{ "model": { "rank": 3591, "code": "thing-q170219", "model_id": "vr.tr.sake", "name": "sake", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise sake, assess a particular batch or bottle, and determine suitable storage, service and culinary uses from its identity, composition and condition.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.MAT", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q170219/", "tier": 2, "score": 84, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "toso", "Toyobijin", "One Cup Ozeki", "Kudarizake", "akumochizake", "Rashōmon", "Daiginjo", "uka", "Doburoku", "sake in Korea", "Saijo Sake", "miki", "shirozake", "Hadaka Jima", "nigori", "Toshimaya's Shirozake" ], "aliasCount": 16, "merged": 16, "knownIn": 84, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": "vr.tr.sake", "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q170219", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q170219", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T14:38:07Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 26.7, "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: 01a07c4c-e28c-77d1-b427-9c47af9b790e\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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rice-based brewed alcoholic beverage, using the narrower international sense associated with Japanese nihonshu rather than the broader Japanese word for alcoholic drinks; it records product and batch properties while relating them to brewing, provenance and applicable designation rules.", "in_scope": [ "Beverage identity, ingredients and boundaries with other rice-based alcoholic drinks", "Brewing and finishing history insofar as they explain the finished sake", "Composition, declared style and measured sensory properties", "Batch provenance, designation claims and supporting label evidence", "Bottle condition, storage history and suitability for service or cooking" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Rice cultivation and rice varieties as independent biological or agricultural models", "Koji organisms and yeast strains as independent organism models", "Brewery equipment, operations and fermentation process control", "Distilled spirits, mirin and other rice-based beverages as separate product kinds", "Bottle and packaging manufacture", "Alcohol consumption behaviour and individual medical suitability" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Identify a brewed rice beverage whose production uses koji-mediated starch conversion and yeast fermentation; rice content alone does not establish sake identity.", "Distinguish sake from shochu and other rice spirits by whether the beverage itself is brewed or distilled; added brewing alcohol requires separate recording.", "Distinguish sake from mirin and other rice cooking products using production evidence, declared identity and composition rather than sweetness or intended culinary use alone.", "Distinguish nigori or other intentionally cloudy sake from unexplained deterioration by comparing suspended material with the declared finishing method and expected appearance.", "Separate beverage identity from geographic designation: production location and entitlement to a protected origin claim require their own evidence." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Declared beverage identity and style", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Exact label wording; interpreted sake category; verified, unverified or conflicting", "why_it_matters": "Establishes the intended beverage sense without treating commercial descriptions as verified classifications." }, { "name": "Ingredient and alcohol-addition profile", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Declared ingredients; added brewing alcohol present, absent or unknown; other additions", "why_it_matters": "Supports identity and designation checks and separates fermentation-derived alcohol from documented additions." }, { "name": "Alcohol by volume", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "% vol, with label or analytical source and reference conditions where available", "why_it_matters": "Informs serving calculations, product comparison and applicable handling or sale requirements." }, { "name": "Rice polishing ratio", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "% of original brown-rice mass remaining after polishing, separately for rice inputs where reported", "why_it_matters": "Records a sake-specific production attribute without confusing the remaining fraction with the fraction removed." }, { "name": "Nihonshudo", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Sake Meter Value, with measurement method and temperature when available", "why_it_matters": "Supports comparison of density-related properties but cannot alone establish perceived sweetness." }, { "name": "Acidity and residual sugar", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Acidity with named method and scale; residual sugar in g/L with analytes identified", "why_it_matters": "Helps interpret balance and distinguish measured composition from tasting impressions." }, { "name": "Finishing profile", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Pressing or separation, filtration, pasteurisation sequence, dilution and carbonation status; unknown allowed", "why_it_matters": "Explains distinctions such as cloudy, unpasteurised, undiluted or sparkling products and their handling needs." }, { "name": "Bottle condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Sealed or opened; appearance, aroma and closure observations; assessment timestamp", "why_it_matters": "Separates the product's intended style from the current condition of an individual container." }, { "name": "Storage and opening history", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Temperature in °C, light exposure, relevant durations, opening date and unknown intervals", "why_it_matters": "Supports evidence-based condition and service decisions without assuming a universal shelf life." }, { "name": "Producer and batch provenance", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Producer, brewing location, product, lot, bottling information and supporting records", "why_it_matters": "Connects observations and designation claims to the correct sake batch." } ], "affordances": [ "Identify a candidate beverage as sake and flag unresolved boundaries with mirin, rice spirits or other rice ferments.", "Compare sake products using ingredients, polishing ratio, finishing history and measured composition.", "Check declared style and origin claims against documented production evidence and applicable rules.", "Assess whether a bottle's appearance and aroma match its intended style or warrant further inspection.", "Choose storage and opening procedures from the producer's directions, finishing profile and observed condition.", "Select a serving-temperature trial, food pairing or culinary use from the sake's sensory profile and documented constraints." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "sake-identity-and-designations", "name": "Sake identity and designations", "description": "Establishes which beverage is being modelled and what its declared names claim.", "rationale": "Sake has language-dependent meanings, neighbouring rice beverages and designation terms that cannot be inferred from taste alone.", "layers": [ { "id": "beverage-boundary", "name": "Beverage boundary", "description": "Separates the intended sake sense from other alcoholic and rice-based products.", "findings": [ { "id": "brewed-rice-identity", "name": "Brewed rice identity", "description": "Record evidence of ingredients and production sufficient to assess whether the beverage belongs in this model.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does sake here mean the rice-based brewed beverage, or is the source using the word for alcoholic drinks generally?", "kind": "definition", "id": "brewed-rice-identity-q01" }, { "text": "What ingredient and production evidence distinguishes this product from mirin, a rice spirit or another rice ferment?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "brewed-rice-identity-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "style-and-origin-claims", "name": "Style and origin claims", "description": "Preserves label terminology and separates it from verified category membership.", "findings": [ { "id": "designation-evidence", "name": "Designation evidence", "description": "Attach exact terms such as junmai, ginjo or a geographic designation to the evidence and rules needed to interpret them.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which style and origin terms appear verbatim on the label, and which were supplied by a retailer or translator?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "designation-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Which jurisdiction and dated designation rules govern each claim, and what production evidence supports compliance?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "designation-evidence-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "rice-koji-and-brewing-lineage", "name": "Rice, koji and brewing lineage", "description": "Records the sake-specific production attributes that remain relevant to the finished beverage.", "rationale": "Rice preparation, koji, fermentation and additions explain important differences between sake products.", "layers": [ { "id": "rice-and-koji-inputs", "name": "Rice and koji inputs", "description": "Captures rice identity, polishing and the role of koji rice.", "findings": [ { "id": "rice-preparation-evidence", "name": "Rice preparation evidence", "description": "Record declared rice varieties and polishing ratios while preserving distinctions between input roles.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which rice varieties and origins are documented for koji rice and other brewing rice?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "rice-preparation-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "What polishing ratio is reported for each input, and does the percentage explicitly mean mass remaining?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "rice-preparation-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "fermentation-and-additions", "name": "Fermentation and additions", "description": "Links the finished sake to documented fermentation choices and ingredient additions.", "findings": [ { "id": "batch-brewing-profile", "name": "Batch brewing profile", "description": "Record yeast, starter method and alcohol or other additions where evidence exists, without reconstructing an undocumented recipe.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which yeast and starter method, including any kimoto or yamahai claim, are documented for this batch?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "batch-brewing-profile-q01" }, { "text": "Was brewing alcohol or any other ingredient added, and what amount and stage are documented?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "batch-brewing-profile-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "finishing-and-composition", "name": "Finishing and composition", "description": "Connects the beverage's physical form and analytical profile with its finishing history.", "rationale": "Cloudiness, pasteurisation, dilution and gas content materially affect how sake is recognised and handled.", "layers": [ { "id": "separation-and-stabilisation", "name": "Separation and stabilisation", "description": "Distinguishes operations often compressed into ambiguous style words.", "findings": [ { "id": "finishing-sequence", "name": "Finishing sequence", "description": "Record separation, filtration, pasteurisation and dilution as independent attributes rather than interchangeable labels.", "questions": [ { "text": "What separation and filtration steps are documented, and how do they explain a nigori or muroka label?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "finishing-sequence-q01" }, { "text": "What pasteurisation and dilution sequence supports any nama or genshu claim?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "finishing-sequence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "analytical-beverage-profile", "name": "Analytical beverage profile", "description": "Records measured liquid properties with methods and batch applicability.", "findings": [ { "id": "composition-and-gas", "name": "Composition and gas", "description": "Keep alcohol, density-related indicators, sugar, acidity and carbonation distinct from sensory conclusions.", "questions": [ { "text": "What alcohol content, Nihonshudo, acidity and residual sugar values are available, with methods and batch references?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "composition-and-gas-q01" }, { "text": "Is carbonation intended, how was it produced, and are dissolved gas or package-pressure measurements available?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "composition-and-gas-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "sensory-state-and-service", "name": "Sensory state and service", "description": "Assesses how the sake presents under known tasting and serving conditions.", "rationale": "Sake's perceived sweetness, aroma and balance require observation and can change with serving temperature.", "layers": [ { "id": "observed-sensory-profile", "name": "Observed sensory profile", "description": "Separates tasting observations from label expectations and analytical proxies.", "findings": [ { "id": "appearance-aroma-and-balance", "name": "Appearance, aroma and balance", "description": "Record clarity, colour, aroma, sweetness, acidity, umami and texture under stated conditions.", "questions": [ { "text": "What appearance, aroma and palate characteristics were observed, at what temperature and time after opening?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "appearance-aroma-and-balance-q01" }, { "text": "Which observations match the declared style or maturation history, and which remain unexplained?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "appearance-aroma-and-balance-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "service-and-culinary-fit", "name": "Service and culinary fit", "description": "Turns product evidence and sensory observations into bounded use decisions.", "findings": [ { "id": "temperature-and-use-trials", "name": "Temperature and use trials", "description": "Record producer guidance and observed results for serving temperatures, pairings and cooking applications.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which serving temperatures does the producer suggest, and what changes are observed when this sake is tasted across those temperatures?", "kind": "action", "id": "temperature-and-use-trials-q01" }, { "text": "Which food pairing or cooking task suits its observed sweetness, acidity, umami and aroma, and what trial supports that choice?", "kind": "action", "id": "temperature-and-use-trials-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "bottle-history-and-condition", "name": "Bottle history and condition", "description": "Connects a particular container to its batch, storage history and present usability.", "rationale": "A product specification alone cannot establish the condition of an opened, aged or poorly documented bottle.", "layers": [ { "id": "batch-and-storage-trace", "name": "Batch and storage trace", "description": "Tracks dates and environmental exposure without confusing brewing, bottling and purchase dates.", "findings": [ { "id": "time-temperature-and-light", "name": "Time, temperature and light", "description": "Record the bottle's known timeline and storage conditions alongside producer instructions.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which lot and date markings identify the bottle, and does each date refer to brewing, bottling, shipment or another event?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "time-temperature-and-light-q01" }, { "text": "What temperature and light exposure, opening date and gaps in storage history are known?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "time-temperature-and-light-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-handling-decision", "name": "Condition and handling decision", "description": "Evaluates deviations from expected style and chooses justified next actions.", "findings": [ { "id": "expected-change-or-unresolved-defect", "name": "Expected change or unresolved defect", "description": "Distinguish intended sediment, carbonation and maturation from changes that require investigation; sensory acceptance alone does not establish safety.", "questions": [ { "text": "Are sediment, colour changes, unusual aromas, leakage or pressure consistent with the producer's description and this bottle's history?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "expected-change-or-unresolved-defect-q01" }, { "text": "Given the finishing profile, closure condition and producer guidance, should the bottle be refrigerated, opened with specified precautions, served or withheld pending assessment?", "kind": "action", "id": "expected-change-or-unresolved-defect-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 beverage sense, inferred from the material domain; it does not describe the English noun meaning purpose or benefit.", "The listed kinds overlap: junmai concerns ingredients, ginjo and daiginjo concern production criteria, nigori concerns separation, and namazake concerns pasteurization.", "These are recalled facts, not researched findings; verify exact legal definitions, designation requirements and product-specific storage guidance first." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of sake 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": [ "Junmai", "Honjozo", "Ginjo", "Daiginjo", "Nigori", "Namazake" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of sake 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": "Japanese beverage terminology", "value_or_pattern": "日本酒 (nihonshu); 清酒 (seishu)", "note": "Nihonshu is the usual Japanese name for the beverage; seishu is a legal classification whose boundaries require checking. Sake itself can mean alcoholic drinks generally in Japanese." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of sake 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": [ "Japan's Liquor Tax Act defines the seishu category; administered by the National Tax Agency.", "Japan's National Tax Agency issues sake manufacturing-quality and labelling standards covering special designations such as ginjo and junmai." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of sake 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; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Consumed as an alcoholic beverage, chilled, at room temperature or warmed.", "Used in cooking, including marinades, sauces and simmered dishes.", "Used in ceremonial offerings and celebrations in Japan." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of sake this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "Alcohol by volume in many conventional retail products", "typical_range": "13-17", "unit": "% vol" }, { "quantity": "Rice polishing ratio for ginjo designation", "typical_range": "60 or less", "unit": "% of original rice mass remaining" }, { "quantity": "Rice polishing ratio for daiginjo designation", "typical_range": "50 or less", "unit": "% of original rice mass remaining" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of sake this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Ethanol causes intoxication and impaired coordination; repeated consumption can cause dependence and chronic health harm.", "Heat, light and oxygen exposure can produce unwanted changes in aroma, colour and flavour.", "Spoilage bacteria can cause sourness, haze and off-aromas.", "Unpasteurized sake generally requires more careful temperature control during storage and distribution." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of sake this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Outside Japan, sake usually denotes this rice beverage; in Japanese, sake can refer more broadly to alcohol.", "Regional differences in water, rice, yeast and brewing practice influence flavour, but do not establish a single fixed style for each region.", "Rice beverages marketed as sake outside Japan may follow different local production and labelling rules." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of sake this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Rice wine", "difference": "A broader informal grouping of fermented rice beverages; sake is a particular Japanese brewing tradition using koji." }, { "name": "Shochu", "difference": "Shochu is distilled; sake is brewed without distillation, although some sake receives added brewing alcohol." }, { "name": "Mirin", "difference": "Mirin is a distinct sweet rice-based seasoning beverage with a different production process and much higher residual sugar." }, { "name": "Doburoku", "difference": "Doburoku retains the unseparated fermented rice mash; cloudy nigori sake undergoes coarse separation." }, { "name": "Ethanol", "difference": "Ethanol is one chemical constituent; sake is a variable mixture and has no single molecular formula or substance-wide CAS identity." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of sake this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does the registry intend the narrow brewed-beverage sense of sake, and how should non-Japanese products and neighbouring rice-fermentation traditions be bounded?", "Which authoritative, current rules define the relevant style terms and geographic claims in each intended market?", "Which analytical methods and reporting conventions should be required to compare Nihonshudo and acidity across producers?", "What producer-specific evidence supports storage and post-opening guidance for pasteurised, unpasteurised, cloudy and sparkling sake?", "Which documented observations can distinguish intentional maturation from quality defects, and which condition decisions require laboratory or producer assessment?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 19, "questions": 29 } }, "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 sake, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an agent to recognise sake, assess a particular batch or bottle, and determine suitable storage, service and culinary uses from its identity, composition and condition.", "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: toso, Toyobijin, One Cup Ozeki, Kudarizake, akumochizake, Rashōmon, Daiginjo, uka, Doburoku, sake in Korea, Saijo Sake, miki.", "16 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 84 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 sake, 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": [ "toso", "Toyobijin", "One Cup Ozeki", "Kudarizake", "akumochizake", "Rashōmon", "Daiginjo", "uka", "Doburoku", "sake in Korea", "Saijo Sake", "miki" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 84 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 16 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 sake from another, and a sake 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 sake, 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 sake, 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 sake 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 sake, 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 sake, 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 sake 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 sake 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 sake, 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 sake, 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 sake 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 sake from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a sake, 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 sake, 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 sake 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 sake 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 sake, 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 sake, 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 sake 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 sake is built from and which parts are replaceable.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a sake, 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 sake, 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 sake 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 sake is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a sake, 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 sake, 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 sake 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 sake 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 sake is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a sake, 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 sake, 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 sake 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 sake 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 sake, 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 sake, 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 sake 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 sake 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 sake between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a sake, 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 sake, 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 sake 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 sake, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a sake 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 sake, 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 sake, 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 sake 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 sake 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 sake is for, and what it is used for anyway.", "findings": [ { "id": "function-and-purpose", "name": "Function, purpose and misuse", "description": "The function a sake performs and the uses that fall outside it.", "questions": [ { "id": "function-and-purpose-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the use of a sake, 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 sake, 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 sake 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 sake.", "findings": [ { "id": "procedures-and-skills", "name": "Procedures, skills and required tools", "description": "What an agent needs before it can act on a sake at all.", "questions": [ { "id": "procedures-and-skills-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes handling a sake, 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 sake, 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 sake 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 sake there is and how fast it goes.", "questions": [ { "id": "consumption-and-stock-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the supply of a sake, 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 sake, 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 sake 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 sake 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 sake 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 sake 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 sake 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 sake, 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 sake 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 sake 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 sake 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 sake, 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 sake 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 sake and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a sake, 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 sake, 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 sake 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 sake is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a sake, 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 sake, 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 sake 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 } } } }