{ "model": { "rank": 3152, "code": "thing-q127956", "model_id": "vr.tr.microwave-oven", "name": "microwave oven", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a microwave oven, assess its readiness for a particular heating task, and determine which operations require permission, further evidence or service.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.OBJ", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q127956/", "tier": 2, "score": 90, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "PMD 2010S", "oven range" ], "aliasCount": 2, "merged": 2, "knownIn": 90, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q127956", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q127956", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T15:04:47Z", "providers": [ "Codex", "Grok" ], "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "usd": 0.00651202, "turns": 1, "seconds": 23.9, "error": null }, "codex": { "seconds": 73.7, "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: 01a07c65-6106-7910-abe5-92d966762fef\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: microwave oven\nRegistry id: vr.tr.microwave-oven\nPlane / domain: PHY / PHY.OBJ\nRegistry definition: (none recorded)\nNames folded into this entry: (no" } } }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q127956", "registryId": "vr.tr.microwave-oven", "name": "microwave oven", "version": "0.1.0-research.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "PHY.OBJ" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q127956/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.microwave-oven", "name": "microwave oven", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a microwave oven, assess its readiness for a particular heating task, and determine which operations require permission, further evidence or service.", "definition": "A microwave oven is an electrically powered appliance that heats water-bearing food and other dielectric loads by coupling them to a standing electromagnetic field, typically at 2.45 GHz, generated by a magnetron or solid-state source inside a shielded cavity.", "scope_statement": "This model owns the appliance's microwave-heating identity, supported operating modes, installation constraints, load interfaces, controls and observable condition, including combinations with other oven technologies.", "in_scope": [ "Appliance identity and evidence of microwave-heating capability", "Microwave, grill, convection and combination modes actually supported", "Cavity, load support, cookware compatibility and placement constraints", "Power settings, timing, programmes and observable operating state", "Door, interlocks, ventilation, cleanliness and service restrictions" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Food composition, recipes and food-specific safety requirements", "Cookware manufacture and material properties beyond compatibility with this appliance", "Building electrical circuits, cabinetry and room ventilation systems", "Standalone conventional ovens, steam ovens and industrial microwave-processing equipment", "Internal component repair procedures and technician qualifications" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Confirm microwave heating from the model-specific label or manual; an enclosed cavity and timer alone also describe conventional ovens.", "Distinguish a microwave oven from a toaster or convection oven by an explicitly supported microwave mode, rather than by its appearance.", "Recognise a combination microwave as one appliance with multiple heating modes; a grill element or convection fan does not negate its microwave identity.", "Distinguish an oven intended for enclosed batch heating of food or beverages from equipment that uses microwaves for industrial processing or other purposes." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Manufacturer and model designation", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Manufacturer, exact model and regional variant; unknown if unverified", "why_it_matters": "Selects the applicable manual, accessories, operating limits and service information." }, { "name": "Supported heating modes", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Microwave, grill, convection, steam or documented combinations", "why_it_matters": "Determines available operations and mode-dependent load restrictions." }, { "name": "Rated microwave output", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "W, with rating source; distinct from electrical input power", "why_it_matters": "Provides context for heating instructions and prevents confusing consumption with heating output." }, { "name": "Power-setting semantics", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Displayed watts, percentage, named level or programme-controlled; mapping documented or unknown", "why_it_matters": "Allows an agent to interpret the selected heating intensity without assuming how the appliance implements it." }, { "name": "Usable cavity and load clearance", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Internal dimensions and required clearances in mm; nominal volume in L recorded separately", "why_it_matters": "Determines whether a vessel fits and can move or rotate as required." }, { "name": "Load-support arrangement", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Turntable, flatbed or other documented arrangement; required accessories", "why_it_matters": "Identifies placement requirements and missing or obstructed supports." }, { "name": "Installation requirements", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Link to model-specific supply, mounting, ventilation and clearance requirements", "why_it_matters": "Supports a readiness decision for the actual installation." }, { "name": "Operating state", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Disconnected, idle, configured, running, paused, completed, faulted or unknown", "why_it_matters": "Determines whether an agent may configure, start, stop or inspect the appliance." }, { "name": "Door and cavity condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Observed condition of door, latch, sealing surfaces, cavity and accessible covers; unassessed or service required", "why_it_matters": "Records visible reasons to withhold operation without treating a visual check as proof of safety." }, { "name": "Current load compatibility", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Load, vessel and accessories linked to selected mode and compatibility evidence", "why_it_matters": "Makes permission to heat specific to the proposed contents and operating mode." } ], "affordances": [ "Identify the appliance and retrieve instructions for its exact model.", "Assess whether the installation, cavity and load meet documented operating requirements.", "Select a supported heating mode, power setting, programme and duration.", "Start, pause or cancel an authorised heating cycle through available controls.", "Observe cycle progress and record faults, unexpected behaviour or incomplete heating.", "Arrange permitted cleaning or qualified service when condition prevents normal use." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "microwave-identity-and-installation", "name": "Microwave identity and installation", "description": "Establishes which appliance is present and whether its installed setting supports its documented use.", "rationale": "Appearance cannot establish microwave capability, and model or installation differences change permissible operation.", "layers": [ { "id": "appliance-and-mode-identification", "name": "Appliance and mode identification", "description": "Connects the physical appliance to evidence of its microwave and additional heating functions.", "findings": [ { "id": "documented-heating-identity", "name": "Documented heating identity", "description": "Record the exact appliance identity, evidence of microwave heating and any additional supported modes.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which label or model-specific manual establishes that this appliance supports microwave heating?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "documented-heating-identity-q01" }, { "text": "Which modes operate separately, and which combine microwave heating with another heat source?", "kind": "definition", "id": "documented-heating-identity-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "installed-operating-envelope", "name": "Installed operating envelope", "description": "Relates the appliance's supply, mounting and ventilation requirements to its current location.", "findings": [ { "id": "installation-readiness", "name": "Installation readiness", "description": "Record whether the installation matches the requirements for this model and installation type.", "questions": [ { "text": "What supply, mounting, ventilation and clearance requirements does the applicable installation guidance specify?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "installation-readiness-q01" }, { "text": "Which observed installation conditions satisfy those requirements, and which remain unverified?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "installation-readiness-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "heating-capability-and-cycle-control", "name": "Heating capability and cycle control", "description": "Describes how heating intent maps to the appliance's modes, settings and cycle transitions.", "rationale": "An agent needs to distinguish rated output, selected power and programme behaviour before it can configure or interpret a cycle.", "layers": [ { "id": "power-and-programme-meaning", "name": "Power and programme meaning", "description": "Captures the meaning and limits of microwave power levels and automated programmes.", "findings": [ { "id": "interpretable-heating-settings", "name": "Interpretable heating settings", "description": "Record output ratings, available settings and the inputs or assumptions required by each relevant programme.", "questions": [ { "text": "What is the rated microwave output, and how is it distinguished from the appliance's electrical input rating?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "interpretable-heating-settings-q01" }, { "text": "What do the selected power level and programme mean, including any required weight, food category or sensor input?", "kind": "definition", "id": "interpretable-heating-settings-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "cycle-state-and-intervention", "name": "Cycle state and intervention", "description": "Tracks configuration, progress and the controls available to interrupt or resume heating.", "findings": [ { "id": "observable-cycle-state", "name": "Observable cycle state", "description": "Record the selected cycle, displayed progress and evidence needed to distinguish completion, pause and fault.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which mode, power setting and remaining time are observable, and does the display indicate running, paused, completed or faulted?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "observable-cycle-state-q01" }, { "text": "How can this cycle be cancelled or paused, and what documented conditions permit it to resume?", "kind": "action", "id": "observable-cycle-state-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "cavity-load-and-heating-result", "name": "Cavity, load and heating result", "description": "Relates a proposed load to usable space, support arrangements, mode compatibility and evidence of the heating result.", "rationale": "A load that fits may still be unsuitable for the selected mode, and cycle completion alone does not establish the intended result.", "layers": [ { "id": "vessel-and-accessory-fit", "name": "Vessel and accessory fit", "description": "Assesses physical fit and compatibility of the vessel, covering and installed accessories.", "findings": [ { "id": "mode-specific-load-acceptability", "name": "Mode-specific load acceptability", "description": "Record usable cavity dimensions, support requirements and evidence that the complete load is permitted in the selected mode.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the loaded vessel fit with the required clearance and, where applicable, unobstructed turntable rotation?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "mode-specific-load-acceptability-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence permits the vessel, covering and accessories in this particular mode, including any restrictions on metal or closed containers?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "mode-specific-load-acceptability-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "load-handling-and-result-evidence", "name": "Load handling and result evidence", "description": "Connects appliance operation to required load interventions and externally defined heating criteria.", "findings": [ { "id": "heating-result-verification", "name": "Heating result verification", "description": "Record required handling steps and evidence of task completion separately from the oven's end-of-cycle indication.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which applicable instructions require stirring, turning, covering, venting or standing, and when must those steps occur?", "kind": "action", "id": "heating-result-verification-q01" }, { "text": "What observation or measurement is needed to judge the heating result against criteria supplied by the food or task model?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "heating-result-verification-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "microwave-containment-and-service-readiness", "name": "Microwave containment and service readiness", "description": "Captures observable conditions affecting permission to operate and the boundary between user care and qualified service.", "rationale": "Door condition, cavity damage and abnormal operation require explicit stop decisions, while internal repair exceeds routine appliance use.", "layers": [ { "id": "door-cavity-and-stop-conditions", "name": "Door, cavity and stop conditions", "description": "Records accessible condition evidence and abnormal events without inferring hidden safety performance.", "findings": [ { "id": "operation-withholding-evidence", "name": "Operation-withholding evidence", "description": "Record damage, obstruction, faults or abnormal behaviour that require operation to be withheld under applicable guidance.", "questions": [ { "text": "What damage, contamination or obstruction is visible at the door, latch, sealing surfaces, cavity or accessible internal covers?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "operation-withholding-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Which observed faults or events require stopping use and obtaining service according to the model-specific instructions?", "kind": "action", "id": "operation-withholding-evidence-q02" }, { "text": "Which aspects of interlock function or microwave containment remain unverified by the available observations?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "operation-withholding-evidence-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "cleaning-and-service-boundary", "name": "Cleaning and service boundary", "description": "Separates documented user maintenance from work requiring service expertise and subsequent release to use.", "findings": [ { "id": "permitted-care-and-return-to-use", "name": "Permitted care and return to use", "description": "Record permitted cleaning and accessory care, unresolved defects and evidence required before returning a serviced oven to operation.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which cleaning methods and removable-part maintenance tasks does the manual authorise for users?", "kind": "action", "id": "permitted-care-and-return-to-use-q01" }, { "text": "Which defects require qualified service, and what service record or verification is needed before use resumes?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "permitted-care-and-return-to-use-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "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": [ "countertop microwave oven", "over-the-range microwave oven", "built-in microwave oven", "microwave-convection combination oven", "inverter microwave oven", "commercial / food-service microwave oven", "drawer microwave oven", "industrial microwave heating system" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of microwave oven 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": "Wikidata", "value_or_pattern": "Q127956", "note": "microwave oven" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of microwave oven 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": [ "IEC 60335-2-25 (IEC): household microwave ovens", "FDA 21 CFR 1030.10 (US FDA): performance standard for microwave ovens" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of microwave oven 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": [ "household cooking and reheating" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of microwave oven 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": "operating frequency", "typical_range": "2.45", "unit": "GHz" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of microwave oven 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": [ "microwave leakage from damaged door seals" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of microwave oven 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": [ "mains voltage and plug type differ by region" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of microwave oven 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": "conventional oven", "difference": "heats by conduction/radiation from a hot chamber rather than dielectric heating" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of microwave oven this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does the registry intend this entry to include commercial food-service microwave ovens, and what additional operating distinctions would they require?", "Which model-specific sources establish output ratings, power-setting semantics and sensor-programme limitations?", "What mode-specific rules govern metal accessories, vessel materials and load restrictions across the intended appliance range?", "Which inspection and service evidence is sufficient to support return to use after door, interlock or cavity damage?", "Should network-connected operation be an optional extension, and what evidence of load readiness and user authorisation would remote start require?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 9, "findings": 16, "questions": 25 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "device, machine or tool", "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 microwave oven, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a microwave oven, assess its readiness for a particular heating task, and determine which operations require permission, further evidence or service.", "characteristics": { "substance": "material", "origin": "manufactured", "agency": "inert", "mobility": "varies" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: PMD 2010S, oven range.", "2 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 90 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 microwave oven, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "matter you can touch", "physicalCharacter": [ "Mobility varies between examples.", "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": [ "observe it, measure it, record its state" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "Recognised by form, by the arrangement of its controls, and by markings - a plate, a model number, a certification mark. Form alone rarely separates two models that do very different things." ], "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": [ "PMD 2010S", "oven range" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 90 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 2 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 microwave oven from another, and a microwave oven 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 microwave oven, 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 microwave oven, 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 microwave oven 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 microwave oven, 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 microwave oven, 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 microwave oven 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 microwave oven 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 microwave oven, 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 microwave oven, 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 microwave oven 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 microwave oven from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a microwave oven, 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 microwave oven, 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 microwave oven 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 microwave oven 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 microwave oven, 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 microwave oven, 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 microwave oven 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 microwave oven is built from and which parts are replaceable.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a microwave oven, 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 microwave oven, 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 microwave oven 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 microwave oven is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a microwave oven, 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 microwave oven, 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 microwave oven 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 microwave oven 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 microwave oven is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a microwave oven, 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 microwave oven, 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 microwave oven 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 microwave oven 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 microwave oven, 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 microwave oven, 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 microwave oven 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 microwave oven 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 microwave oven between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a microwave oven, 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 microwave oven, 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 microwave oven 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 microwave oven, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a microwave oven 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 microwave oven, 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 microwave oven, 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 microwave oven 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 microwave oven 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 microwave oven 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 microwave oven, 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 microwave oven 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 microwave oven 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 microwave oven 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 microwave oven 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 microwave oven 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 microwave oven, 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 microwave oven 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 microwave oven and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a microwave oven, 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 microwave oven, 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 microwave oven 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 microwave oven is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a microwave oven, 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 microwave oven, 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 microwave oven 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 } } } }