{ "model": { "rank": 4559, "code": "thing-q187882", "model_id": "vr.tr.freckle", "name": "freckle", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise and document a probable freckle, track its appearance over time, and identify when uncertainty requires assessment beyond this model.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Cross-cutting context", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "XCT", "domain": "XCT.STA", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q187882/", "tier": 2, "score": 74, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [], "aliasCount": 0, "merged": 0, "knownIn": 74, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q187882", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q187882", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-09T20:30:24Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 19.3, "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: 01a087dc-7800-75d1-8c41-3513a15943e9\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: freckle\nRegistry id: vr.tr.freckle\nPlane / domain: XCT / XCT.STA\nRegistry definition: (none recorded)\nNames folded into this entry: (none)\n\n\nContext " } } }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q187882", "registryId": "vr.tr.freckle", "name": "freckle", "version": "0.1.0-research.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "XCT.STA" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q187882/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.freckle", "name": "freckle", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise and document a probable freckle, track its appearance over time, and identify when uncertainty requires assessment beyond this model.", "definition": "A freckle, in the dermatological sense of an ephelis, is a small, flat, benign pigmented skin spot caused by locally increased melanin production, typically becoming more prominent after ultraviolet exposure without an increased number of melanocytes.", "scope_statement": "This model owns the cutaneous sense of freckle, provisionally narrowed to an ephelis: a small, flat area of increased skin pigmentation, including its appearance, distribution, reported history and identification uncertainty; the registry's XCT / XCT.STA placement does not establish that it is an abstract concept.", "in_scope": [ "An individual suspected ephelis and its relationship to a local freckling pattern", "Visible colour, dimensions, flatness, borders and surrounding skin", "Anatomical distribution and reported relationship to sunlight and season", "Changes observed across comparable examinations or photographs", "Evidence and uncertainty supporting identification as a freckle" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Solar lentigines, melanocytic naevi and other pigmented lesions as independent conditions", "Diagnosis, staging or treatment of skin cancer", "Whole-person skin phototype and inherited pigmentation traits", "Sun exposure behaviour and sun-protection products as independently managed subjects", "Cosmetic treatment protocols and prescribing decisions" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Establish whether the mark is flat; a palpable or raised lesion weakens identification as a typical ephelis.", "Record whether pigmentation becomes more apparent after sun exposure and fades during lower-exposure periods; this history helps distinguish ephelides from persistent solar lentigines without deciding the distinction alone.", "Compare the mark with nearby small pigmented macules and their distribution; membership in a similar freckling pattern supports identification but does not establish it.", "Separate a freckle label from evidence excluding a naevus or another pigmented lesion; colour and size alone cannot settle that boundary.", "Check whether inflammation, injury or another preceding skin change better explains the pigmentation." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Identification status", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "reported freckle | suspected ephelis | clinician-identified ephelis | unresolved pigmented lesion", "why_it_matters": "Prevents a casual label or image interpretation from being treated as an established identification." }, { "name": "Anatomical location", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "body region, side and local landmark", "why_it_matters": "Supports relocation of the same mark and interpretation of its distribution." }, { "name": "Surface relief", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "flat | raised | indeterminate; observation method recorded", "why_it_matters": "Flatness is central to the intended ephelis sense, while photographs may not establish it." }, { "name": "Visible dimensions", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "maximum diameter and perpendicular diameter in mm, with measurement uncertainty", "why_it_matters": "Allows meaningful comparison over time without inventing a diagnostic size threshold." }, { "name": "Pigmentation relative to surrounding skin", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "observed hue, relative darkness and colour uniformity under recorded lighting", "why_it_matters": "Describes the mark while accounting for differences in skin tone and image capture." }, { "name": "Border and shape", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "shape, symmetry and border clarity; indeterminate permitted", "why_it_matters": "Supports recognition of the same mark and documentation of changes or atypical appearance." }, { "name": "Seasonal visibility", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "reported or observed darkening | fading | stable visibility | unknown", "why_it_matters": "Captures a useful distinction between ephelides and some neighbouring pigmentation categories." }, { "name": "Local freckling pattern", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "isolated | one of several similar marks | dense or overlapping pattern | uncertain", "why_it_matters": "Relates an individual mark to its context without making surrounding marks proof of identity." }, { "name": "Observation comparability", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "comparable | partly comparable | not comparable, with reasons", "why_it_matters": "Prevents lighting, magnification or registration differences from being mistaken for biological change." } ], "affordances": [ "Record a provisional freckle identification together with its evidence and uncertainty.", "Locate and annotate an individual mark within a wider freckling pattern.", "Compare dated observations for changes in dimensions, pigmentation and visibility.", "Ask targeted questions about onset, seasonal variation and preceding skin changes.", "Flag unresolved identification or reported changes for qualified assessment.", "Link to neighbouring lesion or care models when their scope is needed." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "ephelis-identity-and-boundaries", "name": "Ephelis identity and boundaries", "description": "Establish the intended meaning of freckle and the strength of an individual identification.", "rationale": "The registry supplies no definition, and everyday usage may combine distinct kinds of pigmented marks.", "layers": [ { "id": "freckle-sense", "name": "Freckle sense", "description": "Separate the intended skin-mark sense from broader or informal uses.", "findings": [ { "id": "ephelis-scope", "name": "Ephelis scope", "description": "Record whether freckle is being used specifically for an ephelis or as a nonspecific name for a pigmented spot.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the originating record use freckle to mean ephelis, or does its meaning remain unspecified?", "kind": "definition", "id": "ephelis-scope-q01" }, { "text": "Who supplied the label, and was it based on examination, a photograph or personal description?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "ephelis-scope-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "pigmented-mark-boundaries", "name": "Pigmented mark boundaries", "description": "Document competing interpretations without converting this model into a diagnostic system.", "findings": [ { "id": "alternative-lesion-interpretations", "name": "Alternative lesion interpretations", "description": "Keep unresolved distinctions from lentigines, naevi and pigmentation following inflammation explicit.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence supports ephelis over a solar lentigo, naevus or post-inflammatory mark?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "alternative-lesion-interpretations-q01" }, { "text": "Which unresolved distinction requires examination or a linked model before further action?", "kind": "action", "id": "alternative-lesion-interpretations-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "freckle-appearance-and-location", "name": "Freckle appearance and location", "description": "Describe the individual mark and its relationship to surrounding skin.", "rationale": "Recognition and comparison depend on locating the same flat pigmented mark and describing it consistently.", "layers": [ { "id": "macule-morphology", "name": "Macule morphology", "description": "Capture visible form and the limits of the observation method.", "findings": [ { "id": "flatness-size-and-pigmentation", "name": "Flatness, size and pigmentation", "description": "Record relief, dimensions, colour and border appearance without treating any single feature as conclusive.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is the mark demonstrably flat, or is surface relief indeterminate from the available observation?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "flatness-size-and-pigmentation-q01" }, { "text": "What are its measured dimensions, colour relative to adjacent skin and border characteristics?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "flatness-size-and-pigmentation-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "anatomical-freckling-pattern", "name": "Anatomical freckling pattern", "description": "Relate the individual mark to body location and neighbouring pigmentation.", "findings": [ { "id": "mark-within-local-pattern", "name": "Mark within a local pattern", "description": "Distinguish an individual freckle from a region containing multiple similar or overlapping marks.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which body region, side and landmark identify this mark unambiguously?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "mark-within-local-pattern-q01" }, { "text": "Is this one distinguishable mark or an unresolved part of a dense freckling pattern?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "mark-within-local-pattern-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "sunlight-and-observed-course", "name": "Sunlight and observed course", "description": "Capture onset, exposure-associated visibility and changes through time.", "rationale": "The history of pigmentation and fading can inform the ephelis interpretation beyond a single appearance.", "layers": [ { "id": "onset-and-seasonality", "name": "Onset and seasonality", "description": "Keep reported history distinct from directly observed change.", "findings": [ { "id": "exposure-associated-visibility", "name": "Exposure-associated visibility", "description": "Record whether the mark's visibility reportedly varies with sunlight or season without assuming causation from timing alone.", "questions": [ { "text": "When was the mark first noticed, and is that date supported by a record or recalled retrospectively?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "exposure-associated-visibility-q01" }, { "text": "Has darkening or fading been observed across changes in sun exposure or season, and over what interval?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "exposure-associated-visibility-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "serial-mark-comparison", "name": "Serial mark comparison", "description": "Assess whether successive observations support a real change in the same mark.", "findings": [ { "id": "comparable-freckle-observations", "name": "Comparable freckle observations", "description": "Account for lighting, scale, skin coverage and mark matching before interpreting differences.", "questions": [ { "text": "Do the observations show the same mark under sufficiently comparable lighting, scale and positioning?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "comparable-freckle-observations-q01" }, { "text": "Which changes in pigmentation, dimensions or outline remain supported after capture differences are considered?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "comparable-freckle-observations-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "freckle-interpretation-and-action", "name": "Freckle interpretation and action", "description": "Connect the quality of identification to documentation, review and requests concerning appearance.", "rationale": "An agent must avoid allowing a freckle label to settle unresolved lesion identity or justify unsupported intervention.", "layers": [ { "id": "identification-limits-and-review", "name": "Identification limits and review", "description": "Record observations that make the provisional label insufficient for the requested decision.", "findings": [ { "id": "unresolved-or-changing-mark", "name": "Unresolved or changing mark", "description": "Preserve reported changes, symptoms and assessment status alongside identification uncertainty.", "questions": [ { "text": "Are changes in the mark, bleeding, discomfort or other concerns reported, and have they been assessed?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "unresolved-or-changing-mark-q01" }, { "text": "Does the requested decision require qualified assessment beyond the available freckle identification?", "kind": "action", "id": "unresolved-or-changing-mark-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "appearance-related-intent", "name": "Appearance-related intent", "description": "Separate documenting a freckle from requests to alter its appearance.", "findings": [ { "id": "requested-freckle-outcome", "name": "Requested freckle outcome", "description": "Record whether the person seeks identification, tracking or cosmetic change, and route specialised decisions appropriately.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is the requested outcome identification, monitoring, reassurance or alteration of the mark's appearance?", "kind": "action", "id": "requested-freckle-outcome-q01" }, { "text": "Which care or cosmetic-intervention model is needed if the request extends beyond observation and documentation?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "requested-freckle-outcome-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "The sense assumed here is the human skin feature; the supplied domain code does not establish that sense.", "Everyday usage sometimes includes solar lentigines under 'freckles'; this description uses the narrower meaning of ephelides.", "The size range is descriptive, not a diagnostic threshold; classification codes should be checked against the edition and national adaptation used." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of freckle this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "Dermatological terminology", "value_or_pattern": "ephelis; plural ephelides", "note": "The precise clinical term for ordinary freckles, distinguished from lentigines." }, { "scheme": "ICD-10", "value_or_pattern": "L81.2", "note": "World Health Organization classification code for freckles." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of freckle this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Recorded during skin examinations as a feature of pigmentation.", "Studied as a visible trait in research on pigmentation genetics and ultraviolet response.", "Considered alongside other characteristics when assessing sun sensitivity." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of freckle this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "Individual spot diameter", "typical_range": "Usually approximately 1-5", "unit": "mm" }, { "quantity": "Freckle burden", "typical_range": "No universal reference range; assessed by counts or graded density within a defined skin area.", "unit": "count or ordinal score" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of freckle this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "A pigmented lesion may be incorrectly called a freckle when it is a lentigo, melanocytic naevus, or another lesion.", "Ordinary freckles are benign; their presence can accompany sun-sensitive pigmentation but does not itself establish skin cancer.", "Lighting, tanning, season, and anatomical site can confound comparisons of freckle number and pigmentation." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of freckle this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Solar lentigo", "difference": "Usually persists through periods of reduced sun exposure and reflects chronic photodamage; an ephelis commonly darkens with sun exposure and fades when exposure decreases." }, { "name": "Melanocytic naevus", "difference": "Involves a localized proliferation of melanocytes, whereas an ephelis primarily involves increased melanin without increased melanocyte numbers." }, { "name": "Melasma", "difference": "Produces broader, often symmetrical patches of pigmentation rather than discrete small freckles." }, { "name": "Melanoma", "difference": "Is a malignant melanocytic tumour; an ephelis is benign, although an ambiguous pigmented lesion cannot reliably be classified by its everyday name." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of freckle this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does the registry intend ephelis specifically, or a broader everyday category that also includes solar lentigines?", "What does the XCT / XCT.STA assignment mean for this entry, and is it consistent with the intended cutaneous sense?", "Which researched clinical references should govern terminology and the boundaries between ephelides and neighbouring pigmented lesions?", "What observation methods provide sufficiently reliable colour and size comparisons across different skin tones and capture conditions?", "How should an individual freckle retain identity when seasonal fading or dense overlapping pigmentation makes matching uncertain?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 9, "findings": 14, "questions": 22 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "abstract concept", "method": "Written from the archetype playbook - what this kind of thing needs beyond identity and provenance - and from the structure that recurred across 6,333 models already researched by two engines. Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched. This entry carries no facets of its own, so they were inferred from its domain - a guess about a whole domain applied to one thing.", "facetsInferred": true, "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.", "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a freckle, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an agent to recognise and document a probable freckle, track its appearance over time, and identify when uncertainty requires assessment beyond this model.", "characteristics": { "substance": "abstract", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "inert" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Described in 74 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 freckle, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "an abstraction with no physical instance", "physicalCharacter": [ "Does nothing on its own; everything it does, something else did to it.", "These come from the domain this entry sits in rather than from the entry itself, so treat them as a first guess about the whole domain applied to one thing." ], "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [ "observe it, measure it, record its state" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "Nothing to see. What is recognised is an instance of it, and which instances count is exactly what is argued about." ], "relatedModels": [], "standing": "Described in 74 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 freckle from another, and a freckle 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 freckle, 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 freckle, 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 freckle 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 freckle, 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 freckle, 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 freckle 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 freckle 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 freckle, 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 freckle, 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 freckle 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 freckle from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a freckle, 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 freckle, 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 freckle 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 freckle 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 freckle between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a freckle, 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 freckle, 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 freckle 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 freckle, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a freckle 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 freckle, 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 freckle, 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 freckle is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "definitions-in-contest", "name": "Definitions and who holds them", "description": "What freckle is taken to mean, and by whom.", "rationale": "When a field disagrees about a concept, the disagreement is the content. A model that picks one definition silently destroys the information.", "layers": [ { "id": "competing-definitions", "name": "Competing definitions", "description": "The main readings and the traditions behind them.", "findings": [ { "id": "definition-map", "name": "Definitions and their holders", "description": "Each definition with the school or body that holds it.", "questions": [ { "id": "definition-map-q01", "text": "Which definitions of freckle are in use, and which tradition or body holds each?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "definition-map-q02", "text": "What turns on the difference between them in practice?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "operationalisation", "name": "Operationalisation", "description": "How it is measured or applied when it has to be.", "findings": [ { "id": "operational-record", "name": "Measures and proxies", "description": "Instruments and indicators used to stand in for it.", "questions": [ { "id": "operational-record-q01", "text": "How is freckle operationalised or measured in practice, and by what instrument?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "operational-record-q02", "text": "What does that operationalisation leave out, and when does that matter?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "instances-and-use", "name": "Instances, use and consequence", "description": "What counts as an instance of freckle and what follows from calling something that.", "rationale": "Applying a concept is an act with consequences, so a model must say what the label licenses and what it does not.", "layers": [ { "id": "instances", "name": "What counts as an instance", "description": "Clear cases, borderline cases and non-cases.", "findings": [ { "id": "instance-tests", "name": "Tests for an instance", "description": "What would settle whether something falls under it.", "questions": [ { "id": "instance-tests-q01", "text": "What would settle whether something is an instance of freckle?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "instance-tests-q02", "text": "Which borderline cases are argued about, and on what grounds?", "kind": "definition" } ] } ] }, { "id": "consequence", "name": "Consequence of application", "description": "Rights, duties or decisions that follow from the label.", "findings": [ { "id": "consequence-record", "name": "What the label licenses", "description": "What an agent may do once something is classified this way.", "questions": [ { "id": "consequence-record-q01", "text": "What follows practically once something is treated as freckle?", "kind": "action" }, { "id": "consequence-record-q02", "text": "What must an agent not infer from the label alone?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a freckle 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 freckle and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a freckle, 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 freckle, 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 freckle 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 freckle is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a freckle, 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 freckle, 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 freckle is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 10, "findings": 12, "questions": 32 } } } }