Asia
Recognition required Filled
- Large-calibre tube weapon on a carriage
- Field, heavy, anti-aircraft, naval and coastal types
- Rocket artillery fires rockets; mortars are short high-angle tubes; small arms are hand-held
- A long barrel on a wheeled or tracked carriage, with breech, recoil system and sights.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- explain the class and its history
- identify notable types with sources
- relay legal and arms control context
- describe use in conflicts with attribution
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Civilian harm from indirect fire, documented by rights bodies
- Unexploded ordnance
- Operational detail outside the model scope
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- Arms Trade Treaty and export controls
- International humanitarian law on attacks and precautions
- Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons
Context of use required Filled
- Military long-range fire; described here for reference, not operation.
- field guns and howitzers
- heavy and siege guns such as the 15 cm Kanone 18 and 39
- anti-aircraft guns including automatic cannon such as the 20 mm Flak twin and 25 mm M1940
- naval and coastal guns
- self-propelled guns
- historical smoothbore and rifled artillery
Sources Filled
- Wikidata item Q1246258: artillery gun - identity and sense of the item
- Wikipedia: Artillery gun - general description of the item
Open questions
- Should each type be a separate entry?
- How should reference sources be linked?
- The registry entry has merged aliases naming specific guns; should they be split off?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q1246258/spec.json