{ "model": { "rank": 3385, "code": "thing-q134", "model_id": "vr.tr.bishop-q134", "name": "bishop", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a bishop chess piece, record its physical and game state, and determine its permitted use under the applicable chess rules.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.OBJ", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q134/", "tier": 2, "score": 86, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "white bishop", "black bishop", "tall pawn", "wrong bishop" ], "aliasCount": 4, "merged": 4, "knownIn": 86, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": "vr.tr.bishop", "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q134", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q134", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T14:36:49Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 20.1, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.3\n--------\nworkdir: R:\\02_PROJECTS\\02_Meta_Models_Platforms\\Ver.cy\\current\\thing-registry-backlog\nmodel: gpt-6-astra\nprovider: openai\napproval: never\nsandbox: read-only\nreasoning effort: none\nreasoning summaries: none\nsession id: 01a07c4b-fac7-7321-9359-239803c63151\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: bishop\nSense to describe: (none recorded)\nDomain code: PHY.OBJ\nAlso known as: (none)\n\n\nContext for this batch of 546 things:\n# Batch 003: 1001 registere", "usd": 0, "recall": true }, "codex": { "seconds": 61.2, "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: 01a07c4b-fa4a-70f1-8db3-2f6538aa1f8c\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: bishop\nRegistry id: vr.tr.bishop-q134\nPlane / domain: PHY / PHY.OBJ\nRegistry definition: (none recorded)\nNames folded into this entry: (none)\n\n\nConte" } } }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q134", "registryId": "vr.tr.bishop-q134", "name": "bishop", "version": "0.1.0-research.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "PHY.OBJ" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q134/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.bishop-q134", "name": "bishop", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a bishop chess piece, record its physical and game state, and determine its permitted use under the applicable chess rules.", "definition": "A bishop is a chess piece that moves any number of squares diagonally without jumping over intervening pieces and therefore remains on squares of one colour throughout play.", "scope_statement": "This model covers bishop as a physical chess-piece kind and its representation in a chess position, provisionally interpreting registry id vr.tr.bishop-q134 in that sense; it distinguishes the piece's physical appearance from its assigned role in play.", "in_scope": [ "Identification as a bishop and distinction from other chess-piece kinds", "Side, square, diagonal movement and square-colour restriction", "Bishop-specific capture eligibility and constraints on legal moves", "Physical recognisability, condition and suitability for board use", "Bishop provenance through initial setup, promotion or substitute designation" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Bishop as a religious office or the person holding it", "The complete chess ruleset and whole-game adjudication", "Chessboard construction and the complete chess-set inventory", "Other piece kinds except where needed to distinguish a bishop", "Comprehensive chess strategy, opening theory and game evaluation" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Under orthodox chess rules, moves diagonally through unobstructed squares; unlike a rook, it cannot move orthogonally.", "Unlike a queen, combines no orthogonal movement with its diagonal movement.", "Unlike a knight, cannot jump over intervening pieces.", "Remains on the same square colour throughout ordinary movement, making light-squared and dark-squared bishops distinct operational categories.", "Often has a split or notched head in Staunton-style sets, but assigned role and set conventions take precedence over shape alone." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Assigned piece role", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "bishop; uncertain designation", "why_it_matters": "Determines movement rights even when the physical token is unconventional or substituted." }, { "name": "Playing side", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "White or Black in orthodox chess", "why_it_matters": "Determines friendly occupancy, opposing pieces and whose turn permits movement." }, { "name": "Current square", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "a1-h8 on a standard board; off-board; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Anchors movement, capture and attack calculations." }, { "name": "Square-colour class", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "light-squared; dark-squared; unassigned", "why_it_matters": "Restricts the bishop's reachable squares during ordinary play." }, { "name": "Participation state", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "in play; captured; spare; awaiting promotion placement; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Separates active pieces from physically present tokens that cannot move." }, { "name": "Diagonal occupancy", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "ordered occupied and empty squares along each of four diagonal rays", "why_it_matters": "Determines movement reach and the first possible capture on each ray." }, { "name": "Role origin", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "initial setup; pawn promotion; composed position; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Explains bishops beyond the initial allocation without misclassifying the position." }, { "name": "Physical dimensions", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "height and base diameter in mm", "why_it_matters": "Supports assessment of board fit and distinction within the actual set." }, { "name": "Physical recognisability and stability", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "clear and stable; ambiguous; damaged; unstable; unassessed", "why_it_matters": "Determines whether players or agents can reliably identify and place the piece." } ], "affordances": [ "Identify a bishop using set conventions, markings and declared role.", "Enumerate unobstructed diagonal destinations and opposing pieces eligible for capture.", "Filter candidate moves against the whole position's king-safety constraints.", "Track light-square or dark-square reach and distinguish attacks from legal moves.", "Place a bishop during setup or pawn promotion when permitted by the governing rules.", "Flag an ambiguous or damaged bishop for clarification or replacement." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "bishop-identity", "name": "Bishop identity", "description": "Establishes the chess sense and the relationship between physical token and assigned bishop role.", "rationale": "The name is ambiguous, and bishop appearance varies across chess sets.", "layers": [ { "id": "registered-sense", "name": "Registered sense", "description": "Bounds the entry to the chess-piece concept.", "findings": [ { "id": "chess-sense-boundary", "name": "Chess sense boundary", "description": "The draft adopts the chess-piece interpretation; source verification must establish that this matches the registry identifier.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the source record behind vr.tr.bishop-q134 explicitly identify the chess piece?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "chess-sense-boundary-q01" }, { "text": "Does this registry entry own only the physical piece kind, or also its abstract role in digital chess?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "chess-sense-boundary-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "token-and-role", "name": "Token and role", "description": "Separates recognition by form from authoritative assignment in play.", "findings": [ { "id": "bishop-designation", "name": "Bishop designation", "description": "A familiar notched head supports recognition, but unconventional sets and substitutes require contextual identification.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which shape, symbol or marking identifies bishops in this particular set?", "kind": "definition", "id": "bishop-designation-q01" }, { "text": "If the token is a substitute, what declaration or governing procedure establishes its bishop role?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "bishop-designation-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "diagonal-reach", "name": "Diagonal reach", "description": "Captures the bishop's movement geometry and occupancy constraints.", "rationale": "Diagonal sliding and square-colour confinement are the bishop's defining operational properties.", "layers": [ { "id": "movement-geometry", "name": "Movement geometry", "description": "Locates the bishop and derives its diagonal rays.", "findings": [ { "id": "colour-bound-diagonals", "name": "Colour-bound diagonals", "description": "In orthodox chess, a bishop moves along diagonals and retains its square-colour class.", "questions": [ { "text": "What is the bishop's current square and resulting light-square or dark-square class?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "colour-bound-diagonals-q01" }, { "text": "Which destinations lie on a nonzero diagonal from that square within the board boundary?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "colour-bound-diagonals-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "blocking-and-capture", "name": "Blocking and capture", "description": "Limits geometric reach using the first occupied square on each diagonal.", "findings": [ { "id": "first-occupant-limit", "name": "First-occupant limit", "description": "A bishop cannot cross an occupied square; a first opposing occupant is a candidate capture, while a friendly occupant prevents landing.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which piece is the first occupant on each diagonal ray, and which side owns it?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "first-occupant-limit-q01" }, { "text": "Which empty destinations and first opposing occupants remain candidate moves or captures?", "kind": "action", "id": "first-occupant-limit-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "position-dependent-permission", "name": "Position-dependent permission", "description": "Connects bishop movement to turn ownership, king safety and attack semantics.", "rationale": "Diagonal reach alone cannot establish whether a bishop move is legal or how the bishop affects a king.", "layers": [ { "id": "legal-move-filter", "name": "Legal move filter", "description": "Applies whole-position constraints to bishop move candidates.", "findings": [ { "id": "king-safety-dependency", "name": "King-safety dependency", "description": "An otherwise reachable destination is illegal if the move leaves the moving side's king in check.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is the bishop active and owned by the side whose turn it is?", "kind": "action", "id": "king-safety-dependency-q01" }, { "text": "After each candidate move, would its own king remain or become attacked, including through a diagonal or other line the bishop vacates?", "kind": "action", "id": "king-safety-dependency-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "attacks-and-defence", "name": "Attacks and defence", "description": "Distinguishes attacked squares from legal movement and friendly-piece defence.", "findings": [ { "id": "attack-versus-move", "name": "Attack versus move", "description": "Under orthodox rules, restriction by king safety does not erase a bishop's attacks; friendly occupied endpoints also require separate defence interpretation.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which squares does this bishop attack under the governing rules, including when it is pinned to its king?", "kind": "definition", "id": "attack-versus-move-q01" }, { "text": "Which friendly pieces occupy its first diagonal endpoints and are therefore defended along those lines?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "attack-versus-move-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "bishop-entry-and-material-use", "name": "Bishop entry and material use", "description": "Records how a bishop enters a position and whether its physical representation is usable.", "rationale": "Promotions alter bishop counts, while physical ambiguity can prevent reliable execution of otherwise valid chess actions.", "layers": [ { "id": "setup-and-promotion", "name": "Setup and promotion", "description": "Tracks initial allocation, promoted bishops and transitions out of play.", "findings": [ { "id": "bishop-role-origin", "name": "Bishop role origin", "description": "Orthodox initial setup supplies two bishops per side on opposite square colours; promotion can create additional bishops, including multiple bishops on one colour.", "questions": [ { "text": "Did this bishop enter through initial setup, pawn promotion or an explicitly supplied position?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "bishop-role-origin-q01" }, { "text": "What square and side establish a promoted bishop's square-colour class?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "bishop-role-origin-q02" }, { "text": "Which recorded capture or placement event changed this bishop's participation state?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "bishop-role-origin-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "physical-playability", "name": "Physical playability", "description": "Assesses the token's bishop-specific recognisability and compatibility with the playing set.", "findings": [ { "id": "usable-bishop-token", "name": "Usable bishop token", "description": "The token must remain distinguishable as a bishop of the correct side and occupy its square without avoidable placement ambiguity.", "questions": [ { "text": "Can this token be reliably distinguished from the set's pawns, queen and king despite wear, damage or stylisation?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "usable-bishop-token-q01" }, { "text": "Do its base diameter, height and stability suit the board and applicable equipment requirements?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "usable-bishop-token-q02" }, { "text": "What permitted replacement or designation procedure applies if a bishop token is unavailable or ambiguous?", "kind": "action", "id": "usable-bishop-token-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "The chess-piece sense is inferred from PHY.OBJ; the registry provides no recorded sense.", "Movement and counts refer to standard chess on an 8×8 board; variants may differ.", "These are recalled facts, not researched findings; current equipment specifications and physical dimensions require verification." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of bishop this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Light-squared bishop", "Dark-squared bishop" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of bishop this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "English algebraic chess notation", "value_or_pattern": "B", "note": "Identifies the piece type in moves such as Be3; notation letters vary by language." }, { "scheme": "Forsyth-Edwards Notation (FEN)", "value_or_pattern": "B / b", "note": "Uppercase denotes a White bishop; lowercase denotes a Black bishop." }, { "scheme": "Unicode", "value_or_pattern": "U+2657 / U+265D", "note": "WHITE CHESS BISHOP and BLACK CHESS BISHOP symbols." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of bishop this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation", "name": "Standards and regulation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "FIDE Laws of Chess: the International Chess Federation specifies bishop movement, capture and initial placement." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of bishop this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Each player begins standard chess with two bishops, one on each square colour.", "Controls diagonal lines for attacks, defence and restriction of opposing pieces.", "A pawn reaching its promotion rank may be promoted to a bishop." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of bishop this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "Starting number per player", "typical_range": "2", "unit": "pieces" }, { "quantity": "Distance travelled in one legal move on a standard board", "typical_range": "1-7", "unit": "diagonal square steps" }, { "quantity": "Squares reachable across successive moves on an otherwise empty standard board", "typical_range": "32", "unit": "squares" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of bishop this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Small physical pieces can present a choking hazard to young children.", "Poorly differentiated piece shapes can cause confusion with other chessmen.", "A chipped base or loose weighting can make a physical piece unstable." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of bishop this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "The equivalent piece has different names across languages, including French fou, German Läufer and Russian slon.", "Physical designs vary across chess-set traditions; Staunton-style bishops commonly have a slotted, mitre-like head." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of bishop this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; 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Form alone rarely separates two models that do very different things." ], "relatedModels": [ { "relation": "covers", "note": "Finer kinds folded into this entry because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it. Each is a model waiting to be split out when one does.", "targets": [ "white bishop", "black bishop", "tall pawn", "wrong bishop" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 86 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 4 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 bishop from another, and a bishop 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 bishop, 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 bishop, 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 bishop 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 bishop, 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 bishop, 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 bishop 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 bishop 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 bishop, 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 bishop, 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 bishop 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 bishop from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a bishop, 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 bishop, 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 bishop 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 bishop 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 bishop, 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 bishop, 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 bishop is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "material-and-composition", "name": "Material and composition", "description": "Materials, parts and how they are put together.", "findings": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials", "name": "Parts and materials", "description": "What a bishop is built from and which parts are replaceable.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a bishop, 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 bishop, 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 bishop 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 bishop is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a bishop, 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 bishop, 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 bishop 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 bishop is, how it got there and where it may go (varies).", "rationale": "A thing that can move needs its position recorded with a time, or every later claim about it is about a place it has left.", "layers": [ { "id": "location-and-placement", "name": "Location and placement", "description": "Position, containment and the reference frame the position is given in.", "findings": [ { "id": "position-and-frame", "name": "Position, container and reference frame", "description": "Where a bishop is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a bishop, 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 bishop, 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 bishop 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 bishop is carried, installed or relocated.", "findings": [ { "id": "movement-events", "name": "Movement events and constraints", "description": "What counts as a movement, what records it and what limits it.", "questions": [ { "id": "movement-events-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the movement of a bishop, 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 bishop, 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 bishop 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 bishop 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 bishop between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a bishop, 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 bishop, 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 bishop 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 bishop, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a bishop 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 bishop, 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 bishop, 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 bishop is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "function-and-principle", "name": "Function and operating principle", "description": "What bishop is for and how it achieves it.", "rationale": "Two devices with the same name can work on different principles, and the principle is what predicts failure and constrains use.", "layers": [ { "id": "intended-function", "name": "Intended function", "description": "The job it does, and the jobs it is used for anyway.", "findings": [ { "id": "function-record", "name": "Function, principle and variants", "description": "What it does, how, and which variants do it differently.", "questions": [ { "id": "function-record-q01", "text": "What function does bishop perform, on what operating principle, and which variants differ in that principle?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "function-record-q02", "text": "What use falls outside the intended function but happens in practice?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "capacity-and-rating", "name": "Capacity and rating", "description": "The numbers that say what it can do and where it stops.", "findings": [ { "id": "ratings", "name": "Ratings and their conditions", "description": "Rated capacity, power, throughput and the conditions each assumes.", "questions": [ { "id": "ratings-q01", "text": "What ratings characterise bishop, in what units, and under what stated conditions?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "ratings-q02", "text": "What happens beyond the rating - degradation, refusal, damage - and how is that detected?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "operation-and-state", "name": "Operation, controls and state", "description": "How bishop is operated and what state it is in right now.", "rationale": "An agent acting on a device needs its current state and the controls that change it, not just its specification.", "layers": [ { "id": "controls-and-modes", "name": "Controls and modes", "description": "What can be set, what that changes, and what is interlocked.", "findings": [ { "id": "control-surface", "name": "Control surface and interlocks", "description": "The settings available and the conditions that block them.", "questions": [ { "id": "control-surface-q01", "text": "What controls and modes does bishop have, and what does each change?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "control-surface-q02", "text": "Which actions are interlocked or forbidden in which state, and what must be true before acting?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-maintenance", "name": "Condition and maintenance", "description": "Wear, service intervals, consumables and the line between working and broken.", "findings": [ { "id": "service-record", "name": "Condition, service and consumables", "description": "What is consumed, what is serviced, and how condition is judged.", "questions": [ { "id": "service-record-q01", "text": "What consumables and service does bishop need, at what interval, and on whose authority?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "service-record-q02", "text": "What evidence separates a unit that is working from one that is out of service?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "kind-model-unit", "name": "Kind, model and unit", "description": "Whether a claim about bishop is about the kind, a product line, or one physical unit.", "rationale": "This is the boundary most often got wrong for made things, and getting it wrong mixes a catalogue entry with the machine in the yard.", "layers": [ { "id": "level-of-reference", "name": "Level of reference", "description": "The three levels and what belongs at each.", "findings": [ { "id": "level-rules", "name": "What belongs to kind, model and unit", "description": "Which properties are shared by all of them and which are not.", "questions": [ { "id": "level-rules-q01", "text": "Which facts about bishop hold for every one of them, which for a model, and which only for one unit?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "level-rules-q02", "text": "What identifies an individual unit, and what should an agent do when it has only the kind?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "standards-and-conformity", "name": "Standards and conformity", "description": "The standards a working example must meet and who attests it.", "findings": [ { "id": "conformity", "name": "Standards, marks and attestation", "description": "Which standard applies, who certifies, and what the mark means.", "questions": [ { "id": "conformity-q01", "text": "Which standards govern bishop, issued by whom, and what does conformity actually assert?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "conformity-q02", "text": "What may an agent conclude from a certification mark, and what may it not?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a bishop 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 bishop and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a bishop, 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 bishop, 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 bishop 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 bishop is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a bishop, 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 bishop, 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 bishop 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 } } } }