{ "model": { "rank": 4170, "code": "thing-q170173", "model_id": "vr.tr.yacht", "name": "yacht", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a yacht, assess its fitness for an intended voyage or use, and identify actions supported by its condition, equipment and operating constraints.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.OBJ", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q170173/", "tier": 2, "score": 78, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "Thalamegos", "Loxo 32", "Sea Ray Sundancer", "patrol yacht", "cruiser yacht", "muletta", "Quintessentially One", "luxury yacht", "Wider 165 motor yacht", "Mangusta 108 motor yacht", "presidential yacht", "AC90", "Schwertboot", "sailing yacht", "Trojan 750", "skerry cruiser", "Swan 60OD", "Frisian yacht", "Vanguard II", "Swan 44 Frers", "Nautor 105", "Classe Mini", "Aloha 30", "Trewes Commodore", "motor yacht", "steam yacht", "vintage yacht", "spirit of Tradition yacht", "classic yacht", "Vertue", "royal yacht", "America's Cup defenders", "America's Cup challengers", "royal yacht of the United Kingdom", "Kultaranta", "Maxus Evo 24", "IMOCA 60-class sailboat", "Catalina 28", "M", "SailGP yacht" ], "aliasCount": 55, "merged": 56, "knownIn": 78, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q170173", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q170173", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-09T19:37:58Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 27.2, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.4\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: 01a087ac-6807-78a2-846f-1a227d6bfcd9\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: yacht\nSense to describe: (none recorded)\nDomain code: PHY.LIV\nAlso known as: (none)\n\n\nContext for this batch of 695 things:\n# Batch 004: 1001 registered", "usd": 0, "recall": true }, "codex": { "seconds": 60.9, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.4\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: 01a087ac-6805-7d43-8583-f65230da1eff\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: yacht\nRegistry id: vr.tr.yacht\nPlane / domain: PHY / PHY.LIV\nRegistry definition: (none recorded)\nNames folded into this entry: (none)\n\n\nContext for " } } }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q170173", "registryId": "vr.tr.yacht", "name": "yacht", "version": "0.1.0-research.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "PHY.LIV" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q170173/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.yacht", "name": "yacht", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a yacht, assess its fitness for an intended voyage or use, and identify actions supported by its condition, equipment and operating constraints.", "definition": "A yacht is a sailing or motor vessel designed or used primarily for recreational cruising or racing, including private and charter use, with no universally accepted size threshold separating it from other pleasure craft.", "scope_statement": "This model owns the yacht as an individual physical vessel intended or configured for pleasure, cruising or sport, including privately operated and commercially chartered examples; it distinguishes vessel identity from design class, ownership arrangements and voyage activities.", "in_scope": [ "Vessel identity, intended use and evidence supporting classification as a yacht", "Hull, appendages, propulsion, steering and sailing configuration", "Accommodation, onboard services and capacity constraints", "Condition, maintenance needs and readiness for a specified passage", "Vessel-specific documentation, equipment and operating limitations" ], "out_of_scope": [ "The general boat or ship model, except where its properties constrain yacht use", "Ownership companies, charter businesses and purchase or charter contracts", "Crew qualifications and employment as independently modelled records", "Voyages, regattas and navigation plans as activities", "Marinas, berths and shore facilities as separate infrastructure" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Check intended and actual pleasure, cruising or sporting use; size or a luxurious appearance alone does not establish yacht identity.", "Distinguish a yacht from a passenger or work vessel through its design brief, configuration and documented operating role; carrying paying guests alone does not settle the boundary.", "Identify whether a small craft is independently treated as a yacht or serves as a tender to another vessel.", "Treat sailing yachts and motor yachts as configurations within scope; the presence of a mast, engine or cabin alone is insufficient.", "Separate the individual vessel from its builder's model designation: sister yachts may have different refits, equipment and operating constraints." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Vessel identity", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Links to builder, build record, hull identifier and applicable registration records", "why_it_matters": "Keeps records attached to the same vessel through renaming, sale and refit." }, { "name": "Operating role", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Private recreation, charter, racing, mixed use or unresolved; with evidence and date", "why_it_matters": "Defines the intended use against which readiness and applicable requirements must be assessed." }, { "name": "Propulsion configuration", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Sail, motor or combined; record installed systems and their roles", "why_it_matters": "Determines manoeuvring options, energy dependencies and failure responses." }, { "name": "Principal dimensions", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Length, beam, draft and air draft in metres, with measurement convention and configuration", "why_it_matters": "Supports berth, channel, bridge and haul-out compatibility checks." }, { "name": "Displacement and loading", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Kilograms or tonnes, with loading condition and measurement or calculation basis", "why_it_matters": "Connects stores, equipment and persons aboard to draft, performance and stability assessment." }, { "name": "Persons and accommodation capacity", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Counts of berths and documented persons limits, separately recorded with operating conditions", "why_it_matters": "Prevents sleeping capacity from being mistaken for an authorised or safe persons limit." }, { "name": "Passage endurance", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Nautical miles or hours under stated speed, weather, loading, consumption and reserve assumptions", "why_it_matters": "Supports passage feasibility without treating a nominal range as guaranteed." }, { "name": "Readiness for intended use", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Unassessed, ready within stated limits, restricted or unavailable; with evidence and assessment date", "why_it_matters": "Makes readiness specific to the proposed operation and unresolved defects." } ], "affordances": [ "Match the yacht to a proposed passage, anchorage or berth using documented dimensions and operating constraints.", "Assess whether persons, stores and equipment fit supported loading and capacity limits.", "Identify inspection, maintenance or repair actions needed before the intended use.", "Estimate fuel, electrical energy and water sufficiency using explicit passage assumptions and reserves.", "Check whether onboard equipment and vessel documentation support the proposed private, charter or racing operation.", "Record a refit and identify which dimensional, performance and readiness assessments require revision." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "yacht-identity-and-role", "name": "Yacht identity and role", "description": "Establishes which vessel is being modelled and why yacht is the appropriate category.", "rationale": "Yacht identity depends on use and configuration, while vessel names and commercial arrangements can change.", "layers": [ { "id": "individual-vessel", "name": "Individual vessel", "description": "Separates the physical yacht from names, design families and associated craft.", "findings": [ { "id": "persistent-vessel-identity", "name": "Persistent vessel identity", "description": "Record evidence linking the yacht's current name and configuration to its build and registration history.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which hull, builder or registration identifiers establish this individual yacht's identity?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "persistent-vessel-identity-q01" }, { "text": "Which records describe this hull, rather than its design class, sister yacht or tender?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "persistent-vessel-identity-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "pleasure-sport-and-charter-role", "name": "Pleasure, sport and charter role", "description": "Captures intended use and the evidence behind the yacht classification.", "findings": [ { "id": "supported-yacht-classification", "name": "Supported yacht classification", "description": "Record design intent, actual use and documented vessel category without inferring classification from appearance.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence supports treating this vessel as a yacht rather than a workboat, passenger vessel or auxiliary tender?", "kind": "definition", "id": "supported-yacht-classification-q01" }, { "text": "Does the proposed operation differ from its documented private, charter or sporting role?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "supported-yacht-classification-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "hull-rig-and-manoeuvring", "name": "Hull, rig and manoeuvring", "description": "Captures the yacht's floating structure, clearance envelope and means of movement.", "rationale": "Keels, rigs, hull arrangements and propulsion choices create yacht-specific passage and handling constraints.", "layers": [ { "id": "hull-and-clearance-envelope", "name": "Hull and clearance envelope", "description": "Records dimensions and appendage configurations relevant to water depth, overhead clearance and berthing.", "findings": [ { "id": "configuration-dependent-clearances", "name": "Configuration-dependent clearances", "description": "Associate draft, beam and air draft with loading, rig and any movable appendages.", "questions": [ { "text": "What are the yacht's draft, beam and air draft in the configuration proposed for the passage?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "configuration-dependent-clearances-q01" }, { "text": "Which keel, centreboard, mast or other configuration changes alter the clearances that must be checked?", "kind": "action", "id": "configuration-dependent-clearances-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "propulsion-and-control", "name": "Propulsion and control", "description": "Records sail plans, engines, drives and steering needed to control the yacht.", "findings": [ { "id": "available-manoeuvring-options", "name": "Available manoeuvring options", "description": "Distinguish installed propulsion and steering systems from those available and usable under current conditions.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which sails, engines, drives, thrusters and steering systems are installed and currently serviceable?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "available-manoeuvring-options-q01" }, { "text": "What supported manoeuvring or return options remain if the primary propulsion or steering system fails?", "kind": "action", "id": "available-manoeuvring-options-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "life-aboard-and-endurance", "name": "Life aboard and endurance", "description": "Relates people, accommodation, stores and service systems to a proposed period afloat.", "rationale": "A yacht's cruising capability depends on usable resources and loading, beyond the presence of cabins or tanks.", "layers": [ { "id": "persons-and-loading", "name": "Persons and loading", "description": "Separates accommodation provision from supported persons and loading limits.", "findings": [ { "id": "supported-occupancy-and-stowage", "name": "Supported occupancy and stowage", "description": "Record berths, applicable persons limits and the distribution of people, stores and carried equipment.", "questions": [ { "text": "How many usable berths are fitted, and what separate evidence establishes persons limits for the intended operation?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "supported-occupancy-and-stowage-q01" }, { "text": "How do the proposed people, stores, tender and deck equipment compare with documented loading and stowage constraints?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "supported-occupancy-and-stowage-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "onboard-resource-balance", "name": "Onboard resource balance", "description": "Connects fuel, electricity, freshwater and waste capacity to time away from shore support.", "findings": [ { "id": "conditional-cruising-endurance", "name": "Conditional cruising endurance", "description": "Express endurance as an estimate with consumption, production, usable capacity and reserve assumptions.", "questions": [ { "text": "What usable fuel, battery energy, freshwater and waste capacity are available at departure?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "conditional-cruising-endurance-q01" }, { "text": "Under the proposed passage and hotel loads, which resource first requires replenishment, discharge or reduced consumption?", "kind": "action", "id": "conditional-cruising-endurance-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-operating-readiness", "name": "Condition and operating readiness", "description": "Combines physical condition, emergency provisions and documentary constraints for a specified use.", "rationale": "A yacht may be habitable or operable at a berth while lacking the condition or provisions needed for a passage.", "layers": [ { "id": "condition-and-refit-history", "name": "Condition and refit history", "description": "Tracks inspections, defects and modifications affecting the yacht's structure and essential systems.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-based-condition", "name": "Evidence-based condition", "description": "Tie readiness assessments to dated observations of the hull, water ingress paths, propulsion and rig where fitted.", "questions": [ { "text": "What dated inspection or maintenance evidence supports the condition of the hull, seacocks, steering, machinery and rig where fitted?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "evidence-based-condition-q01" }, { "text": "Which unresolved defects or refits require repair, inspection or reassessment before the intended passage?", "kind": "action", "id": "evidence-based-condition-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "passage-and-emergency-readiness", "name": "Passage and emergency readiness", "description": "Checks emergency capability and vessel-specific operating constraints against the intended voyage.", "findings": [ { "id": "supported-departure-decision", "name": "Supported departure decision", "description": "Record whether emergency equipment, vessel documents and stated limitations support departure, with unresolved gaps explicit.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence establishes the suitability and service status of lifesaving, fire, bilge, navigation and communication equipment for those aboard and the proposed passage?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "supported-departure-decision-q01" }, { "text": "Which documented limits, missing records or equipment deficiencies prevent or constrain the proposed departure?", "kind": "action", "id": "supported-departure-decision-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "This describes the ordinary vessel sense. The supplied domain code PHY.LIV appears inconsistent with an inanimate manufactured vessel and should be checked.", "Yacht, superyacht and megayacht have variable boundaries; no universal minimum length or accommodation requirement is asserted.", "This is recall only. Check current standards editions and regulatory applicability against vessel size, flag, operating waters and private or commercial use; the measurement ranges are illustrative." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of yacht this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Sailing yacht", "Motor yacht", "Motor-sailer", "Racing yacht", "Cruising yacht", "Expedition yacht" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of yacht this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "Watercraft Identification Number (WIN)", "value_or_pattern": "Craft-specific alphanumeric identifier", "note": "Used under ISO 10087 to identify small craft; applicability and terminology depend on market and vessel age." }, { "scheme": "Maritime Mobile Service Identity (MMSI)", "value_or_pattern": "Nine decimal digits", "note": "Identifies a maritime radio station, including an appropriately registered yacht station; it is not a hull serial number." }, { "scheme": "National vessel registration number", "value_or_pattern": "Jurisdiction-specific", "note": "Identifies a vessel within its registering authority's system." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of yacht this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation", "name": "Standards and regulation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "ISO 12215 series, issued by ISO: hull construction and scantlings for small craft.", "ISO 12217 series, issued by ISO: stability and buoyancy assessment and categorization of small craft.", "International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea (COLREGs), adopted through the International Maritime Organization.", "Recreational Craft Directive 2013/53/EU, adopted by the European Parliament and Council: requirements for recreational craft within its scope.", "Racing Rules of Sailing, issued by World Sailing: rules governing participating sailing races." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of yacht this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; 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Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched. This entry carries no facets of its own, so they were inferred from its domain - a guess about a whole domain applied to one thing.", "facetsInferred": true, "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.", "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a yacht, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a yacht, assess its fitness for an intended voyage or use, and identify actions supported by its condition, equipment and operating constraints.", "characteristics": { "substance": "material", "origin": "manufactured", "agency": "inert", "mobility": "varies" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: Thalamegos, Loxo 32, Sea Ray Sundancer, patrol yacht, cruiser yacht, muletta, Quintessentially One, luxury yacht, Wider 165 motor yacht, Mangusta 108 motor yacht, presidential yacht, AC90.", "56 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 78 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 yacht, 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" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "Recognised by form, by the arrangement of its controls, and by markings - a plate, a model number, a certification mark. Form alone rarely separates two models that do very different things." ], "relatedModels": [ { "relation": "covers", "note": "Finer kinds folded into this entry because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it. Each is a model waiting to be split out when one does.", "targets": [ "Thalamegos", "Loxo 32", "Sea Ray Sundancer", "patrol yacht", "cruiser yacht", "muletta", "Quintessentially One", "luxury yacht", "Wider 165 motor yacht", "Mangusta 108 motor yacht", "presidential yacht", "AC90" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 78 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 56 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 yacht from another, and a yacht 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 yacht, 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 yacht, 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 yacht 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 yacht, 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 yacht, 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 yacht 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 yacht 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 yacht, 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 yacht, 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 yacht 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 yacht from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a yacht, 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 yacht, 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 yacht 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 yacht 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 yacht, 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 yacht, 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 yacht 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 yacht is built from and which parts are replaceable.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a yacht, 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 yacht, 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 yacht 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 yacht is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a yacht, 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 yacht, 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 yacht 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 yacht 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 yacht is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a yacht, 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 yacht, 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 yacht 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 yacht 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 yacht, 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 yacht, 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 yacht 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 yacht 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 yacht between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a yacht, 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 yacht, 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 yacht 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 yacht, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a yacht 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 yacht, 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 yacht, 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 yacht is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "function-and-principle", "name": "Function and operating principle", "description": "What yacht is for and how it achieves it.", "rationale": "Two devices with the same name can work on different principles, and the principle is what predicts failure and constrains use.", "layers": [ { "id": "intended-function", "name": "Intended function", "description": "The job it does, and the jobs it is used for anyway.", "findings": [ { "id": "function-record", "name": "Function, principle and variants", "description": "What it does, how, and which variants do it differently.", "questions": [ { "id": "function-record-q01", "text": "What function does yacht perform, on what operating principle, and which variants differ in that principle?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "function-record-q02", "text": "What use falls outside the intended function but happens in practice?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "capacity-and-rating", "name": "Capacity and rating", "description": "The numbers that say what it can do and where it stops.", "findings": [ { "id": "ratings", "name": "Ratings and their conditions", "description": "Rated capacity, power, throughput and the conditions each assumes.", "questions": [ { "id": "ratings-q01", "text": "What ratings characterise yacht, in what units, and under what stated conditions?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "ratings-q02", "text": "What happens beyond the rating - degradation, refusal, damage - and how is that detected?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "operation-and-state", "name": "Operation, controls and state", "description": "How yacht is operated and what state it is in right now.", "rationale": "An agent acting on a device needs its current state and the controls that change it, not just its specification.", "layers": [ { "id": "controls-and-modes", "name": "Controls and modes", "description": "What can be set, what that changes, and what is interlocked.", "findings": [ { "id": "control-surface", "name": "Control surface and interlocks", "description": "The settings available and the conditions that block them.", "questions": [ { "id": "control-surface-q01", "text": "What controls and modes does yacht have, and what does each change?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "control-surface-q02", "text": "Which actions are interlocked or forbidden in which state, and what must be true before acting?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-maintenance", "name": "Condition and maintenance", "description": "Wear, service intervals, consumables and the line between working and broken.", "findings": [ { "id": "service-record", "name": "Condition, service and consumables", "description": "What is consumed, what is serviced, and how condition is judged.", "questions": [ { "id": "service-record-q01", "text": "What consumables and service does yacht need, at what interval, and on whose authority?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "service-record-q02", "text": "What evidence separates a unit that is working from one that is out of service?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "kind-model-unit", "name": "Kind, model and unit", "description": "Whether a claim about yacht is about the kind, a product line, or one physical unit.", "rationale": "This is the boundary most often got wrong for made things, and getting it wrong mixes a catalogue entry with the machine in the yard.", "layers": [ { "id": "level-of-reference", "name": "Level of reference", "description": "The three levels and what belongs at each.", "findings": [ { "id": "level-rules", "name": "What belongs to kind, model and unit", "description": "Which properties are shared by all of them and which are not.", "questions": [ { "id": "level-rules-q01", "text": "Which facts about yacht hold for every one of them, which for a model, and which only for one unit?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "level-rules-q02", "text": "What identifies an individual unit, and what should an agent do when it has only the kind?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "standards-and-conformity", "name": "Standards and conformity", "description": "The standards a working example must meet and who attests it.", "findings": [ { "id": "conformity", "name": "Standards, marks and attestation", "description": "Which standard applies, who certifies, and what the mark means.", "questions": [ { "id": "conformity-q01", "text": "Which standards govern yacht, issued by whom, and what does conformity actually assert?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "conformity-q02", "text": "What may an agent conclude from a certification mark, and what may it not?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a yacht 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 yacht and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a yacht, 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 yacht, 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 yacht 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 yacht is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a yacht, 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 yacht, 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 yacht is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 8, "layers": 17, "findings": 19, "questions": 51 } } } }