{ "model": { "rank": 7499, "code": "thing-q1419347", "model_id": "vr.tr.puerperal-infection", "name": "puerperal infection", "purpose": "Let an agent explain puerperal infection at a general, factual level from medical reference sources, relay its causes, history and prevention, describe the forms its aliases name, and route personal medical concerns to a clinician.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Cross-cutting context", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "XCT", "domain": "XCT.STA", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q1419347/", "tier": 2, "score": 55, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "septic pelvic thrombophlebitis", "Major puerperal infectious disease", "Puerperal pyrexia of unknown origin" ], "aliasCount": 3, "merged": 3, "knownIn": 55, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q1419347", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1419347", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-14T03:25:52Z", "providers": [ "Claude" ], "breadth": "written by Claude from model knowledge without web access - no source was read, every claim is a lead to verify", "pass": 2, "wave": 4, "engine": "claude" }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q1419347", "registryId": "vr.tr.puerperal-infection", "name": "puerperal infection", "version": "0.2.0-wave.4", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "XCT.STA" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q1419347/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.puerperal-infection", "name": "puerperal infection", "purpose": "Let an agent explain puerperal infection at a general, factual level from medical reference sources, relay its causes, history and prevention, describe the forms its aliases name, and route personal medical concerns to a clinician.", "definition": "An infection of the female reproductive tract occurring after childbirth, historically called childbed fever, caused by bacteria entering the uterus or surrounding tissue during or after delivery; the registry aliases name forms such as septic pelvic thrombophlebitis and puerperal pyrexia. Once a major cause of maternal death, puerperal infection is now largely preventable and treatable with hygiene and antibiotics. This is a medical topic, and any personal situation should be directed to a qualified clinician.", "what_it_is_for": "Not applicable; a medical condition.", "affordances": [ "explain the condition generally", "relay causes and prevention", "describe named forms", "route personal concerns to a clinician" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Occurs after childbirth", "Bacterial cause", "Historically often fatal", "Now largely preventable" ], "appearance": "Not a visible object; a postpartum infection recognised by clinical signs such as fever.", "visual_identification": [ "Post-childbirth reproductive-tract infection", "Septic pelvic thrombophlebitis, puerperal pyrexia", "It is specific to the period after childbirth, unlike other infections" ], "physical_properties": [ { "quantity": "timing", "typical_range": "after childbirth", "unit": "note", "note": "" }, { "quantity": "cause", "typical_range": "bacterial infection", "unit": "note", "note": "" }, { "quantity": "registry parents", "typical_range": "reproductive tract infection, puerperal disorders", "unit": "note", "note": "" } ], "families_and_kinds": [ "endometritis", "septic pelvic thrombophlebitis", "puerperal pyrexia" ], "related_models": [ { "relation": "is a kind of", "target": "infection", "why": "related" }, { "relation": "is a kind of", "target": "puerperal disorder", "why": "in registry terms" }, { "relation": "is associated with", "target": "childbirth", "why": "" }, { "relation": "is contrasted with", "target": "other reproductive-tract infections", "why": "" } ], "identifiers": [], "standards_and_regulation": [ "Clinical guidelines for maternal care" ], "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Offering personal diagnosis", "Understating urgency of postpartum fever", "Confusing with unrelated infections" ], "in_scope": [], "out_of_scope": [], "characteristics": [] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "understand", "name": "Understand", "description": "What puerperal infection is.", "rationale": "Attribution.", "layers": [ { "id": "definition", "name": "Definition", "description": "Definition.", "findings": [ { "id": "definition-finding", "name": "Definition", "description": "Definition.", "questions": [ { "text": "What is puerperal infection, and how does it differ from other infections?", "kind": "definition" }, { "text": "Is this a personal medical situation that needs a clinician?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "forms", "name": "Forms", "description": "Named forms.", "findings": [ { "id": "forms-finding", "name": "Forms", "description": "Forms.", "questions": [ { "text": "What are septic pelvic thrombophlebitis and puerperal pyrexia?", "kind": "definition" }, { "text": "Which entry fits the specific form?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "causes", "name": "Causes", "description": "Causes.", "rationale": "Sources.", "layers": [ { "id": "mechanism", "name": "Mechanism", "description": "How it arises.", "findings": [ { "id": "mechanism-finding", "name": "Mechanism", "description": "Mechanism.", "questions": [ { "text": "How does puerperal infection arise after delivery?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which references are standard?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "risk", "name": "Risk", "description": "Risk factors.", "findings": [ { "id": "risk-finding", "name": "Risk", "description": "Risk.", "questions": [ { "text": "What raises the risk of puerperal infection, as clinical sources describe?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which sources are cited?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "history", "name": "History", "description": "History.", "rationale": "Sources.", "layers": [ { "id": "childbed", "name": "Childbed", "description": "Childbed fever.", "findings": [ { "id": "childbed-finding", "name": "Childbed", "description": "Childbed.", "questions": [ { "text": "Why was childbed fever historically so deadly, and how did hygiene change this?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which sources are cited?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "prevention", "name": "Prevention", "description": "Prevention.", "findings": [ { "id": "prevention-finding", "name": "Prevention", "description": "Prevention.", "questions": [ { "text": "How is puerperal infection prevented and treated in general terms?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Is personal advice left to a clinician?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "context", "name": "Context", "description": "Care.", "rationale": "Attribution.", "layers": [ { "id": "care", "name": "Care", "description": "Care routing.", "findings": [ { "id": "care-finding", "name": "Care", "description": "Care.", "questions": [ { "text": "Where should postpartum symptoms such as fever be directed?", "kind": "action" }, { "text": "Is the information general rather than diagnostic?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "global", "name": "Global", "description": "Global health.", "findings": [ { "id": "global-finding", "name": "Global", "description": "Global.", "questions": [ { "text": "How does maternal infection affect global maternal health?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Is the information current?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Should the forms be separate entries?", "How should prevention be summarised?", "How should urgency be conveyed without diagnosing?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 4, "layers": 8, "findings": 8, "questions": 16 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "disease or condition", "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 puerperal infection, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Let an agent explain puerperal infection at a general, factual level from medical reference sources, relay its causes, history and prevention, describe the forms its aliases name, and route personal medical concerns to a clinician.", "characteristics": { "substance": "abstract", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "inert" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: septic pelvic thrombophlebitis, Major puerperal infectious disease, Puerperal pyrexia of unknown origin.", "3 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 55 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 puerperal infection, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "an abstraction with no physical instance", "physicalCharacter": [ "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 criteria applied to signs and findings, not by appearance. Two conditions can look identical and be distinguished only by test." ], "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": [ "septic pelvic thrombophlebitis", "Major puerperal infectious disease", "Puerperal pyrexia of unknown origin" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 55 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 3 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 puerperal infection from another, and a puerperal infection 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 puerperal infection, 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 puerperal infection, 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 puerperal infection 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 puerperal infection, 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 puerperal infection, 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 puerperal infection 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 puerperal infection 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 puerperal infection, 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 puerperal infection, 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 puerperal infection 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 puerperal infection from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a puerperal infection, 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 puerperal infection, 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 puerperal infection 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 puerperal infection 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 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} ] } ] }, { "id": "coding", "name": "Coding and terminology", "description": "The codes used to record it and their mapping.", "findings": [ { "id": "coding-record", "name": "Codes and mappings", "description": "Which classification codes apply and how they map.", "questions": [ { "id": "coding-record-q01", "text": "Which classification and terminology codes cover puerperal infection, and how do they map to each other?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "coding-record-q02", "text": "What is lost when a case is mapped from one scheme to another?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "course-and-population", "name": "Course, population and care", "description": "How puerperal infection develops, whom it affects, and what is done about it.", "rationale": "The condition, the diagnosis and the episode of care are three different things, and an agent must not merge them.", "layers": [ { "id": "course", "name": "Course and stages", "description": "Onset, progression, remission and 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rate?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a puerperal infection 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 puerperal infection and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a puerperal infection, 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 puerperal infection, 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 puerperal infection 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 puerperal infection is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a puerperal 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