{ "model": { "rank": 2197, "code": "thing-q125337", "model_id": "vr.tr.citrus-reticulata", "name": "Citrus reticulata", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a candidate Citrus reticulata plant, assess its condition and reproductive state, and choose evidence-supported identification, care, propagation or harvest actions.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.LIV", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q125337/", "tier": 2, "score": 112, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "tardive mandarine of Ciaculli" ], "aliasCount": 1, "merged": 1, "knownIn": 112, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q125337", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q125337", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T10:29:35Z", "providers": [ "Codex", "Grok" ], "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "usd": 0.00990794, "turns": 1, "seconds": 166.7, "error": null }, "codex": { "seconds": 93.1, "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: 01a07b66-11d2-77f1-a2a9-1b201f044494\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. 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UCR notes that tangerine is used beyond Dancy. [UCR Dancy mandarin](https://citrusvariety.ucr.edu/crc3026)", "Compare mature fruit shape, rind adherence and segment separation with authenticated reference material when distinguishing a candidate from sweet orange or other citrus; Dancy provides one documented combination of these traits, not a universal species threshold. [UCR Dancy mandarin](https://citrusvariety.ucr.edu/crc3026)", "Check documented parentage when distinguishing a species assignment from a horticultural mandarin designation: UCR lists Wilking under Citrus reticulata while recording King tangor × Willowleaf mandarin parentage. [UCR Wilking mandarin](https://citrusvariety.ucr.edu/crc3020)", "Trace every diagnostic leaf, flower and fruit to its bearing shoot and position relative to any graft union; evaluate rootstock shoots separately before using their characters to identify the scion." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Taxonomic assignment and evidence", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Named taxonomic treatment, assigned name, reference accession or determination, evidence date and confidence", "why_it_matters": "Makes the meaning of Citrus reticulata explicit and prevents a horticultural label from silently determining registry membership." }, { "name": "Cultivar or accession identity", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Documented cultivar or accession; provisional identification; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Connects observations to an appropriate comparison plant and preserves uncertainty in expected behaviour." }, { "name": "Propagation and graft composition", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Seedling, rooted cutting, grafted or unknown; parent or donor identity; scion and rootstock identities where known", "why_it_matters": "Separates ancestry from physical graft association and identifies which component an observation concerns." }, { "name": "Leaf and petiole character profile", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Blade length and width in mm; petiole-wing width in mm; shoot position and leaf maturity recorded", "why_it_matters": "Provides comparable vegetative evidence when fruit is absent or identity is disputed." }, { "name": "Fruit character profile", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Mass in g; equatorial and polar diameters and rind thickness in mm; seed count per fruit; sample size and maturity recorded", "why_it_matters": "Supports reference comparison without treating one fruit or cultivar as representative of the entire entry." }, { "name": "Rind adherence and segment separation", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Recorded under a stated assessment protocol; easy, intermediate, difficult or unassessed for each trait", "why_it_matters": "Adds useful fruit identification and handling evidence while retaining the assessment method." }, { "name": "Phenological state", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Vegetative flush, flower buds, open flowers, fruit set, developing fruit, mature fruit; simultaneous states allowed", "why_it_matters": "Places observations and candidate interventions in the plant's actual developmental context." }, { "name": "Fruit maturity indicators", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Soluble solids in °Brix; titratable acidity in g citric acid equivalent per 100 mL juice; rind colour by stated method", "why_it_matters": "Supports a harvest decision against an explicit cultivar and use criterion rather than appearance alone." }, { "name": "Canopy and graft-union condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Observed leaf loss, discolouration, dieback, lesions, union damage and affected extent; cause confirmed, suspected or unknown", "why_it_matters": "Directs inspection and sampling without converting nonspecific symptoms into a diagnosis." }, { "name": "Bearing history", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Fruit count or kg per plant per harvest season, with thinning and unharvested losses recorded separately", "why_it_matters": "Allows crop-load decisions to use the individual plant's history." } ], "affordances": [ "Identify provisionally, compare with authenticated citrus material, or request specialist determination when evidence conflicts.", "Inspect and sample labelled scion organs while keeping rootstock observations separate.", "Monitor flowering, fruit set, maturity and successive harvests to guide crop-load and harvest decisions.", "Select a care response using observed plant condition, rootstock information and linked site measurements.", "Assess a proposed seed or vegetative propagation action against the intended identity outcome and donor evidence.", "Defer movement, propagation or harvest when a relevant diagnostic result or action prerequisite remains unresolved." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "wu-2018-nature", "title": "Genomics of the origin and evolution of Citrus", "url": "https://www.nature.com/articles/nature25447", "what_it_supports": "Ancestral status of C. reticulata, hybrid origin of many commercial mandarins, and distinction from pummelo and citron lineages.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "swingle-reece-1967", "title": "The botany of Citrus and its wild relatives, in The Citrus Industry, Vol. 1", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Classical Swingle circumscription of C. reticulata and its separation from sweet orange, pummelo and other cultivated citrus." }, { "id": "blanco-1837", "title": "Flora de Filipinas", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Original publication and authorship of the name Citrus reticulata Blanco." }, { "id": "unece-ffv-14", "title": "UNECE Standard FFV-14 concerning the marketing and commercial quality control of citrus fruit", "url": "https://unece.org/trade/wp7/FFV-Standards", "what_it_supports": "Commercial classes covering mandarins, tangerines, clementines and satsumas, including juice-content minima and sizing practice.", "url_status": "blocked" }, { "id": "kew-powo", "title": "Citrus reticulata Blanco", "url": "https://powo.science.kew.org/", "what_it_supports": "Accepted scientific name, authority, family placement and native-range treatment used in botanical checklists.", "url_status": "blocked" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "mandarin-identity-and-boundaries", "name": "Mandarin identity and boundaries", "description": "Establish what assignment to Citrus reticulata means for this plant and how that assignment was reached.", "rationale": "Recognition requires a declared taxonomic boundary, especially where cultivar names and horticultural groupings are involved.", "layers": [ { "id": "taxonomic-membership", "name": "Taxonomic membership", "description": "Connect the registry identity to a named treatment and a revisable determination.", "findings": [ { "id": "declared-reticulata-circumscription", "name": "Declared reticulata circumscription", "description": "Require an explicit inclusion rule rather than assuming every plant sold as a mandarin belongs here.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which taxonomic treatment defines Citrus reticulata for this assignment?", "kind": "definition", "id": "declared-reticulata-circumscription-q01" }, { "text": "Under that treatment, do the candidate's cultivar and documented parentage fall within this registry entry?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "declared-reticulata-circumscription-q02" }, { "text": "Who made the determination, using which specimens, records or analyses?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "declared-reticulata-circumscription-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "comparative-organ-evidence", "name": "Comparative organ evidence", "description": "Use observations from traceable organs to test candidate and alternative identifications.", "findings": [ { "id": "candidate-reference-comparison", "name": "Candidate reference comparison", "description": "Compare leaves and mature fruit with authenticated material while recording maturity, sample size and contradictory traits.", "questions": [ { "text": "What leaf, petiole, fruit-shape, rind-adherence and seed observations are available from this plant?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "candidate-reference-comparison-q01" }, { "text": "Which observations discriminate the candidate from the specific sweet orange, mandarin cultivar or hybrid proposed as an alternative?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "candidate-reference-comparison-q02" }, { "text": "What additional material or determination is needed before changing the identification?", "kind": "action", "id": "candidate-reference-comparison-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "cultivar-lineage-and-graft-composition", "name": "Cultivar lineage and graft composition", "description": "Record how this plant originated and which living components observations describe.", "rationale": "A cultivar claim, seed parent and rootstock association are different relationships with different implications for recognition and propagation.", "layers": [ { "id": "accession-and-propagation-origin", "name": "Accession and propagation origin", "description": "Trace the plant to seed, donor material or an accession record.", "findings": [ { "id": "traceable-cultivar-claim", "name": "Traceable cultivar claim", "description": "Keep documented identity separate from resemblance or an unsupported nursery label.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which nursery, accession, seed lot or donor plant supplied this individual?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "traceable-cultivar-claim-q01" }, { "text": "Was it raised from seed or vegetatively propagated, and what evidence supports the stated cultivar identity?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "traceable-cultivar-claim-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "scion-rootstock-attribution", "name": "Scion and rootstock attribution", "description": "Locate graft boundaries and attribute shoots, symptoms and samples to the correct component.", "findings": [ { "id": "organ-to-graft-component", "name": "Organ to graft component", "description": "Require component attribution before using an organ as identification evidence or selecting propagation material.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is a graft union present, and which scion and rootstock identities are documented?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "organ-to-graft-component-q01" }, { "text": "Did the observed shoot or sampled organ originate above or below the union?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "organ-to-graft-component-q02" }, { "text": "Which confirmed scion material, if any, meets the prerequisites for the proposed propagation action?", "kind": "action", "id": "organ-to-graft-component-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "flowering-fruiting-and-harvest", "name": "Flowering, fruiting and harvest", "description": "Track reproductive development and evaluate fruit readiness for a declared use.", "rationale": "A usable mandarin model must connect flowering and crop history to observed fruit condition rather than assign a universal harvest calendar.", "layers": [ { "id": "flowering-and-crop-load", "name": "Flowering and crop load", "description": "Record flowering, fruit retention and season-to-season bearing at plant level.", "findings": [ { "id": "reproductive-course", "name": "Reproductive course", "description": "Preserve dated reproductive observations and relevant pollination context without assuming cultivar-independent behaviour.", "questions": [ { "text": "When were flowering, initial fruit set and subsequent fruit drop observed, and how were they sampled?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "reproductive-course-q01" }, { "text": "What flowering-overlap and pollen-source evidence is available if fruit set or seediness needs investigation?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "reproductive-course-q02" }, { "text": "Does the recorded crop history justify a crop-load intervention under locally supported guidance?", "kind": "action", "id": "reproductive-course-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "fruit-maturity-and-retention", "name": "Fruit maturity and retention", "description": "Assess internal maturity and external condition before harvesting or retaining fruit.", "findings": [ { "id": "use-specific-harvest-readiness", "name": "Use-specific harvest readiness", "description": "Make harvest readiness an evidenced decision tied to cultivar, intended use and sampling method.", "questions": [ { "text": "What do representative samples show for soluble solids, titratable acidity, rind condition and internal defects?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "use-specific-harvest-readiness-q01" }, { "text": "Which documented maturity and quality criteria apply to this cultivar and intended use?", "kind": "definition", "id": "use-specific-harvest-readiness-q02" }, { "text": "Should fruit be harvested, retained and reassessed, or excluded from the intended use on the available evidence?", "kind": "action", "id": "use-specific-harvest-readiness-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "mandarin-condition-and-intervention", "name": "Mandarin condition and intervention", "description": "Assess canopy, fruit and graft condition and connect observations to justified next actions.", "rationale": "Care and propagation decisions require symptom attribution, site context and explicit prerequisites rather than a species label alone.", "layers": [ { "id": "symptoms-and-growing-context", "name": "Symptoms and growing context", "description": "Localise symptoms and link them to dated environmental and management observations.", "findings": [ { "id": "condition-without-premature-diagnosis", "name": "Condition without premature diagnosis", "description": "Record what is affected and how it changes while preserving competing explanations.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which leaves, shoots, fruit or graft-union areas show abnormalities, over what proportion of the plant?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "condition-without-premature-diagnosis-q01" }, { "text": "What dated irrigation, temperature, root-zone or management records coincide with symptom onset?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "condition-without-premature-diagnosis-q02" }, { "text": "Which observations require diagnostic sampling before selecting a treatment?", "kind": "action", "id": "condition-without-premature-diagnosis-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "care-and-material-release", "name": "Care and material release", "description": "Define the evidence needed to intervene or use the plant as a source of propagation material.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-conditioned-action", "name": "Evidence-conditioned action", "description": "Associate each proposed action with the relevant plant component, supporting evidence and an observable follow-up criterion.", "questions": [ { "text": "What cultivar, rootstock, condition and site evidence supports the proposed irrigation, nutrition or pruning change?", "kind": "action", "id": "evidence-conditioned-action-q01" }, { "text": "Which current donor-health and destination requirements must be satisfied before collecting or moving propagation material?", "kind": "action", "id": "evidence-conditioned-action-q02" }, { "text": "What follow-up observation and reassessment date will establish whether the intervention helped?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "evidence-conditioned-action-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": [ "Ponkan (common Chinese mandarin)", "Willowleaf / Mediterranean mandarin (often treated as Citrus deliciosa)", "Satsuma / unshu mikan (often ranked as Citrus unshiu)", "Clementine (commercially a mandarin; botanically a mandarin × sweet-orange hybrid)", "Dancy-type tangerine", "Nanfengmiju (Nanfeng honey mandarin)", "Kinnow (King × Willowleaf tangor, sold as mandarin in South Asia)", "Murcott / Honey Murcott / Nadorcott-Afourer (late tangors sold as mandarins)" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of Citrus reticulata 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": "scientific name (ICN)", "value_or_pattern": "Citrus reticulata Blanco", "note": "Family Rutaceae; authority Francisco Manuel Blanco, Flora de Filipinas (1837)." }, { "scheme": "Wikidata", "value_or_pattern": "Q185005", "note": "Item for mandarin orange / Citrus reticulata." }, { "scheme": "NCBI Taxonomy", "value_or_pattern": "85571", "note": "Taxid for Citrus reticulata." }, { "scheme": "Harmonized System (HS)", "value_or_pattern": "0805.21", "note": "Fresh or dried mandarins, including tangerines and satsumas; clementines are 0805.22." }, { "scheme": "Chinese Pharmacopoeia crude-drug name", "value_or_pattern": "Citri Reticulatae Pericarpium (Chenpi, 陈皮)", "note": "Dried mature peel of C. reticulata used as a traditional drug, not a fruit-grade code." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of Citrus reticulata 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": [ "UNECE Standard FFV-14 (Citrus fruit) - United Nations Economic Commission for Europe", "OECD International Standard for Fruit and Vegetables: Citrus Fruit - OECD Fruit and Vegetables Scheme", "EU marketing standard for citrus fruit (Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 543/2011, as retained and amended) - European Commission", "United States Standards for Grades of Florida Tangerines - USDA Agricultural Marketing Service", "Citrus canker and huanglongbing (citrus greening) quarantine rules - USDA APHIS and equivalent NPPO measures under the IPPC", "Codex pesticide maximum residue limits on mandarin - FAO/WHO Codex Alimentarius Commission", "Citri Reticulatae Pericarpium monograph - Pharmacopoeia of the People's Republic of China" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of Citrus reticulata 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": [ "Fresh dessert fruit sold as mandarins, tangerines or easy-peelers", "Canned segments, especially satsuma, in syrup or juice", "Peel essential oil (mandarin oil) for flavour and fragrance", "Aged dried peel (chenpi) as a Chinese materia medica and culinary spice", "Breeding parent and, less often, rootstock in citrus orchards", "Gift fruit in East Asian New Year trade", "Dooryard and ornamental trees in subtropical gardens" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Citrus reticulata 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": "fresh fruit mass", "typical_range": "50-150", "unit": "g" }, { "quantity": "equatorial diameter", "typical_range": "45-80", "unit": "mm" }, { "quantity": "juice soluble solids", "typical_range": "9-14", "unit": "°Brix" }, { "quantity": "titratable acidity of juice", "typical_range": "0.5-1.5", "unit": "g/100 mL as citric acid" }, { "quantity": "juice content", "typical_range": "33-50", "unit": "% m/m" }, { "quantity": "somatic chromosome number", "typical_range": "18", "unit": "2n count" }, { "quantity": "commercial storage temperature", "typical_range": "4-8", "unit": "°C" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of Citrus reticulata 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": [ "Huanglongbing (citrus greening, Candidatus Liberibacter spp.) collapsing trees and making fruit bitter and misshapen", "Citrus canker (Xanthomonas citri) causing fruit blemish and trade embargoes", "Citrus tristeza virus, especially on sour-orange rootstock", "Tephritid fruit-fly infestation blocking export", "Postharvest peel puffing, granulation and chilling injury", "Alternate bearing and excessive seediness lowering market grade", "Allergic contact dermatitis from oxidised peel oil (limonene hydroperoxides)", "Pesticide residues on peel of easy-peel fruit eaten with handling" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Citrus reticulata 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": [ "In British retail the commercial class is often 'easy peeler', covering clementines, satsumas and late hybrids rather than botanical C. reticulata.", "In the United States 'tangerine' historically meant Florida Dancy-type fruit, while California trade uses 'mandarin' for clementines, satsumas and W. Murcott.", "In Japan mikan usually means satsuma (C. unshiu), not the broader mandarin group.", "In China 橘子, 柑 and 蜜柑 are used for overlapping local mandarin types; Nanfengmiju is a named regional product.", "In India and Pakistan Kinnow is the dominant 'mandarin' of Punjab, though it is a tangor.", "Mediterranean export (Spain, Morocco, Italy) is dominated by clementines sold as mandarinas." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of Citrus reticulata 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": "Citrus × sinensis (sweet orange)", "difference": "Sweet orange has a tightly adherent rind and albedo that does not zip off; fruit is typically larger and the genome is a pummelo-mandarin admixture rather than mandarin-predominant." }, { "name": "Citrus unshiu (satsuma)", "difference": "Satsuma is nearly seedless, more cold-hardy, and is treated by many taxonomists as a separate species; it carries a distinct mandarin genome with pummelo introgression." }, { "name": "Citrus × clementina (clementine)", "difference": "Clementine is a mandarin × sweet-orange hybrid; seedless in solid plantings, usually earlier and smoother-skinned than common mandarins, and separable by documented parentage or SNP ancestry." }, { "name": "Citrus maxima (pummelo)", "difference": "Pummelo fruit is much larger with a thick spongy rind and is one of the other ancestral citrus species, not a mandarin." }, { "name": "Citrus japonica / Fortunella (kumquat)", "difference": "Kumquat fruit is far smaller, with a sweet edible rind and acid pulp, and is not loose-skinned in the mandarin sense." }, { "name": "Citrus × tangelo", "difference": "Tangelos (mandarin × grapefruit or pummelo) are larger, often necked, and have a different flavour and peel oil profile." }, { "name": "Citrus × aurantium (sour orange)", "difference": "Sour orange is seedy, acid, tight-skinned and used mainly as rootstock or for peel oil, not as an easy-peel dessert fruit." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of Citrus reticulata this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does the registry intend this entry to own living plants only, or also detached botanical specimens and fruit before their transfer to product or lot models?", "Which taxonomic treatment should govern membership, particularly for clementines, satsumas and cultivars with documented hybrid parentage?", "Which authenticated reference accessions and validated diagnostic methods can resolve the most likely identification confusions in the intended deployment region?", "What cultivar-, rootstock- and location-specific evidence supports maturity criteria, bearing expectations and care thresholds?", "Which locally applicable diagnostic, donor-health and plant-movement requirements must be linked before propagation actions can be authorised?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 9, "findings": 16, "questions": 31 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "organism", "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 Citrus reticulata, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a candidate Citrus reticulata plant, assess its condition and reproductive state, and choose evidence-supported identification, care, propagation or harvest actions.", "characteristics": { "substance": "living", "origin": "natural", "agency": "autonomous", "mobility": "self-moving" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: tardive mandarine of Ciaculli.", "1 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 112 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 Citrus reticulata, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "a living thing", "physicalCharacter": [ "Moves under its own power or of its own accord.", "Acts on its own behalf.", "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": [ "observe it, measure it, record its state" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "Recognised by diagnostic characters, and those differ by life stage - the young of many kinds are mistaken for other kinds entirely. A sighting is settled by characters, a photograph and a place, not by a name alone." ], "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": [ "tardive mandarine of Ciaculli" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 112 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 1 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 Citrus reticulata from another, and a Citrus reticulata 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 Citrus reticulata, 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 Citrus reticulata, 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 Citrus reticulata 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 Citrus reticulata, 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 Citrus reticulata, 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 Citrus reticulata 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 Citrus reticulata 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 Citrus reticulata, 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 Citrus reticulata, 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 Citrus reticulata 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 Citrus reticulata from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Citrus reticulata, 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 Citrus reticulata, 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 Citrus reticulata 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 Citrus reticulata 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 Citrus reticulata, 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 Citrus reticulata, 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 Citrus reticulata 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": "Anatomy, parts and life stage.", "findings": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials", "name": "Parts and life stages", "description": "The parts of a Citrus reticulata and the stages it passes through.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a Citrus reticulata, 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 Citrus reticulata, 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 Citrus reticulata 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 Citrus reticulata is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a Citrus reticulata, 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 Citrus reticulata, 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 Citrus reticulata 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 Citrus reticulata is, how it got there and where it may go (self-moving).", "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 Citrus reticulata is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a Citrus reticulata, 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 Citrus reticulata, 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 Citrus reticulata 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 Citrus reticulata moves on its own.", "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 Citrus reticulata, 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 Citrus reticulata, 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 Citrus reticulata 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 Citrus reticulata 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 Citrus reticulata between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Citrus reticulata, 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 Citrus reticulata, 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 Citrus reticulata 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 Citrus reticulata, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Citrus reticulata 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 Citrus reticulata, 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 Citrus reticulata, 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 Citrus reticulata is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "taxonomic-placement", "name": "Taxonomic placement and identification", "description": "What Citrus reticulata is called scientifically, by whose authority, and how a specimen is recognised.", "rationale": "Names change with revisions while the organism does not, so a name without its authority and date cannot be reconciled later.", "layers": [ { "id": "accepted-name", "name": "Accepted name and synonymy", "description": "The current binomial, its author and date, and the names it replaced.", "findings": [ { "id": "name-and-authority", "name": "Accepted name, authority and synonyms", "description": "What to record so a later revision can be applied without losing the old data.", "questions": [ { "id": "name-and-authority-q01", "text": "What is the accepted scientific name of Citrus reticulata, with its author and year, and which synonyms does it absorb?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "name-and-authority-q02", "text": "Which taxonomic authority is being followed, and what would a competing authority say?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "field-identification", "name": "Field identification", "description": "The characters that separate Citrus reticulata from what it is confused with.", "findings": [ { "id": "diagnostic-characters", "name": "Diagnostic characters and confusable kinds", "description": "Features that settle an identification, and those that only suggest it.", "questions": [ { "id": "diagnostic-characters-q01", "text": "Which observable characters distinguish Citrus reticulata from its closest look-alikes, and at which life stage are they visible?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "diagnostic-characters-q02", "text": "What evidence is enough to record an identification as confirmed rather than provisional?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "life-cycle-and-condition", "name": "Life stages, condition and behaviour", "description": "What Citrus reticulata does over its life and how its state is judged.", "rationale": "Stage and condition change what may be done - handled, treated, harvested, left alone - and both are observations with a time.", "layers": [ { "id": "stages-and-reproduction", "name": "Stages and reproduction", "description": "Development from origin to death, including forms that look like different animals.", "findings": [ { "id": "life-stages", "name": "Life stages and their marks", "description": "The stages worth recording and what tells them apart.", "questions": [ { "id": "life-stages-q01", "text": "What stages does Citrus reticulata pass through, and what observable change marks each transition?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "life-stages-q02", "text": "Which stages are so unlike the adult that they are mistaken for another kind?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "health-and-condition", "name": "Health and condition", "description": "How condition is assessed and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "condition-assessment", "name": "Condition assessment", "description": "Signs of health, injury and stress, and who is competent to judge them.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "How is the condition of Citrus reticulata judged, on what scale, and by whom?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "condition-assessment-q02", "text": "What condition obliges an agent to act, and what act is permitted to whom?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "range-and-status", "name": "Habitat, range and conservation status", "description": "Where Citrus reticulata lives and how threatened it is.", "rationale": "Range and status govern what is lawful, and both are assessments with an assessor and a year rather than facts of nature.", "layers": [ { "id": "habitat-and-range", "name": "Habitat and range", "description": "Native range, introductions and the habitat it needs.", "findings": [ { "id": "range-record", "name": "Range, introductions and habitat", "description": "What to record about where it is found and how it got there.", "questions": [ { "id": "range-record-q01", "text": "What is the native range of Citrus reticulata, where has it been introduced, and what habitat does it require?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "range-record-q02", "text": "What distinguishes a native record from an introduced or vagrant one?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "protection-status", "name": "Protection and legal status", "description": "Conservation assessments and the rules that follow from them.", "findings": [ { "id": "status-and-rules", "name": "Conservation status and legal consequence", "description": "The assessment, its date, and what it forbids or requires where.", "questions": [ { "id": "status-and-rules-q01", "text": "What conservation status does Citrus reticulata hold, under which assessment and year?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "status-and-rules-q02", "text": "What does that status forbid or require of an agent, and in which jurisdiction?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a Citrus reticulata 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 Citrus reticulata and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Citrus reticulata, 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 Citrus reticulata, 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 Citrus reticulata 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 Citrus reticulata is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Citrus reticulata, 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 Citrus reticulata, 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 Citrus reticulata 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 } } } }