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[Flora of North America](https://efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=123791)", "Assess capsule shape alongside leaf dissection: a subglobose or ovoid capsule with a rounded base and shallowly dissected or serrate leaves supports the Flora of Pakistan key determination. [Flora of Pakistan key](https://efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=123791)", "Inspect capsule surface and crown: smooth, nearly hairless capsules and a stigmatic disc with usually 8-12, sometimes up to 18, rays support identification; a ray count alone is insufficient. [Flora of Pakistan species account](https://efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=220009871)", "Test an identification based on seed colour against additional evidence: documented seeds range from white through dark grey to black, so colour alone cannot establish or exclude this species. [Flora of Pakistan species account](https://efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=220009871)" ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Species determination", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "unassessed | provisional | supported | disputed; linked identification evidence", "why_it_matters": "Controls whether observations can be attributed to Papaver somniferum." }, { "name": "Upper leaf attachment", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "clasping | sessile without clasping | petiolate | not observable", "why_it_matters": "Provides a concrete identification character that photographs must show clearly." }, { "name": "Capsule morphology", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "recorded shape, base shape, surface hairiness and stigmatic-disc form", "why_it_matters": "Supports identification when flowers are absent." }, { "name": "Stigmatic ray count", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "count per observed capsule; unreadable recorded explicitly", "why_it_matters": "Adds a diagnostic observation without treating a variable character as a definitive test." }, { "name": "Developmental stage", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "seed | seedling | vegetative | budding | flowering | fruiting | senescent | dead | uncertain; mixed stages permitted", "why_it_matters": "Determines which identification and condition observations are available." }, { "name": "Capsule integrity", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "intact | naturally opening | damaged | uncertain; location and extent recorded", "why_it_matters": "Supports assessment of material loss, exposure and reproductive containment." }, { "name": "Observed health condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "no visible abnormality | wilting | chlorosis | lesions | lodging | tissue loss | mixed | unassessed", "why_it_matters": "Separates visible symptoms from an unverified diagnosis." }, { "name": "Botanical material identity", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "whole plant | seed | capsule | leaf | stem | root | latex | mixed | unknown", "why_it_matters": "Prevents evidence about one plant part from being applied automatically to another." }, { "name": "Cultivar or accession attribution", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "link to documented cultivar, accession or supplier claim, with verification status", "why_it_matters": "Preserves lineage claims without using a trade name to establish species or chemical composition." }, { "name": "Material-specific analytical evidence", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "link to sample, laboratory report, analytes, results, units, method and detection limits; absent allowed", "why_it_matters": "Prevents unsupported chemical or suitability conclusions from appearance or species identity." }, { "name": "Action authorisation", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "proposed action linked to jurisdiction, date, material category and applicable authority or unresolved review", "why_it_matters": "Makes permission specific to the actual action and material." } ], "affordances": [ "Document diagnostic leaves and capsules and request botanical verification when identification remains uncertain.", "Track developmental stage, capsule integrity and visible condition through dated observations.", "Link detached botanical material to its source plant or lot while recording breaks in provenance.", "Assess whether a proposed movement or handling action needs containment or specialist review.", "Arrange authorised identification or analytical sampling when existing evidence cannot support a decision." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "linnaeus-1753", "title": "Species Plantarum, vol. 1, p. 508 - Laurentius Salvius (Linnaeus, 1753)", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Original valid publication of the binomial Papaver somniferum and the starting point of the name." }, { "id": "kew-powo", "title": "Plants of the World Online: Papaver somniferum L. - Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew", "url": "https://powo.science.kew.org/", "what_it_supports": "Accepted taxonomy, family placement, life form and native/cultivated distribution used in the definition and neighbours.", "url_status": "blocked" }, { "id": "un-1961", "title": "Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961, as amended by the 1972 Protocol - United Nations", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "International control of the opium poppy, opium, poppy straw and concentrate of poppy straw; basis for national licensing regimes." }, { "id": "incb-narcotic-drugs", "title": "Narcotic Drugs: Estimated World Requirements (annual technical report) - International Narcotics Control Board / United Nations", "url": "https://www.incb.org/", "what_it_supports": "Licit cultivation geography (India gum; Australia, France, Spain, Turkey, Hungary straw), alkaloid end-uses, and that this species is the commercial opiate crop.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "ph-eur-opium", "title": "European Pharmacopoeia, monographs on opium (raw and standardised) - EDQM, Council of Europe", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Pharmacopoeial identity of opium as the air-dried latex of P. somniferum and typical morphine-range expectations for pharmaceutical material." }, { "id": "eu-2023-915", "title": "Commission Regulation (EU) 2023/915 on maximum levels for certain contaminants in food - European Commission", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Food-law limits for opium alkaloids in poppy seeds and bakery products; culinary versus industrial chemotype distinction." }, { "id": "wikidata-q131687", "title": "Papaver somniferum (Q131687) - Wikidata", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q131687", "what_it_supports": "Stable item identifier and crosswalks to NCBI, GRIN and other taxonomic schemes.", "url_status": "live" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "poppy-identification", "name": "Poppy identification", "description": "Evidence that an observed poppy or material belongs to Papaver somniferum.", "rationale": "Common names, flower appearance and supplier labels cannot substitute for a documented species determination.", "layers": [ { "id": "diagnostic-organ-evidence", "name": "Diagnostic organ evidence", "description": "Observations of leaves and reproductive structures used together.", "findings": [ { "id": "combined-character-assessment", "name": "Combined character assessment", "description": "Record observed characters, missing organs and contradictions against a cited identification key.", "questions": [ { "text": "What do upper leaf attachment, leaf dissection, capsule shape, surface and stigmatic disc show?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "combined-character-assessment-q01" }, { "text": "Which alternative poppy identifications remain compatible with those observations?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "combined-character-assessment-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "determination-and-naming", "name": "Determination and naming", "description": "The authority and limits of the species and cultivar attribution.", "findings": [ { "id": "traceable-poppy-determination", "name": "Traceable poppy determination", "description": "Keep botanical determination, common name and cultivar claim distinguishable within this registry entry.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who identified the specimen, using which reference and supporting images or voucher?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "traceable-poppy-determination-q01" }, { "text": "Does a cultivar or ornamental trade name have documented placement within this entry, or is that placement unresolved?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "traceable-poppy-determination-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "development-and-reproduction", "name": "Development and reproduction", "description": "The plant's observed progression through vegetative, flowering and capsule-bearing states.", "rationale": "Available identification evidence and reproductive consequences change with the organs present.", "layers": [ { "id": "organ-stage", "name": "Organ stage", "description": "Development recorded for the observed plant and its individual reproductive structures.", "findings": [ { "id": "observed-stage-distribution", "name": "Observed stage distribution", "description": "Allow buds, flowers and capsules to coexist rather than forcing a single whole-plant stage.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which vegetative, bud, flower and capsule stages are present on the observation date?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "observed-stage-distribution-q01" }, { "text": "Which maturity judgements are directly observed, and which are inferred from age or appearance?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "observed-stage-distribution-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "seed-retention-and-viability", "name": "Seed retention and viability", "description": "Evidence for retained seeds, released seeds and potential reproduction.", "findings": [ { "id": "reproductive-state-evidence", "name": "Reproductive state evidence", "description": "Separate capsule opening, seed presence and demonstrated viability.", "questions": [ { "text": "Are capsules intact, naturally opening or damaged, and is seed release actually observed?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "reproductive-state-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence supports seed viability, and what remains unknown when deciding containment or movement?", "kind": "action", "id": "reproductive-state-evidence-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "poppy-condition", "name": "Poppy condition", "description": "Visible condition of foliage, stems, flowers and capsules in their observed setting.", "rationale": "Normal developmental changes, injury and disease hypotheses must lead to different assessments.", "layers": [ { "id": "organ-condition", "name": "Organ condition", "description": "Localised observations of damage, decline and structural integrity.", "findings": [ { "id": "symptoms-and-capsule-damage", "name": "Symptoms and capsule damage", "description": "Record affected organs, severity and timing without converting symptoms into diagnoses.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which leaves, stems, flowers or capsules show abnormalities, and how extensive are they?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "symptoms-and-capsule-damage-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence distinguishes expected senescence from injury, stress or suspected disease?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "symptoms-and-capsule-damage-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-context", "name": "Condition context", "description": "Site observations and diagnostic evidence needed to interpret the plant's condition.", "findings": [ { "id": "supported-condition-response", "name": "Supported condition response", "description": "Connect changes in condition to observed circumstances and proportionate next actions.", "questions": [ { "text": "What recent moisture, weather, disturbance or neighbouring-plant observations accompany the symptoms?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "supported-condition-response-q01" }, { "text": "Is the evidence sufficient for monitoring, or is botanical or plant-health assessment needed before intervention?", "kind": "action", "id": "supported-condition-response-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "botanical-material-and-composition", "name": "Botanical material and composition", "description": "The identity, origin and analytical evidence of material attributed to this species.", "rationale": "Species identity alone does not establish the composition or suitability of a particular plant part or lot.", "layers": [ { "id": "part-and-origin", "name": "Part and origin", "description": "Traceability from whole plants to detached or mixed botanical material.", "findings": [ { "id": "attributable-material", "name": "Attributable material", "description": "State the organ represented and the strength of its connection to an identified plant.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is this a whole plant, seed, capsule, other organ, latex or mixture, and what supports that classification?", "kind": "definition", "id": "attributable-material-q01" }, { "text": "Can the material be traced to an identified plant or documented lot without unexplained mixing?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "attributable-material-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "analytical-claim-limits", "name": "Analytical claim limits", "description": "The applicability of chemical measurements and the boundary with processed-product models.", "findings": [ { "id": "sample-specific-composition", "name": "Sample-specific composition", "description": "Attach chemical claims to actual samples and preserve uncertainty beyond the tested material.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which analytes were measured in which plant part or lot, using what method, units and detection limits?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "sample-specific-composition-q01" }, { "text": "Does the evidence apply to this material, and has processing moved the decision into a food, extract or pharmaceutical model?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "sample-specific-composition-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "permitted-actions-and-exposure", "name": "Permitted actions and exposure", "description": "Evidence required before acting on the identified plant or botanical material.", "rationale": "Handling decisions depend on the material, proposed action, exposure circumstances and applicable authority.", "layers": [ { "id": "action-specific-permission", "name": "Action-specific permission", "description": "Links from proposed activities to current, applicable permission evidence.", "findings": [ { "id": "permission-for-this-material", "name": "Permission for this material", "description": "Avoid treating a permission for seeds, a site or an organisation as permission for every plant part and activity.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which dated authoritative rule or permit covers this jurisdiction, actor, material and proposed activity?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "permission-for-this-material-q01" }, { "text": "Does that evidence support the action, or must its scope be resolved first?", "kind": "action", "id": "permission-for-this-material-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "exposure-and-handling-context", "name": "Exposure and handling context", "description": "Observed access, damage and exposure relevant to the immediate handling decision.", "findings": [ { "id": "material-specific-handling-decision", "name": "Material-specific handling decision", "description": "Record what material is accessible and distinguish potential exposure from an observed incident.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which plant parts or loose materials are accessible, to whom, and is contact or ingestion reported?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "material-specific-handling-decision-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence supports ordinary handling, restricted access or referral to an appropriate exposure-response service?", "kind": "action", "id": "material-specific-handling-decision-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": [ "Morphine-dominant pharmaceutical and traditional opium cultivars (lanced gum or unlanced straw)", "Thebaine-dominant industrial cultivars (Norman-type and successors, grown mainly for thebaine and oripavine)", "Low-morphine oilseed and culinary breadseed cultivars bred for food use", "Blue-seeded Central European baking types (Mohn/mák)", "White-seeded culinary types", "Ornamental double- and paeony-flowered garden forms", "Traditional gum-opium landraces where capsule lancing is still practised", "Bristly poppy, usually treated as P. somniferum subsp. setigerum (sometimes as P. setigerum)" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of Papaver somniferum 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": "Q131687", "note": "Item for the species Papaver somniferum." }, { "scheme": "Scientific name (Linnaean)", "value_or_pattern": "Papaver somniferum L.", "note": "Protologue: Species Plantarum 1: 508 (1753)." }, { "scheme": "NCBI Taxonomy", "value_or_pattern": "3469", "note": "Taxid for Papaver somniferum." }, { "scheme": "USDA PLANTS", "value_or_pattern": "PASO2", "note": "Plants symbol for Papaver somniferum L." }, { "scheme": "Harmonized System", "value_or_pattern": "1207.91", "note": "Poppy seeds as an oilseed/food commodity, not the living plant or opium." }, { "scheme": "INN / pharmacopoeial drug (derived latex)", "value_or_pattern": "Opium / raw opium / standardised opium", "note": "Pharmacopoeial names for the dried latex; not a species code." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of Papaver somniferum 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": [ "Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961, as amended (United Nations; administered with INCB estimates) - cultivation of the opium poppy, opium, poppy straw and concentrate of poppy straw.", "Commission Regulation (EU) 2023/915 (European Commission) - maximum levels of opium alkaloids in poppy seeds and certain bakery products.", "European Pharmacopoeia opium monographs (EDQM, Council of Europe) - identity, morphine content and quality of pharmaceutical opium.", "Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (India) - licensed licit opium-gum production.", "Narcotic Drugs Act 1967 (Australia) - licensed poppy cultivation, notably Tasmanian straw for thebaine/oripavine.", "Controlled Substances Act (United States) - opium, opium poppy and poppy straw as controlled; unlicensed cultivation is a federal offence while culinary seed is a food.", "Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 (United Kingdom) - opium and production controls; ornamental plants are commonly sold but opium production is not." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of Papaver somniferum 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": [ "Culinary seed on breads, bagels, cakes and as a ground filling (Central and Eastern European Mohn/mák).", "Cold-pressed seed oil for food; historically also a drying oil in paints, soap and illumination.", "Licensed extraction of morphine, codeine, thebaine and oripavine from concentrate of poppy straw (unlanced capsules and upper stem).", "Licensed lanced opium gum in India, still the main remaining licit gum system.", "Illicit opium and heroin production from lanced capsules, especially Afghanistan, Myanmar and Mexico.", "Garden ornamental (single and double, white through purple and red).", "Herbarium and breeding reference as the type economic species of Papaver." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Papaver somniferum 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": "Plant height at flowering", "typical_range": "60-150", "unit": "cm" }, { "quantity": "Mature capsule diameter", "typical_range": "2-5 (occasionally to about 8)", "unit": "cm" }, { "quantity": "Seed oil content", "typical_range": "40-50", "unit": "% of seed mass" }, { "quantity": "Morphine in raw opium (gum chemotypes)", "typical_range": "8-17", "unit": "% by mass" }, { "quantity": "Morphine in dried capsule straw (morphine chemotypes)", "typical_range": "about 0.3-1.5", "unit": "% by mass" }, { "quantity": "Thousand-seed mass", "typical_range": "0.3-0.6", "unit": "g" }, { "quantity": "Somatic chromosome number", "typical_range": "22", "unit": "2n" }, { "quantity": "Sowing to harvest (temperate field crop)", "typical_range": "120-150", "unit": "days" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of Papaver somniferum 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": [ "Diversion of licensed or garden plants, latex or straw into illicit opium and heroin.", "Culinary seed lots with excess morphine or codeine causing intoxication, especially in children, or workplace urine-immunoassay positives.", "Thebaine (and related) toxicity if industrial high-thebaine straw or seed enters food or animal feed.", "Crop loss from lodging, drought at flowering, downy mildew and capsule diseases.", "Unlicensed cultivation treated as a narcotics offence in many jurisdictions, including destruction of ornamental plantings.", "Opioid overdose, dependence and neonatal withdrawal from opium or heroin derived from the plant - the public-health harm is from the alkaloids, not from handling mature dry seed of low-alkaloid food cultivars." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Papaver somniferum 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": [ "India remains the principal licit producer of lanced opium gum under state control.", "Tasmania (Australia) is a leading licensed producer of thebaine and oripavine from unlanced straw of industrial chemotypes.", "Turkey, France, Spain and Hungary grow licensed straw and/or seed; Turkey historically produced gum and later shifted toward straw and seed.", "Czechia, Austria, Germany, Hungary, Slovakia and Poland treat blue poppy seed as a normal food crop (Mohn, mák).", "Afghanistan, Myanmar and Mexico dominate illicit gum opium; Afghanistan has been the largest illicit producer in recent decades.", "In the United States, poppy seed is a legal food but unlicensed growing of the opium poppy is a federal crime.", "In the United Kingdom and much of the EU, ornamental P. somniferum is widely sold; producing opium is licensed or prohibited, and food-seed alkaloid limits now shape which cultivars may enter the bakery trade." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of Papaver somniferum 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": "Papaver rhoeas (common or corn poppy)", "difference": "Hispid annual with smaller, typically obovoid capsules and negligible morphinans; flowers usually bright red. P. somniferum is glaucous and usually glabrous, with much larger capsules and morphinan latex." }, { "name": "Papaver bracteatum (Iranian or Persian poppy)", "difference": "Perennial with leafy bracts immediately below the flower; main alkaloid is thebaine, not morphine, and it is not the commercial opium-gum plant. P. somniferum is an annual without those bracts." }, { "name": "Papaver orientale (oriental poppy)", "difference": "Perennial bristly garden plant with a different capsule and not used as a morphine crop; P. somniferum is annual, glaucous, and the pharmaceutical/oilseed species." }, { "name": "Papaver setigerum (bristly poppy; often a subspecies of P. somniferum)", "difference": "Denser bristly indumentum and smaller capsules; many floras fold it into P. somniferum rather than treating it as a separate crop species." }, { "name": "Argemone mexicana (Mexican prickly poppy)", "difference": "Spiny plant with yellow latex (isoquinoline alkaloids such as sanguinarine), yellow flowers, and prickly capsules; P. somniferum has white morphinan latex, no spines, and a smooth glaucous capsule. Seeds have been confused in oil and spice adulteration, not as living plants in the field." }, { "name": "Eschscholzia californica (California poppy)", "difference": "Different genus; orange flowers, no opium latex and no morphinan crop use. Separated at a glance by flower colour, leaf dissection and the absence of a large globose morphinan capsule." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of Papaver somniferum this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does an existing Vercy world model already own this concept, requiring a registry link instead of a separate publication?", "Which regional identification keys and expert-reviewed comparisons best resolve confusion with Papaver rhoeas, Papaver setigerum and ornamental trade names?", "What minimum evidence supports identification when only seedlings, detached seeds or damaged capsules are available?", "Which validated observations distinguish capsule maturity, seed viability and normal senescence across documented cultivars?", "Which authoritative jurisdictional sources and material-specific analytical standards are needed for the intended deployment's action decisions?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 18, "questions": 28 } }, "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 Papaver somniferum, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise Papaver somniferum, assess an observed plant or attributable botanical material, and determine which actions its condition, provenance and applicable permissions support.", "characteristics": { "substance": "living", "origin": "natural", "agency": "autonomous", "mobility": "self-moving" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Described in 95 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 Papaver somniferum, 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": [], "standing": "Described in 95 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one Papaver somniferum from another, and a Papaver somniferum 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 Papaver somniferum, 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 Papaver somniferum, 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 Papaver somniferum 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 Papaver somniferum, 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 Papaver somniferum, 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 Papaver somniferum 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 Papaver somniferum 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 Papaver somniferum, 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 Papaver somniferum, 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 Papaver somniferum 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 Papaver somniferum from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Papaver somniferum, 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 Papaver somniferum, 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 Papaver somniferum 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 Papaver somniferum 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 Papaver somniferum, 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 Papaver somniferum, 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 Papaver somniferum 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 Papaver somniferum and the stages it passes through.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a Papaver somniferum, 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 Papaver somniferum, 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 Papaver somniferum 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 Papaver somniferum is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a Papaver somniferum, 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 Papaver somniferum, 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 Papaver somniferum 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 Papaver somniferum 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 Papaver somniferum is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a Papaver somniferum, 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 Papaver somniferum, 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 Papaver somniferum 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 Papaver somniferum 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 Papaver somniferum, 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 Papaver somniferum, 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 Papaver somniferum 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 Papaver somniferum 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 Papaver somniferum between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Papaver somniferum, 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 Papaver somniferum, 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 Papaver somniferum 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 Papaver somniferum, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Papaver somniferum 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 Papaver somniferum, 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 Papaver somniferum, 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 Papaver somniferum 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 Papaver somniferum 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 Papaver somniferum, 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 Papaver somniferum 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 Papaver somniferum 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 Papaver somniferum 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 Papaver somniferum 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 Papaver somniferum 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 Papaver somniferum 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 Papaver somniferum, 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 Papaver somniferum 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 Papaver somniferum 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 Papaver somniferum and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Papaver somniferum, 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 Papaver somniferum, 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 Papaver somniferum 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 Papaver somniferum is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Papaver somniferum, 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 Papaver somniferum, 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 Papaver somniferum 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 } } } }