{ "model": { "rank": 3493, "code": "thing-q132390", "model_id": "vr.tr.gill", "name": "gill", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise an animal gill, assess its respiratory condition in context, and identify appropriate observation or care actions.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.LIV", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q132390/", "tier": 2, "score": 85, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "external gill", "Fish gill" ], "aliasCount": 2, "merged": 2, "knownIn": 85, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": "vr.tr.gill-animal", "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q132390", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q132390", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T14:54:08Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 24.7, "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: 01a07c5b-d2d5-7752-a6bf-adb9dbc1226a\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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their attachment, exchange surfaces, ventilation, developmental condition and functional impairment; it does not treat the gill as an organism or assume that gills across animal groups share one anatomical design or evolutionary origin.", "in_scope": [ "Identification and boundaries of an individual gill or explicitly identified gill set", "Taxon-dependent supporting structures and respiratory surfaces", "Movement of respiratory water and internal transport of exchanged gases", "Developmental stage, integrity and observable respiratory condition", "Relationships between gill function, water conditions and locally supported secondary functions" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Whole-animal taxonomy, population distribution and conservation assessment", "Lungs, skin and other respiratory surfaces except as functional neighbours", "Mushroom gills and other non-animal uses of the name", "Whole-body circulation and metabolism beyond their interface with the gill", "Aquatic habitat management and disease treatment protocols" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Identify an animal structure whose established role includes gas exchange with surrounding water; a folded or filamentous appearance alone is insufficient.", "Distinguish the exchange surface from a cover, supporting arch or opening through which water passes; these may belong to the apparatus without individually being a gill.", "Distinguish a spatially identifiable gill from general gas exchange across the body surface.", "Confirm the host group and life stage before interpreting architecture: fish-style arches and lamellae are not universal criteria.", "Exclude fungal spore-bearing gills despite the shared name and potentially similar plate-like appearance." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Host and developmental context", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Host organism reference, taxon identification with confidence, and life stage", "why_it_matters": "Determines which structures, functions and developmental 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observations to water conditions measured near the exchange surface.", "Flag evidence of impaired exchange for taxon-appropriate expert assessment.", "Select an observation method that limits handling, exposure and damage to delicate exchange surfaces." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "gill-identity-and-boundaries", "name": "Gill identity and boundaries", "description": "Establishes which respiratory structure is being modelled and how it belongs to its host.", "rationale": "The word gill covers different animal architectures and also has unrelated meanings.", "layers": [ { "id": "host-linked-identification", "name": "Host-linked identification", "description": "Anchors identification to animal group, life stage and evidence of respiratory function.", "findings": [ { "id": "animal-gill-recognition", "name": "Animal gill recognition", "description": "Record the evidence that the structure is a gill in this host rather than relying on shape or name.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which host taxon and life stage does this gill belong to?", "kind": "definition", "id": "animal-gill-recognition-q01" }, { "text": "Which anatomical reference or observation supports identifying this structure as a gill?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "animal-gill-recognition-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "anatomical-unit", "name": "Anatomical unit", "description": "Separates one gill, a gill set and the surrounding respiratory apparatus.", "findings": [ { "id": "gill-unit-boundary", "name": "Gill unit boundary", "description": "Define the counted unit and distinguish exchange tissue from associated supports, covers and passages.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does this record describe one gill, one side's gills or the complete gill set?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "gill-unit-boundary-q01" }, { "text": "Which attached supports, covers and water passages are included, and which are neighbouring structures?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "gill-unit-boundary-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "exchange-surface-architecture", "name": "Exchange-surface architecture", "description": "Describes how the gill presents and supports tissue used for gas exchange.", "rationale": "Gill function depends on accessible exchange surfaces, but their arrangement must be established for the particular host.", "layers": [ { "id": "surface-organisation", "name": "Surface organisation", "description": "Records the arrangement and extent of respiratory tissue without imposing fish anatomy.", "findings": [ { "id": "respiratory-surface-layout", "name": "Respiratory surface layout", "description": "Identify the host-appropriate branches, folds, plates or other elements that constitute the exchange surface.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which anatomical elements provide the respiratory surface in this host?", "kind": "definition", "id": "respiratory-surface-layout-q01" }, { "text": "What surface dimensions or area can be measured, and what method and uncertainty accompany them?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "respiratory-surface-layout-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "support-and-exposure", "name": "Support and exposure", "description": "Connects attachment and enclosure to access by water and susceptibility to disturbance.", "findings": [ { "id": "surface-support-and-access", "name": "Surface support and access", "description": "Record how the exchange surface is held, protected and exposed to respiratory water.", "questions": [ { "text": "How is the gill attached and supported, and is it externally exposed or enclosed?", "kind": "definition", "id": "surface-support-and-access-q01" }, { "text": "Are its surfaces accessible to water, or are contact, collapse, deposits or obstruction limiting access?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "surface-support-and-access-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "ventilation-and-gas-transfer", "name": "Ventilation and gas transfer", "description": "Connects external water delivery with gas transfer into the host's internal transport pathway.", "rationale": "Appearance alone cannot establish respiratory performance; both sides of the exchange interface matter.", "layers": [ { "id": "respiratory-water-delivery", "name": "Respiratory water delivery", "description": "Establishes how water reaches and leaves the exchange surfaces.", "findings": [ { "id": "water-flow-mechanism", "name": "Water-flow mechanism", "description": "Document the observed ventilation mechanism and avoid treating movement frequency alone as exchange performance.", "questions": [ { "text": "What moves water across this gill, and what evidence establishes the flow path?", "kind": "definition", "id": "water-flow-mechanism-q01" }, { "text": "What water-flow rate or ventilation movement can be measured under the recorded activity and water conditions?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "water-flow-mechanism-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "internal-transfer-interface", "name": "Internal transfer interface", "description": "Identifies the receiving pathway and the evidence available for actual gas transfer.", "findings": [ { "id": "gas-transfer-evidence", "name": "Gas-transfer evidence", "description": "Distinguish demonstrated exchange from inferred capacity and identify the internal pathway appropriate to the animal.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does this gill exchange with blood, hemolymph, a tracheal system or another established pathway?", "kind": "definition", "id": "gas-transfer-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "What measurements support gas-transfer performance, and do they apply to this gill or only to the whole animal?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "gas-transfer-evidence-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-development-and-response", "name": "Condition, development and response", "description": "Interprets gill changes against developmental expectations and the immediate aquatic environment.", "rationale": "Normal developmental change, environmental stress and tissue injury require different interpretations and actions.", "layers": [ { "id": 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the stages it passes through.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a gill, 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 gill, 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 gill 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": 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gill 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 gill is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a gill, 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 gill, 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 gill 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 gill 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 gill, 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 gill, 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 gill 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 gill 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 gill between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a gill, 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 gill, 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 gill 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 gill, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a gill 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 gill, 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 gill, 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 gill 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 gill 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 gill, 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 gill 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 gill 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 gill 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 gill 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 gill 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 gill 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 gill, 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 gill 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 gill 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 gill and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a gill, 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 gill, 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 gill 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 gill is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a gill, 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 gill, 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 gill 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 } } } }