{ "model": { "rank": 6037, "code": "thing-q17136949", "model_id": "vr.tr.saccharum", "name": "Saccharum", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to identify Saccharum plants, assess their biological condition and determine evidence-supported options for cultivation, propagation, harvest or containment.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.LIV", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q17136949/", "tier": 2, "score": 63, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [], "aliasCount": 0, "merged": 0, "knownIn": 63, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q17136949", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17136949", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T11:05:26Z", "providers": [ "Codex", "Grok" ], "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "usd": 0.00711858, "turns": 1, "seconds": 45.5, "error": null }, "codex": { "seconds": 88.8, "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: 01a07b8a-0625-7760-97f7-fe873d0afffb\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. 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Botanical basis: [Kew genus description](https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn%3Alsid%3Aipni.org%3Anames%3A330004-2/general-information).", "For a plant labelled sugarcane, verify accession or cultivar evidence before assigning S. officinarum; commercial sugarcane includes complex hybrids. Basis: [FAO herbaceous crops](https://www.fao.org/4/i2800e/i2800e07.pdf).", "Separate a living Saccharum plant or viable propagation piece from extracted sugar or juice by recording retained botanical structures and evidence of viability; the product name alone does not establish organism identity." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Taxonomic determination", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Saccharum confirmed; Saccharum provisional; unresolved grass; excluded, with species or hybrid designation where supported", "why_it_matters": "Controls whether this model applies and which narrower expectations are justified." }, { "name": "Accession and clone lineage", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Links to voucher, accession, cultivar record, parent material and propagation events", "why_it_matters": "Preserves identity through vegetative multiplication without treating a label as proof." }, { "name": "Observed biological unit", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Rooted shoot; clump or stool; connected patch; seedling; stem cutting; sampled tissue", "why_it_matters": "Prevents one shoot's measurements from being attributed to an entire clone or stand." }, { "name": "Diagnostic morphology", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Observed culm, leaf sheath, ligule, panicle, spikelet and below-ground characters; absent or unobserved distinguished", "why_it_matters": "Supports identification when common names and vegetative appearance are ambiguous." }, { "name": "Culm dimensions", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Height in m, diameter and internode length in mm, with culm position and sampling method", "why_it_matters": "Supports growth assessment and comparison against the identified material's expected form." }, { "name": "Development and cutting history", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Establishing; tillering; elongating; flowering; senescing; regrowing after cutting, with dated events", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes normal developmental changes from impaired growth." }, { "name": "Bud and stool viability", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Untested; apparently viable; sprouting; failed to sprout under stated conditions; dead", "why_it_matters": "Supports propagation and regrowth decisions while preserving uncertainty." }, { "name": "Juice soluble solids", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Degrees Brix, with sampling position, date and measurement method; not applicable where unsampled", "why_it_matters": "Contributes to cultivated cane quality assessment without equating soluble solids with sucrose or genus identity." }, { "name": "Damage and diagnostic status", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Symptoms, affected tissue, severity, distribution and suspected or confirmed cause", "why_it_matters": "Separates visible injury from an established diagnosis before intervention or material movement." }, { "name": "Growing conditions", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Root-zone moisture by stated method, temperature in degrees C and salinity as electrical conductivity in dS/m", "why_it_matters": "Provides context for stress assessment using taxon- and site-specific interpretation." }, { "name": "Spread beyond the intended boundary", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Unassessed; none detected by stated survey; vegetative extension observed; seedlings observed; origin unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Supports containment decisions without assuming every Saccharum population behaves alike." } ], "affordances": [ "Identify or provisionally classify a specimen using diagnostic observations, a suitable key and accession evidence.", "Monitor culm development, stool survival and regrowth after cutting.", "Select and trace propagation material when identity, viability and health evidence support its use.", "Assess cultivated cane for a stated harvest purpose using appropriate maturity and quality measurements.", "Investigate stress or disease symptoms and select a response supported by diagnosis and growing conditions.", "Survey and manage spread where local evidence establishes a containment need." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "src-kew-powo", "title": "Saccharum L.", "url": "https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:30001234-2", "what_it_supports": "Accepted generic placement in Poaceae and the current Kew Plants of the World Online treatment of the genus.", "url_status": "blocked" }, { "id": "src-fao-sugarcane", "title": "Sugarcane production", "url": "https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/QCL", "what_it_supports": "Real-world agricultural use as the dominant sucrose crop and the scale of commercial production.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "src-grincirad", "title": "The origin of the Saccharum complex and the genus Saccharum", "url": "https://www.cirad.fr/", "what_it_supports": "The Saccharum complex, noble/wild/hybrid kinds distinguished by breeders, and the role of interspecific hybridisation in modern cane.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "src-codex-sugar", "title": "Codex Standard for Sugars (CXS 212-1999)", "url": "https://www.fao.org/fao-who-codexalimentarius/sh-proxy/en/?lnk=1&url=https%253A%252F%252Fworkspace.fao.org%252Fsites%252Fcodex%252FStandards%252FCXS%2B212-1999%252FCXS_212e.pdf", "what_it_supports": "Food-standard identity of cane sugar derived from Saccharum as a regulated commodity.", "url_status": "blocked" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "saccharum-identity", "name": "Saccharum identity", "description": "Establish whether the observed material belongs to Saccharum and how narrowly it can be named.", "rationale": "Common cane names and cultivated hybrid identities do not reliably establish species membership.", "layers": [ { "id": "genus-recognition", "name": "Genus recognition", "description": "Evaluate botanical evidence against plausible grass lookalikes.", "findings": [ { "id": "diagnostic-character-combination", "name": "Diagnostic character combination", "description": "Record observed diagnostic structures and the determination they support, retaining provisional identity when necessary structures are unavailable.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which culm, ligule, panicle and spikelet characters support Saccharum under the selected botanical key?", "kind": "definition", "id": "diagnostic-character-combination-q01" }, { "text": "Which related grasses or other plants called cane remain plausible, and what observation would distinguish them?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "diagnostic-character-combination-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "species-and-cultivar-attribution", "name": "Species and cultivar attribution", "description": "Separate observed identity from accession labels and asserted ancestry.", "findings": [ { "id": "supported-taxonomic-resolution", "name": "Supported taxonomic resolution", "description": "Retain the most specific defensible determination together with the evidence and taxonomic authority used.", "questions": [ { "text": "What voucher, accession record or expert determination supports the species, cultivar or hybrid designation?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "supported-taxonomic-resolution-q01" }, { "text": "Does the evidence justify a species assignment, or only Saccharum with unresolved ancestry?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "supported-taxonomic-resolution-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "culm-stool-and-clone", "name": "Culm, stool and clone", "description": "Establish the biological unit being observed and the continuity of propagated material.", "rationale": "Shoots, stools and clonally related plants require different interpretations of counts, survival and identity.", "layers": [ { "id": "observation-unit", "name": "Observation unit", "description": "Bound the shoot, clump or patch to which observations apply.", "findings": [ { "id": "shoot-and-clump-boundaries", "name": "Shoot and clump boundaries", "description": "Distinguish counted culms from rooted units and avoid inferring genetic independence from spatial separation.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is the observed unit one culm, a stool, a connected patch or a sampling area containing multiple plants?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "shoot-and-clump-boundaries-q01" }, { "text": "How many live and dead culms occur within that unit, and how was its boundary established?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "shoot-and-clump-boundaries-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "propagation-continuity", "name": "Propagation continuity", "description": "Track the origin and observed performance of material used to establish plants.", "findings": [ { "id": "traceable-viable-material", "name": "Traceable viable material", "description": "Connect a cutting, seedling or other propagule to its source and distinguish expected viability from demonstrated establishment.", "questions": [ { "text": "From which identified parent material did this propagule originate, and by what method?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "traceable-viable-material-q01" }, { "text": "What observations or tests support using this material for propagation at the intended destination?", "kind": "action", "id": "traceable-viable-material-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "development-and-regrowth", "name": "Development and regrowth", "description": "Interpret changing culm condition in relation to establishment, flowering and cutting history.", "rationale": "A cut stool, elongating culm and senescing shoot can have very different prospects despite similar visible biomass.", "layers": [ { "id": "culm-development", "name": "Culm development", "description": "Record developmental stage and growth at a defined sampling scale.", "findings": [ { "id": "dated-developmental-state", "name": "Dated developmental state", "description": "Assess stage from observed growth and reproductive structures rather than age alone.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence places the observed culms in establishment, tillering, elongation, flowering or senescence?", "kind": "definition", "id": "dated-developmental-state-q01" }, { "text": "How have culm height, diameter, live leaf condition and flowering frequency changed between dated observations?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "dated-developmental-state-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "post-cutting-recovery", "name": "Post-cutting recovery", "description": "Assess surviving stools and subsequent growth after stalk removal.", "findings": [ { "id": "ratoon-performance", "name": "Ratoon performance", "description": "Record cutting history and actual recovery rather than assuming a surviving stool will produce an adequate subsequent crop.", "questions": [ { "text": "When and how was the cane cut, and how many previous regrowth cycles are documented?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "ratoon-performance-q01" }, { "text": "Do stool survival, new shoot establishment and gap observations support retaining the regrowth or re-establishing plants?", "kind": "action", "id": "ratoon-performance-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "growing-conditions-and-health", "name": "Growing conditions and health", "description": "Relate Saccharum condition to environmental exposure, structural damage and diagnostic evidence.", "rationale": "Poor growth or damaged cane cannot support a sound intervention until exposure and biological causes are distinguished.", "layers": [ { "id": "site-response", "name": "Site response", "description": "Evaluate the plant's response to its actual root-zone and weather conditions.", "findings": [ { "id": "exposure-linked-stress", "name": "Exposure-linked stress", "description": "Record environmental measurements alongside dated symptoms without assigning universal tolerances to the genus.", "questions": [ { "text": "What moisture, drainage, temperature or salinity exposures coincide with reduced growth or tissue injury?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "exposure-linked-stress-q01" }, { "text": "Which evidence specific to this taxon or cultivar supports changing the growing conditions?", "kind": "action", "id": "exposure-linked-stress-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "tissue-damage-and-diagnosis", "name": "Tissue damage and diagnosis", "description": "Separate symptoms and structural impairment from confirmed causal agents.", "findings": [ { "id": "diagnostic-confidence", "name": "Diagnostic confidence", "description": "Record affected leaves, culms, buds or roots, symptom distribution and the evidence needed for treatment or propagation decisions.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which tissues show discoloration, lesions, boring, rot, breakage or lodging, and how extensive is the damage?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "diagnostic-confidence-q01" }, { "text": "What examination or laboratory result supports the proposed cause, and what alternatives remain?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "diagnostic-confidence-q02" }, { "text": "Does the available diagnosis support treatment, removal or withholding affected material from propagation?", "kind": "action", "id": "diagnostic-confidence-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "use-readiness-and-spread", "name": "Use readiness and spread", "description": "Assess purpose-specific removal or retention of cane and its persistence outside intended boundaries.", "rationale": "Cultivated cane quality and unwanted establishment lead to different actions and cannot be inferred from genus identity alone.", "layers": [ { "id": "harvest-suitability", "name": "Harvest suitability", "description": "Evaluate standing or freshly sampled cane for a declared use.", "findings": [ { "id": "purpose-specific-cane-quality", "name": "Purpose-specific cane quality", "description": "Connect representative measurements to the intended harvest purpose while distinguishing soluble solids, sucrose and usable biomass.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is the intended harvest for sugar extraction, biomass or another specified use, and which plant-level criteria apply?", "kind": "definition", "id": "purpose-specific-cane-quality-q01" }, { "text": "What representative measurements of cane quantity, juice quality or tissue condition support readiness for that use?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "purpose-specific-cane-quality-q02" }, { "text": "Do those measurements justify harvesting now, resampling later or excluding affected cane?", "kind": "action", "id": "purpose-specific-cane-quality-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "persistence-and-escape", "name": "Persistence and escape", "description": "Determine whether Saccharum is establishing or surviving where its presence is unintended.", "findings": [ { "id": "observed-spread-pathway", "name": "Observed spread pathway", "description": "Distinguish vegetative extension, establishment from moved material and possible seed recruitment using local observations.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence identifies new growth beyond the intended boundary as connected regrowth, introduced propagules or seedlings?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "observed-spread-pathway-q01" }, { "text": "What containment or follow-up survey is justified by the observed pathway and the site's management requirements?", "kind": "action", "id": "observed-spread-pathway-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-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Saccharum officinarum (noble cane)", "Saccharum spontaneum (wild cane)", "Saccharum robustum", "Saccharum barberi (north Indian cane)", "Saccharum sinense (Chinese cane)", "modern commercial hybrids (Saccharum spp. hybrid)", "Saccharum edule (edible inflorescence / pitpit)", "energy / biomass canes" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of Saccharum this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "Wikidata", "value_or_pattern": "Q161372", "note": "item for the genus Saccharum" }, { "scheme": "IPNI / POWO", "value_or_pattern": "urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:30001234-2", "note": "generic name Saccharum L." }, { "scheme": "GRIN / USDA taxonomy", "value_or_pattern": "genus Saccharum L. (Poaceae)", "note": "crop-genebank treatment of the sugarcane complex" }, { "scheme": "HS / customs", "value_or_pattern": "1212.93 (sugar cane, fresh, frozen or dried); 1701 (cane or beet sugar)", "note": "traded plant vs refined sucrose, not a taxon code" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of Saccharum this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation", "name": "Standards and regulation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Codex Alimentarius CXS 212-1999 (Sugars) - FAO/WHO Codex Alimentarius Commission", "ISPM 15 / plant-health rules for sugarcane planting material - IPPC / national NPPO (e.g. APHIS, DAFF)", "ICUMSA methods for polarimetric sucrose in cane juice and raw sugar - International Commission for Uniform Methods of Sugar Analysis", "National variety-release and quarantine schemes for Saccharum hybrids (e.g. ISSCT, national sugar institutes)" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of Saccharum this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Commercial sugarcane plantations for millable stalks crushed to sucrose, molasses and bagasse", "Chewing / juice cane sold fresh in markets (noble and hybrid clones)", "Breeding and germplasm collections (Saccharum complex plus Erianthus, Miscanthus relatives)", "Energy cane and bagasse for co-generation, ethanol and cellulosic biomass", "S. edule inflorescences eaten as a vegetable in Melanesia (pitpit)" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Saccharum this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "stalk sucrose content (commercial cane)", "typical_range": "10-18 (noble/hybrid mill cane; juice Brix often ~15-22)", "unit": "% fresh weight / °Brix" }, { "quantity": "chromosome number (basic x = 10)", "typical_range": "S. officinarum typically 2n = 80; S. spontaneum 2n = 40-128; commercial hybrids often ~100-130", "unit": "2n count" }, { "quantity": "crop cycle to harvest", "typical_range": "9-24 (plant cane; ratoons shorter in tropics)", "unit": "months" }, { "quantity": "millable cane yield", "typical_range": "50-150 (commercial; irrigated high-input higher)", "unit": "t ha⁻¹" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of Saccharum this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Ratoon stunting disease (Leifsonia xyli), smut (Sporisorium scitamineum), rusts and mosaic viruses collapsing yield", "Red rot and other stalk rots destroying millable cane", "Fire, lodging and drought in rainfed plantings", "Invasive S. spontaneum on riverbanks and disturbed land", "Labour and mill hazards ( mill explosions, bagasse dust, harvest burns) and land-use conversion" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Saccharum this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "India and China historically distinguished S. barberi and S. sinense as local cultivated groups; modern industry treats them as hybrid/introgressed forms", "Noble canes (S. officinarum) remain chewing canes in the Pacific and Caribbean; commercial milling cane is almost entirely interspecific hybrids", "Energy-cane programmes (Brazil, USA, India) select high-fibre low-sucrose types distinct from sugar cultivars", "Vernacular 'sugarcane' vs local names (ganna, canne à sucre, caña, tebu) collapse several taxa into one crop" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of Saccharum this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Erianthus / Saccharum arundinaceum (and related 'Erianthus' canes)", "difference": "Usually distinguished by inflorescence and awn characters, higher fibre/lower sucrose, and molecular markers; often used as a related breeding pool rather than mill cane" }, { "name": "Miscanthus", "difference": "Rhizomatous ornamental/energy grass; spikelets and rachis morphology and typically no millable sucrose stalk" }, { "name": "Sorghum bicolor (sweet sorghum)", "difference": "Annual or short-cycle sorghum with a terminal panicle, not a multi-year ratooning Saccharum stool; juice sugar is similar in use but botanically distinct" }, { "name": "Beta vulgaris (sugar beet)", "difference": "Dicots storing sucrose in a taproot; same commodity (sucrose) but unrelated crop, different HS heading when unprocessed" }, { "name": "Phragmites / Arundo (reeds)", "difference": "Wetland reeds without the Saccharum complex chromosome and sucrose-stalk syndrome; vegetative look-alikes at a distance" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of Saccharum this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does vr.tr.saccharum intend the botanical genus, cultivated sugarcane specifically or another meaning, given the missing registry definition?", "Which taxonomic authority and regional keys should govern genus boundaries, species names and cultivated hybrid designations?", "Which measurements and thresholds are validated for the actual species, cultivars, climates and harvest purposes represented in the registry?", "Which locally relevant diseases, propagule tests and movement requirements must be resolved before propagation actions can be recommended?", "How should the model establish clone boundaries and assess reproductive or vegetative spread for the particular wild and cultivated material encountered?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 18, "questions": 30 } }, "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. 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Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.", "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a Saccharum, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to identify Saccharum plants, assess their biological condition and determine evidence-supported options for cultivation, propagation, harvest or containment.", "characteristics": { "substance": "living", "origin": "natural", "agency": "autonomous", "mobility": "self-moving" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Described in 63 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 Saccharum, 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 63 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 Saccharum from another, and a Saccharum 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 Saccharum, 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 Saccharum, 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 Saccharum 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 Saccharum, 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 Saccharum, 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 Saccharum 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 Saccharum 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 Saccharum, 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 Saccharum, 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 Saccharum 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 Saccharum from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Saccharum, 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 Saccharum, 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 Saccharum 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 Saccharum 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 Saccharum, 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 Saccharum, 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 Saccharum 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 Saccharum and the stages it passes through.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a Saccharum, 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 Saccharum, 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 Saccharum 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 Saccharum is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a Saccharum, 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 Saccharum, 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 Saccharum 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 Saccharum 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 Saccharum is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a Saccharum, 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 Saccharum, 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 Saccharum 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 Saccharum moves on its own.", "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 Saccharum, 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 Saccharum, 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 Saccharum 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 Saccharum 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 Saccharum between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Saccharum, 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 Saccharum, 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 Saccharum 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 Saccharum, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Saccharum 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 Saccharum, 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 Saccharum, 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 Saccharum 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 Saccharum 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.", "findings": [ { "id": "name-and-authority", "name": "Accepted name, authority and synonyms", "description": "What to record so a later revision can be applied without losing the old data.", "questions": [ { "id": "name-and-authority-q01", "text": "What is the accepted scientific name of Saccharum, with its author and year, and which synonyms does it absorb?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "name-and-authority-q02", "text": "Which taxonomic authority is being followed, and what would a competing authority say?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "field-identification", "name": "Field identification", "description": "The characters that separate Saccharum from what it is confused with.", "findings": [ { "id": "diagnostic-characters", "name": "Diagnostic characters and confusable kinds", "description": "Features that settle an identification, and those that only suggest it.", "questions": [ { "id": "diagnostic-characters-q01", "text": "Which observable characters distinguish Saccharum 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 Saccharum 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 Saccharum 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 Saccharum 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 Saccharum 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 Saccharum, 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 Saccharum 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 Saccharum 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 Saccharum and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Saccharum, 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 Saccharum, 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 Saccharum 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 Saccharum is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Saccharum, 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 Saccharum, 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 Saccharum is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 8, "layers": 17, "findings": 19, "questions": 51 } } } }