{ "model": { "rank": 3490, "code": "thing-q170662", "model_id": "vr.tr.garcinia-mangostana", "name": "Garcinia mangostana", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise Garcinia mangostana, assess a particular tree or population, and choose evidence-supported cultivation, propagation or conservation actions.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.LIV", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q170662/", "tier": 2, "score": 85, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [], "aliasCount": 0, "merged": 0, "knownIn": 85, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q170662", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q170662", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T14:54:05Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 28.3, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.3\n--------\nworkdir: R:\\02_PROJECTS\\02_Meta_Models_Platforms\\Ver.cy\\current\\thing-registry-backlog\nmodel: gpt-6-astra\nprovider: openai\napproval: never\nsandbox: read-only\nreasoning effort: none\nreasoning summaries: none\nsession id: 01a07c5b-24a7-7e20-a63e-2e66d87bf7db\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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[PROSEA](https://prosea.prota4u.org/view.aspx?id=1509)", "Corroborate fruit evidence with opposite leathery leaves and yellow latex observed at existing injuries; these vegetative traits alone do not distinguish all Garcinia species. [PROSEA](https://prosea.prota4u.org/view.aspx?id=1509)", "Require an identification tied to Garcinia mangostana L., published in 1753, rather than accepting the common name mangosteen as decisive. [Kew POWO](https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:428073-1)", "When comparing material labelled G. malaccensis or G. hombroniana, require an explicit taxonomic treatment and specimen evidence rather than treating resemblance or proposed ancestry as synonymy.", "Distinguish an identified living tree from a fruit lot, extract or product labelled Garcinia; product naming does not establish the identity or condition of its source organism." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Taxon determination", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Accepted name, authority, family, taxonomic treatment and determination confidence", "why_it_matters": "Makes species membership reviewable when names or circumscriptions differ." }, { "name": "Registry and taxonomy links", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "vr.tr.garcinia-mangostana; verified POWO, GBIF and NCBI records with retrieval dates", "why_it_matters": "Connects observations to the same taxon without assuming every database uses identical boundaries." }, { "name": "Biological subject", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Species concept; population; individual tree; attached organ", "why_it_matters": "Prevents conservation assessments, tree symptoms and fruit observations from being conflated." }, { "name": "Developmental stage", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Germinating propagule; seedling; juvenile; reproductively mature; senescent; dead", "why_it_matters": "Interprets growth and reproductive absence in relation to development." }, { "name": "Reproductive expression", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Observed flower structures, demonstrated fertility and seed-development evidence; unknown permitted", "why_it_matters": "Separates observed reproductive function from inherited labels about sex or apomixis." }, { "name": "Propagation lineage", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Maternal tree; propagule lot; propagation method; scion and rootstock identities if applicable", "why_it_matters": "Supports traceability without assuming seed origin proves genetic independence." }, { "name": "Growth trajectory", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Height in m; stem diameter in mm at a stated position; dated shoot-flush observations", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes sustained development from stagnation or decline." }, { "name": "Root-zone and exposure conditions", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Soil moisture with method; drainage observations; temperature in °C; relative humidity in %; light exposure with method", "why_it_matters": "Provides evidence for adjusting the growing environment." }, { "name": "Occurrence provenance", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Cultivated; escaped; naturalised; putatively wild; unresolved, with location and evidence", "why_it_matters": "Keeps planting distribution distinct from native-range evidence." }, { "name": "Attached-fruit condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Developmental stage; colour reference; intact or injured; exudate observations; sampling date", "why_it_matters": "Supports harvest decisions and investigation of fruit disorders." }, { "name": "Conservation assessment", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Assessment body, taxon scope, category, assessment year and geographic scope; unverified permitted", "why_it_matters": "Prevents crop abundance or a local listing from being mistaken for a global species assessment." } ], "affordances": [ "Identify a candidate tree using reproductive and vegetative evidence, escalating ambiguous material for botanical determination.", "Track a tree from propagation through maturity using dated observations and maternal or graft lineage.", "Compare site conditions and tree responses to justify adjustments to shade, watering or establishment practice.", "Monitor flowering and attached fruit to select a locally supported harvest window.", "Investigate decline or fruit injury by separating symptoms, candidate causes and confirmed diagnoses.", "Evaluate whether a collection or population contributes documented provenance and diversity to conservation." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "taxon-and-recognition", "name": "Taxon and recognition", "description": "Establish what the registry name denotes and whether observed material belongs to it.", "rationale": "Common names, related Garcinia taxa and cultivated forms can otherwise be merged without evidence.", "layers": [ { "id": "accepted-name-and-circumscription", "name": "Accepted name and circumscription", "description": "Anchor identification to an explicit botanical treatment.", "findings": [ { "id": "botanical-name-anchor", "name": "Botanical name anchor", "description": "Kew accepts Garcinia mangostana L.; the name was published in 1753. Record the treatment used for family placement and included subordinate taxa. [Kew POWO](https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:428073-1)", "questions": [ { "text": "Which accepted treatment defines Garcinia mangostana, its family placement and included varieties for this determination?", "kind": "definition", "id": "botanical-name-anchor-q01" }, { "text": "Which verified GBIF and NCBI identifiers correspond to that treatment, and when were they checked?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "botanical-name-anchor-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "specimen-recognition", "name": "Specimen recognition", "description": "Evaluate a combination of characters rather than a label or single trait.", "findings": [ { "id": "diagnostic-evidence-set", "name": "Diagnostic evidence set", "description": "Link identification to photographs, measurements or a voucher covering available leaves, flowers and fruit.", "questions": [ { "text": "Do fruit, calyx, stigma and leaf observations jointly support the proposed identification?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "diagnostic-evidence-set-q01" }, { "text": "Which related Garcinia taxa remain plausible, and what additional character would discriminate them?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "diagnostic-evidence-set-q02" }, { "text": "Who determined the material, using which key or reference specimen?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "diagnostic-evidence-set-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "development-and-reproduction", "name": "Development and reproduction", "description": "Track establishment, maturity and observed reproductive function.", "rationale": "A juvenile tree and a mature non-fruiting tree require different interpretations, while reproductive labels need specimen-level evidence.", "layers": [ { "id": "juvenility-and-growth", "name": "Juvenility and growth", "description": "Separate chronological age from observed developmental progress.", "findings": [ { "id": "developmental-history", "name": "Developmental history", "description": "Record establishment date, propagation method, shoot development and first flowering instead of assigning maturity solely from age.", "questions": [ { "text": "What dated evidence establishes germination, planting and first flowering?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "developmental-history-q01" }, { "text": "How have height, stem diameter and shoot flushes changed under the recorded growing conditions?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "developmental-history-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "flower-function-and-seed-origin", "name": "Flower function and seed origin", "description": "Distinguish floral appearance, reproductive function and embryo origin.", "findings": [ { "id": "reproductive-evidence", "name": "Reproductive evidence", "description": "Apomictic reproduction is reported for cultivated mangosteen; establish the applicability of that account to the material being modelled. [PROSEA](https://prosea.prota4u.org/view.aspx?id=1509)", "questions": [ { "text": "Which functional floral structures and any sex-associated morphological differences have actually been observed?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "reproductive-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence distinguishes apomictic embryo formation from sexual reproduction in this accession?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "reproductive-evidence-q02" }, { "text": "Does the reproductive claim concern cultivated material, a named variety or the entire species circumscription?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "reproductive-evidence-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "range-habitat-and-establishment", "name": "Range, habitat and establishment", "description": "Connect occurrence provenance with conditions experienced by living trees.", "rationale": "Cultivation records cannot independently establish native range or demonstrate that a planting site is suitable.", "layers": [ { "id": "occurrence-and-origin", "name": "Occurrence and origin", "description": "Separate geographic presence from evidence of wild origin.", "findings": [ { "id": "wild-versus-planted-occurrence", "name": "Wild versus planted occurrence", "description": "Require evidence for native, naturalised or cultivated status at each location.", "questions": [ { "text": "What collection notes, planting history or field evidence establish this occurrence's status?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "wild-versus-planted-occurrence-q01" }, { "text": "Does a proposed native-range statement refer to the same taxonomic circumscription as this model?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "wild-versus-planted-occurrence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "site-exposure-and-root-zone", "name": "Site exposure and root zone", "description": "Assess conditions at the tree rather than relying only on regional climate labels.", "findings": [ { "id": "establishment-conditions", "name": "Establishment conditions", "description": "Monitor water supply, drainage and exposure together; horticultural accounts emphasise humid tropical conditions and protection during establishment. [PROSEA](https://prosea.prota4u.org/view.aspx?id=1509)", "questions": [ { "text": "What temperature, moisture, drainage and light conditions coincide with successful or stalled establishment?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "establishment-conditions-q01" }, { "text": "Which locally supported adjustment to shade, watering or drainage is justified by the tree's observed response?", "kind": "action", "id": "establishment-conditions-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "propagation-and-living-diversity", "name": "Propagation and living diversity", "description": "Preserve establishment history and distinguish tree counts from represented diversity.", "rationale": "Propagation decisions affect survival, while maternal relationships and reproductive mode affect interpretation of collections.", "layers": [ { "id": "propagule-handling", "name": "Propagule handling", "description": "Track the interval and conditions between fruit collection and successful establishment.", "findings": [ { "id": "propagule-viability", "name": "Propagule viability", "description": "Mangosteen planting seeds are described as short-lived; record handling conditions and measured germination rather than assuming stored material remains viable. [PROSEA](https://prosea.prota4u.org/view.aspx?id=1509)", "questions": [ { "text": "When was the fruit collected, when was the seed extracted and sown, and how was it held between those events?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "propagule-viability-q01" }, { "text": "What fraction germinated and survived establishment, with what sample size and observation period?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "propagule-viability-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "lineage-and-conservation", "name": "Lineage and conservation", "description": "Relate accessions to maternal sources, genetic evidence and applicable conservation assessments.", "findings": [ { "id": "represented-diversity", "name": "Represented diversity", "description": "Keep accession number, maternal lineage and demonstrated genetic distinctness separate, and attach conservation claims to a dated assessment.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which trees share a documented maternal source, and which have independent evidence of genetic distinctness?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "represented-diversity-q01" }, { "text": "Which IUCN or regional assessment applies, with what year, geographic scope and taxonomic coverage?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "represented-diversity-q02" }, { "text": "Which additional provenance would improve conservation representation rather than simply increase tree numbers?", "kind": "action", "id": "represented-diversity-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "tree-condition-and-fruit-development", "name": "Tree condition and fruit development", "description": "Interpret tree symptoms and attached fruit while preserving the boundary with harvested products.", "rationale": "Visible injury, fruit maturation and harvest readiness require different evidence and actions.", "layers": [ { "id": "symptoms-and-causal-evidence", "name": "Symptoms and causal evidence", "description": "Record affected tissues and competing explanations before selecting an intervention.", "findings": [ { "id": "decline-and-exudate-investigation", "name": "Decline and exudate investigation", "description": "Describe leaf, root and fruit symptoms separately; yellow exudate or poor growth alone should not establish a pathogen diagnosis.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which organs are affected, how extensive are symptoms, and when did they begin?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "decline-and-exudate-investigation-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence separates physical injury, water stress and biological damage in this case?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "decline-and-exudate-investigation-q02" }, { "text": "Which inspection or diagnostic sample would resolve the uncertainty before treatment?", "kind": "action", "id": "decline-and-exudate-investigation-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "fruit-maturity-and-harvest-handoff", "name": "Fruit maturity and harvest handoff", "description": "Connect attached-fruit observations to a documented harvest decision.", "findings": [ { "id": "harvest-readiness", "name": "Harvest readiness", "description": "Use a locally validated maturity reference and retain source-tree identity when fruit becomes a harvested lot.", "questions": [ { "text": "What flowering date, colour stage and sampled fruit condition support the maturity judgement?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "harvest-readiness-q01" }, { "text": "What harvest timing and handling method are supported for this tree and intended destination?", "kind": "action", "id": "harvest-readiness-q02" }, { "text": "At detachment, which source-tree, harvest-time and condition records pass to the fruit-product model?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "harvest-readiness-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Verify the current taxonomic treatment, exact GBIF and NCBI identifiers, and any IUCN assessment category and year; none is asserted here.", "Native range, domestication history, and relationships to closely related Garcinia taxa require specialist checking.", "Reproduction is commonly described as predominantly apomictic; sexual expression and any named cultivar distinctions should be checked before adding detail." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of Garcinia mangostana 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": "Botanical scientific name under the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants", "value_or_pattern": "Garcinia mangostana L.", "note": "The authority abbreviation L. denotes Linnaeus; the name was published in 1753." }, { "scheme": "GBIF taxon key", "value_or_pattern": "Numeric taxon identifier", "note": "The species identifier requires verification." }, { "scheme": "NCBI Taxonomy", "value_or_pattern": "Numeric TaxID", "note": "The species identifier requires verification." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of Garcinia mangostana 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": [ "The International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants, adopted through International Botanical Congresses, governs the scientific name." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of Garcinia mangostana 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": [ "Cultivated as a tropical fruit crop for fresh consumption.", "Edible fruit segments are processed into preserved and frozen products.", "Rind constituents, including xanthones, are studied in phytochemical research." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Garcinia mangostana 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": "Mature tree height", "typical_range": "6-25", "unit": "m" }, { "quantity": "Fruit diameter", "typical_range": "4-8", "unit": "cm" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of Garcinia mangostana 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": [ "Cold and frost can severely damage this tropical tree.", "Water stress and poor drainage can impair establishment and production.", "Harvesting and handling damage can reduce fruit quality and storage life.", "Rind hardening and internal flesh disorders can make apparently intact fruit unsuitable for consumption." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Garcinia mangostana 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": [ "Cultivation is especially associated with humid tropical Southeast Asia and also occurs in other tropical regions.", "The precise native range is difficult to separate from the effects of long cultivation and movement by people." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of Garcinia mangostana 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": "Garcinia", "difference": "Garcinia is the genus containing this species and numerous other species." }, { "name": "Mangosteen fruit", "difference": "The fruit is a reproductive structure and food product of the tree; Garcinia mangostana denotes the species." }, { "name": "Garcinia mangostana population", "difference": "A population consists of individuals in a particular area; the species encompasses populations across its distribution." }, { "name": "Garcinia mangostana individual", "difference": "An individual is one tree with its own age and condition; the taxon is the species to which that tree belongs." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of Garcinia mangostana this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Which current taxonomic treatment should govern the boundary between cultivated mangosteen and material named G. malaccensis or subordinate varieties, and what GBIF and NCBI records match it?", "What native range can be supported independently of historical cultivation, and which purported wild populations have adequate provenance?", "Is there an applicable global IUCN assessment, and what are its category, assessment year and precise taxonomic scope?", "How do reproductive mode, functional male flowers, sexual dimorphism and genetic diversity vary across the included cultivated and wild material?", "Which locally validated establishment conditions, propagule-handling limits and maturity indicators support decisions for the accession and growing region concerned?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 18, "questions": 33 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "organism", "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 Garcinia mangostana, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an agent to recognise Garcinia mangostana, assess a particular tree or population, and choose evidence-supported cultivation, propagation or conservation actions.", "characteristics": { "substance": "living", "origin": "natural", "agency": "autonomous", "mobility": "self-moving" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Described in 85 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 Garcinia mangostana, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "a living thing", "physicalCharacter": [ "Moves under its own power or of its own accord.", "Acts on its own behalf.", "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 diagnostic characters, and those differ by life stage - the young of many kinds are mistaken for other kinds entirely. A sighting is settled by characters, a photograph and a place, not by a name alone." ], "relatedModels": [], "standing": "Described in 85 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one Garcinia mangostana from another, and a Garcinia mangostana 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 Garcinia mangostana, 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 Garcinia mangostana, 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 Garcinia mangostana 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 Garcinia mangostana, 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 Garcinia mangostana, 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 Garcinia mangostana 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 Garcinia mangostana 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 Garcinia mangostana, 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 Garcinia mangostana, 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 Garcinia mangostana 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 Garcinia mangostana from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Garcinia mangostana, 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 Garcinia mangostana, 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 Garcinia mangostana 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 Garcinia mangostana 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 Garcinia mangostana, 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 Garcinia mangostana, 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 Garcinia mangostana 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": "Anatomy, parts and life stage.", "findings": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials", "name": "Parts and life stages", "description": "The parts of a Garcinia mangostana and the stages it passes through.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a Garcinia mangostana, 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 Garcinia mangostana, 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 Garcinia mangostana 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 Garcinia mangostana is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a Garcinia mangostana, 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 Garcinia mangostana, 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 Garcinia mangostana 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 Garcinia mangostana is, how it got there and where it may go (self-moving).", "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 Garcinia mangostana is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a Garcinia mangostana, 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 Garcinia mangostana, 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 Garcinia mangostana 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 Garcinia mangostana moves on its own.", "findings": [ { "id": "movement-events", "name": "Movement events and constraints", "description": "What counts as a movement, what 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what asserted this about an observation of a Garcinia mangostana, 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 Garcinia mangostana is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "taxonomic-placement", "name": "Taxonomic placement and identification", "description": "What Garcinia mangostana is called scientifically, by whose authority, and how a specimen is recognised.", "rationale": "Names change with revisions while the organism does not, so a name without its authority and date cannot be reconciled later.", "layers": [ { "id": "accepted-name", "name": "Accepted name and synonymy", "description": "The current binomial, its author and date, and the names it replaced.", 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characters distinguish Garcinia mangostana from its closest look-alikes, and at which life stage are they visible?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "diagnostic-characters-q02", "text": "What evidence is enough to record an identification as confirmed rather than provisional?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "life-cycle-and-condition", "name": "Life stages, condition and behaviour", "description": "What Garcinia mangostana does over its life and how its state is judged.", "rationale": "Stage and condition change what may be done - handled, treated, harvested, left alone - and both are observations with a time.", "layers": [ { "id": "stages-and-reproduction", "name": "Stages and reproduction", "description": "Development from origin to death, including forms that look like different animals.", "findings": [ { "id": "life-stages", "name": "Life stages and their marks", "description": "The stages worth recording and what tells them apart.", "questions": [ { "id": "life-stages-q01", "text": "What stages does Garcinia mangostana pass through, and what observable change marks each transition?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "life-stages-q02", "text": "Which stages are so unlike the adult that they are mistaken for another kind?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "health-and-condition", "name": "Health and condition", "description": "How condition is assessed and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "condition-assessment", "name": "Condition assessment", "description": "Signs of health, injury and stress, and who is competent to judge them.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "How is the condition of Garcinia mangostana judged, on what scale, and by whom?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "condition-assessment-q02", "text": "What condition obliges an agent to act, and what act is permitted to whom?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "range-and-status", "name": "Habitat, range and conservation status", "description": "Where Garcinia mangostana lives and how threatened it is.", "rationale": "Range and status govern what is lawful, and both are assessments with an assessor and a year rather than facts of nature.", "layers": [ { "id": "habitat-and-range", "name": "Habitat and range", "description": "Native range, introductions and the habitat it needs.", "findings": [ { "id": "range-record", "name": "Range, introductions and habitat", "description": "What to record about where it is found and how it got there.", "questions": [ { "id": "range-record-q01", "text": "What is the native range of Garcinia mangostana, where has it been introduced, and what habitat does it require?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "range-record-q02", "text": "What distinguishes a native record from an introduced or vagrant one?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "protection-status", "name": "Protection and legal status", "description": "Conservation assessments and the rules that follow from them.", "findings": [ { "id": "status-and-rules", "name": "Conservation status and legal consequence", "description": "The assessment, its date, and what it forbids or requires where.", "questions": [ { "id": "status-and-rules-q01", "text": "What conservation status does Garcinia mangostana hold, under which assessment and year?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "status-and-rules-q02", "text": "What does that status forbid or require of an agent, and in which jurisdiction?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a Garcinia mangostana 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 Garcinia mangostana and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Garcinia mangostana, 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 Garcinia mangostana, 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 Garcinia mangostana is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "time-and-versions", 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