{ "model": { "rank": 4321, "code": "thing-q181409", "model_id": "vr.tr.egg-yolk", "name": "egg yolk", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise egg yolk, assess its biological or ingredient state, and determine which handling, processing or use decisions its recorded properties support.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.MAT", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q181409/", "tier": 2, "score": 76, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "Caenorhabditis elegans yolk", "chicken egg yolk", "salted duck egg yolk" ], "aliasCount": 3, "merged": 3, "knownIn": 76, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q181409", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q181409", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-09T19:57:36Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 21.4, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.4\n--------\nworkdir: R:\\02_PROJECTS\\02_Meta_Models_Platforms\\Ver.cy\\current\\thing-registry-backlog\nmodel: gpt-6-astra\nprovider: openai\napproval: never\nsandbox: read-only\nreasoning effort: none\nreasoning summaries: none\nsession id: 01a087be-57b3-7ba0-b57b-6e62ea8d86f6\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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"scope_statement": "This model owns egg yolk as the yolk material within an animal egg or separated from it, including its origin, composition, physical condition and processing history; species and intended use must be explicit rather than silently assuming chicken yolk for food.", "in_scope": [ "Species, egg origin and the relationship between yolk and its enclosing egg", "Intact, separated, pooled and processed yolk material", "Composition, added ingredients and contamination by other egg fractions", "Membrane integrity, colour, consistency and processing-dependent functionality", "Lot-specific handling history, quality evidence and suitability for an intended use" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Whole-egg anatomy and quality except where they establish yolk identity or condition", "Egg white and shell as separately managed materials", "Animal husbandry and reproductive development beyond their effects on the yolk", "Finished foods, cosmetics or other products containing yolk", "Plant-based 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"Allows batches and processed forms to be compared without treating yolk as a pure chemical." }, { "name": "Non-yolk content", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Egg white carryover and added ingredients in g/100 g where measurable; unknown recorded explicitly", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes separation quality from deliberate formulation and explains changes in performance." }, { "name": "Colour", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Declared colour scale or instrumental coordinates with measurement conditions", "why_it_matters": "Supports appearance specifications without using colour as a proxy for safety or identity." }, { "name": "Flow behaviour", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Viscosity in Pa·s with temperature, shear conditions and sample preparation", "why_it_matters": "Supports pumping, mixing and comparison of processing effects." }, { "name": "Processing and storage history", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Time-stamped separation, pooling, treatment, freezing, thawing, drying and storage records", "why_it_matters": "Makes current condition interpretable and identifies gaps in handling evidence." }, { "name": "Use disposition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Pending assessment, accepted for specified use, restricted, rejected or unknown", "why_it_matters": "Separates measured properties from the decision that a particular application permits use." } ], "affordances": [ "Identify and trace yolk to its species, source eggs and processing lot.", "Assess whether yolk can be separated or transferred while preserving membrane integrity.", "Compare yolk lots against composition, colour and functional specifications.", "Select candidate mixing, heating, freezing or drying operations using evidence for the relevant yolk form.", "Accept, restrict or reject a lot for a stated use based on its handling history and applicable assessment criteria." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "yolk-identity-and-origin", "name": "Yolk identity and origin", "description": "Establishes which biological material is being modelled and how it relates to source eggs.", "rationale": "Egg yolk must be distinguished from whole egg, substitutes and extracted constituents without assuming a source species.", "layers": [ { "id": "biological-identity", "name": "Biological identity", "description": "Records species and evidence that the material is the yolk portion of an egg.", "findings": [ { "id": "species-and-yolk-identification", "name": "Species and yolk identification", "description": "The identity record must state the source species and the basis for identifying the material as yolk.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which animal species produced the egg, and what evidence supports that attribution?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "species-and-yolk-identification-q01" }, { "text": "What observation or supplier record establishes yolk origin rather than colour-based resemblance?", "kind": "definition", "id": "species-and-yolk-identification-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "separation-and-lot-lineage", "name": "Separation and lot lineage", "description": "Connects individual or pooled yolk material to source eggs and separation events.", "findings": [ { "id": "source-eggs-and-pooling", "name": "Source eggs and pooling", "description": "Traceability must preserve whether the material represents one yolk or a pool whose contributors may differ.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which source eggs or supplier lots contributed to this yolk material?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "source-eggs-and-pooling-q01" }, { "text": "When were the yolks separated and pooled, and which source distinctions remain recoverable?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "source-eggs-and-pooling-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "yolk-composition-and-boundaries", "name": "Yolk composition and boundaries", "description": "Describes the yolk matrix, separation carryover and deliberate formulation.", "rationale": "A biological mixture needs composition and formulation evidence rather than an assumed single-substance purity specification.", "layers": [ { "id": "native-matrix-composition", "name": "Native matrix composition", "description": "Records measured constituents with sampling and reporting conditions.", "findings": [ { "id": "composition-on-a-declared-basis", "name": "Composition on a declared basis", "description": "Composition records must distinguish measurement results from assumed species averages and declare wet or dry basis.", "questions": [ { "text": "What water, lipid, protein and total-solids measurements exist for this yolk lot?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "composition-on-a-declared-basis-q01" }, { "text": "Were results measured on this material or inferred from reference data, and on what reporting basis?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "composition-on-a-declared-basis-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "carryover-additions-and-fractionation", "name": "Carryover, additions and fractionation", "description": "Separates native yolk composition from egg white carryover, additives and extracted fractions.", "findings": [ { "id": "material-boundary-after-processing", "name": "Material boundary after processing", "description": "The record must explain what was added, retained or removed before treating a processed material as yolk.", "questions": [ { "text": "How much egg white remains, and which water, salt, sugar or other additions were intentional?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "material-boundary-after-processing-q01" }, { "text": "Has processing produced a yolk ingredient, a finished formulation or an isolated constituent requiring a neighbouring model?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "material-boundary-after-processing-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "yolk-structure-and-function", "name": "Yolk structure and function", "description": "Captures intact-yolk condition and the performance of dispersed or processed yolk.", "rationale": "Membrane integrity and application-specific behaviour determine whether yolk can fulfil the intended physical role.", "layers": [ { "id": "intact-yolk-condition", "name": "Intact yolk condition", "description": "Assesses membrane continuity and visible form before or after separation.", "findings": [ { "id": "membrane-and-shape-assessment", "name": "Membrane and shape assessment", "description": "Intact-yolk assessments must distinguish membrane damage from the expected state of deliberately dispersed material.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is the yolk membrane intact, leaking or ruptured, and at what handling stage was this observed?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "membrane-and-shape-assessment-q01" }, { "text": "Does the intended operation require an intact yolk, and what handling evidence supports preserving it?", "kind": "action", "id": "membrane-and-shape-assessment-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "ingredient-performance", "name": "Ingredient performance", "description": "Records colour, flow, emulsification and heat-setting assessments under stated 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"name": "Processing transitions", "description": "Records treatment events and their measured effects on yolk properties.", "findings": [ { "id": "treatment-history-and-property-change", "name": "Treatment history and property change", "description": "Processing records must connect declared operations to the resulting form and available before-and-after evidence.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which heating, freezing, thawing, drying or reconstitution operations has this yolk undergone?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "treatment-history-and-property-change-q01" }, { "text": "What measured changes in consistency, separation or functional performance followed those operations?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "treatment-history-and-property-change-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "storage-and-deterioration", "name": "Storage and deterioration", "description": "Assesses the storage record alongside observations and tests of current condition.", "findings": [ { "id": "condition-evidence-and-storage-gaps", "name": "Condition evidence and storage gaps", "description": "Condition judgements must retain uncertainty when storage records or relevant tests are missing.", "questions": [ { "text": "What time, temperature, packaging and opening history is documented for this yolk lot?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "condition-evidence-and-storage-gaps-q01" }, { "text": "What observations or tests indicate deterioration, and what remains undetermined by appearance or odour alone?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "condition-evidence-and-storage-gaps-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "yolk-use-qualification", "name": "Yolk use qualification", "description": "Determines whether the evidence supports a specific food, laboratory or other use.", "rationale": "Yolk identity and functional performance do not independently establish that a lot meets the requirements of its intended use.", "layers": [ { "id": "use-specific-requirements", "name": "Use-specific requirements", "description": "Identifies the application and the criteria that govern acceptance.", "findings": [ { "id": "application-and-acceptance-basis", "name": "Application and acceptance basis", "description": "Acceptance criteria must be tied to the yolk form, intended application and applicable authority or specification.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is this yolk intended for food, research or another use, and which specification governs it?", "kind": "definition", "id": "application-and-acceptance-basis-q01" }, { "text": "Which jurisdiction-specific identity, treatment and egg-allergen requirements apply to this particular yolk ingredient?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "application-and-acceptance-basis-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "lot-release-and-restrictions", "name": "Lot release and restrictions", "description": "Connects treatment, testing and handling evidence to a bounded use decision.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-supported-disposition", "name": "Evidence-supported disposition", 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"knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a egg yolk 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 egg yolk, 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 egg yolk, 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 egg yolk 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 egg yolk 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 egg yolk, 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 egg yolk, 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 egg yolk 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 egg yolk from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a egg yolk, 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 egg yolk, 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 egg yolk 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 egg yolk 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 egg yolk, 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 egg yolk, 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 egg yolk 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 egg yolk is built from and which parts are replaceable.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a egg yolk, 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 egg yolk, 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 egg yolk 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 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"place-and-movement", "name": "Place and movement", "description": "Where a egg yolk 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 egg yolk is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a egg yolk, 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 egg yolk, 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 egg yolk 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 egg yolk 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 egg yolk, 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 egg yolk, 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 egg yolk 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 egg yolk 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 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observed about a egg yolk, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a egg yolk 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 egg yolk, 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 egg yolk, 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 egg yolk 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 egg yolk 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 egg yolk is for, and what it is used for anyway.", "findings": [ { "id": "function-and-purpose", "name": "Function, purpose and misuse", "description": "The function a egg yolk performs and the uses that fall outside it.", "questions": [ { "id": "function-and-purpose-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the use of a egg yolk, 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 egg yolk, 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 egg yolk 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 egg yolk.", "findings": [ { "id": "procedures-and-skills", "name": "Procedures, skills and required tools", "description": "What an agent needs before it can act on a egg yolk at all.", "questions": [ { "id": "procedures-and-skills-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes handling a egg yolk, 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 egg yolk, 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 egg yolk 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 egg yolk there is and how fast it goes.", "questions": [ { "id": "consumption-and-stock-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the supply of a egg yolk, 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 egg yolk, 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 egg yolk 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 egg yolk 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 egg yolk 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 egg yolk 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 egg yolk 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 egg yolk, 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 egg yolk 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 egg yolk 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 egg yolk 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 egg yolk, 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 egg yolk 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 egg yolk and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about 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