{ "model": { "rank": 3162, "code": "thing-q139", "model_id": "vr.tr.queen", "name": "queen", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a queen chess piece, assess its physical and game status, and determine permitted handling or play, provisionally interpreting this undefined registry entry as a physical chess object.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.OBJ", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q139/", "tier": 2, "score": 90, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "white queen", "black queen" ], "aliasCount": 2, "merged": 2, "knownIn": 90, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": "vr.tr.queen-4", "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q139", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q139", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T15:09:04Z", "providers": [ "Codex", "Grok" ], "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "usd": 0.0452209, "turns": 5, "seconds": 152, "error": null }, "codex": { "seconds": 57.5, "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: 01a07c68-1c72-7221-abac-51f55f32173c\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. 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the intended registry meaning remains unconfirmed.", "in_scope": [ "Evidence that a physical piece represents a queen within its chess set", "Side affiliation and queen designation, including designation acquired through promotion", "Physical condition affecting recognition, placement and handling", "Position and participation status within a particular game", "Queen movement and capture capabilities under the declared rules" ], "out_of_scope": [ "A human monarch and the office or title of queen", "A reproductive queen in a social insect colony", "Queen playing cards and other non-chess uses of the name", "The complete chessboard, game history and adjudication system", "Player identity, skill and strategic objectives" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "The set's identification convention or an explicit game designation identifies the piece as a queen; a crown-like silhouette alone is insufficient.", "Under standard chess rules, its movement combines unobstructed rank, file and diagonal travel, distinguishing its capabilities from those of a rook or bishop.", "Its designation distinguishes it from a king even where their physical forms are similar; being tall or centrally placed does not establish queen identity.", "A substitute object represents a queen only when its designation is established for the game; its original shape may identify a different piece.", "Queen identity does not establish side affiliation, current board occupancy or whether the piece is still participating in play." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Queen identification basis", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "set convention | explicit designation | promotion record | uncertain", "why_it_matters": "Prevents appearance or expected starting position from being treated as conclusive identity." }, { "name": "Physical representation", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "dedicated queen piece | substitute piece | improvised token | unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Separates what the object looks like from the role it represents in play." }, { "name": "Side affiliation", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "reference to a side in the associated game, or unassigned", "why_it_matters": "Determines friendly and opposing occupancy without assuming literal white or black material." }, { "name": "Game association", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "reference to a game and its declared rules, or no active game", "why_it_matters": "Provides the context required to interpret position and permitted actions." }, { "name": "Queen designation origin", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "initial setup | promotion | custom setup | unknown", "why_it_matters": "Explains additional queens and distinguishes game-role continuity from physical-object continuity." }, { "name": "Participation status", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "active on board | captured | spare | awaiting placement | disputed", "why_it_matters": "Prevents an available physical queen from being mistaken for an active game piece." }, { "name": "Current square", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "reference to a square on the associated board, or not on board", "why_it_matters": "Anchors movement, capture and occupancy checks." }, { "name": "Recognition condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "unambiguous | damaged identifying features | visually ambiguous | designation required", "why_it_matters": "Determines whether the agent can identify the queen reliably before acting." }, { "name": "Placement condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "stable | unstable | broken | untested", "why_it_matters": "Determines whether the piece can remain clearly positioned on its square." } ], "affordances": [ "Identify a queen using the set convention and recorded game designation.", "Associate the queen with a side, square and participation status.", "Evaluate proposed queen moves and captures against the board state and declared rules.", "Move or remove the physical queen when the corresponding game action is authorised.", "Designate or replace a promotion representation while preserving the recorded game role.", "Flag ambiguous or damaged queen representations for clarification or replacement." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "SRC-001", "title": "Queen (chess)", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_(chess)", "what_it_supports": "Definition and movement, starting squares d1/d8, promotion (queening), relative value of about nine pawns, Staunton appearance, history from ferz/vizier, Unicode code points, and language names of the piece", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "SRC-002", "title": "queen (Q139)", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q139", "what_it_supports": "Wikidata identifier Q139, English label and description as the chess piece, algebraic short name Q, and J9U entity ID", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "SRC-003", "title": "Laws of Chess (FIDE Handbook, 2014 text of Articles 2-3 and Appendix C)", "url": "https://handbook.fide.com/chapter/E012014", "what_it_supports": "Official starting complement and English symbol Q; Article 3.4-3.5 movement (rank, file or diagonal, no jumping); algebraic abbreviation Q", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "SRC-004", "title": "Rules of chess", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rules_of_chess", "what_it_supports": "Restatement of queen movement; Staunton design as tournament standard; king height about 95 mm with other pieces in proportion", "url_status": "live" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "queen-identity", "name": "Queen identity", "description": "Establishes why this physical object is treated as a queen.", "rationale": "Queen identity depends on a set convention or game designation, particularly when pieces are stylised or substituted.", "layers": [ { "id": "set-recognition", "name": "Set recognition", "description": "Interprets the identifying features used by this chess set.", "findings": [ { "id": "queen-identification-evidence", "name": "Queen identification evidence", "description": "Record the evidence distinguishing the queen from the king and other pieces in this set.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which features or set instructions identify this object as a queen?", "kind": "definition", "id": "queen-identification-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence resolves a possible confusion with the king or another similarly shaped piece?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "queen-identification-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "assigned-representation", "name": "Assigned representation", "description": "Separates the object's physical form from its assigned chess role.", "findings": [ { "id": "queen-designation", "name": "Queen designation", "description": "Record whether the object is a dedicated queen or has explicitly been assigned to represent one.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does this object represent a queen by its set identity or by an explicit designation?", "kind": "definition", "id": "queen-designation-q01" }, { "text": "Who or what established a substitute object's queen designation, and where is that designation recorded?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "queen-designation-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "game-role-and-continuity", "name": "Game role and continuity", "description": "Connects the queen to a side and tracks how its role arose.", "rationale": "A game can contain promoted queens, and replacing a physical representation must not create or erase a game piece.", "layers": [ { "id": "side-and-origin", "name": "Side and origin", "description": "Identifies the queen's affiliation and entry into the position.", "findings": [ { "id": "queen-role-origin", "name": "Queen role origin", "description": "Record the associated side and whether the queen entered through setup or promotion.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which side does this queen belong to in the associated game?", "kind": "definition", "id": "queen-role-origin-q01" }, { "text": "Was this queen established by the initial position, a promotion or a custom setup?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "queen-role-origin-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "representation-continuity", "name": "Representation continuity", "description": "Preserves the identity of the game piece across changes of physical representation.", "findings": [ { "id": "promotion-and-replacement-link", "name": "Promotion and replacement link", "description": "Connect a queen role to its promotion event or replacement object without conflating the participating objects.", "questions": [ { "text": "If this queen resulted from promotion, which recorded event established that role?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "promotion-and-replacement-link-q01" }, { "text": "If the physical queen is replaced, what record preserves its side, square and participation status?", "kind": "action", "id": "promotion-and-replacement-link-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "queen-position-and-play", "name": "Queen position and play", "description": "Determines whether the queen participates in the position and what chess actions it can perform.", "rationale": "Queen movement capabilities alone do not establish move legality; occupancy, turn and king safety must be supplied by the game context.", "layers": [ { "id": "position-membership", "name": "Position membership", "description": "Distinguishes an active queen from captured pieces and available spares.", "findings": [ { "id": "active-queen-location", "name": "Active queen location", "description": "Record the queen's board square or its off-board status within the associated game.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is this queen active, captured, spare or awaiting placement?", "kind": "definition", "id": "active-queen-location-q01" }, { "text": "Which square does the game record assign to it, and does physical observation agree?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "active-queen-location-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "move-and-capture-assessment", "name": "Move and capture assessment", "description": "Applies queen-specific movement rules within the complete game position.", "findings": [ { "id": "permitted-queen-action", "name": "Permitted queen action", "description": "Assess a proposed move using the declared rules, line of travel, destination occupancy and game-level legality.", "questions": [ { "text": "Under the declared rules, does the destination lie along an allowed queen movement line with no intervening obstruction?", "kind": "action", "id": "permitted-queen-action-q01" }, { "text": "Do destination occupancy, the side to move and king-safety constraints permit this move or capture?", "kind": "action", "id": "permitted-queen-action-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "physical-queen-usability", "name": "Physical queen usability", "description": "Assesses whether the queen can be recognised, placed and manipulated reliably during play.", "rationale": "A physically present queen may be unusable because damage obscures its identity or prevents stable, unambiguous placement.", "layers": [ { "id": "recognition-and-placement-condition", "name": "Recognition and placement condition", "description": "Examines defects that interfere with identifying or positioning the queen.", "findings": [ { "id": "usable-queen-representation", "name": "Usable queen representation", "description": "Record damage or ambiguity affecting queen recognition, side recognition or stable occupancy of one square.", "questions": [ { "text": "Can this queen and its side still be distinguished from the other pieces after any damage or wear?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "usable-queen-representation-q01" }, { "text": "Can the object stand stably within its intended square without obscuring neighbouring occupancy?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "usable-queen-representation-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "handling-and-substitution", "name": "Handling and substitution", "description": "Supports physical execution of queen actions and replacement of unsuitable representations.", "findings": [ { "id": "queen-handling-plan", "name": "Queen handling plan", "description": "Determine how to manipulate or replace this queen while keeping the physical position aligned with the game record.", "questions": [ { "text": "Where can this queen be grasped and placed without damaging identifying features or displacing adjacent pieces?", "kind": "action", "id": "queen-handling-plan-q01" }, { "text": "If this representation is unusable, what replacement and designation procedure does the game context permit?", "kind": "action", "id": "queen-handling-plan-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": [ "White (light-coloured) queen", "Black (dark-coloured) queen", "Original starting queen", "Promoted queen (a pawn exchanged for a queen, colloquially queening)", "Spare tournament queen kept for promotion", "Staunton-pattern tournament queen", "Thematic or collector queen (non-Staunton design)", "Tactile queen for play by blind and visually disabled players" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of queen 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": "Q139", "note": "Item for the chess piece, not the monarch or other homonyms" }, { "scheme": "Unicode", "value_or_pattern": "U+2655 ♕ (white), U+265B ♛ (black), U+1FA01 🨁 (neutral)", "note": "Figurine symbols used in diagrams and figurine algebraic notation" }, { "scheme": "FIDE algebraic / PGN piece letter (English)", "value_or_pattern": "Q", "note": "Capital letter in SAN/PGN; 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each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "Conventional material value", "typical_range": "about 9 (slightly more than rook+bishop, slightly less than two rooks)", "unit": "pawn units" }, { "quantity": "Starting complement", "typical_range": "1 per side (more than one possible after promotion)", "unit": "pieces" }, { "quantity": "Maximum squares attacked on an empty board", "typical_range": "up to 27 from a central square (e.g. d4 or e4)", "unit": "squares" }, { "quantity": "Physical height in a tournament Staunton set", "typical_range": "second-tallest piece; about 80-90 when the king is about 95", "unit": "mm" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of queen 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; 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Russian professional usage keeps ферзь (ferz), not королева", "Algebraic initials differ: Q (English), D (German, French, Spanish), Ф (Russian), and other local letters under FIDE Appendix C", "Arabic and several Asian languages retain vizier/minister names; Polish uses hetman; Estonian uses lipp (flag); historical Russian play sometimes allowed a queen that also moved as a knight (the fairy amazon)" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of queen 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": "king (chess)", "difference": "The king is the tallest piece, often topped with a cross, moves only one square, and cannot be captured; capturing the queen does not end the game" }, { "name": "rook (chess)", "difference": "A rook moves only along ranks and files, never diagonally, and is typically battlemented rather than crowned" }, { "name": "bishop (chess)", "difference": "A bishop moves only diagonally and is colour-bound; 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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. 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Form alone rarely separates two models that do very different things." ], "relatedModels": [ { "relation": "covers", "note": "Finer kinds folded into this entry because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it. Each is a model waiting to be split out when one does.", "targets": [ "white queen", "black queen" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 90 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 2 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 queen from another, and a queen 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 queen, 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 queen, 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 queen 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 queen, 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 queen, 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 queen 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 queen 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 queen, 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 queen, 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 queen 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 queen from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a queen, 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 queen, 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 queen 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 queen 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 queen, 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 queen, 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 queen 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 queen is built from and which parts are replaceable.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a queen, 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 queen, 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 queen 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 queen is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a queen, 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 queen, 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 queen 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 queen 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 queen is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a queen, 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 queen, 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 queen 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 queen 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 queen, 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 queen, 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 queen 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 queen 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 queen between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a queen, 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 queen, 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 queen 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 queen, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a queen 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 queen, 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 queen, 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 queen 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 queen 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 queen 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 queen, 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 queen 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 queen 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 queen 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 queen 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 queen 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 queen, 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 queen 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 queen and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a queen, 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 queen, 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 queen 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 queen is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a queen, 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 queen, 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 queen 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 } } } }