{ "model": { "rank": 5663, "code": "thing-q183951", "model_id": "vr.tr.balloon", "name": "balloon", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a balloon, assess its inflation, containment and lift state, and decide whether and how it may be filled, handled, secured, used or retired.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.OBJ", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q183951/", "tier": 2, "score": 65, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "balloon in United States naval service", "Zero-pressure balloons", "PA-1850", "research balloon", "hot air balloon", "Pink Floyd pigs", "kite balloon", "observation balloon", "incendiary balloon", "Espionage balloon", "moored balloon", "Rozière balloon", "kite balloon in United States Navy service", "tethered hot air balloon", "cinebulle", "Hopper balloon", "solar balloon", "Night glow", "AP", "Caquot Type R", "Avorio-Prassone balloon", "Caquot", "Parseval-Sigsfeld kite balloon", "HiFlyer", "tethered helium balloon", "P-type balloon", "M-type balloon" ], "aliasCount": 27, "merged": 27, "knownIn": 65, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": "vr.tr.balloon", "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q183951", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q183951", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T08:57:13Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "missingProviders": [ "Grok" ], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "usd": null, "turns": null, "seconds": 15.8, "error": "Error: Internal error: {\n \"message\": \"API error (status 402 Payment Required): Grok Build usage balance exhausted\",\n \"http_status\": 402\n}", "retried": true }, "codex": { "seconds": 87.6, "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: 01a07b14-a92c-71d1-b102-c67b16fcecee\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. 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"in_scope": [ "Envelope construction, geometry and condition, including an uninflated balloon", "Fill medium, filling method and compatibility with the envelope", "Inflation, gas retention and pressure or temperature constraints", "Buoyancy, carried load and attachment interfaces", "Balloon-specific handling, containment and retirement decisions" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Gas cylinders, regulators, pumps and separate heating equipment", "Baskets, vehicles, instruments and other payloads as independently modelled things", "Independent ropes, anchors and supporting structures beyond their balloon interfaces", "Airspace permissions, flight operations and navigation", "Medical procedures and devices incorporating balloon components", "General-purpose inflatable structures, tyres and pressure vessels" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Establish whether the item is an envelope intended to acquire or maintain its working form through contained gas, including when currently deflated.", "Distinguish a balloon from a rigid gas vessel by whether its envelope changes shape or tension substantially with filling.", "Distinguish a balloon from a cushion, inflatable boat or air-supported structure using its documented intended function; gas inflation alone is insufficient.", "Distinguish a balloon from a kite by whether any claimed static lift comes from buoyancy rather than aerodynamic forces requiring relative airflow.", "Check whether 'balloon' denotes a standalone item, a component inside another device or an entire aircraft before assigning this model's boundary." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Balloon role", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "decoration, play, observation, lifting, other documented role, unknown", "why_it_matters": "Determines which operating limits and neighbouring models are relevant." }, { "name": "Envelope construction", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "documented material, coating, panel and seam construction; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Informs compatible fill methods, expected expansion and condition checks." }, { "name": "Fill medium", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "air, helium, hydrogen, other specified gas or mixture, unknown", "why_it_matters": "Affects buoyancy, compatibility and handling decisions." }, { "name": "Inflation state", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "unfilled, filling, inflated, deflating, collapsed, ruptured, unknown", "why_it_matters": "Separates normal lifecycle states from loss of containment." }, { "name": "Inflated dimensions and volume", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "dimensions in m; volume in m³; observation conditions and estimation method", "why_it_matters": "Supports clearance, fill-limit and buoyancy assessments." }, { "name": "Envelope pressure difference", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Pa relative to ambient; measured, estimated or unknown", "why_it_matters": "Allows comparison with documented limits without assuming all balloons operate alike." }, { "name": "Fill and ambient temperature", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "°C, with measurement location and time", "why_it_matters": "Provides context for inflation changes and temperature-dependent lift." }, { "name": "Containment condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "no detected leak, suspected leak, confirmed leak, open by design, unknown", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes damage from intentional openings or gas exchange." }, { "name": "Closure or opening arrangement", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "tied neck, valve, sealed port, open mouth, other documented arrangement", "why_it_matters": "Determines how filling, retention and controlled deflation work." }, { "name": "Available lift", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "N upward or downward under stated fill, ambient and attached-load conditions", "why_it_matters": "Supports decisions about restraint and possible payload support." }, { "name": "Attached load and restraint", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "linked payloads, tethers and anchors; attachment points and documented limits", "why_it_matters": "Identifies what could detach, fall or permit escape." }, { "name": "Envelope damage", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "observed punctures, tears, seam separation, abrasion, deformation or no detected damage", "why_it_matters": "Supports decisions to continue use, repair where permitted or retire the balloon." } ], "affordances": [ "Identify the balloon type and retrieve its applicable filling and handling instructions.", "Fill or top up through the intended opening using a compatible medium within documented limits.", "Inspect inflation, seams, closures and gas retention using a suitable method.", "Attach, restrain or move the balloon through appropriate attachment points.", "Assess available lift against the intended attached load under stated conditions.", "Deflate, repair where supported, store for reuse or retire according to construction and condition." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "balloon-identity-and-envelope", "name": "Balloon identity and envelope", "description": "Establish what kind of balloon this is and where its physical boundary lies.", "rationale": "The name covers items with different constructions and functions, so appearance alone cannot establish applicable behaviour.", "layers": [ { "id": "role-and-boundary", "name": "Role and boundary", "description": "Resolve the intended role and whether the item is a standalone balloon or a component.", "findings": [ { "id": "balloon-classification", "name": "Balloon classification", "description": "Record evidence for treating the item as a balloon and identify the assembly level being modelled.", "questions": [ { "text": "What intended function and construction justify classifying this item as a balloon rather than another inflatable?", "kind": "definition", "id": "balloon-classification-q01" }, { "text": "Does this record cover an envelope, a balloon with integral fittings or a larger assembly?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "balloon-classification-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "envelope-construction", "name": "Envelope construction", "description": "Describe the gas-containing skin and the features that determine its working form.", "findings": [ { "id": "skin-seams-and-form", "name": "Skin, seams and form", "description": "Record material, seams and intended inflated geometry without inferring material from colour or appearance alone.", "questions": [ { "text": "What label, specification or inspection establishes the envelope material and seam construction?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "skin-seams-and-form-q01" }, { "text": "What dimensions and shape identify the intended inflated form, and under what filling conditions?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "skin-seams-and-form-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "filling-and-gas-retention", "name": "Filling and gas retention", "description": "Describe how gas enters, remains within and leaves the envelope.", "rationale": "A balloon's usable state depends on compatible filling and its particular closure or opening design.", "layers": [ { "id": "fill-compatibility", "name": "Fill compatibility", "description": "Connect the actual fill medium and filling interface to documented restrictions.", "findings": [ { "id": "medium-and-fill-route", "name": "Medium and fill route", "description": "Record what fills the balloon and how that medium may be introduced.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence identifies the current fill medium, including any mixture or uncertainty?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "medium-and-fill-route-q01" }, { "text": "Which medium, filling interface and filling method are supported for this balloon?", "kind": "action", "id": "medium-and-fill-route-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "closure-and-loss", "name": "Closure and loss", "description": "Distinguish intentional gas exchange from leakage through skin, seams or closures.", "findings": [ { "id": "retention-behaviour", "name": "Retention behaviour", "description": "Record closure state and observed gas loss with enough context to interpret changes.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is the balloon intended to retain a sealed fill or operate with an opening or continuing gas exchange?", "kind": "definition", "id": "retention-behaviour-q01" }, { "text": "What change in size, pressure or lift was observed over what interval and temperature conditions?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "retention-behaviour-q02" }, { "text": "What inspection can distinguish a closure leak, envelope damage and expected gas loss?", "kind": "action", "id": "retention-behaviour-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "inflation-and-envelope-condition", "name": "Inflation and envelope condition", "description": "Assess whether the envelope's present inflation and physical condition permit the intended use.", "rationale": "An inflated appearance does not establish adequate inflation, intact containment or compliance with operating limits.", "layers": [ { "id": "inflation-limits", "name": "Inflation limits", "description": "Compare observable inflation with limits applicable to this particular construction.", "findings": [ { "id": "current-fill-margin", "name": "Current fill margin", "description": "Record the prescribed inflation criterion and how the current state compares.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is acceptable inflation specified by dimensions, volume, pressure, temperature or another criterion?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "current-fill-margin-q01" }, { "text": "How does the current measurement compare with that criterion under the present ambient conditions?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "current-fill-margin-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "damage-and-reuse", "name": "Damage and reuse", "description": "Evaluate envelope defects and whether another inflation cycle is supported.", "findings": [ { "id": "envelope-serviceability", "name": "Envelope serviceability", "description": "Record defects, prior repairs and evidence supporting continued use or retirement.", "questions": [ { "text": "Where are punctures, tears, abrasion, seam separation or unusual deformation visible?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "envelope-serviceability-q01" }, { "text": "What documented criteria permit reuse or repair, or require deflation and retirement?", "kind": "action", "id": "envelope-serviceability-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "buoyancy-load-and-restraint", "name": "Buoyancy, load and restraint", "description": "Determine whether the balloon rises, what it can support and how it is secured.", "rationale": "Gas inflation does not imply positive lift, and usable lift depends on both surrounding conditions and attached mass.", "layers": [ { "id": "lift-assessment", "name": "Lift assessment", "description": "Establish net lifting behaviour for a clearly specified configuration.", "findings": [ { "id": "available-lifting-force", "name": "Available lifting force", "description": "Record observed or calculated lift, its method and which masses it already includes.", "questions": [ { "text": "What upward or downward force is measured or estimated at the stated fill volume, temperatures and ambient conditions?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "available-lifting-force-q01" }, { "text": "Does the reported lift account for the envelope, fittings, tether and intended payload?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "available-lifting-force-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "attachment-and-restraint", "name": "Attachment and restraint", "description": "Describe balloon attachment interfaces and the current restraint arrangement.", "findings": [ { "id": "secured-configuration", "name": "Secured configuration", "description": "Record how loads and restraints connect without assuming the envelope can bear arbitrary attachments.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which attachment points are intended to carry loads or restraints, and what limits are documented?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "secured-configuration-q01" }, { "text": "What tether, anchor or holder currently prevents unintended escape, and how is its connection checked?", "kind": "action", "id": "secured-configuration-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "handling-and-end-of-use", "name": "Handling and end of use", "description": "Connect balloon-specific exposure and contact conditions to handling and retirement choices.", "rationale": "Thin envelopes, fill media, cords and burst fragments create handling concerns that vary with balloon type and surroundings.", "layers": [ { "id": "use-environment", "name": "Use environment", "description": "Assess nearby conditions that could damage the balloon or make its movement consequential.", "findings": [ { "id": "exposure-and-contact", "name": "Exposure and contact", "description": "Record relevant heat, sharp surfaces, airflow, electrical proximity and user contact.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which nearby heat sources, sharp edges, airflow paths or electrical equipment could interact with this balloon?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "exposure-and-contact-q01" }, { "text": "What handling restrictions follow from its documented material, fill medium, cords and intended users?", "kind": "action", "id": "exposure-and-contact-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "deflation-and-retirement", "name": "Deflation and retirement", "description": "Determine how to end use while accounting for retained gas and remaining material.", "findings": [ { "id": "controlled-end-of-use", "name": "Controlled end of use", "description": "Record the supported deflation route and the destination of the envelope, attachments and fragments.", "questions": [ { "text": "How can this closure or opening be used to deflate the balloon under the applicable handling instructions?", "kind": "action", "id": "controlled-end-of-use-q01" }, { "text": "Should the deflated envelope be stored for reuse or retired, and how will detached pieces and cords be collected?", "kind": "action", "id": "controlled-end-of-use-q02" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, 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Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched. This entry carries no facets of its own, so they were inferred from its domain - a guess about a whole domain applied to one thing.", "facetsInferred": true, "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. 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Form alone rarely separates two models that do very different things." ], "relatedModels": [ { "relation": "covers", "note": "Finer kinds folded into this entry because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it. Each is a model waiting to be split out when one does.", "targets": [ "balloon in United States naval service", "Zero-pressure balloons", "PA-1850", "research balloon", "hot air balloon", "Pink Floyd pigs", "kite balloon", "observation balloon", "incendiary balloon", "Espionage balloon", "moored balloon", "Rozière balloon" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 65 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 27 finer distinctions are held inside this entry as names rather than as separate models.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one balloon from another, and a balloon 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 balloon, 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 balloon, 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 balloon 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 balloon, 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 balloon, 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 balloon 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 balloon 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 balloon, 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 balloon, 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 balloon 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 balloon from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a balloon, 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 balloon, 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 balloon 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 balloon 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 balloon, 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 balloon, 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 balloon 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 balloon is built from and which parts are replaceable.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a balloon, 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 balloon, 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 balloon 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 balloon is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a balloon, 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 balloon, 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 balloon 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 balloon 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 balloon is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a balloon, 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 balloon, 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 balloon 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 balloon 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 balloon, 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 balloon, 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 balloon 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 balloon 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 balloon between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a balloon, 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 balloon, 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 balloon 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 balloon, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a balloon 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 balloon, 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 balloon, 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 balloon is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "function-and-principle", "name": "Function and operating principle", "description": "What balloon is for and how it achieves it.", "rationale": "Two devices with the same name can work on different principles, and the principle is what predicts failure and constrains use.", "layers": [ { "id": "intended-function", "name": "Intended function", "description": "The job it does, and the jobs it is used for anyway.", "findings": [ { "id": "function-record", "name": "Function, principle and variants", "description": "What it does, how, and which variants do it differently.", "questions": [ { "id": "function-record-q01", "text": "What function does balloon perform, on what operating principle, and which variants differ in that principle?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "function-record-q02", "text": "What use falls outside the intended function but happens in practice?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "capacity-and-rating", "name": "Capacity and rating", "description": "The numbers that say what it can do and where it stops.", "findings": [ { "id": "ratings", "name": "Ratings and their conditions", "description": "Rated capacity, power, throughput and the conditions each assumes.", "questions": [ { "id": "ratings-q01", "text": "What ratings characterise balloon, in what units, and under what stated conditions?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "ratings-q02", "text": "What happens beyond the rating - degradation, refusal, damage - and how is that detected?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "operation-and-state", "name": "Operation, controls and state", "description": "How balloon is operated and what state it is in right now.", "rationale": "An agent acting on a device needs its current state and the controls that change it, not just its specification.", "layers": [ { "id": "controls-and-modes", "name": "Controls and modes", "description": "What can be set, what that changes, and what is interlocked.", "findings": [ { "id": "control-surface", "name": "Control surface and interlocks", "description": "The settings available and the conditions that block them.", "questions": [ { "id": "control-surface-q01", "text": "What controls and modes does balloon have, and what does each change?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "control-surface-q02", "text": "Which actions are interlocked or forbidden in which state, and what must be true before acting?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-maintenance", "name": "Condition and maintenance", "description": "Wear, service intervals, consumables and the line between working and broken.", "findings": [ { "id": "service-record", "name": "Condition, service and consumables", "description": "What is consumed, what is serviced, and how condition is judged.", "questions": [ { "id": "service-record-q01", "text": "What consumables and service does balloon need, at what interval, and on whose authority?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "service-record-q02", "text": "What evidence separates a unit that is working from one that is out of service?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "kind-model-unit", "name": "Kind, model and unit", "description": "Whether a claim about balloon is about the kind, a product line, or one physical unit.", "rationale": "This is the boundary most often got wrong for made things, and getting it wrong mixes a catalogue entry with the machine in the yard.", "layers": [ { "id": "level-of-reference", "name": "Level of reference", "description": "The three levels and what belongs at each.", "findings": [ { "id": "level-rules", "name": "What belongs to kind, model and unit", "description": "Which properties are shared by all of them and which are not.", "questions": [ { "id": "level-rules-q01", "text": "Which facts about balloon hold for every one of them, which for a model, and which only for one unit?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "level-rules-q02", "text": "What identifies an individual unit, and what should an agent do when it has only the kind?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "standards-and-conformity", "name": "Standards and conformity", "description": "The standards a working example must meet and who attests it.", "findings": [ { "id": "conformity", "name": "Standards, marks and attestation", "description": "Which standard applies, who certifies, and what the mark means.", "questions": [ { "id": "conformity-q01", "text": "Which standards govern balloon, issued by whom, and what does conformity actually assert?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "conformity-q02", "text": "What may an agent conclude from a certification mark, and what may it not?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a balloon 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 balloon and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a balloon, 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 balloon, 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 balloon 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 balloon is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a balloon, 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 balloon, 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 balloon 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 } } } }