{ "model": { "rank": 2995, "code": "thing-q135", "model_id": "vr.tr.pawn", "name": "pawn", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a physical chess pawn, assess its usability and game status, and determine which handling or play actions are permitted.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.OBJ", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q135/", "tier": 2, "score": 93, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "rook pawn", "passed pawn", "backward pawn", "isolated pawn", "hanging pawn", "white pawn", "black pawn", "king pawn", "queen pawn", "connected pawns" ], "aliasCount": 10, "merged": 10, "knownIn": 93, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q135", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q135", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T14:08:35Z", "providers": [ "Codex", "Grok" ], "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "usd": 0.0119816, "turns": 1, "seconds": 145.5, "error": null }, "codex": { "seconds": 64.1, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.3\n--------\nworkdir: R:\\02_PROJECTS\\02_Meta_Models_Platforms\\Ver.cy\\current\\thing-registry-backlog\nmodel: gpt-6-astra\nprovider: openai\napproval: never\nsandbox: read-only\nreasoning effort: none\nreasoning summaries: none\nsession id: 01a07c30-7d5b-7062-8fce-8db54d13ef56\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. 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rank, may capture en passant, and promote on the last rank, as defined in the FIDE Laws of Chess.", "scope_statement": "This model owns an individual physical piece designated as a pawn, including its recognisability, physical fitness, allegiance and context-dependent role in play; interpreting the undefined registry term as a chess pawn remains provisional.", "in_scope": [ "Identification as a pawn within a particular chess set", "Physical features that affect recognition, stability and handling", "Assignment to a side and orientation relative to its direction of advance", "Position and pawn-specific eligibility within a referenced game", "Capture, removal and promotion transitions affecting this piece" ], "out_of_scope": [ "The chessboard's construction and complete square topology", "The full game position, turn sequence and adjudication", "Rules governing other chess piece types", "Player identity, ownership and tournament administration", "Pawnshop collateral and metaphorical uses of the word pawn" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "The set's convention or an explicit designation identifies the piece as a pawn; a small size or rounded head alone is insufficient.", "Within an assigned game, the piece has a pawn role under the selected ruleset rather than the role of another similarly shaped piece.", "A generic counter used as a substitute qualifies only when its pawn designation and allegiance are established.", "A pawn-shaped piece representing a promoted piece must be distinguished from a piece whose current game role remains pawn." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Pawn identification basis", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "set convention | marking | explicit substitute designation | uncertain", "why_it_matters": "Separates established pawn identity from a guess based on appearance." }, { "name": "Assigned side", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Reference to a game side, unassigned or unknown", "why_it_matters": "Determines allegiance and, through game context, the direction of advance." }, { "name": "Current represented role", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "pawn | other declared piece role | unassigned | unknown", "why_it_matters": "Prevents pawn appearance from overriding a declared promotion or substitute role." }, { "name": "Set membership", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Reference to a chess set, unmatched or unknown", "why_it_matters": "Provides the visual convention needed to distinguish pawn types and sides." }, { "name": "Base width", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "mm, using diameter for a circular base or maximum width otherwise", "why_it_matters": "Helps judge whether the pawn can occupy a square without obscuring or disturbing neighbouring pieces." }, { "name": "Handling and recognition condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Observed stability, grip defects and damage to identifying features", "why_it_matters": "Determines whether the pawn can be moved reliably and remain distinguishable during play." }, { "name": "Placement", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Referenced board square | captured-piece area | storage location | ambiguous placement", "why_it_matters": "Separates physical location from an inferred position in the game." }, { "name": "Pawn action eligibility", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Context-supported eligibility for advance, capture, initial advance, en passant and promotion; unknown where evidence is missing", "why_it_matters": "Prevents legal actions from being inferred from the physical piece alone." } ], "affordances": [ "Identify or explicitly designate the piece as a pawn for a particular set and side.", "Place, grasp and relocate it while maintaining a clear square assignment.", "Evaluate candidate pawn moves against the referenced ruleset, position and relevant history.", "Remove it from active play when a capture is established.", "Replace or redesignate its representation when promotion is established.", "Flag and substitute a damaged or ambiguous pawn under the applicable play conventions." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "fide-laws", "title": "FIDE Laws of Chess", "url": "https://handbook.fide.com/", "what_it_supports": "Official identity of the pawn as a chessman, starting placement, move, capture, en passant, and promotion.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "fide-equipment", "title": "FIDE Handbook C.02, Standards of Chess Equipment, tournament venue facilities and logo", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Tournament equipment proportions (king height as the reference, other pieces including the pawn kept in proportion) and what counts as acceptable over-the-board material." }, { "id": "wikipedia-pawn", "title": "Pawn (chess)", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pawn_(chess)", "what_it_supports": "Common-language naming, movement summary, historical origin as a foot soldier, and distinction from analogous pieces in other chess families.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "unicode-misc-symbols", "title": "The Unicode Standard: Miscellaneous Symbols (chess pieces U+2654-U+265F)", "url": "https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2600.pdf", "what_it_supports": "Encoded identifiers for the white and black pawn as distinct graphic characters.", "url_status": "live" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "pawn-recognition", "name": "Pawn recognition", "description": "Establishes why this physical piece is understood to be a pawn.", "rationale": "Pawn appearance varies across sets, and appearance can diverge from the role assigned in play.", "layers": [ { "id": "set-relative-identity", "name": "Set-relative identity", "description": "Interprets shape and markings using the piece's set conventions.", "findings": [ { "id": "pawn-identification-evidence", "name": "Pawn identification evidence", "description": "Record the evidence supporting pawn identification and any competing interpretation.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which shape, marking or set convention identifies this piece as a pawn?", "kind": "definition", "id": "pawn-identification-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Could it be confused with another piece in this set, and what observation resolves that ambiguity?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "pawn-identification-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "designation-and-substitution", "name": "Designation and substitution", "description": "Distinguishes manufactured appearance from an assigned game role.", "findings": [ { "id": "declared-pawn-role", "name": "Declared pawn role", "description": "Record whether the piece is a conventional pawn, a substitute pawn or a pawn-shaped representative of another role.", "questions": [ { "text": "What declaration or game record establishes the role this physical piece currently represents?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "declared-pawn-role-q01" }, { "text": "Does its current role agree with its appearance, or must an agent preserve an explicit exception?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "declared-pawn-role-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "physical-play-fitness", "name": "Physical play fitness", "description": "Assesses whether the pawn can be recognised, placed and moved reliably on the intended board.", "rationale": "A pawn must remain distinguishable within crowded ranks and occupy a square without creating placement ambiguity.", "layers": [ { "id": "square-fit-and-stability", "name": "Square fit and stability", "description": "Relates the pawn's footprint and standing behaviour to the board in use.", "findings": [ { "id": "unambiguous-square-occupancy", "name": "Unambiguous square occupancy", "description": "Record whether the pawn stands securely with a clear square assignment beside neighbouring pieces.", "questions": [ { "text": "What is the pawn's base width relative to the usable width of a board square?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "unambiguous-square-occupancy-q01" }, { "text": "Can it stand on its intended square without leaning, overlapping adjacent pieces or obscuring its placement?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "unambiguous-square-occupancy-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "recognition-and-grasp-condition", "name": "Recognition and grasp condition", "description": "Examines damage or wear that affects pawn identification and manipulation.", "findings": [ { "id": "pawn-specific-usability-defects", "name": "Pawn usability defects", "description": "Record defects that obscure pawn or side identity, or prevent reliable movement among nearby pieces.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which worn, missing or altered features make its pawn identity or side assignment uncertain?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "pawn-specific-usability-defects-q01" }, { "text": "Can the intended human or robotic handler lift and replace it without disturbing neighbouring pieces?", "kind": "action", "id": "pawn-specific-usability-defects-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "pawn-play-context", "name": "Pawn play context", "description": "Connects the pawn to the game evidence needed to evaluate its actions.", "rationale": "Pawn action eligibility depends on allegiance, direction, occupancy and sometimes move history.", "layers": [ { "id": "side-square-and-direction", "name": "Side, square and direction", "description": "Establishes the pawn's location and orientation within a referenced position.", "findings": [ { "id": "position-grounding", "name": "Position grounding", "description": "Record the assigned side, observed square and applicable direction of advance without reconstructing the entire game here.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which side and board square are assigned to this pawn in the referenced position?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "position-grounding-q01" }, { "text": "How does the selected ruleset and board orientation establish this pawn's forward direction and promotion boundary?", "kind": "definition", "id": "position-grounding-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "move-eligibility-evidence", "name": "Move eligibility evidence", "description": "Identifies the position and history evidence required for pawn-specific actions.", "findings": [ { "id": "candidate-action-validation", "name": "Candidate action validation", "description": "Record supported candidate actions and unresolved dependencies, referring final legality to the game model.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which advances and captures are supported by the current occupancy, turn and king-safety constraints?", "kind": "action", "id": "candidate-action-validation-q01" }, { "text": "What position or history evidence establishes eligibility for an initial extended advance or en passant under the selected ruleset?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "candidate-action-validation-q02" }, { "text": "Which candidate actions must remain undecided because the relevant game evidence is missing?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "candidate-action-validation-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "capture-and-promotion-transitions", "name": "Capture and promotion transitions", "description": "Tracks changes that separate a physical pawn's continued existence from its participation as a pawn in a game.", "rationale": "Capture and promotion alter game participation or role without necessarily changing the physical object.", "layers": [ { "id": "capture-and-removal", "name": "Capture and removal", "description": "Connects confirmed capture events to removal of the correct physical piece.", "findings": [ { "id": "captured-pawn-disposition", "name": "Captured pawn disposition", "description": "Record the evidence for capture and the pawn's resulting physical location.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which confirmed game event establishes that this pawn has been captured?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "captured-pawn-disposition-q01" }, { "text": "Which physical pawn must be removed, including when the capture destination differs from the captured pawn's square?", "kind": "action", "id": "captured-pawn-disposition-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "promotion-and-representation", "name": "Promotion and representation", "description": "Separates the promotion decision from the physical means of representing the resulting role.", "findings": [ { "id": "promotion-role-handoff", "name": "Promotion role handoff", "description": "Record promotion eligibility, the selected resulting role and how that role is represented physically.", "questions": [ { "text": "Has the pawn met the selected ruleset's promotion conditions, and which resulting roles are permitted?", "kind": "action", "id": "promotion-role-handoff-q01" }, { "text": "Will the pawn be replaced or explicitly redesignated, and how will the resulting role remain unambiguous?", "kind": "action", "id": "promotion-role-handoff-q02" }, { "text": "After promotion, which record follows the physical pawn and which follows the piece participating in the game?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "promotion-role-handoff-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": [ "Staunton-pattern tournament pawn", "Club or café-pattern pawn (Régence, Soviet lathe-turned, and other non-Staunton silhouettes)", "Weighted wooden pawn versus unweighted moulded-plastic pawn", "Magnetic travel pawn", "Electronic or sensor-base pawn used with auto-recording boards", "Decorative, themed, or luxury carved pawn", "Historical abstract (Islamic-style non-figural) pawn", "Replacement or spare pawn sold because sets commonly lose this piece" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of pawn 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": "Q164632", "note": "Item for the chess pawn (the piece), not the pawnbroking pledge." }, { "scheme": "Unicode", "value_or_pattern": "U+2659 WHITE CHESS PAWN; U+265F BLACK CHESS PAWN", "note": "Figurine characters in the Miscellaneous Symbols block." }, { "scheme": "FEN / SAN piece letter", "value_or_pattern": "P (White), p (Black); SAN often omits the letter for pawn moves", "note": "Standard chess notation, not a product SKU." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of pawn 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": [ "FIDE Laws of Chess, Articles 2-3 (piece identity, pawn move, capture, en passant, promotion) - International Chess Federation (FIDE)", "FIDE Handbook C.02 Standards of Chess Equipment, tournament venue facilities and logo - International Chess Federation (FIDE)", "Official Rules of Chess - United States Chess Federation (US Chess)", "EN 71 toy safety, when a chess set is placed on the market as a toy - European Committee for Standardization (CEN)", "ASTM F963 Standard Consumer Safety Specification for Toy Safety, when sold as a children's toy - ASTM International" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense 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"Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of pawn 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": "height (tournament Staunton, ~95 mm king)", "typical_range": "45-55", "unit": "mm" }, { "quantity": "base diameter (same class of set)", "typical_range": "22-30", "unit": "mm" }, { "quantity": "mass (plastic unweighted to wooden weighted)", "typical_range": "8-40", "unit": "g" }, { "quantity": "count per complete set", "typical_range": "16 (8 per colour)", "unit": "1" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of pawn 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": [ "Tip-over from a small or unworn base, especially cheap hollow plastic pawns on a warped board.", "Neck or collar fracture on turned wooden pawns at the thin waist.", "Felt pad detaching from the base and scratching the board.", "Finish wear or paint loss that makes the two colours hard to tell apart under poor light.", "Antique weighting: loose or leaking lead in the base (handling and disposal hazard).", "Choking hazard for very small travel pawns around young children.", "In electronic sets, failed reed switch, magnet, or RFID tag so the board no longer registers that pawn.", "Set incompleteness: this is the piece most often missing, which prevents legal starting position." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of pawn 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": [ "English pawn versus French/Dutch/Polish pion, German Bauer, Spanish peón, Italian pedone, Russian peshka - same FIDE piece, different ordinary names.", "Staunton (international tournament default) versus surviving café patterns in parts of continental Europe and locally carved traditions in India, Africa, and East Asia.", "English commentary often calls the shogi fu and the xiangqi soldier a 'pawn'; those are different physical objects with different rules and are not FIDE pawns.", "School and mass-market plastic sets dominate in some countries; weighted wooden Staunton remains the expected club standard in FIDE events worldwide." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the 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"name": "pawned good (pawnbroking pledge)", "difference": "A legal status of collateral under a pawnbroker's loan, not a designated chessman; a chess pawn is identified by being a matching piece in a chess set." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of pawn this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does vr.tr.pawn specifically mean a physical chess pawn, or does the registry intend a broader or different sense?", "Does an existing Vercy world model already own this concept or the pawn role, requiring a link rather than a separate publication?", "Which chess rulesets and variants must be supported, especially for initial advances, en passant, promotion and re-entry into play?", "What conventions govern substitute pawns and physical representations of promoted pieces in the intended use contexts?", "What evidence and 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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 pawn, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a physical chess pawn, assess its usability and game status, and determine which handling or play actions are permitted.", "characteristics": { "substance": "material", "origin": "manufactured", "agency": "inert", "mobility": "varies" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: rook pawn, passed pawn, backward pawn, isolated pawn, hanging pawn, white pawn, black pawn, king pawn, queen pawn, connected pawns.", "10 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 93 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 pawn, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "matter you can touch", "physicalCharacter": [ "Mobility varies between examples.", "Does nothing on its own; everything it does, something else did to it.", "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 form, by the arrangement of its controls, and by markings - a plate, a model number, a certification mark. Form alone rarely separates two models that do very different things." ], "relatedModels": [ { "relation": "covers", "note": "Finer kinds folded into this entry because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it. Each is a model waiting to be split out when one does.", "targets": [ "rook pawn", "passed pawn", "backward pawn", "isolated pawn", "hanging pawn", "white pawn", "black pawn", "king pawn", "queen pawn", "connected pawns" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 93 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 10 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 pawn from another, and a pawn 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 pawn, 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 pawn, 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 pawn 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 pawn, 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 pawn, 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 pawn 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 pawn 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 pawn, 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 pawn, 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 pawn 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 pawn from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a pawn, 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 pawn, 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 pawn 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 pawn 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 pawn, 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 pawn, 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 pawn is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "material-and-composition", "name": "Material and composition", "description": "Materials, parts and how they are put together.", "findings": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials", "name": "Parts and materials", "description": "What a pawn is built from and which parts are replaceable.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a pawn, 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 pawn, 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 pawn 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 pawn is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a pawn, 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 pawn, 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 pawn 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 pawn is, how it got there and where it may go (varies).", "rationale": "A thing that can move needs its position recorded with a time, or every later claim about it is about a place it has left.", "layers": [ { "id": "location-and-placement", "name": "Location and placement", "description": "Position, containment and the reference frame the position is given in.", "findings": [ { "id": "position-and-frame", "name": "Position, container and reference frame", "description": "Where a pawn is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a pawn, 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 pawn, 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 pawn 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 pawn is carried, installed or relocated.", "findings": [ { "id": "movement-events", "name": "Movement events and constraints", "description": "What counts as a movement, what records it and what limits it.", "questions": [ { "id": "movement-events-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the movement of a pawn, 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 pawn, 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 pawn 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 pawn 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 pawn between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a pawn, 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 pawn, 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 pawn 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 pawn, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a pawn 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 pawn, 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 pawn, 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 pawn is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "function-and-principle", "name": "Function and operating principle", "description": "What pawn is for and how it achieves it.", "rationale": "Two devices with the same name can work on different principles, and the principle is what predicts failure and constrains use.", "layers": [ { "id": "intended-function", "name": "Intended function", "description": "The job it does, and the jobs it is used for anyway.", "findings": [ { "id": "function-record", "name": "Function, principle and variants", "description": "What it does, how, and which variants do it differently.", "questions": [ { "id": "function-record-q01", "text": "What function does pawn perform, on what operating principle, and which variants differ in that principle?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "function-record-q02", "text": "What use falls outside the intended function but happens in practice?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "capacity-and-rating", "name": "Capacity and rating", "description": "The numbers that say what it can do and where it stops.", "findings": [ { "id": "ratings", "name": "Ratings and their conditions", "description": "Rated capacity, power, throughput and the conditions each assumes.", "questions": [ { "id": "ratings-q01", "text": "What ratings characterise pawn, in what units, and under what stated conditions?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "ratings-q02", "text": "What happens beyond the rating - degradation, refusal, damage - and how is that detected?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "operation-and-state", "name": "Operation, controls and state", "description": "How pawn is operated and what state it is in right now.", "rationale": "An agent acting on a device needs its current state and the controls that change it, not just its specification.", "layers": [ { "id": "controls-and-modes", "name": "Controls and modes", "description": "What can be set, what that changes, and what is interlocked.", "findings": [ { "id": "control-surface", "name": "Control surface and interlocks", "description": "The settings available and the conditions that block them.", "questions": [ { "id": "control-surface-q01", "text": "What controls and modes does pawn have, and what does each change?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "control-surface-q02", "text": "Which actions are interlocked or forbidden in which state, and what must be true before acting?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-maintenance", "name": "Condition and maintenance", "description": "Wear, service intervals, consumables and the line between working and broken.", "findings": [ { "id": "service-record", "name": "Condition, service and consumables", "description": "What is consumed, what is serviced, and how condition is judged.", "questions": [ { "id": "service-record-q01", "text": "What consumables and service does pawn need, at what interval, and on whose authority?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "service-record-q02", "text": "What evidence separates a unit that is working from one that is out of service?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "kind-model-unit", "name": "Kind, model and unit", "description": "Whether a claim about pawn is about the kind, a product line, or one physical unit.", "rationale": "This is the boundary most often got wrong for made things, and getting it wrong mixes a catalogue entry with the machine in the yard.", "layers": [ { "id": "level-of-reference", "name": "Level of reference", "description": "The three levels and what belongs at each.", "findings": [ { "id": "level-rules", "name": "What belongs to kind, model and unit", "description": "Which properties are shared by all of them and which are not.", "questions": [ { "id": "level-rules-q01", "text": "Which facts about pawn hold for every one of them, which for a model, and which only for one unit?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "level-rules-q02", "text": "What identifies an individual unit, and what should an agent do when it has only the kind?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "standards-and-conformity", "name": "Standards and conformity", "description": "The standards a working example must meet and who attests it.", "findings": [ { "id": "conformity", "name": "Standards, marks and attestation", "description": "Which standard applies, who certifies, and what the mark means.", "questions": [ { "id": "conformity-q01", "text": "Which standards govern pawn, issued by whom, and what does conformity actually assert?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "conformity-q02", "text": "What may an agent conclude from a certification mark, and what may it not?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a pawn 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 pawn and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a pawn, 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 pawn, 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 pawn 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 pawn is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a pawn, 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 pawn, 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 pawn 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 } } } }