{ "model": { "rank": 2628, "code": "thing-q160066", "model_id": "vr.tr.straw", "name": "straw", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise agricultural straw, assess a particular lot's condition and suitability, and decide how it may be handled, stored or used.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.MAT", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q160066/", "tier": 2, "score": 101, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "barley straw", "wheat straw", "rye straw", "maize straw", "rice straw", "oilseed straw" ], "aliasCount": 6, "merged": 6, "knownIn": 101, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q160066", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q160066", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T10:30:34Z", "providers": [ "Codex", "Grok" ], "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "usd": 0.01024352, "turns": 1, "seconds": 180, "error": null }, "codex": { "seconds": 70.3, "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: 01a07b66-6f0c-7c73-bbb5-5d8b352ea3ba\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. 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interpreting the undefined registry name as agricultural straw remains provisional.", "in_scope": [ "Crop origin and the plant parts present in a straw lot", "Harvest, separation and subsequent treatment history", "Loose, chopped and baled forms and their physical condition", "Moisture, deterioration, contamination and storage condition", "Suitability and preparation requirements for a declared use" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Drinking straws and other tubular utensils", "Standing crops and their cultivation", "Grain and other separately harvested crop products", "Hay or other forage harvested as a feeding product", "Finished straw panels, buildings, paper and other manufactured products", "Animal diets, composting systems and combustion equipment as complete systems" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Determine whether 'straw' denotes agricultural stem material or a drinking utensil; the name alone does not establish identity.", "Check harvest purpose and separation history when distinguishing straw from hay; colour or dryness alone is insufficient.", "Inspect whether the material consists principally of identifiable stems rather than grain, husks, chaff or a mixed residue stream.", "Check whether stalk structure remains recognisable when distinguishing chopped straw from wood shavings, shredded paper or other bedding materials.", "Determine whether processing has produced a separate manufactured article whose identity and performance require a neighbouring model." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Crop origin", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Recorded crop species or crop mixture; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Supports identification and interpretation of use-specific requirements." }, { "name": "Plant-part composition", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Mass percentages of stems, leaves, husks, residual grain and other material, with sampling method", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes straw from adjacent residue categories and exposes mixtures." }, { "name": "Harvest and treatment history", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Links to crop source, harvest, separation, drying and treatment records", "why_it_matters": "Provides evidence about identity, exposure and restrictions on subsequent use." }, { "name": "Presentation form", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Loose long-stem; chopped; small bale; large square bale; round bale; other recorded form", "why_it_matters": "Determines feasible handling, inspection and preparation actions." }, { "name": "Stem or fragment length", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "mm, reported as a distribution with sampling method", "why_it_matters": "Helps judge suitability for spreading, bedding and processing." }, { "name": "Moisture content", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "% with wet-basis or dry-basis designation, method, location and time", "why_it_matters": "Supports assessment of storage condition and acceptance against a particular use specification." }, { "name": "Lot temperature", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "°C with ambient temperature, probe location and time series where available", "why_it_matters": "Makes internal heating and changes during storage assessable." }, { "name": "Bulk or bale density", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "kg/m³ with moisture condition and measurement method", "why_it_matters": "Supports handling, storage planning and comparison with processing requirements." }, { "name": "Deterioration evidence", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Recorded observations of mould, musty odour, discolouration, softening or heating; not observed; not assessed", "why_it_matters": "Separates observed condition from unsupported claims that a lot is sound." }, { "name": "Contaminant evidence", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Observed or tested soil, foreign objects, weed seeds, pests and chemical residues, with extent and evidence", "why_it_matters": "Allows an agent to identify restrictions, testing needs and reasons to segregate material." }, { "name": "Declared use and acceptance specification", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Links to intended use, receiving process and applicable material requirements", "why_it_matters": "Prevents a general label such as 'good straw' from substituting for suitability for a particular purpose." } ], "affordances": [ "Identify, sample and segregate straw lots by crop origin and condition.", "Chop, bale, unbale or otherwise prepare straw to a declared material specification.", "Select storage and monitoring actions using moisture, temperature and exposure evidence.", "Allocate suitable straw to bedding, mulch or a specified processing route.", "Hold, reject or redirect a lot when contamination or deterioration conflicts with its intended use." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "iso-17225-1", "title": "ISO 17225-1:2021, Solid biofuels - Fuel specifications and classes - Part 1: General requirements. International Organization for Standardization.", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Treats straw as herbaceous agricultural biomass; underpins fuel-class, origin-code, ash and calorific framing used in trade and bioenergy." }, { "id": "eu-68-2013", "title": "Commission Regulation (EU) No 68/2013 of 16 January 2013 on the Catalogue of feed materials. Official Journal of the European Union.", "url": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2013/68/oj", "what_it_supports": "Names cereal straws as listed feed materials and is the European legal catalogue for straw sold as forage or bedding-adjacent feed.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "hs-1213", "title": "Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System, heading 12.13 Cereal straw and husks, unprepared. World Customs Organization.", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "The customs identity of unprepared cereal straw (chopped, ground, pressed or pelleted)." }, { "id": "sundstol-owen-1984", "title": "Sundstøl, F. and Owen, E. (eds), Straw and Other Fibrous By-products as Feed. Elsevier, 1984.", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Classic composition, digestibility and use of cereal straws as ruminant feed; distinguishes straw from hay and other fibrous residues." }, { "id": "icc-irc-app-s", "title": "International Residential Code, Appendix S - Strawbale Construction. International Code Council.", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "How straw is specified and constrained as a building material (bales, moisture, fire, plaster)." }, { "id": "uk-burning-1993", "title": "Crop Residues (Burning) Regulations 1993. United Kingdom statutory instrument.", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Legal control of straw and stubble burning as a regional practice and air-quality hazard." } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "straw-identity-and-origin", "name": "Straw identity and origin", "description": "Establishes what the material is and which crop and separation history support that identification.", "rationale": "An undefined name cannot distinguish agricultural straw from utensils, hay or mixed crop residues.", "layers": [ { "id": "material-identity", "name": "Material identity", "description": "Determines the meaning of straw and the plant material present.", "findings": [ { "id": "stem-material-boundary", "name": "Stem material boundary", "description": "Record the evidence for identifying the material as agricultural straw, including mixed or ambiguous components.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does this entry denote agricultural stem material, and what observation or record supports that interpretation?", "kind": "definition", "id": "stem-material-boundary-q01" }, { "text": "What separates this lot from hay, chaff or an undifferentiated crop-residue mixture?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "stem-material-boundary-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "crop-and-separation-history", "name": "Crop and separation history", "description": "Connects the straw to its crop source and harvest operations.", "findings": [ { "id": "crop-source-and-recovery", "name": "Crop source and recovery", "description": "Record crop identity, harvest purpose and how the stems were recovered and separated.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which crop or crop mixture produced the straw, and how certain is that attribution?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "crop-source-and-recovery-q01" }, { "text": "When and how was the straw separated from the harvested crop, and which field or harvest records remain available?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "crop-source-and-recovery-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "stem-form-and-bale-condition", "name": "Stem form and bale condition", "description": "Describes the physical form in which straw can be inspected, moved and prepared.", "rationale": "Stem length, compaction and bale integrity directly affect straw handling and its compatibility with a receiving process.", "layers": [ { "id": "stem-size-and-composition", "name": "Stem size and composition", "description": "Captures fragment dimensions and the accompanying plant fractions.", "findings": [ { "id": "usable-stem-fraction", "name": "Usable stem fraction", "description": "Record the distribution of stem lengths and the proportions of other material relevant to the intended use.", "questions": [ { "text": "What stem or fragment lengths are present, and how was the sample selected?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "usable-stem-fraction-q01" }, { "text": "What proportions of the lot are stems, leaves, husks, residual grain or non-plant material?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "usable-stem-fraction-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "baling-and-compaction", "name": "Baling and compaction", "description": "Captures bale geometry, density and containment condition.", "findings": [ { "id": "bale-handling-readiness", "name": "Bale handling readiness", "description": "Record whether each handling unit retains its form and can be moved using the planned equipment.", "questions": [ { "text": "What are the bale dimensions, mass and density, or the bulk density if the straw is loose?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "bale-handling-readiness-q01" }, { "text": "Do broken bindings, deformation or shedding require rebaling or a different handling method?", "kind": "action", "id": "bale-handling-readiness-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "moisture-deterioration-and-storage", "name": "Moisture, deterioration and storage", "description": "Captures changing straw condition within a lot and during storage.", "rationale": "Surface appearance alone cannot establish the condition of compressed or unevenly wetted straw.", "layers": [ { "id": "moisture-and-heating", "name": "Moisture and heating", "description": "Records moisture and temperature with enough spatial and temporal context to interpret them.", "findings": [ { "id": "internal-condition-evidence", "name": "Internal condition evidence", "description": "Record internal and surface measurements separately and connect them to the applicable storage criteria.", "questions": [ { "text": "What moisture measurements represent the bale interior, exterior and any visibly wetted portions, and on what basis are they expressed?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "internal-condition-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "How does internal temperature compare with ambient temperature and earlier readings?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "internal-condition-evidence-q02" }, { "text": "Which documented storage criteria determine whether this lot needs further monitoring or intervention?", "kind": "action", "id": "internal-condition-evidence-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "weathering-and-biological-condition", "name": "Weathering and biological condition", "description": "Relates exposure history to observed deterioration and its distribution.", "findings": [ { "id": "deteriorated-portions", "name": "Deteriorated portions", "description": "Record weather exposure, mould or decay evidence and whether affected material can be distinguished from the rest of the lot.", "questions": [ { "text": "What rain, ground contact, enclosure or ventilation conditions has the straw experienced since harvest?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "deteriorated-portions-q01" }, { "text": "Where are mould, musty odour, discolouration or loss of stem integrity observed, and how much material was inspected?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "deteriorated-portions-q02" }, { "text": "Should affected portions be segregated or the whole lot held pending assessment against its intended use?", "kind": "action", "id": "deteriorated-portions-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "use-suitability-and-preparation", "name": "Use suitability and preparation", "description": "Connects straw condition and treatment history to a specific proposed use.", "rationale": "Bedding, mulch and manufacturing routes need different evidence; suitability cannot be assigned to straw without naming the use.", "layers": [ { "id": "contamination-and-treatment", "name": "Contamination and treatment", "description": "Captures foreign material, residues and deliberate treatments that may restrict use.", "findings": [ { "id": "use-relevant-exposures", "name": "Use-relevant exposures", "description": "Record known treatments and contamination evidence while distinguishing untested material from verified absence.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which crop chemicals, preservatives or other treatments are documented, and are their identities and application records available?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "use-relevant-exposures-q01" }, { "text": "What inspection or testing evidence exists for foreign objects, soil, weed seeds, pests or residues relevant to the proposed use?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "use-relevant-exposures-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "allocation-and-preparation", "name": "Allocation and preparation", "description": "Determines whether the lot meets a receiving use's requirements and what preparation remains.", "findings": [ { "id": "straw-use-decision", "name": "Straw use decision", "description": "Record the intended route, supporting acceptance evidence and any required preparation or unresolved checks.", "questions": [ { "text": "For the proposed bedding, mulch or processing use, which requirements does this lot meet and which remain unverified?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "straw-use-decision-q01" }, { "text": "What chopping, drying, cleaning, unbaling or other preparation is required before the receiving process can accept it?", "kind": "action", "id": "straw-use-decision-q02" }, { "text": "If the lot fails acceptance, which alternative use or disposition has independently supported requirements it can meet?", "kind": "action", "id": "straw-use-decision-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": [ "wheat straw", "rice straw", "barley straw", "oat straw", "rye and triticale straw", "oilseed-rape (canola) straw", "pulse straw (pea, bean)", "thatching-grade long straw (including combed wheat reed)" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of straw 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": "HS (Harmonized System)", "value_or_pattern": "1213.00", "note": "Cereal straw and husks, unprepared, whether or not chopped, ground, pressed or in the form of pellets." }, { "scheme": "Combined Nomenclature (EU)", "value_or_pattern": "1213 00 00", "note": "Same scope as HS 1213 for EU customs." }, { "scheme": "EU Catalogue of feed materials", "value_or_pattern": "named entries such as wheat straw, barley straw, oat straw, rye straw, rice straw", "note": "Regulation (EU) No 68/2013; used when straw is placed on the market as a feed material." }, { "scheme": "ISO 17225 origin classification", "value_or_pattern": "herbaceous biomass / agricultural and horticultural herbaceous / cereal crops (straw)", "note": "Trade and fuel-specification code family, not a single SKU." }, { "scheme": "Wikidata", "value_or_pattern": "item for agricultural straw (dry cereal stalks after threshing), not the drinking utensil", "note": "Q-id not restated here because it was not re-verified in this pass." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of straw 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": [ "ISO 17225-1 (and related parts, including ISO 17225-6 graded non-woody pellets) - International Organization for Standardization: straw as solid biofuel.", "Commission Regulation (EU) No 68/2013 Catalogue of feed materials - European Commission: straw as a named feed material.", "Regulation (EC) No 183/2005 on feed hygiene - European Union: applies when straw is used in the feed chain.", "International Residential Code Appendix S, Strawbale Construction - International Code Council: structural, moisture and fire rules for straw bales in buildings.", "Crop Residues (Burning) Regulations 1993 - United Kingdom: restricts burning of cereal straw and stubble.", "Open-burning and stubble-burning controls in other jurisdictions (for example state and national air-quality directions in India, provincial bans in China, local bans in parts of the United States) - various environment ministries and air-quality authorities." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of straw this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Livestock bedding in cattle, sheep, pig and poultry housing, usually as small or large bales opened in situ.", "Ruminant forage, especially barley and oat straw; wheat straw is used more after alkali or ammonia treatment.", "Mushroom and other fungal composts (wheat straw is the classic Agaricus substrate in Europe).", "Straw-bale walls and insulation in load-bearing or infill construction, then plastered.", "Roof thatch, using long unchopped wheat or rye straw, including combed wheat reed.", "Field mulch, erosion-control blankets and wattles, and garden mulch.", "Solid biofuel: loose or chopped straw, bales, briquettes or pellets in district heat and CHP plants.", "Pulp, particle board and other fibre products, historically and still in parts of China and India, especially from wheat and rice straw.", "Traditional fibre uses: mats, ropes, hats, and in Japan rice-straw (wara) goods such as tatami stitching, shimenawa and waraji." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of straw 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": "Moisture content of stored bales", "typical_range": "10-18 (safe storage); above about 20 heating risk rises sharply", "unit": "% wet basis" }, { "quantity": "Ash (dry matter)", "typical_range": "wheat/barley about 4-8; rice straw often 10-20 because of silica", "unit": "% of dry matter" }, { "quantity": "Gross calorific value", "typical_range": "16-18.5", "unit": "MJ/kg dry matter" }, { "quantity": "Crude protein", "typical_range": "2-5", "unit": "% of dry matter" }, { "quantity": "Carbon-to-nitrogen ratio", "typical_range": "50-150", "unit": "mass ratio C:N" }, { "quantity": "Bale bulk density", "typical_range": "100-180 (large rectangular or round bales); small bales similar or slightly lower", "unit": "kg/m³" }, { "quantity": "Stem length", "typical_range": "combine-harvested 15-40; thatching long straw 70-120", "unit": "cm" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of straw 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": [ "Wet baling or leaking stacks: microbial heating, mould, then spontaneous combustion.", "Respirable organic dust, endotoxin and mould spores: organic dust toxic syndrome and hypersensitivity pneumonitis (farmer's lung) during chopping and bedding.", "Mycotoxin and spoilage risk when mouldy straw is fed.", "High fire load in barns, stackyards and in poorly detailed straw-bale buildings.", "Boiler slagging, fouling and chlorine-related corrosion; rice straw also forms silica-rich slag.", "Field burning produces PM2.5-dominated seasonal smog (well documented for rice-wheat systems).", "Soil nitrogen immobilisation when high-C straw is incorporated without extra nitrogen.", "Rodent and insect harbourage in stored bales; wet bales lose insulation and can rot in walls.", "Low digestibility and possible nitrate or awn injury when untreated straw is over-used as feed." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of straw 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-language farm practice keeps straw (threshing residue, bedding) distinct from hay (a forage crop); some everyday speech and some languages blur the two.", "Rice straw dominates East and South Asia and is often left, incorporated, or burned in the field; wheat and barley straw dominate Europe, the North American plains and Australia.", "United Kingdom thatching trade calls combed wheat straw 'wheat reed', which is not wetland reed.", "Japan treats rice straw (wara) as a cultural fibre as well as an agricultural residue.", "California and some other building cultures use rice-straw bales (higher silica, different pest and fire behaviour) where wheat-straw bales are the default elsewhere.", "Open burning of straw is banned or tightly limited in the UK and much of western Europe, still common or only recently restricted in parts of South Asia and China." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of straw 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": "hay", "difference": "Hay is a crop cut as forage, usually before seed is recovered, and is leafier and higher in protein (typically about 8-20% vs about 2-5% in straw); straw is the stem residue after grain harvest." }, { "name": "maize or sorghum stover", "difference": "Stover is the coarser residue of thick-stemmed row crops; trade and agronomy call it stover, not straw, and particle size and digestibility differ." }, { "name": "chaff", "difference": "Chaff is the glumes, lemmas and broken fragments from threshing, short and fines-rich; straw is the cut stem." }, { "name": "stubble", "difference": "Stubble is the standing stem base left in the field; straw is the cut, removed, and usually baled portion." }, { "name": "water reed (Phragmites australis)", "difference": "A wetland thatching plant, not a cereal residue; longer, denser, different nodes. UK 'wheat reed' is combed wheat straw and fails this botanical test." }, { "name": "drinking straw", "difference": "A hollow consumer utensil (paper, plastic, metal, glass), unrelated to crop residue; PHY.MAT 'straw' here is the agricultural material." }, { "name": "silage or haylage", "difference": "Wet, fermented preserved forage; straw is dry, unfermented residue stored at low moisture." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of straw this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does vr.tr.straw specifically mean agricultural straw, and does an existing Vercy world model already own that concept?", "Which crop residues does the registry include under straw, particularly non-cereal stalks and mixtures with substantial chaff or leaves?", "Which sampling methods and moisture or temperature criteria are appropriate for each straw form, storage arrangement and intended use?", "Which treatment histories, contaminants and deterioration indicators require testing or exclusion for each intended use?", "At what processing stage do pellets, treated fibres or bound straw products pass into a separate registered material or product model?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 9, "findings": 16, "questions": 27 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "chemical substance or material", "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 straw, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise agricultural straw, assess a particular lot's condition and suitability, and decide how it may be handled, stored or used.", "characteristics": { "substance": "material", "origin": "natural", "agency": "inert", "mobility": "varies" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured", "consumed or used up" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: barley straw, wheat straw, rye straw, maize straw, rice straw, oilseed straw.", "6 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 101 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 straw, 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", "use it up, and then need more of it" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "Not recognisable by sight in any reliable way. Appearance varies with grade, form and additives; identification is by label, by documentation, or by assay." ], "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": [ "barley straw", "wheat straw", "rye straw", "maize straw", "rice straw", "oilseed straw" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 101 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 6 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 straw from another, and a straw 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 straw, 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 straw, 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 straw 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 straw, 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 straw, 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 straw 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 straw 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 straw, 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 straw, 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 straw 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 straw from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a straw, 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 straw, 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 straw 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 straw 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 straw, 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 straw, 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 straw 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 straw is built from and which parts are replaceable.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a straw, 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 straw, 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 straw 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 straw is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a straw, 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 straw, 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 straw 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 straw 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 straw is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a straw, 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 straw, 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 straw 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 straw 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 straw, 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 straw, 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 straw 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 straw 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 straw between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a straw, 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 straw, 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 straw 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 straw, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a straw 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 straw, 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 straw, 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 straw is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "use-and-operation", "name": "Use and operation", "description": "What can be done with a straw and what it takes to do it.", "rationale": "An agent that can recognise a thing but not act on it has only half a model.", "layers": [ { "id": "intended-use", "name": "Intended use and function", "description": "What a straw is for, and what it is used for anyway.", "findings": [ { "id": "function-and-purpose", "name": "Function, purpose and misuse", "description": "The function a straw performs and the uses that fall outside it.", "questions": [ { "id": "function-and-purpose-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the use of a straw, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "function-and-purpose-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the use of a straw, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "function-and-purpose-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the use of a straw is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "handling-and-procedure", "name": "Handling and procedure", "description": "The steps, skills and tools involved in using a straw.", "findings": [ { "id": "procedures-and-skills", "name": "Procedures, skills and required tools", "description": "What an agent needs before it can act on a straw at all.", "questions": [ { "id": "procedures-and-skills-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes handling a straw, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "procedures-and-skills-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about handling a straw, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "procedures-and-skills-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once handling a straw is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "supply-and-consumption", "name": "Supply and consumption", "description": "Quantities, rates and what running out means.", "findings": [ { "id": "consumption-and-stock", "name": "Consumption, stock and replenishment", "description": "How much of a straw there is and how fast it goes.", "questions": [ { "id": "consumption-and-stock-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the supply of a straw, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "consumption-and-stock-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the supply of a straw, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "consumption-and-stock-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the supply of a straw is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "composition-and-identity", "name": "Composition, grade and chemical identity", "description": "What straw is made of and how pure the thing in hand is.", "rationale": "Grade decides what a substance may be used for, so a model that records only the name cannot support any decision about use.", "layers": [ { "id": "chemical-identity", "name": "Chemical identity", "description": "Formula, structure and the registry numbers that name it unambiguously.", "findings": [ { "id": "identity-record", "name": "Identity and registry numbers", "description": "What identifies this substance across suppliers and regulators.", "questions": [ { "id": "identity-record-q01", "text": "What formula, structure and registry identifiers name straw unambiguously?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "identity-record-q02", "text": "Which related substances share a name in common use but not an identifier?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "grade-and-impurities", "name": "Grade, purity and impurities", "description": "The specification a batch meets and what else is in it.", "findings": [ { "id": "specification", "name": "Specification and assay", "description": "How purity is stated and measured, and which impurities matter.", "questions": [ { "id": "specification-q01", "text": "What grades of straw exist, how is purity assayed, and which impurities are limited?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "specification-q02", "text": "Which use requires which grade, and what happens when a lower grade is substituted?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "properties-and-behaviour", "name": "Properties and behaviour", "description": "How straw behaves under conditions an agent can measure or change.", "rationale": "Physical constants are the part of a substance model that transfers between contexts, and each needs its unit and its conditions.", "layers": [ { "id": "physical-constants", "name": "Physical constants", "description": "Values that hold for the pure substance, with their conditions.", "findings": [ { "id": "constants-record", "name": "Constants and conditions", "description": "The quantities worth recording and the state they apply in.", "questions": [ { "id": "constants-record-q01", "text": "What are the defining physical constants of straw, in what units and under what conditions?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "constants-record-q02", "text": "Which of these values change with grade or form rather than being fixed?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "stability-and-reactivity", "name": "Stability and reactivity", "description": "What it reacts with, degrades into, and how it is stored.", "findings": [ { "id": "incompatibilities", "name": "Incompatibilities and degradation", "description": "What must not meet it, and what it becomes over time.", "questions": [ { "id": "incompatibilities-q01", "text": "What is straw incompatible with, and what does it degrade into under storage?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "incompatibilities-q02", "text": "What storage and handling does that require, and who is competent to do it?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "hazard-and-regulation", "name": "Hazard classification and regulation", "description": "How straw can harm, and what the law says about holding and moving it.", "rationale": "A substance model without its hazard class and its regulatory identity is unusable in exactly the situations that matter.", "layers": [ { "id": "hazard-class", "name": "Hazard classification", "description": "Classified hazards, exposure limits and protective measures.", "findings": [ { "id": "classified-hazards", "name": "Classified hazards and limits", "description": "The classification, the scheme it belongs to, and the limits set.", "questions": [ { "id": "classified-hazards-q01", "text": "How is straw classified for hazard, under which scheme, and what exposure limits apply?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "classified-hazards-q02", "text": "What protection does handling require, and what must an agent refuse to do without it?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "regulatory-identity", "name": "Regulatory identity and control", "description": "Registration, restriction and transport rules by jurisdiction.", "findings": [ { "id": "controls", "name": "Controls and jurisdiction", "description": "Where it is restricted and what the restriction attaches to.", "questions": [ { "id": "controls-q01", "text": "Which registrations, restrictions or transport rules cover straw, and where?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "controls-q02", "text": "Does the control attach to the substance, its concentration, or its intended use?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a straw 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 straw and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a straw, 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 straw, 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 straw 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 straw is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a straw, 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 straw, 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 straw is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 9, "layers": 20, "findings": 22, "questions": 60 } } } }