{ "model": { "rank": 2905, "code": "thing-q129104", "model_id": "vr.tr.anthrax", "name": "anthrax", "purpose": "Let an agent explain anthrax and its forms in general terms from public health sources, describe transmission, treatment and prevention, route suspected exposures to health authorities, and address its weapon history without operational detail.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Cross-cutting context", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "XCT", "domain": "XCT.QLT", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q129104/", "tier": 2, "score": 94, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "anthrax septicemia", "gastrointestinal anthrax", "Welder's anthrax", "inhalation anthrax", "cutaneous anthrax" ], "aliasCount": 5, "merged": 5, "knownIn": 94, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": "vr.tr.anthrax-state", "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q129104", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q129104", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-13T04:06:08Z", "providers": [ "Claude" ], "breadth": "written by Claude from model knowledge without web access - no source was read, every claim is a lead to verify", "pass": 2, "wave": 3, "engine": "claude" }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q129104", "registryId": "vr.tr.anthrax", "name": "anthrax", "version": "0.2.0-wave.3", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "XCT.QLT" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q129104/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.anthrax", "name": "anthrax", "purpose": "Let an agent explain anthrax and its forms in general terms from public health sources, describe transmission, treatment and prevention, route suspected exposures to health authorities, and address its weapon history without operational detail.", "definition": "A serious infectious disease caused by the spore-forming bacterium Bacillus anthracis, primarily affecting grazing animals and transmitted to people through contact with infected animals or products, in cutaneous form through skin lesions, gastrointestinal form from contaminated meat, inhalation form from spores including occupational welder anthrax, and injection form among drug users, with septicaemia in severe cases; anthrax is treatable with antibiotics if caught early, preventable by animal and occupational vaccination, and is a notifiable disease also known for its misuse as a biological weapon.", "what_it_is_for": "Not applicable; a disease.", "affordances": [ "explain forms and transmission", "relay treatment and prevention", "route suspected exposures", "address weapon history non-operationally" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Spore-forming bacterium", "Zoonotic origin", "Four clinical forms", "Weapon history" ], "appearance": "Not a visible object; a black skin eschar in cutaneous cases.", "visual_identification": [ "Bacillus anthracis infection", "Cutaneous, gastrointestinal, inhalation and injection anthrax; welder anthrax; septicaemia", "The metal band and the word for coal are unrelated senses" ], "physical_properties": [ { "quantity": "cutaneous share of natural cases", "typical_range": "about 95", "unit": "percent", "note": "" }, { "quantity": "untreated inhalation anthrax fatality", "typical_range": "very high", "unit": "rate", "note": "much lower with early treatment" }, { "quantity": "spore survival in soil", "typical_range": "decades", "unit": "duration", "note": "" } ], "families_and_kinds": [ "cutaneous anthrax", "gastrointestinal anthrax", "inhalation anthrax including welder anthrax from metal dust", "injection anthrax", "anthrax septicaemia and meningitis", "animal anthrax in livestock and wildlife" ], "related_models": [ { "relation": "is a kind of", "target": "zoonosis", "why": "in registry terms" }, { "relation": "is a kind of", "target": "primary bacterial infectious disease", "why": "in registry terms" }, { "relation": "is caused by", "target": "Bacillus anthracis", "why": "the spore-forming bacterium" }, { "relation": "is prevented by", "target": "anthrax vaccine", "why": "in animals and at-risk workers" } ], "identifiers": [ { "scheme": "ICD-11", "value_or_pattern": "1B97", "note": "anthrax" }, { "scheme": "MeSH", "value_or_pattern": "D000881", "note": "anthrax" } ], "standards_and_regulation": [ "WHO and CDC anthrax guidance", "Notifiable disease rules and animal health regulations", "Biological Weapons Convention", "Biosafety rules for Bacillus anthracis" ], "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Delayed treatment of inhalation anthrax", "Agents providing operational detail on the organism", "Confusing anthrax with other diseases", "Stigma toward affected communities" ], "in_scope": [], "out_of_scope": [], "characteristics": [] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "help", "name": "Help", "description": "Exposure first.", "rationale": "Safety.", "layers": [ { "id": "exposure", "name": "Exposure", "description": "Suspected exposure.", "findings": [ { "id": "exposure-finding", "name": "Exposure", "description": "Exposure.", "questions": [ { "text": "What should someone do after suspected anthrax exposure, per health authority guidance?", "kind": "action" }, { "text": "Is the user describing a possible exposure or illness, which needs immediate contact with health services?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "treatment", "name": "Treatment", "description": "Treatment.", "findings": [ { "id": "treatment-finding", "name": "Treatment", "description": "Treatment.", "questions": [ { "text": "How is anthrax treated with antibiotics and antitoxin, in general terms?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which references are standard?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "understand", "name": "Understand", "description": "The disease.", "rationale": "Clinical.", "layers": [ { "id": "forms", "name": "Forms", "description": "Forms and transmission.", "findings": [ { "id": "forms-finding", "name": "Forms", "description": "Forms.", "questions": [ { "text": "What are the cutaneous, gastrointestinal, inhalation and injection forms, and how is each acquired?", "kind": "definition" }, { "text": "Is the question about the disease or an unrelated sense of anthrax?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "animals", "name": "Animals", "description": "Animal anthrax.", "findings": [ { "id": "animals-finding", "name": "Animals", "description": "Animals.", "questions": [ { "text": "How does anthrax affect livestock and wildlife, and how is it controlled?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which entry fits veterinary public health?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "prevent", "name": "Prevent", "description": "Prevention and control.", "rationale": "Public health.", "layers": [ { "id": "vaccination", "name": "Vaccination", "description": "Vaccination.", "findings": [ { "id": "vaccination-finding", "name": "Vaccination", "description": "Vaccination.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who receives anthrax vaccination, and how are outbreaks controlled?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which sources are cited?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "occupational", "name": "Occupational", "description": "Occupational risk.", "findings": [ { "id": "occupational-finding", "name": "Occupational", "description": "Occupational.", "questions": [ { "text": "What occupational exposures, from hides and wool to welding, carry risk, and what protections apply?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which entry fits occupational disease?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "context", "name": "Context", "description": "History.", "rationale": "Context.", "layers": [ { "id": "history", "name": "History", "description": "Scientific history.", "findings": [ { "id": "history-finding", "name": "History", "description": "History.", "questions": [ { "text": "How did Koch and Pasteur establish the germ theory and vaccination through anthrax?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which entry fits the history of microbiology?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "weapon", "name": "Weapon", "description": "Biological weapon history.", "findings": [ { "id": "weapon-finding", "name": "Weapon", "description": "Weapon.", "questions": [ { "text": "How has anthrax been misused as a weapon, such as in the 2001 letter attacks, and how is it regulated, as histories and treaties describe?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Is the question seeking harmful operational detail the model does not provide?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Should Bacillus anthracis and anthrax vaccine be separate primary entries?", "How should public health guidance be linked?", "The registry entry has merged aliases naming clinical forms; should they be split off?" ], 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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 anthrax, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Let an agent explain anthrax and its forms in general terms from public health sources, describe transmission, treatment and prevention, route suspected exposures to health authorities, and address its weapon history without operational detail.", "characteristics": { "substance": "abstract", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "inert" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: anthrax septicemia, gastrointestinal anthrax, Welder's anthrax, inhalation anthrax, cutaneous anthrax.", "5 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 94 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 anthrax, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "an abstraction with no physical instance", "physicalCharacter": [ "Does nothing on its own; everything it does, something else did to it.", "These come from the domain this entry sits in rather than from the entry itself, so treat them as a first guess about the whole domain applied to one thing." ], "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [ "observe it, measure it, record its state" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "Nothing to see. What is recognised is an instance of it, and which instances count is exactly what is argued about." ], "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": [ "anthrax septicemia", "gastrointestinal anthrax", "Welder's anthrax", "inhalation anthrax", "cutaneous anthrax" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 94 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 5 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 anthrax from another, and a anthrax 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 anthrax, 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 anthrax, 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 anthrax 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 anthrax, 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 anthrax, 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 anthrax 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 anthrax 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 anthrax, 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 anthrax, 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 anthrax 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 anthrax from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a anthrax, 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 anthrax, 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 anthrax 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 anthrax 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 anthrax between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a anthrax, 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 anthrax, 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 anthrax 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 anthrax, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a anthrax 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 anthrax, 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 anthrax, 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 anthrax is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "definitions-in-contest", "name": "Definitions and who holds them", "description": "What anthrax is taken to mean, and by whom.", "rationale": "When a field disagrees about a concept, the disagreement is the content. A model that picks one definition silently destroys the information.", "layers": [ { "id": "competing-definitions", "name": "Competing definitions", "description": "The main readings and the traditions behind them.", "findings": [ { "id": "definition-map", "name": "Definitions and their holders", "description": "Each definition with the school or body that holds it.", "questions": [ { "id": "definition-map-q01", "text": "Which definitions of anthrax are in use, and which tradition or body holds each?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "definition-map-q02", "text": "What turns on the difference between them in practice?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "operationalisation", "name": "Operationalisation", "description": "How it is measured or applied when it has to be.", "findings": [ { "id": "operational-record", "name": "Measures and proxies", "description": "Instruments and indicators used to stand in for it.", "questions": [ { "id": "operational-record-q01", "text": "How is anthrax operationalised or measured in practice, and by what instrument?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "operational-record-q02", "text": "What does that operationalisation leave out, and when does that matter?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "instances-and-use", "name": "Instances, use and consequence", "description": "What counts as an instance of anthrax and what follows from calling something that.", "rationale": "Applying a concept is an act with consequences, so a model must say what the label licenses and what it does not.", "layers": [ { "id": "instances", "name": "What counts as an instance", "description": "Clear cases, borderline cases and non-cases.", "findings": [ { "id": "instance-tests", "name": "Tests for an instance", "description": "What would settle whether something falls under it.", "questions": [ { "id": "instance-tests-q01", "text": "What would settle whether something is an instance of anthrax?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "instance-tests-q02", "text": "Which borderline cases are argued about, and on what grounds?", "kind": "definition" } ] } ] }, { "id": "consequence", "name": "Consequence of application", "description": "Rights, duties or decisions that follow from the label.", "findings": [ { "id": "consequence-record", "name": "What the label licenses", "description": "What an agent may do once something is classified this way.", "questions": [ { "id": "consequence-record-q01", "text": "What follows practically once something is treated as anthrax?", "kind": "action" }, { "id": "consequence-record-q02", "text": "What must an agent not infer from the label alone?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a anthrax 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 anthrax and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a anthrax, 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 anthrax, 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 anthrax 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 anthrax is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a anthrax, 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 anthrax, 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 anthrax is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 10, "findings": 12, "questions": 32 } } } }