{ "model": { "rank": 2540, "code": "thing-q134283", "model_id": "vr.tr.origanum-vulgare", "name": "Origanum vulgare", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise Origanum vulgare, assess a plant or patch, and decide whether and how to cultivate, propagate, conserve or harvest it.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.LIV", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q134283/", "tier": 2, "score": 103, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "dried oregano" ], "aliasCount": 1, "merged": 1, "knownIn": 103, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q134283", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q134283", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T09:53:17Z", "providers": [ "Codex", "Grok" ], "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "usd": 0.00398786, "turns": 1, "seconds": 58.8, "error": null }, "codex": { "seconds": 97, "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: 01a07b47-d590-7072-94bd-173720041881\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: Origanum vulgare\nRegistry id: vr.tr.origanum-vulgare\nPlane / domain: PHY / PHY.LIV\nRegistry definition: (none recorded)\nNames folded into this entry:" } } }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q134283", "registryId": "vr.tr.origanum-vulgare", "name": "Origanum vulgare", "version": "0.1.0-research.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "PHY.LIV" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q134283/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.origanum-vulgare", "name": "Origanum vulgare", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise Origanum vulgare, assess a plant or patch, and decide whether and how to cultivate, propagate, conserve or harvest it.", "definition": "Origanum vulgare is a perennial Lamiaceae herb whose dried leaves and inflorescences are the principal culinary oregano of temperate Eurasia, chemically distinguished by a thymol-carvacrol essential-oil chemotype and a long history of food, medicinal, and ornamental use.", "scope_statement": "This model owns the biological identity, observed condition and action-relevant properties of Origanum vulgare under vr.tr.origanum-vulgare in PHY / PHY.LIV, including specimens, living patches and attributable propagules; harvested products and habitats are linked neighbouring things.", "in_scope": [ "Species identification, identification confidence and evidence for subspecies or cultivar attribution", "Boundaries between a shoot, rooted plant, connected clump and monitored patch", "Seasonal development, crown survival, flowering and regeneration", "Site suitability, plant stress and responses to cultivation", "Propagation provenance, spread and local ecological interactions", "Harvest readiness and traceability from plant to removed material" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Other Origanum species, hybrids and unrelated plants traded as oregano", "Dried oregano commodities, seasoning mixtures and their processing specifications", "Essential oils, purified constituents and formulated extracts", "Medical treatments, therapeutic efficacy and dosing", "Whole habitats, pollinator populations and agricultural enterprises" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Inspect mature flowers under magnification for a nearly regular, five-toothed calyx with a hairy throat; use a regional Origanum key to separate O. vulgare from sweet marjoram and other congeners. [Kew botanical descriptions](https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:453395-1/general-information)", "Record the combination of opposite ovate leaves, leaf glands and hairs, and bracted terminal or axillary flower clusters; compare the complete combination with a flora rather than accepting aroma alone. [Flora of New Zealand](https://www.nzflora.info/factsheet/taxon/Origanum-vulgare.html)", "Inspect the plant base for perennial persistence and rhizomatous connections; this supports recognition and distinguishes a connected oregano clump from unrelated seedlings, but is not sufficient for species identification. [Flora of New Zealand](https://www.nzflora.info/factsheet/taxon/Origanum-vulgare.html)", "Check nursery or collection provenance against floral evidence when distinguishing O. vulgare from O. majorana hybrids; intermediate plants require an unresolved or hybrid determination rather than automatic acceptance of an oregano label. [Kew botanical descriptions](https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:453395-1/general-information)" ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Botanical determination", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "confirmed O. vulgare; provisional O. vulgare; unresolved Origanum; suspected hybrid; excluded", "why_it_matters": "Controls whether species-specific actions and claims are justified." }, { "name": "Infraspecific attribution", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "subspecies or cultivar linked to an identification authority, voucher or supplier claim; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Keeps named horticultural material distinct without creating another registry thing." }, { "name": "Observation unit", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "shoot; rooted plant; connected clump; patch; propagule", "why_it_matters": "Prevents counting multiple stems as independent plants." }, { "name": "Shoot and leaf dimensions", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "shoot height in cm; mature leaf length and width in mm, with sampled position", "why_it_matters": "Supports identification and comparison of growth across observations." }, { "name": "Calyx and bract morphology", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "calyx symmetry, tooth count, throat hairs, bract shape and colour; not observed", "why_it_matters": "Preserves diagnostic evidence that common names and scent cannot supply." }, { "name": "Seasonal stage", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "establishing; vegetative; budding; flowering; fruiting; senescent; dormant; dead; uncertain", "why_it_matters": "Determines the relevance of pruning, propagation and harvest observations." }, { "name": "Crown and root condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "viable; damaged; decay suspected; dead; unexamined, with supporting observations", "why_it_matters": "Separates recoverable loss of shoots from loss of the perennial plant." }, { "name": "Root-zone conditions", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "soil moisture with method; pH; duration of saturation in hours", "why_it_matters": "Provides evidence for irrigation, drainage and site-change decisions." }, { "name": "Patch extent and recruitment", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "area in m²; new rooted shoots and seedlings per defined survey area and interval", "why_it_matters": "Tracks persistence and spread without assuming every new shoot came from seed." }, { "name": "Aromatic profile evidence", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "sensory description; laboratory-characterised profile; untested, with tissue and sampling date", "why_it_matters": "Separates observed aroma from an unsupported chemical or culinary quality claim." }, { "name": "Harvest history", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "date, removed tissue, fresh mass in g and estimated fraction of leafy shoots removed", "why_it_matters": "Connects subsequent recovery with the intensity of previous cutting." } ], "affordances": [ "Document diagnostic leaves and flowers and obtain a botanical determination before treating uncertain material as O. vulgare.", "Select or adjust a growing position using drainage and light observations; well-drained soil and sun or partial shade are supported cultivation conditions. [RHS plant profile](https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/11923/origanum-vulgare/details)", "Propagate by seed or division while recording parentage, method and establishment outcome. [RHS plant profile](https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/11923/origanum-vulgare/details)", "Plan and record leaf or shoot harvesting using identity, condition, intended use and subsequent regrowth.", "Retain flowering portions and monitor insect visitation when managing the plant for wildlife.", "Monitor patch expansion and decide whether to retain, divide or contain it using local ecological context." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "powo", "title": "Origanum vulgare L.", "url": "https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:453395-1", "what_it_supports": "Accepted scientific name, family Lamiaceae, native range, and subspecies taxonomy as treated by Plants of the World Online.", "url_status": "blocked" }, { "id": "ema-hp", "title": "Origani herba: Community herbal monograph", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "EU herbal-medicine identity of origani herba, traditional uses, and regulatory framing under the Herbal Medicinal Products Committee.", "url_status": "dead" }, { "id": "usda-plants", "title": "Origanum vulgare L. - oregano", "url": "https://plants.usda.gov/home/plantProfile?symbol=ORVU", "what_it_supports": "North American naturalized status, common names, and USDA PLANTS symbol used in agricultural and invasive-plant inventories.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "who-monograph", "title": "WHO monographs on selected medicinal plants - Herba Origani", "url": "https://iris.who.int/handle/10665/42052", "what_it_supports": "Pharmacognostic definition, chemical markers (carvacrol, thymol), and traditional medicinal uses of oregano herb.", "url_status": "live" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "oregano-identity", "name": "Oregano Identity", "description": "Establish whether the observed material belongs to the registered species.", "rationale": "An oregano or marjoram label does not establish botanical identity.", "layers": [ { "id": "diagnostic-morphology", "name": "Diagnostic Morphology", "description": "Capture the organs needed to distinguish this species from nearby alternatives.", "findings": [ { "id": "species-determination-evidence", "name": "Species Determination Evidence", "description": "Require a supported determination based on the available vegetative and floral characters.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which observed calyx, bract and leaf characters support O. vulgare under the applicable regional key?", "kind": "definition", "id": "species-determination-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Which competing identification remains possible because flowers or other diagnostic organs are missing?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "species-determination-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "named-material-and-origin", "name": "Named Material and Origin", "description": "Separate botanical determinations from nursery labels and common names.", "findings": [ { "id": "infraspecific-and-hybrid-status", "name": "Infraspecific and Hybrid Status", "description": "Keep subspecies, cultivar and possible hybrid attribution tied to evidence.", "questions": [ { "text": "What voucher, identification record or supplier documentation supports the stated subspecies or cultivar?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "infraspecific-and-hybrid-status-q01" }, { "text": "Does conflicting morphology or documented parentage require the plant to remain outside confirmed O. vulgare?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "infraspecific-and-hybrid-status-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "perennial-body-and-season", "name": "Perennial Body and Season", "description": "Represent the persistent plant beneath changing shoots and flowers.", "rationale": "Shoot counts and above-ground appearance alone can misrepresent plant number and survival.", "layers": [ { "id": "plant-and-patch-boundaries", "name": "Plant and Patch Boundaries", "description": "Define what is being followed through time.", "findings": [ { "id": "rooted-unit-continuity", "name": "Rooted Unit Continuity", "description": "Distinguish observed connections from assumptions about clonal identity.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does this record follow a shoot, rooted plant, physically connected clump or spatially defined patch?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "rooted-unit-continuity-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence connects newly appearing shoots to an existing crown or rhizome rather than seedling recruitment?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "rooted-unit-continuity-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "phenology-and-persistence", "name": "Phenology and Persistence", "description": "Interpret seasonal shoot loss and renewed growth in their local setting.", "findings": [ { "id": "seasonal-stage-and-survival", "name": "Seasonal Stage and Survival", "description": "Record developmental stage separately from evidence of whole-plant death.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which vegetative, flowering, fruiting or senescent stages are present on the observation date?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "seasonal-stage-and-survival-q01" }, { "text": "What crown, bud or regrowth evidence distinguishes dormancy or cutback from death?", "kind": "definition", "id": "seasonal-stage-and-survival-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "site-fit-and-vigour", "name": "Site Fit and Vigour", "description": "Connect growing conditions and visible injury to defensible care decisions.", "rationale": "Care must respond to the plant's root environment and recovery capacity.", "layers": [ { "id": "root-zone-and-exposure", "name": "Root Zone and Exposure", "description": "Characterise conditions relevant to establishment and continued growth.", "findings": [ { "id": "growing-position-fit", "name": "Growing Position Fit", "description": "Assess drainage, moisture and exposure against observed plant performance.", "questions": [ { "text": "How long does the root zone remain saturated after rain or irrigation, and how was this measured?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "growing-position-fit-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence supports changing irrigation, drainage or position for this plant at its current stage?", "kind": "action", "id": "growing-position-fit-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "injury-and-recovery", "name": "Injury and Recovery", "description": "Distinguish symptoms, suspected causes and confirmed diagnoses.", "findings": [ { "id": "decline-assessment", "name": "Decline Assessment", "description": "Record the distribution and progression of wilting, discoloration, tissue loss or crown damage.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which shoots, leaves or crown tissues are affected, and is damage progressing between observations?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "decline-assessment-q01" }, { "text": "What inspection or diagnostic evidence is needed before attributing decline to drought, saturation, cold, pests or disease?", "kind": "action", "id": "decline-assessment-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "regeneration-and-ecological-role", "name": "Regeneration and Ecological Role", "description": "Track propagation, recruitment, flowering interactions and spread.", "rationale": "Increasing oregano stock and retaining flowers have consequences for lineage and the surrounding site.", "layers": [ { "id": "propagation-and-lineage", "name": "Propagation and Lineage", "description": "Preserve the origin and outcome of each propagation attempt.", "findings": [ { "id": "propagule-origin-and-establishment", "name": "Propagule Origin and Establishment", "description": "Link new plants to source material without assuming that seed offspring retain a cultivar identity.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which parent plant or seed accession supplied the material, and what propagation method was used?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "propagule-origin-and-establishment-q01" }, { "text": "What germination, rooting or new-growth observations demonstrate establishment?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "propagule-origin-and-establishment-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "flowering-and-local-spread", "name": "Flowering and Local Spread", "description": "Assess the patch as a flowering resource and a source of new growth beyond its boundary.", "findings": [ { "id": "flower-retention-and-containment", "name": "Flower Retention and Containment", "description": "Make retention or containment decisions from observed visitation, recruitment and local status.", "questions": [ { "text": "What flower abundance, insect visitation and recruitment beyond the managed boundary have been observed?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "flower-retention-and-containment-q01" }, { "text": "Given documented local status and management objectives, should flowering stems and expanding shoots be retained, cut or contained?", "kind": "action", "id": "flower-retention-and-containment-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "aromatic-material-and-harvest", "name": "Aromatic Material and Harvest", "description": "Connect the living plant to a justified harvest and an identifiable output.", "rationale": "Botanical identity, aromatic properties and suitability of a particular harvest require separate evidence.", "layers": [ { "id": "aroma-and-sample-evidence", "name": "Aroma and Sample Evidence", "description": "Represent aromatic observations without inventing a fixed chemical profile.", "findings": [ { "id": "aromatic-attribution", "name": "Aromatic Attribution", "description": "Keep sensory observations separate from analytical measurements and attach both to sampled tissue.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which tissue, developmental stage, date and handling conditions produced the recorded aroma observation or chemical result?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "aromatic-attribution-q01" }, { "text": "Is a claimed chemotype supported by an identified analytical method, or is only a sensory description available?", "kind": "definition", "id": "aromatic-attribution-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "harvest-decision-and-handoff", "name": "Harvest Decision and Handoff", "description": "Assess the removal of plant material and preserve its origin after separation.", "findings": [ { "id": "harvest-readiness-and-recovery", "name": "Harvest Readiness and Recovery", "description": "Base harvest decisions on supported identity, plant condition, exposure history and the intended use.", "questions": [ { "text": "What identity, treatment-history or contamination uncertainty must be resolved before material is released for the intended use?", "kind": "action", "id": "harvest-readiness-and-recovery-q01" }, { "text": "How much leafy growth will remain, and what subsequent regrowth observation will test whether the cutting intensity was tolerable?", "kind": "action", "id": "harvest-readiness-and-recovery-q02" }, { "text": "Which receiving harvest-lot record preserves the source plant, removed organs, date and quantity?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "harvest-readiness-and-recovery-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-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Origanum vulgare subsp. vulgare (wild marjoram / common oregano of northern and central Europe)", "Origanum vulgare subsp. hirtum (Greek oregano; high-carvacrol culinary type)", "Origanum vulgare subsp. virens (Iberian / western Mediterranean oregano)", "Origanum vulgare subsp. viridulum (eastern Mediterranean / Balkan green-bracted oregano)", "Origanum vulgare subsp. gracile (eastern Mediterranean, often treated as a distinct wild oregano)", "Origanum vulgare subsp. glandulosum (North African glandular oregano)", "White-flowered ornamental cultivars (e.g. 'Aureum', compact garden forms)", "Oregano essential-oil chemotypes (carvacrol-dominant vs thymol-dominant vs mixed terpene)" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of Origanum vulgare 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": "Q134283", "note": "Wikidata item for Origanum vulgare" }, { "scheme": "IPNI / Plants of the World Online", "value_or_pattern": "urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:453395-1", "note": "Linnaean name Origanum vulgare L., Sp. Pl. 2: 590 (1753)" }, { "scheme": "WFO / World Flora Online", "value_or_pattern": "wfo-0000267054", "note": "Accepted taxon identifier in World Flora Online" }, { "scheme": "USDA PLANTS", "value_or_pattern": "ORVU", "note": "PLANTS symbol for oregano as a naturalized herb in North America" }, { "scheme": "NCBI Taxonomy", "value_or_pattern": "16452", "note": "NCBI taxid for Origanum vulgare" }, { "scheme": "ITIS TSN", "value_or_pattern": "32631", "note": "Integrated Taxonomic Information System taxonomic serial number" }, { "scheme": "PhEur / EMA herbal drug", "value_or_pattern": "Origani herba", "note": "Pharmacopoeial herbal-drug name for the dried flowering aerial parts" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of Origanum vulgare 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": [ "European Medicines Agency / HMPC: Community herbal monograph on Origani herba (traditional herbal medicinal product)", "European Pharmacopoeia: origani herba identity, purity and assay specifications for oregano herb", "ISO 7925 (and related ISO spice standards): dried oregano - specification for commercial spice grade, including Origanum vulgare and related Origanum species used as oregano", "Codex Alimentarius / national food-additive and spice regulations: oregano as a culinary herb and as a source of essential oil (flavouring)", "EU Novel Food / traditional-use food law: culinary use of O. vulgare as a food herb is conventional, not novel; concentrated extracts and essential oils are regulated as flavourings or as herbal medicines depending on claim and dose", "CITES: not listed; wild collection of oregano in some Mediterranean countries is subject to national harvest and quality rules rather than CITES" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of Origanum vulgare 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": [ "Dried leaf and flower as the everyday culinary oregano of pizza, tomato sauces, grilled meats and Mediterranean seasoning blends", "Fresh culinary herb in gardens and greenhouse production, sold as potted plants and cut bunches", "Steam-distilled essential oil (oregano oil) sold as a flavouring, as a traditional cold remedy, and as a livestock/feed phytogenic", "Herbal tea and traditional medicinal preparations (origani herba) for mild gastrointestinal and respiratory complaints under EU traditional-use rules", "Ornamental perennial in temperate gardens (golden and compact cultivars)", "Source of carvacrol/thymol-rich oil used in food preservation research and as an antimicrobial in animal production" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Origanum vulgare 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 (flowering)", "typical_range": "20-80", "unit": "cm" }, { "quantity": "Essential-oil yield of dried herb (steam distillation)", "typical_range": "0.5-4", "unit": "% v/w" }, { "quantity": "Carvacrol in essential oil (Greek / hirtum chemotype)", "typical_range": "50-85", "unit": "% of oil" }, { "quantity": "Thymol in essential oil (common European chemotype)", "typical_range": "5-60", "unit": "% of oil" }, { "quantity": "Drying temperature for culinary herb (to preserve volatiles)", "typical_range": "35-45", "unit": "°C" }, { "quantity": "Chromosome number (typical diploid)", "typical_range": "2n = 30", "unit": "count" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of Origanum vulgare 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": [ "Misidentification and adulteration of commercial 'oregano' with Origanum onites, O. majorana, Thymus spp., Satureja, or cheap fillers (olive leaves, sumac, myrtle)", "Essential-oil chemotype mismatch: northern European O. vulgare subsp. vulgare is often low in carvacrol and tastes of wild marjoram rather than Greek oregano", "Phototoxicity and skin/mucosal irritation from undiluted oregano essential oil (high phenol content)", "Gastrointestinal upset and interaction risk when concentrated oil is ingested as a 'natural antibiotic'", "Loss of volatile phenols and flavour if dried above ~45 °C or stored in light and heat", "Invasiveness / naturalization outside the native range (roadsides and disturbed ground in North America)", "Allergic contact dermatitis in sensitive individuals (Lamiaceae / phenolic oils)" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Origanum vulgare 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": [ "In much of northern and central Europe the plant is called wild marjoram (dost, origan) and used as a milder herb; 'oregano' in commerce usually means Greek O. vulgare subsp. hirtum or Turkish O. onites", "Greek, Turkish and Italian culinary practice treats high-carvacrol Mediterranean oregano as the true pizza/grill herb; Balkan and Italian wild-collected material is often mixed Origanum species", "North American grocery 'oregano' is frequently Mexican oregano (Lippia graveolens, Verbenaceae), not O. vulgare", "Spanish orégano can mean O. vulgare, O. virens, or even Thymus/Lippia depending on region", "Pharmacopoeial origani herba in Europe is the flowering aerial parts of O. vulgare, not the Mexican or Cuban substitutes" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of Origanum vulgare 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": "Origanum majorana (sweet marjoram)", "difference": "Marjoram has a sweeter, terpinen-4-ol/sabinene-hydrate profile, usually grey-green ovate leaves and a more compact habit; oregano is more pungent, with carvacrol/thymol dominance and typically pinker inflorescences." }, { "name": "Origanum onites (Turkish / pot marjoram)", "difference": "O. onites is a distinct species widely sold as Turkish oregano; it is more compact, often white-flowered, and chemically similar (carvacrol-rich) but separated by inflorescence architecture and accepted species rank, not as a subspecies of O. vulgare." }, { "name": "Lippia graveolens (Mexican oregano)", "difference": "A verbenaceous shrub, not a mint; leaves are typically larger and more serrate, aroma is more citrus-phenolic; distinguished morphologically (opposite mint-family leaves and square stems vs Lippia) and by ITS/barcoding or by the absence of typical Lamiaceae flower structure." }, { "name": "Thymus vulgaris (thyme)", "difference": "Thyme is a smaller, often woody subshrub with narrower leaves; both may share thymol/carvacrol chemistry, but thyme inflorescences and leaf morphology (revolute leaf margins, different calyx) separate it, as does culinary use as a distinct spice." }, { "name": "Satureja hortensis / S. montana (savory)", "difference": "Savories have a peppery, less 'oregano-pizza' aroma (carvacrol often present but plant habit and calyx differ); leaves are typically linear and the inflorescence is not the dense Origanum spike-like cyme." }, { "name": "Origanum dictamnus (dittany of Crete)", "difference": "A woolly, pink-bracted Cretan endemic sold as a separate medicinal/culinary herb; densely tomentose round leaves and hanging hop-like inflorescences distinguish it from common oregano." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of Origanum vulgare this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Which regional identification keys and accepted infraspecific treatment should govern difficult O. vulgare determinations, particularly cultivated material and possible O. majorana hybrids?", "What locally validated observations distinguish normal seasonal dieback from crown failure across the climates and cultivation settings this model must serve?", "Which harvest intensities and intervals permit reliable recovery for different growth stages, cultivars and water conditions?", "What sampling and analytical evidence is sufficient to assign an aromatic chemotype, and how stable is that assignment across tissues and seasons?", "Which local distribution, conservation and spread assessments should govern planting, wild collection and containment decisions?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 18, "questions": 29 } }, "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 Origanum vulgare, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise Origanum vulgare, assess a plant or patch, and decide whether and how to cultivate, propagate, conserve or harvest it.", "characteristics": { "substance": "living", "origin": "natural", "agency": "autonomous", "mobility": "self-moving" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: dried oregano.", "1 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 103 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 Origanum vulgare, 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": [ { "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": [ "dried oregano" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 103 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 1 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 Origanum vulgare from another, and a Origanum vulgare 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 Origanum vulgare, 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 Origanum vulgare, 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 Origanum vulgare 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 Origanum vulgare, 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 Origanum vulgare, 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 Origanum vulgare 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 Origanum vulgare 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 Origanum vulgare, 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 Origanum vulgare, 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 Origanum vulgare 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 Origanum vulgare from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Origanum vulgare, 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 Origanum vulgare, 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 Origanum vulgare 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 Origanum vulgare 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 Origanum vulgare, 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 Origanum vulgare, 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 Origanum vulgare 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 Origanum vulgare and the stages it passes through.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a Origanum vulgare, 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 Origanum vulgare, 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 Origanum vulgare 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 Origanum vulgare is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a Origanum vulgare, 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 Origanum vulgare, 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 Origanum vulgare 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 Origanum vulgare 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 Origanum vulgare is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a Origanum vulgare, 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 Origanum vulgare, 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 Origanum vulgare 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 Origanum vulgare 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 Origanum vulgare, 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 Origanum vulgare, 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 Origanum vulgare 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 Origanum vulgare 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 Origanum vulgare between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Origanum vulgare, 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 Origanum vulgare, 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 Origanum vulgare 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 Origanum vulgare, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Origanum vulgare 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 Origanum vulgare, 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 Origanum vulgare, 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 Origanum vulgare 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 Origanum vulgare 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 Origanum vulgare, 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 Origanum vulgare 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 Origanum vulgare 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 Origanum vulgare 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 Origanum vulgare 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 Origanum vulgare 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 Origanum vulgare 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 Origanum vulgare, 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 Origanum vulgare 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 Origanum vulgare 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 Origanum vulgare and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Origanum vulgare, 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 Origanum vulgare, 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 Origanum vulgare 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 Origanum vulgare is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Origanum vulgare, 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 Origanum vulgare, 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 Origanum vulgare is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 8, 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