{ "model": { "rank": 3462, "code": "thing-q161790", "model_id": "vr.tr.asperger-syndrome", "name": "Asperger syndrome", "purpose": "Let an agent explain Asperger syndrome respectfully, relay its features, its reclassification within autism, terminology preferences and the debate over the eponym from clinical and community sources with positions attributed, flag the loosely filed alias, route support, and distinguish it from autism spectrum disorder broadly, social anxiety, introversion and other conditions, without diagnosing individuals.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Cross-cutting context", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "XCT", "domain": "XCT.STA", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q161790/", "tier": 2, "score": 85, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "syndrome of Cassandra" ], "aliasCount": 1, "merged": 1, "knownIn": 85, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q161790", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q161790", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-14T02:43:53Z", "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-Q161790", "registryId": "vr.tr.asperger-syndrome", "name": "Asperger syndrome", "version": "0.2.0-wave.4", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "XCT.STA" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q161790/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.asperger-syndrome", "name": "Asperger syndrome", "purpose": "Let an agent explain Asperger syndrome respectfully, relay its features, its reclassification within autism, terminology preferences and the debate over the eponym from clinical and community sources with positions attributed, flag the loosely filed alias, route support, and distinguish it from autism spectrum disorder broadly, social anxiety, introversion and other conditions, without diagnosing individuals.", "definition": "A neurodevelopmental profile within the autism spectrum, historically diagnosed as Asperger syndrome, characterised by differences in social communication and by focused interests and a preference for routine, without the language delay or intellectual disability once used to distinguish it from other autism; the alias syndrome of Cassandra is not a medical diagnosis and appears loosely filed. Since DSM-5 in 2013 and ICD-11, Asperger syndrome is no longer a separate diagnosis and is included within autism spectrum disorder, and many people describe themselves as autistic; the eponym is also debated because of Hans Asperger s conduct in Nazi-era Vienna, and this history is presented with attribution. 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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": [ "syndrome of Cassandra" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 85 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 1 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 Asperger syndrome from another, and a Asperger syndrome 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 Asperger syndrome, 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 Asperger syndrome, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", 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