{ "model": { "rank": 2377, "code": "thing-q134747", "model_id": "vr.tr.bombyx-mori", "name": "Bombyx mori", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise Bombyx mori, assess its developmental and husbandry state, and choose appropriate care, breeding, research or cocoon-management actions.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.LIV", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q134747/", "tier": 2, "score": 107, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "Genetically modified silkworm" ], "aliasCount": 1, "merged": 1, "knownIn": 107, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q134747", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q134747", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T11:51:32Z", "providers": [ "Codex", "Grok" ], "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "usd": 0.00698054, "turns": 1, "seconds": 50.2, "error": null }, "codex": { "seconds": 92.2, "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: 01a07bb4-2cdb-7a52-96de-4694ea965a38\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. 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escalate ambiguous or potentially hybrid stock to a validated genetic assessment.", "Distinguish it from other animals called silkworms through species-level identification rather than silk production or cocoon presence alone.", "Compare larval and adult morphology with authenticated references for the stated strain; do not treat body colour, markings or cocoon colour as universal species tests.", "Check that an egg, larva, pupa or adult belongs to the same documented Bombyx mori developmental lineage rather than treating its different life stages as different registered things.", "Distinguish a living cocoon occupant from an empty cocoon or harvested silk by recording occupant evidence separately from the silk enclosure." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Identification evidence", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Authenticated reference, supplier accession, identification assessment or genetic result; confidence and date", "why_it_matters": "Determines whether Bombyx mori-specific expectations can be applied." }, { "name": "Strain and breeding background", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Named strain or accession, parent lines, generation, documented cross or unknown", "why_it_matters": "Development, appearance and useful traits must be interpreted against the actual stock." }, { "name": "Developmental stage", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Egg, larva with observed instar, prepupa, pupa, adult or unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Controls which feeding, handling and transition expectations apply." }, { "name": "Time since developmental event", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Hours or days since oviposition, hatching, observed moult, pupation or adult emergence", "why_it_matters": "Makes delayed development distinguishable from an uncertain starting date." }, { "name": "Egg developmental condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Developing, suspected diapause, supported diapause, post-diapause development, hatched, nonviable or unknown", "why_it_matters": "Prevents unhatched eggs from being classified as dead solely because development is delayed." }, { "name": "Voltinism classification", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Univoltine, bivoltine, multivoltine or unverified; linked to strain and conditions", "why_it_matters": "Informs breeding-cycle expectations without replacing observations of the current eggs." }, { "name": "Rearing exposure", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Temperature in degrees Celsius, relative humidity in percent and light duration in hours per day, with time intervals", "why_it_matters": "Supports interpretation of growth, survival and developmental timing." }, { "name": "Diet and feeding response", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Mulberry leaf source or artificial-diet formulation, batch, feeding interval and observed acceptance", "why_it_matters": "Connects larval performance to what was actually offered and eaten." }, { "name": "Body mass", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Milligrams or grams per animal, with stage, sampling method and cohort distribution", "why_it_matters": "Tracks growth and uneven development within comparable stages." }, { "name": "Health assessment", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "No abnormality observed, abnormality observed, infection suspected, diagnosis supported, recovering, dead or unknown", "why_it_matters": "Separates observable condition from unsupported disease labels." }, { "name": "Cocoon and occupant condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Spinning, completed, damaged, emergence opening present or unresolved; occupant assessed separately", "why_it_matters": "Informs handling and the choice between preserving emergence and harvesting." }, { "name": "Reproductive condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Sex assessment, mating observation, oviposition status and fertility evidence, each with uncertainty", "why_it_matters": "Prevents mating or egg laying from being mistaken for demonstrated reproductive success." } ], "affordances": [ "Identify stock and link individuals or cohorts to authenticated Bombyx mori lines.", "Adjust larval feeding and rearing conditions using stage- and strain-appropriate evidence.", "Monitor moulting, spinning, pupation and emergence to time handling and transfers.", "Separate suspect cohorts and request appropriate diagnostic assessment.", "Select documented breeding pairs and manage eggs according to supported developmental state.", "Route cocoons toward continued development, observation or authorised harvest after assessing the occupant and intended use." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "ncbi-taxonomy", "title": "Bombyx mori (domestic silkworm)", "url": "https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?id=7091", "what_it_supports": "Accepted scientific name, taxonomic rank, and NCBI Taxonomy identifier.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "itis", "title": "Bombyx mori (Linnaeus, 1758)", "url": "https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=117431", "what_it_supports": "ITIS taxonomic serial number and nomenclatural status as a valid species.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "fao-sericulture", "title": "Conservation Status of Sericulture Germplasm Resources in the World", "url": "https://www.fao.org/4/ad108e/ad108e0a.htm", "what_it_supports": "Practical race groupings (Chinese, Japanese, European, tropical), voltinism, and commercial use of hybrids.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "woah-pebrine", "title": "Chapter 3.2.2 Pebrine (Nosema bombycis infection)", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "International animal-health standard for pebrine, the principal regulated silkworm disease.", "url_status": "dead" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "species-and-stock-identity", "name": "Species and stock identity", "description": "Establish which Bombyx mori stock is represented and how securely it is identified.", "rationale": "A common name or silk-producing phenotype cannot establish species, strain or breeding background.", "layers": [ { "id": "taxonomic-recognition", "name": "Taxonomic recognition", "description": "Resolve domestic silkworm identity and close-species ambiguity.", "findings": [ { "id": "supported-species-assignment", "name": "Supported species assignment", "description": "Record the evidence supporting Bombyx mori identity, including unresolved Bombyx mandarina or hybrid ancestry questions.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which observed characters, authenticated provenance or validated genetic results support identification as Bombyx mori?", "kind": "definition", "id": "supported-species-assignment-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence would require treating this stock as taxonomically uncertain or potentially hybrid?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "supported-species-assignment-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "strain-continuity", "name": "Strain continuity", "description": "Preserve the connection between an observed animal and its maintained line.", "findings": [ { "id": "documented-line-background", "name": "Documented line background", "description": "Capture accessions, parentage and documented mutations or modifications; maintained genetic diversity makes strain identity consequential. [NBRP Silkworm resources](https://nbrp.jp/en/resource/silkworm-en/).", "questions": [ { "text": "Which stock accession, supplier record and parental cross identify this generation?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "documented-line-background-q01" }, { "text": "Which claimed strain traits are documented, and which have been observed in this cohort?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "documented-line-background-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "development-and-diapause", "name": "Development and diapause", "description": "Interpret life-stage transitions and delayed egg development.", "rationale": "An inactive animal or unhatched egg requires different decisions depending on its developmental state.", "layers": [ { "id": "stage-and-moult", "name": "Stage and moult", "description": "Track development using observed events rather than age alone.", "findings": [ { "id": "developmental-position", "name": "Developmental position", "description": "Record stage, observed instar, moulting evidence and variation within a cohort without imposing a fixed schedule.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which observations establish the current stage, instar and most recent developmental transition?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "developmental-position-q01" }, { "text": "Does reduced feeding coincide with moulting or preparation for spinning, or does it require a health assessment?", "kind": "action", "id": "developmental-position-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "egg-developmental-arrest", "name": "Egg developmental arrest", "description": "Separate diapause interpretation from viability assessment.", "findings": [ { "id": "strain-dependent-diapause-assessment", "name": "Strain-dependent diapause assessment", "description": "Retain strain and parental environmental history when interpreting egg arrest; experimental evidence shows that diapause induction depends on biological background and environmental cues. [Comparative diapause study](https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8044193/).", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence distinguishes diapause from ordinary development, nonfertilisation or embryo death in these eggs?", "kind": "definition", "id": "strain-dependent-diapause-assessment-q01" }, { "text": "Which strain-specific protocol and recorded parental and egg exposures justify continued storage or a change in incubation conditions?", "kind": "action", "id": "strain-dependent-diapause-assessment-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "larval-feeding-and-rearing", "name": "Larval feeding and rearing", "description": "Connect diet and rearing exposure to larval condition.", "rationale": "An agent must assess the actual feeding and care context before interpreting poor growth or changing husbandry.", "layers": [ { "id": "diet-suitability", "name": "Diet suitability", "description": "Identify the food offered and the larvae's response.", "findings": [ { "id": "accepted-and-traceable-feed", "name": "Accepted and traceable feed", "description": "Record mulberry leaf or artificial-diet identity, freshness, batch history and acceptance by the specified stock.", "questions": [ { "text": "What mulberry material or artificial-diet formulation was offered, and what establishes its suitability for this strain and instar?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "accepted-and-traceable-feed-q01" }, { "text": "Are larvae consuming the feed and maintaining expected growth relative to an appropriate comparison cohort?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "accepted-and-traceable-feed-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "rearing-exposure-and-support", "name": "Rearing exposure and support", "description": "Assess environmental history and continuity of care.", "findings": [ { "id": "stage-appropriate-rearing-state", "name": "Stage-appropriate rearing state", "description": "Connect temperature, humidity, ventilation, crowding and cleaning history to the animals' current stage and observed condition.", "questions": [ { "text": "What environmental exposures and stocking conditions occurred during the current instar?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "stage-appropriate-rearing-state-q01" }, { "text": "Which feeding, spacing or environmental adjustment is supported by the applicable husbandry evidence and present observations?", "kind": "action", "id": "stage-appropriate-rearing-state-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "health-and-cohort-exposure", "name": "Health and cohort exposure", "description": "Evaluate abnormal development, illness and shared exposure without diagnosing from appearance alone.", "rationale": "Disease, normal developmental inactivity and unsuitable rearing conditions can demand different responses.", "layers": [ { "id": "clinical-and-diagnostic-evidence", "name": "Clinical and diagnostic evidence", "description": "Separate observed signs from suspected causes.", "findings": [ { "id": "supported-health-interpretation", "name": "Supported health interpretation", "description": "Record feeding changes, failed moults, abnormal appearance and mortality alongside evidence for infectious or husbandry-related explanations.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which abnormalities occur at which stages, and how many animals are affected out of the observed cohort?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "supported-health-interpretation-q01" }, { "text": "What diagnostic evidence is needed before assigning a suspected silkworm disease rather than a developmental or environmental explanation?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "supported-health-interpretation-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "shared-exposure-and-separation", "name": "Shared exposure and separation", "description": "Determine which other animals may share a relevant exposure.", "findings": [ { "id": "cohort-response-boundary", "name": "Cohort response boundary", "description": "Trace shared egg origin, feed, trays, tools and handling events to define observation and separation decisions.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which cohorts share parent stock, feed batches, equipment or handling with the affected animals?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "cohort-response-boundary-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence supports separating stock, pausing breeding or seeking diagnostic testing before further transfer?", "kind": "action", "id": "cohort-response-boundary-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "spinning-and-cocoon-fate", "name": "Spinning and cocoon fate", "description": "Track silk enclosure formation and its consequences for the animal inside.", "rationale": "Cocoon quality and organism viability are separate assessments, and intended use changes permissible handling.", "layers": [ { "id": "spinning-transition", "name": "Spinning transition", "description": "Recognise preparation for spinning and assess enclosure formation.", "findings": [ { "id": "spinning-readiness-and-completion", "name": "Spinning readiness and completion", "description": "Record behavioural evidence of spinning readiness, available supports, spinning progress and incomplete or shared cocoons.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which observations indicate readiness to spin, active spinning or completed enclosure formation?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "spinning-readiness-and-completion-q01" }, { "text": "Does the animal need suitable spinning support, reduced disturbance or assessment of an interrupted spinning attempt?", "kind": "action", "id": "spinning-readiness-and-completion-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "occupant-and-use-decision", "name": "Occupant and use decision", "description": "Keep animal condition distinct from cocoon material condition.", "findings": [ { "id": "cocoon-disposition", "name": "Cocoon disposition", "description": "Record occupant viability evidence, pupation or emergence status and the intended disposition before processing or opening the cocoon.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence establishes whether the cocoon contains a developing animal, a dead occupant or no occupant?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "cocoon-disposition-q01" }, { "text": "Is this cocoon designated for breeding, observation or harvest, and what consequences would the proposed handling have for its occupant?", "kind": "action", "id": "cocoon-disposition-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "reproduction-and-line-maintenance", "name": "Reproduction and line maintenance", "description": "Assess breeding readiness and continuity into the next generation.", "rationale": "Observed mating, egg production and successful maintenance of a defined line are different outcomes.", "layers": [ { "id": "adult-pairing", "name": "Adult pairing", "description": "Connect adult condition and mating observations to a breeding objective.", "findings": [ { "id": "traceable-breeding-pair", "name": "Traceable breeding pair", "description": "Record sex assessment, emergence timing, parental identities and mating evidence before attributing offspring to a cross.", "questions": [ { "text": "How were the adults' sex, condition and parent-line identities established?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "traceable-breeding-pair-q01" }, { "text": "Does pairing these adults preserve the intended line or create a deliberately documented cross?", "kind": "action", "id": "traceable-breeding-pair-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "egg-batch-outcome", "name": "Egg batch outcome", "description": "Evaluate reproductive output while preserving developmental context.", "findings": [ { "id": "next-generation-establishment", "name": "Next-generation establishment", "description": "Distinguish eggs laid, evidence of fertility, expected diapause, hatching and surviving offspring for each parental pairing.", "questions": [ { "text": "How many eggs were laid, assessed as developing and hatched, using what denominator and observation interval?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "next-generation-establishment-q01" }, { "text": "What parentage, health and developmental evidence supports retaining this egg batch for the next generation?", "kind": "action", "id": "next-generation-establishment-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Chinese races (univoltine and bivoltine temperate stocks)", "Japanese races", "European races", "Tropical polyvoltine races (including Indian and Southeast Asian stocks)", "Mulberry silkworm hybrids used in commercial sericulture", "Diapausing (univoltine/bivoltine) versus non-diapausing (polyvoltine) strains", "Sex-limited and genetically marked breeding lines" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of Bombyx mori 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": "NCBI Taxonomy", "value_or_pattern": "7091", "note": "NCBI taxid for Bombyx mori." }, { "scheme": "ITIS TSN", "value_or_pattern": "117431", "note": "Integrated Taxonomic Information System taxonomic serial number." }, { "scheme": "Wikidata", "value_or_pattern": "Q134747", "note": "Wikidata item for the domestic silkworm." }, { "scheme": "GBIF usageKey", "value_or_pattern": "1864837", "note": "GBIF accepted-usage key for Bombyx mori Linnaeus, 1758." }, { "scheme": "Catalogue of Life / CoL+ ID", "value_or_pattern": "pattern: accepted binomial Bombyx mori Linnaeus, 1758", "note": "Zoological binomial under ICZN; no separate ISO species code." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of Bombyx mori 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": [ "WOAH (World Organisation for Animal Health) Manual of Diagnostic Tests and Vaccines for Terrestrial Animals, Chapter 3.2.2 Pebrine (Nosema bombycis infection) - diagnostic and health standard for silkworm stocks.", "OIE/WOAH Terrestrial Animal Health Code historically lists pebrine among diseases of silkworms subject to international trade measures.", "India: Central Silk Board / Government of India sericulture seed legislation and quality-control rules for silkworm seed (eggs) and disease-free layings.", "China: national sericulture germplasm and silkworm-egg quality standards administered under agricultural/sericultural authorities.", "CITES: Bombyx mori itself is not CITES-listed; trade controls, where they exist, are phytosanitary/animal-health rather than wildlife-trade listings." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of Bombyx mori 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": [ "Commercial sericulture: larvae reared on mulberry (Morus) leaves to produce cocoons reeled into raw silk (mulberry silk).", "Silkworm-egg (seed) production: controlled mating, egg laying, and hibernation or acid treatment to supply commercial rearers.", "Biomedical and biomaterial use: fibroin and sericin from cocoons used in sutures, scaffolds, hydrogels, and cosmetics.", "Laboratory model: B. mori is a classical genetic and developmental model (silk-gland, metamorphosis, baculovirus research).", "By-products: pupae used as food/feed in parts of East and South Asia; moths used in breeding rather than as a free-living insect." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Bombyx mori 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": "Larval instars to spinning", "typical_range": "5 instars; about 20-28 days from hatch to spinning under commercial conditions", "unit": "days" }, { "quantity": "Cocoon weight (fresh, commercial hybrids)", "typical_range": "1.5-2.5", "unit": "g" }, { "quantity": "Shell ratio (cocoon shell / whole cocoon)", "typical_range": "18-25", "unit": "%" }, { "quantity": "Filament length per cocoon", "typical_range": "600-1500", "unit": "m" }, { "quantity": "Adult wingspan", "typical_range": "30-50", "unit": "mm" }, { "quantity": "Voltinism (generations per year)", "typical_range": "1 (univoltine) to 5-8 (polyvoltine tropics)", "unit": "generations/year" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of Bombyx mori 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": [ "Pebrine (Nosema bombycis): transovarially transmitted microsporidiosis that collapses seed lots and is the classic regulated silkworm disease.", "Flacherie, grasserie (NPV), muscardine (fungal) and bacterial septicemia: common rearing-house losses under heat, humidity, or poor hygiene.", "Starvation or off-feed from poor mulberry quality; pesticide residues on leaves cause acute larval mortality.", "High temperature and humidity in late instars: non-spinning larvae, melted cocoons, stained silk.", "Inbreeding depression and loss of hybrid vigor when commercial F1 hybrids are multiplied as if they were pure races.", "Human/occupational: sericin and moth-scale dust can provoke respiratory allergy in rearing and reeling rooms; pupae can be a food allergen.", "B. mori is flightless as an adult and cannot persist without human rearing; escape is not an ecological invasion hazard, unlike some wild Bombyx/Bombycidae." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Bombyx mori 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": [ "China, Japan, Korea: temperate bivoltine/univoltine races and F1 hybrids dominate; diapause eggs overwintered.", "India and much of tropical Asia: polyvoltine/multivoltine races and bivoltine × polyvoltine hybrids; continuous rearing without winter diapause.", "Europe (historically Italy, France, Spain): European races now largely germplasm/conservation rather than large-scale industry.", "Common names: silkworm / mulberry silkworm (English); 家蚕 jiācán (Chinese); カイコ kaiko (Japanese); resham keet (Hindi); Bombyx du mûrier (French).", "Product naming: 'mulberry silk' versus non-mulberry silks (tasar, eri, muga) which are different species." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of Bombyx mori 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": "Bombyx mandarina (wild mulberry silkworm)", "difference": "Wild progenitor; adults fly, larvae are camouflaged and not fully dependent on humans. B. mori adults do not fly and require human rearing. Molecular and morphological characters (e.g. adult wing use, voltinism management) separate them; they can still hybridize." }, { "name": "Samia ricini (eri silkworm)", "difference": "Saturniid, not a bombycid; feeds on castor (Ricinus) not mulberry; cocoons are open-ended and spun into spun silk, not reeled mulberry silk." }, { "name": "Antheraea spp. (tasar/tussah silkworms)", "difference": "Wild or semi-domestic saturniids on forest hosts (oak, Terminalia, etc.); coarser brown silk. Host plant and cocoon color/reelability distinguish them from B. mori white/yellow mulberry cocoons." }, { "name": "Antheraea assamensis (muga silkworm)", "difference": "Assam muga; golden silk from Machilus/Persea hosts. Geographic, host-plant, and fiber color tests separate it from B. mori." }, { "name": "Galleria mellonella (greater wax moth) and other 'silkworm' misnomers", "difference": "Wax moths are pyralids of beehives, not silk producers. Taxonomy (family) and habitat (comb vs mulberry tray) separate them." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of Bombyx mori this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Which authenticated morphological and genetic identification methods reliably distinguish the intended stocks from Bombyx mandarina and documented hybrids?", "Which strain-specific ranges for temperature, humidity, feeding and stocking conditions are supported at each developmental stage?", "Which observations or assays establish egg viability and diapause state, and which storage or incubation protocols apply to each represented strain?", "Which silkworm disease tests and cohort-response criteria are validated for the intended breeding, educational or research setting?", "Which non-destructive methods can assess cocoon occupant viability accurately enough to support breeding and harvest decisions?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 7, "layers": 13, "findings": 20, "questions": 32 } }, "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 Bombyx mori, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise Bombyx mori, assess its developmental and husbandry state, and choose appropriate care, breeding, research or cocoon-management actions.", "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: Genetically modified silkworm.", "1 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 107 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 Bombyx mori, 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": [ "Genetically modified silkworm" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 107 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 Bombyx mori from another, and a Bombyx mori 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 Bombyx mori, 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 Bombyx mori, 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 Bombyx mori 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 Bombyx mori, 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 Bombyx mori, 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 Bombyx mori 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 Bombyx mori 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 Bombyx mori, 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 Bombyx mori, 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 Bombyx mori 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 Bombyx mori from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Bombyx mori, 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 Bombyx mori, 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 Bombyx mori 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 Bombyx mori 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 Bombyx mori, 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 Bombyx mori, 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 Bombyx mori 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 Bombyx mori and the stages it passes through.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a Bombyx mori, 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 Bombyx mori, 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 Bombyx mori 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 Bombyx mori is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a Bombyx mori, 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 Bombyx mori, 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 Bombyx mori 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 Bombyx mori 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 Bombyx mori is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a Bombyx mori, 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 Bombyx mori, 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 Bombyx mori 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 Bombyx mori 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 Bombyx mori, 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 Bombyx mori, 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 Bombyx mori 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 Bombyx mori 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 Bombyx mori between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Bombyx mori, 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 Bombyx mori, 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 Bombyx mori 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 Bombyx mori, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Bombyx mori 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 Bombyx mori, 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 Bombyx mori, 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 Bombyx mori 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 Bombyx mori 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 Bombyx mori, 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 Bombyx mori 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 Bombyx mori 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 Bombyx mori 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 Bombyx mori 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 Bombyx mori 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 Bombyx mori 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 Bombyx mori, 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 Bombyx mori 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 Bombyx mori 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 Bombyx mori and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Bombyx mori, 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 Bombyx mori, 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 Bombyx mori 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 Bombyx mori is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Bombyx mori, 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 Bombyx mori, 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 Bombyx mori 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 } } } }