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high-explosive lens system compressed a plutonium-239 pit to supercriticality; the combat unit dropped on Nagasaki on 9 August 1945 had a yield of about 21 kilotons.", "scope_statement": "Provisionally owns Fat Man as a named historical physical weapon, including evidence needed to distinguish the individual weapon from its design designation, related weapons, surviving components and representations; the registry's intended referent remains unresolved.", "in_scope": [ "Evidence establishing what the registry name Fat Man denotes", "Attribution of records, components and artifacts to the named weapon", "Documented external appearance and non-operational identifying features", "Historical event associations and custody provenance", "Present artifact status, interpretation and authorized stewardship" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Nuclear weapon construction, internal engineering and operational procedures", "Other nuclear weapons and the broader weapon design family", "Delivery aircraft as independently modeled objects", "The bombing event, its casualties and its wider consequences as independently modeled subjects", "Weapons programs, institutions and personnel as independently modeled entities", "Replicas, photographs and fictional namesakes as independent objects beyond their relationship to Fat Man" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Require evidence connecting the name to the historical weapon referent; a matching label alone does not distinguish it from a fictional namesake.", "Determine whether a source identifies the individual weapon, a design designation or a related weapon before treating two records as the same thing.", "Use documented exterior features and authoritative attribution together to distinguish Fat Man imagery from imagery of Little Boy or other weapons.", "Require object-specific provenance to distinguish an original associated component from a replica, reconstruction or generic display casing.", "Distinguish a record of the historical weapon from a currently existing artifact that represents it; a museum display does not establish survival of the original object." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Referent level", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "individual weapon | design designation | associated component | representation | unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Prevents the agent from combining facts about different kinds of referent." }, { "name": "Attribution confidence", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "corroborated | single-source | disputed | unsupported", "why_it_matters": "Determines whether an identity claim can support recognition or requires further research." }, { "name": "Documented exterior identity", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "source-supported silhouette, markings and visible configuration; unknown where undocumented", "why_it_matters": "Supports identification of depictions and artifacts without recording operational engineering." }, { "name": "Historical event association", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "linked event with date, role, supporting evidence and confidence", "why_it_matters": "Connects the named weapon to its documented history without making the event part of the physical object." }, { "name": "Artifact relationship", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "documented component of | attributed to | replica of | reconstruction of | depiction of | association unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Keeps authentic material, interpretive substitutes and historical representations distinct." }, { "name": "Physical persistence", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "historical object no longer extant | associated material extant | representation extant | unknown", "why_it_matters": "Prevents actions appropriate to a surviving collection object from being assigned to a historical referent." }, { "name": "Artifact safety determination", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "not assessed | specialist assessment documented | restrictions documented | not applicable", "why_it_matters": "Prevents a historical label or display context from being treated as proof that an associated artifact is safe to handle." } ], "affordances": [ "Resolve whether an incoming Fat Man record concerns the named weapon, a broader designation or a representation.", "Link historical claims to evidence and preserve disagreements between sources.", "Compare documented exterior features to flag likely misidentification of images or exhibits.", "Classify claimed surviving material by provenance and relationship to Fat Man.", "Prepare evidence-qualified catalogue descriptions and exhibit labels.", "Route proposed handling, examination or display of associated artifacts through documented custodial and specialist requirements." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "doe-manhattan-district-history", "title": "Manhattan District History, Book VIII, Los Alamos Project (Y) - Volume 2, Technical", "url": "https://www.osti.gov/opennet/manhattan-project-history", "what_it_supports": "Official U.S. Army Corps of Engineers technical history of the implosion design, plutonium pit, explosive lenses, and the Fat Man combat unit.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "lanl-trinity-nagasaki", "title": "Trinity and the Nagasaki mission: Los Alamos technical histories of the Gadget and Fat Man", "url": "https://www.lanl.gov/about/history-innovation", "what_it_supports": "Laboratory account of the implosion assembly, Trinity test of the Gadget, and the Nagasaki Fat Man drop parameters.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "dtra-nuclear-weapon-effects", "title": "Nuclear Weapon Effects and the Nagasaki burst (Defense Threat Reduction Agency / DNA historical summaries)", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Yield (~21 kt), burst height, and effects characterization used to distinguish Fat Man from Little Boy and later stockpile weapons." }, { "id": "nps-manhattan-project-nhp", "title": "Manhattan Project National Historical Park - Fat Man and Little Boy interpretive materials", "url": "https://www.nps.gov/mapr", "what_it_supports": "Public, place-based description of Fat Man as a physical object (casing, dimensions, Nagasaki combat use) versus related devices.", "url_status": "live" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "fat-man-referent", "name": "Fat Man referent", "description": "Establishes which historical entity the registry name identifies.", "rationale": "Fat Man may be used at different levels of specificity, and those uses must not silently become one physical object.", "layers": [ { "id": "name-and-designation", "name": "Name and designation", "description": "Separates evidence about the name from assumptions about what it denotes.", "findings": [ { "id": "name-usage-evidence", "name": "Name usage evidence", "description": "Record source-specific uses of Fat Man and the referent intended in each use.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does this use of Fat Man denote an individual weapon, a design designation or another referent?", "kind": "definition", "id": "name-usage-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Which contemporary or authoritative source establishes that interpretation?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "name-usage-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "catalogue-identity-boundary", "name": "Catalogue identity boundary", "description": "Determines whether Fat Man needs a distinct model or a link to an existing one.", "findings": [ { "id": "single-referent-resolution", "name": "Single referent resolution", "description": "Record the evidence for keeping this entry distinct or resolving it to an existing catalogue concept.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does an existing world model already own precisely the Fat Man referent intended here?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "single-referent-resolution-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence distinguishes this referent from related weapons without creating unsupported registry subdivisions?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "single-referent-resolution-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "exterior-recognition", "name": "Exterior recognition", "description": "Supports identification of Fat Man in historical imagery and collection displays.", "rationale": "Labels, silhouettes and replicas can produce false matches unless visual evidence is tied to an identified object.", "layers": [ { "id": "documented-appearance", "name": "Documented appearance", "description": "Captures externally visible identifying features with their evidential limits.", "findings": [ { "id": "appearance-reference", "name": "Appearance reference", "description": "Record which visible features are supported by attributed historical images or authoritative artifact documentation.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which documented exterior features distinguish Fat Man from Little Boy and other commonly substituted weapon images?", "kind": "definition", "id": "appearance-reference-q01" }, { "text": "What source establishes the identity, date and context of each reference image?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "appearance-reference-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "representation-fidelity", "name": "Representation fidelity", "description": "Separates historical appearance evidence from later interpretive choices.", "findings": [ { "id": "replica-and-image-qualification", "name": "Replica and image qualification", "description": "Record whether a representation reproduces documented features or includes uncertain reconstruction.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is the depicted object the historical weapon, a related test object, a replica or an unidentified exhibit?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "replica-and-image-qualification-q01" }, { "text": "Which markings, colors or exterior details are documented, restored, reconstructed or unknown?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "replica-and-image-qualification-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "historical-attribution", "name": "Historical attribution", "description": "Connects Fat Man to documented events and distinguishes direct evidence from retrospective attribution.", "rationale": "A named weapon's identity depends on its historical associations, but those associations must not absorb the event or its participants into the object model.", "layers": [ { "id": "event-links", "name": "Event links", "description": "Records evidence-qualified relations between the weapon and historical events.", "findings": [ { "id": "weapon-event-association", "name": "Weapon event association", "description": "Record the event, the weapon's attributed role and the evidence connecting them.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which sources establish the relationship between the intended Fat Man referent and the Nagasaki bombing?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "weapon-event-association-q01" }, { "text": "Which claims describe the weapon itself, and which belong to the bombing event or delivery aircraft?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "weapon-event-association-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "claim-resolution", "name": "Claim resolution", "description": "Preserves differences in source authority, specificity and agreement.", "findings": [ { "id": "attribution-conflicts", "name": "Attribution conflicts", "description": "Record disputed identifications and prevent repeated secondary claims from appearing independently corroborated.", "questions": [ { "text": "Do the sources independently identify the same weapon, or repeat an earlier attribution?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "attribution-conflicts-q01" }, { "text": "What additional evidence would resolve a conflicting caption, designation or historical association?", "kind": "action", "id": "attribution-conflicts-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "material-legacy-and-stewardship", "name": "Material legacy and stewardship", "description": "Determines what present objects can legitimately be associated with Fat Man and what actions their evidence permits.", "rationale": "Claims about surviving material, museum casings and replicas require different attribution and handling decisions.", "layers": [ { "id": "survival-and-authenticity", "name": "Survival and authenticity", "description": "Distinguishes the historical weapon's persistence from the existence of related collection objects.", "findings": [ { "id": "claimed-material-connection", "name": "Claimed material connection", "description": "Record the exact relationship claimed for an artifact and the provenance supporting it.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is this object claimed to be material from the individual weapon, a related manufactured item or a later representation?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "claimed-material-connection-q01" }, { "text": "Which custody records or specialist assessments support that specific relationship?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "claimed-material-connection-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "permitted-artifact-actions", "name": "Permitted artifact actions", "description": "Connects proposed stewardship actions to the status of a particular associated artifact.", "findings": [ { "id": "stewardship-action-basis", "name": "Stewardship action basis", "description": "Record custodial authority, assessment status and evidence limits before acting on an associated physical object.", "questions": [ { "text": "What documented custodial authorization and specialist assessment govern examination, handling or display of this artifact?", "kind": "action", "id": "stewardship-action-basis-q01" }, { "text": "What wording can an agent use to describe its relationship to Fat Man without overstating authenticity or implying an unverified safety status?", "kind": "action", "id": "stewardship-action-basis-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Combat Fat Man (Nagasaki, 9 August 1945, B-29 Bockscar, yield ~21 kt TNT equivalent)", "Trinity Gadget (16 July 1945 implosion test device at Alamogordo; same design family, not a deliverable Fat Man casing)", "Mark III (Mk-3) production bombs (postwar stockpile of Fat Man-type implosion weapons, 1947-1950s)", "Pumpkin bombs (inert or conventional-explosive Fat Man shape/ballistic replicas used for B-29 practice and combat shape tests)", "Inert museum and display casings (non-nuclear replicas of the Fat Man outer assembly)", "S-site / Y-12 / Los Alamos pre-combat units (unassembled or unused combat-type assemblies such as the unused Kokura/Nagasaki spare)" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of Fat Man this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "Wikidata", "value_or_pattern": "Q48914", "note": "Wikidata item for Fat Man (the Nagasaki implosion bomb / design)." }, { "scheme": "U.S. nuclear weapon designation", "value_or_pattern": "Mark III / Mk-3 (Fat Man)", "note": "Postwar stockpile designation of the Fat Man implosion design." }, { "scheme": "Manhattan Project unit name", "value_or_pattern": "Fat Man (combat unit dropped on Nagasaki, 9 August 1945)", "note": "Project nickname; the Trinity test article was the Gadget, not a named Fat Man drop unit." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of Fat Man this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation", "name": "Standards and regulation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Atomic Energy Act of 1946 (McMahon Act), U.S. Congress - transferred nuclear weapons from the Army/Manhattan District to the Atomic Energy Commission and classified design data.", "Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, U.S. Congress - continuing statutory control of special nuclear material, Restricted Data, and weapon design information.", "Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), 1968, IAEA depositary framework - governs non-transfer of nuclear weapons and related technology; Fat Man-class designs remain Restricted Data.", "U.S. Department of Energy / NNSA classification and nuclear-weapon surety directives (and predecessor AEC/ERDA orders) - control of residual Fat Man/Mk-3 design information, pits, and high-explosive assemblies.", "Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons is not the governing instrument; nuclear weapons are governed by national atomic-energy law, NPT, and (for the 1945 combat use) the then-applicable law of armed conflict as interpreted by the United States." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of Fat Man this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Combat employment: one unit dropped by B-29 Bockscar (393rd Bombardment Squadron, 509th Composite Group) on Nagasaki, 9 August 1945, after Kokura was the primary target.", "Design proof: the Trinity Gadget (implosion physics package of the same family) was detonated at Alamogordo, New Mexico, 16 July 1945.", "Ballistic and aircrew training: pumpkin bombs (Fat Man shape) were dropped in practice and, in some cases, as conventional bombs over Japan.", "Postwar U.S. stockpile: Mark III Fat Man-type bombs were produced in limited numbers until superseded by improved implosion designs (Mk-4 and later).", "Museum and interpretive display: inert casings and replicas at sites such as the National Museum of Nuclear Science & History, Los Alamos, and Manhattan Project National Historical Park.", "Historical and forensic study: the object is encountered as a type specimen of early implosion fission weapons in technical history, arms-control, and radiation-effects literature." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Fat Man this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "Length (assembled bomb)", "typical_range": "about 3.25 (10 ft 8 in class; often cited ~128 in / 3.25 m)", "unit": "m" }, { "quantity": "Maximum diameter", "typical_range": "about 1.52 (60 in)", "unit": "m" }, { "quantity": "Mass (combat unit)", "typical_range": "about 4670 (commonly cited ~10,300 lb)", "unit": "kg" }, { "quantity": "Yield (Nagasaki burst)", "typical_range": "about 21 (often 20-22)", "unit": "kt TNT equivalent" }, { "quantity": "Burst height (Nagasaki)", "typical_range": "about 500-550 (commonly ~1,650-1,840 ft above ground; figures vary by source)", "unit": "m" }, { "quantity": "Plutonium in pit (order of magnitude, unclassified historical accounts)", "typical_range": "about 6 (few-kilogram plutonium-239 core; exact mass remains sensitive)", "unit": "kg" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of Fat Man this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Implosion asymmetry: incomplete or mistimed detonators / explosive-lens errors can produce a fizzle (yield far below design) rather than a full supercritical assembly.", "Pre-detonation / pre-initiation: plutonium-240 spontaneous fission neutrons can start the chain reaction before full compression, reducing yield (a reason for the Trinity test and for Pu-240 limits).", "Delivery and fuzing failure: aircraft abort, weather, or radar/barometric fuze failure can prevent a nuclear burst (the Nagasaki mission already diverted from Kokura for visibility).", "Prompt radiation, blast, and thermal pulse at detonation: the dominant combat and accident-in-war hazards (tens of thousands of deaths at Nagasaki; lingering residual radiation).", "Criticality and contamination hazard of a damaged pit or unassembled core (not a nuclear yield, but lethal radiation and alpha contamination).", "High-explosive hazard of the lens system even without a nuclear yield (conventional HE detonation can disperse plutonium - a dirty dispersal accident).", "Proliferation and design-secrecy hazard: the Fat Man architecture is the historical template for implosion weapons; remaining Restricted Data is controlled for that reason." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Fat Man this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "United States: 'Fat Man' is the Manhattan Project nickname; stockpile documents use Mark III / Mk-3; Trinity's device is 'the Gadget,' not Fat Man.", "Japan: the Nagasaki weapon is commonly referred to by the city and date (Nagasaki atomic bombing) rather than the U.S. nickname; Fat Man (ファットマン) appears in technical and museum contexts.", "Russian and other technical literatures often classify it as an early U.S. implosion plutonium bomb rather than by the cartoon nickname.", "The pumpkin-bomb training shape is sometimes conflated with Fat Man in popular accounts; U.S. Army Air Forces usage treated pumpkin bombs as a separate conventional/practice store." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of Fat Man this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Little Boy (Mark I)", "difference": "Little Boy is a gun-type uranium-235 weapon (Hiroshima, ~15 kt); Fat Man is a plutonium implosion weapon. Separate by fissile material (U-235 vs Pu-239), assembly method (gun vs explosive lenses), casing shape (long thin vs rotund), and target/date (Hiroshima 6 Aug vs Nagasaki 9 Aug 1945)." }, { "name": "Trinity Gadget", "difference": "Same implosion physics family, but the Gadget was a tower-fired test device at Alamogordo (16 July 1945), not a ballistic Fat Man drop casing. Separate by employment (ground test vs air-delivered bomb) and outer assembly." }, { "name": "Mark 4 (and later U.S. implosion bombs)", "difference": "Mk-4 and successors are improved, more manufacturable implosion weapons derived from Fat Man lessons, not the 1945 combat design. Separate by stockpile designation, production era, and internal improvements (levitated pit, better explosives, safety)." }, { "name": "Pumpkin bomb", "difference": "A Fat Man-shaped conventional or inert store for ballistics and training. Separate by payload (HE or inert vs nuclear physics package) and by 509th Composite Group mission type." }, { "name": "Thin Man", "difference": "Abandoned Manhattan Project plutonium gun-type design (long, thin casing). Separate by assembly method (gun vs implosion) and by the fact Thin Man never became a combat weapon; plutonium gun was dropped because of Pu-240 pre-detonation risk." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of Fat Man this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does vr.tr.fat-man denote the individual historical weapon, a design designation or another named object?", "Does an existing Vercy world model already cover the intended referent and therefore require linking instead of a separate publication?", "Which accessible primary and authoritative sources establish the intended referent's name, historical associations and exterior appearance?", "Which claimed surviving artifacts have evidence tying them specifically to the individual weapon rather than related production, testing or later reconstruction?", "Which recurring identification disputes or exhibit inaccuracies require explicit unresolved claims in the completed model?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 9, "findings": 16, "questions": 24 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "unclassified", "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 Fat Man, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to identify records and artifacts associated with the historical nuclear weapon called Fat Man, assess their evidential and physical status, and determine appropriate documentation, access and stewardship actions.", "characteristics": { "substance": "material", "origin": "manufactured", "agency": "inert", "mobility": "varies" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Described in 60 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 Fat Man, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "matter you can touch", "physicalCharacter": [ "Mobility varies between examples.", "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": [ "Recognised by form and material. The registry holds no appearance data, so what a Fat Man looks like has to come from research." ], "relatedModels": [], "standing": "Described in 60 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 Fat Man from another, and a Fat Man 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 Fat Man, 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 Fat Man, 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 Fat Man 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 Fat Man, 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 Fat Man, 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 Fat Man 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 Fat Man 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 Fat Man, 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 Fat Man, 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 Fat Man 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 Fat Man from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Fat Man, 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 Fat Man, 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 Fat Man 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 Fat Man 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 Fat Man, 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 Fat Man, 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 Fat Man 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 Fat Man is built from and which parts are replaceable.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a Fat Man, 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 Fat Man, 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 Fat Man 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 Fat Man is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a Fat Man, 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 Fat Man, 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 Fat Man 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 Fat Man 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 Fat Man is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a Fat Man, 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 Fat Man, 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 Fat Man 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 Fat Man 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 Fat Man, 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 Fat Man, 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 Fat Man 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 Fat Man 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 Fat Man between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Fat Man, 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 Fat Man, 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 Fat Man 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 Fat Man, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Fat Man 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 Fat Man, 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 Fat Man, 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 Fat Man 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 Fat Man 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 Fat Man is for, and what it is used for anyway.", "findings": [ { "id": "function-and-purpose", "name": "Function, purpose and misuse", "description": "The function a Fat Man performs and the uses that fall outside it.", "questions": [ { "id": "function-and-purpose-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the use of a Fat Man, 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 Fat Man, 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 Fat Man 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 Fat Man.", "findings": [ { "id": "procedures-and-skills", "name": "Procedures, skills and required tools", "description": "What an agent needs before it can act on a Fat Man at all.", "questions": [ { "id": "procedures-and-skills-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes handling a Fat Man, 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 Fat Man, 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 Fat Man is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a Fat Man 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 Fat Man and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Fat Man, 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 Fat Man, 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 Fat Man 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 Fat Man is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Fat Man, 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 Fat Man, 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 Fat Man is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } 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