{ "model": { "rank": 3081, "code": "thing-q159701", "model_id": "vr.tr.glaucoma", "name": "glaucoma", "purpose": "Let an agent route acute glaucoma symptoms to emergency eye care, encourage regular eye tests, give general sourced information and point to support, without personal medical advice.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Cross-cutting context", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "XCT", "domain": "XCT.STA", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q159701/", "tier": 2, "score": 91, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "glaucoma with ocular inflammation", "steroid-induced glaucoma", "steroid-induced glaucoma - borderline", "residual stage corticosteroid-induced glaucoma", "blind hypertensive eye", "hereditary glaucoma", "syndromic glaucoma", "glaucoma due to raised episcleral venous pressure", "Uveitic glaucoma", "hypersecretion glaucoma", "aqueous misdirection", "phacogenic glaucoma", "traumatic glaucoma", "angle-closure 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"license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-11T14:03:06Z", "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": 1, "engine": "claude" }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q159701", "registryId": "vr.tr.glaucoma", "name": "glaucoma", "version": "0.2.0-wave.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "XCT.STA" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q159701/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.glaucoma", "name": "glaucoma", "purpose": "Let an agent route acute glaucoma symptoms to emergency eye care, encourage regular eye tests, give general sourced information and point to support, without personal medical advice.", "definition": "A group of eye diseases that damage the optic nerve, often associated with raised pressure inside the eye, and a leading cause of irreversible sight loss; open-angle glaucoma usually develops slowly without symptoms, while acute angle-closure glaucoma is a medical emergency, and other forms include steroid-induced and hereditary glaucoma.", "what_it_is_for": "An eye condition relevant to screening, urgent care and sight loss support.", "affordances": [ "recognise emergency symptoms of acute glaucoma", "find eye testing and screening", "find general information on glaucoma types", "find sight loss and patient support" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Optic nerve damage", "Often symptomless early", "Acute form is an emergency", "Loss is irreversible" ], "appearance": "Usually no visible signs early; detected by eye pressure tests, optic nerve examination and visual field tests.", "visual_identification": [ "Optic nerve damage on examination", "Gradual peripheral vision loss", "Cataract clouds the lens instead" ], "physical_properties": [], "families_and_kinds": [ "primary open-angle glaucoma", "acute angle-closure glaucoma", "normal-tension glaucoma", "secondary and steroid-induced glaucoma", "congenital and hereditary glaucoma" ], "related_models": [ { "relation": "is a kind of", "target": "eye disease", "why": "category" }, { "relation": "damages", "target": "optic nerve", "why": "structure" }, { "relation": "is related to", "target": "retinal disease", "why": "related eye disease" }, { "relation": "is detected by", "target": "eye test", "why": "screening" } ], "identifiers": [], "standards_and_regulation": [ "Clinical guidelines on glaucoma", "Driving vision standards", "Eligibility rules for free eye tests" ], "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Delaying care for acute symptoms", "Missing routine eye tests", "Stopping eye drops without advice" ], "in_scope": [], "out_of_scope": [], "characteristics": [] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "urgent", "name": "Urgent", "description": "Emergency symptoms.", "rationale": "Safety comes first.", "layers": [ { "id": "acute", "name": "Acute", "description": "Acute angle closure.", "findings": [ { "id": "acute-finding", "name": "Acute", "description": "Acute glaucoma.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is there sudden severe eye pain, redness, headache, nausea, blurred vision or halos around lights?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "text": "Should the person go to emergency eye care immediately?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "vision", "name": "Vision", "description": "Sudden vision loss.", "findings": [ { "id": "vision-finding", "name": "Vision", "description": "Sudden vision loss.", "questions": [ { "text": "Has vision been lost suddenly?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "text": "Should emergency services or an eye emergency department be contacted now?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "screening", "name": "Screening", "description": "Eye tests.", "rationale": "Early detection matters.", "layers": [ { "id": "tests", "name": "Tests", "description": "Routine tests.", "findings": [ { "id": "tests-finding", "name": "Tests", "description": "Eye tests.", "questions": [ { "text": "How often do health services recommend eye tests, especially for people at higher risk?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Are tests free for relatives of people with glaucoma here?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "risk", "name": "Risk", "description": "Risk factors.", "findings": [ { "id": "risk-finding", "name": "Risk", "description": "Risk factors.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which risk factors do health authorities list for glaucoma?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Is the user asking about their own risk?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "information", "name": "Information", "description": "General facts.", "rationale": "Sourced information only.", "layers": [ { "id": "types", "name": "Types", "description": "Kinds.", "findings": [ { "id": "types-finding", "name": "Types", "description": "Types.", "questions": [ { "text": "What do eye health organisations say about this type of glaucoma?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "How is it usually treated, in general terms?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "treatment", "name": "Treatment", "description": "Treatment questions.", "findings": [ { "id": "treatment-finding", "name": "Treatment", "description": "Treatment questions.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is the user considering stopping or changing eye drops?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "text": "How should the agent refer them to their eye specialist?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "support", "name": "Support", "description": "Living with glaucoma.", "rationale": "Support helps.", "layers": [ { "id": "organisations", "name": "Organisations", "description": "Patient groups.", "findings": [ { "id": "organisations-finding", "name": "Organisations", "description": "Patient organisations.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which glaucoma charities and helplines exist?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which low vision services help?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "driving", "name": "Driving", "description": "Driving rules.", "findings": [ { "id": "driving-finding", "name": "Driving", "description": "Driving rules.", "questions": [ { "text": "Must glaucoma be reported to the driving authority here?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which vision standard applies?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Should glaucoma types be separate entries?", "How should screening eligibility be localised?", "How should support services be linked?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 4, "layers": 8, "findings": 8, "questions": 16 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "abstract concept", "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 glaucoma, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Let an agent route acute glaucoma symptoms to emergency eye care, encourage regular eye tests, give general sourced information and point to support, without personal medical advice.", "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: glaucoma with ocular inflammation, steroid-induced glaucoma, steroid-induced glaucoma - borderline, residual stage corticosteroid-induced glaucoma, blind hypertensive eye, hereditary glaucoma, syndromic glaucoma, glaucoma due to raised episcleral venous pressure, Uveitic glaucoma, hypersecretion glaucoma, aqueous misdirection, phacogenic glaucoma.", "33 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 91 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 glaucoma, 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": [ "Nothing to see. What is recognised is an instance of it, and which instances count is exactly what is argued about." ], "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": [ "glaucoma with ocular inflammation", "steroid-induced glaucoma", "steroid-induced glaucoma - borderline", "residual stage corticosteroid-induced glaucoma", "blind hypertensive eye", "hereditary glaucoma", "syndromic glaucoma", "glaucoma due to raised episcleral venous pressure", "Uveitic glaucoma", "hypersecretion glaucoma", "aqueous misdirection", "phacogenic glaucoma" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 91 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 33 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 glaucoma from another, and a glaucoma 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 glaucoma, 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 glaucoma, 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 glaucoma 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 glaucoma, 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 glaucoma, 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 glaucoma 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 glaucoma 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 glaucoma, 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 glaucoma, 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 glaucoma 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 glaucoma from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a glaucoma, 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 glaucoma, 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 glaucoma 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 glaucoma 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 glaucoma between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a glaucoma, 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 glaucoma, 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 glaucoma 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 glaucoma, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a glaucoma 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 glaucoma, 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 glaucoma, 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 glaucoma is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "definitions-in-contest", "name": "Definitions and who holds them", "description": "What glaucoma is taken to mean, and by whom.", "rationale": "When a field disagrees about a concept, the disagreement is the content. A model that picks one definition silently destroys the information.", "layers": [ { "id": "competing-definitions", "name": "Competing definitions", "description": "The main readings and the traditions behind them.", "findings": [ { "id": "definition-map", "name": "Definitions and their holders", "description": "Each definition with the school or body that holds it.", "questions": [ { "id": "definition-map-q01", "text": "Which definitions of glaucoma are in use, and which tradition or body holds each?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "definition-map-q02", "text": "What turns on the difference between them in practice?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "operationalisation", "name": "Operationalisation", "description": "How it is measured or applied when it has to be.", "findings": [ { "id": "operational-record", "name": "Measures and proxies", "description": "Instruments and indicators used to stand in for it.", "questions": [ { "id": "operational-record-q01", "text": "How is glaucoma operationalised or measured in practice, and by what instrument?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "operational-record-q02", "text": "What does that operationalisation leave out, and when does that matter?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "instances-and-use", "name": "Instances, use and consequence", "description": "What counts as an instance of glaucoma and what follows from calling something that.", "rationale": "Applying a concept is an act with consequences, so a model must say what the label licenses and what it does not.", "layers": [ { "id": "instances", "name": "What counts as an instance", "description": "Clear cases, borderline cases and non-cases.", "findings": [ { "id": "instance-tests", "name": "Tests for an instance", "description": "What would settle whether something falls under it.", "questions": [ { "id": "instance-tests-q01", "text": "What would settle whether something is an instance of glaucoma?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "instance-tests-q02", "text": "Which borderline cases are argued about, and on what grounds?", "kind": "definition" } ] } ] }, { "id": "consequence", "name": "Consequence of application", "description": "Rights, duties or decisions that follow from the label.", "findings": [ { "id": "consequence-record", "name": "What the label licenses", "description": "What an agent may do once something is classified this way.", "questions": [ { "id": "consequence-record-q01", "text": "What follows practically once something is treated as glaucoma?", "kind": "action" }, { "id": "consequence-record-q02", "text": "What must an agent not infer from the label alone?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a glaucoma 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 glaucoma and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a glaucoma, 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 glaucoma, 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 glaucoma 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 glaucoma is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a glaucoma, 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 glaucoma, 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 glaucoma is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 10, "findings": 12, "questions": 32 } } } }