{ "model": { "rank": 6095, "code": "thing-q188748", "model_id": "vr.tr.bulb", "name": "bulb", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a botanical bulb, assess its viability and developmental state, and decide whether to retain, plant, store, divide or investigate it.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.OBJ", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q188748/", "tier": 2, "score": 62, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "lily bulb as food", "Bulbus fritillariae cirrhosae", "bulbil", "flowering bulbs", "white lily bulb", "corm" ], "aliasCount": 6, "merged": 6, "knownIn": 62, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": "vr.tr.bulb-2", "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q188748", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q188748", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T11:32:33Z", "providers": [ "Codex", "Grok" ], "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "usd": 0.00400452, "turns": 1, "seconds": 57.4, "error": null }, "codex": { "seconds": 77.7, "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: 01a07ba0-b2b2-7f30-9fa6-a3b92f7c071f\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: bulb\nRegistry id: vr.tr.bulb\nPlane / domain: PHY / PHY.LIV\nRegistry definition: (none recorded)\nNames folded into this entry: (none)\n\nA Vercy model s" } } }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q188748", "registryId": "vr.tr.bulb", "name": "bulb", "version": "0.1.0-research.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "PHY.LIV" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q188748/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.bulb", "name": "bulb", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a botanical bulb, assess its viability and developmental state, and decide whether to retain, plant, store, divide or investigate it.", "definition": "A bulb is a specialized underground shoot of some monocotyledonous plants, consisting of a short basal stem (the basal plate) bearing a terminal bud and one or more fleshy leaf bases or scale leaves that store food, from which the plant can grow after dormancy.", "scope_statement": "This model owns an individual botanical bulb as a living storage and renewal structure, including its constituent tissues, buds, roots and attached offsets; interpreting 'bulb' botanically is provisional because the registry supplies no definition.", "in_scope": [ "Bulb identity and anatomical evidence, including the basal plate, fleshy scales or leaf bases, and renewal buds", "Integrity, reserves, hydration and evidence of viability", "Dormancy, rooting, shoot emergence and renewal state", "Attached offsets and their readiness for separation", "Conditions and constraints governing planting, storage, handling and propagation" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Electric light bulbs and other manufactured objects named for their shape", "Whole-plant architecture and lifecycle beyond their relationship to the bulb", "Corms, stem tubers, rhizomes and tuberous roots as independently modelled organs", "Soil, growing media, gardens and storage facilities as independent things", "Pathogens, pests and diseases as independently modelled biological entities", "Food products, recipes and medicinal preparations made from bulbs" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Look for fleshy scales or leaf bases arranged around buds on a shortened stem or basal plate; an approximately bulb-shaped outline alone is insufficient.", "Distinguish a true bulb from a corm by whether storage is principally in fleshy leaf tissues rather than a solid swollen stem.", "Distinguish a bulb from a stem tuber by its organisation around a basal plate and scales rather than a swollen stem bearing distributed buds or eyes.", "Distinguish a bulb from a rhizome by its compact scale-bearing organisation rather than an elongated stem with successive nodes.", "Distinguish a bulb from a tuberous root by evidence of stem and bud organisation within the storage structure; roots or an outer tunic alone do not establish bulb identity." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Botanical identity and confidence", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Taxon or candidate taxa; confirmed, provisional or unknown; evidence basis", "why_it_matters": "Interpretation of anatomy, seasonal state and permissible handling depends on identity." }, { "name": "Storage-organ classification", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "True bulb, suspected bulb, other storage organ or unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Prevents care and propagation decisions from being applied to a different kind of organ." }, { "name": "Scale and covering arrangement", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Tunicate, scaly or unresolved; covering intact, partly absent or absent", "why_it_matters": "Supports recognition and interpretation of exposed tissue and handling vulnerability." }, { "name": "Bulb dimensions", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Height and maximum transverse diameter in mm; measurement date and method", "why_it_matters": "Records size and change without assuming that size alone proves maturity or flowering readiness." }, { "name": "Bulb mass", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "g; measurement date and whether roots, offsets, soil or coverings were included", "why_it_matters": "Comparable measurements can reveal changes requiring investigation of hydration, reserve use or tissue loss." }, { "name": "Basal plate and scale integrity", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Intact, wounded, missing tissue, deteriorating or unassessed; location and extent", "why_it_matters": "Damage location affects survival prospects and the feasibility of planting or separation." }, { "name": "Tissue condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Observed firmness, shrivelling, softening, discoloration and exudate; assessed tissue and method", "why_it_matters": "Separates visible symptoms from unverified explanations such as dehydration or infection." }, { "name": "Bud, root and shoot activity", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Presence, count where observable, condition and emergence stage recorded separately", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes visible inactivity from active growth without equating inactivity with death." }, { "name": "Dormancy assessment", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Suspected dormant, supported dormant, active or unresolved; evidence and observation date", "why_it_matters": "Supports timing decisions while retaining uncertainty about the cause of absent growth." }, { "name": "Parent and offset connections", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Linked parent or offset identifiers; attachment location, connection condition and separation history", "why_it_matters": "Defines the individual under assessment and preserves propagation provenance." }, { "name": "Environmental exposure history", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Linked records of temperature, moisture, ventilation and exposure duration during growth or storage", "why_it_matters": "Provides context for condition changes and any identity-specific treatment requirements." } ], "affordances": [ "Inspect and document anatomical evidence to classify the storage organ and estimate identification confidence.", "Monitor bulb dimensions, mass and tissue condition using comparable observations.", "Choose planting or continued storage conditions using verified identity and developmental evidence.", "Separate suitable offsets when their anatomy, condition and identity-specific requirements support it.", "Isolate a suspect bulb from shared stock and seek diagnosis when deterioration or pest evidence warrants investigation.", "Defer potentially damaging handling or propagation when viability, identity or seasonal requirements remain unresolved." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "src-kew-bulb", "title": "Bulb", "url": "https://www.kew.org/read-and-watch/what-is-a-bulb", "what_it_supports": "Botanical definition of a true bulb versus other storage organs; tunicate vs scaly structure.", "url_status": "blocked" }, { "id": "src-rhs-bulbs", "title": "Bulbs", "url": "https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/types/bulbs", "what_it_supports": "Horticultural kinds, planting practice, and distinction from corms, tubers and rhizomes.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "src-wikidata-q190245", "title": "bulb (Q190245)", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q190245", "what_it_supports": "Identifier for the plant organ concept.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "src-ippc-ispm33", "title": "ISPM 33: Pest free potato (Solanum spp.) micropropagative material and minitubers for international trade", "url": "https://www.ippc.int/en/publications/639/", "what_it_supports": "Plant-health trade context for vegetative planting material (related, not bulb-specific).", "url_status": "live" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "bulb-identity-and-anatomy", "name": "Bulb identity and anatomy", "description": "Evidence that the thing is a botanical bulb and that its observed parts support the proposed identity.", "rationale": "A rounded storage organ or a common name does not establish bulb anatomy or justify bulb-specific actions.", "layers": [ { "id": "storage-organ-recognition", "name": "Storage-organ recognition", "description": "Recognition through the organisation of storage tissues, stem tissue and buds.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-for-true-bulb", "name": "Evidence for a true bulb", "description": "Record observed scales or fleshy leaf bases, basal plate and buds, distinguishing observations from inferred internal anatomy.", "questions": [ { "text": "What visible or previously documented anatomy supports classification as a true bulb?", "kind": "definition", "id": "evidence-for-true-bulb-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence distinguishes this specimen from a corm, stem tuber, rhizome or tuberous root?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "evidence-for-true-bulb-q02" }, { "text": "Can the necessary evidence be obtained without cutting living storage tissue?", "kind": "action", "id": "evidence-for-true-bulb-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "identity-and-covering", "name": "Identity and covering", "description": "Taxonomic attribution and interpretation of the bulb's scales and external covering.", "findings": [ { "id": "identity-supported-by-evidence", "name": "Identity supported by evidence", "description": "Record candidate identity, supporting labels or parent-plant observations, and whether the covering matches that interpretation.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the proposed identity come from a supplier label, a known parent plant, diagnostic observation or an unverified name?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "identity-supported-by-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Is the scale and covering arrangement consistent with the proposed identity, or is identification still unresolved?", "kind": "definition", "id": "identity-supported-by-evidence-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "storage-tissue-and-viability", "name": "Storage tissue and viability", "description": "Condition of the tissues needed to sustain the bulb and support renewed growth.", "rationale": "A bulb can retain its outline despite internal deterioration, while an inactive bulb may remain viable.", "layers": [ { "id": "reserve-and-hydration-evidence", "name": "Reserve and hydration evidence", "description": "Comparable observations of storage-tissue fullness and change.", "findings": [ { "id": "storage-tissue-condition", "name": "Storage-tissue condition", "description": "Record mass, dimensions, firmness and shrivelling as evidence requiring contextual interpretation rather than direct measurements of stored energy.", "questions": [ { "text": "What are the bulb's mass, dimensions and tissue firmness under a documented measurement method?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "storage-tissue-condition-q01" }, { "text": "How have these observations changed during storage or growth, accounting for removed tissue, roots and offsets?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "storage-tissue-condition-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "damage-and-deterioration", "name": "Damage and deterioration", "description": "Location and progression of injuries or symptoms affecting storage tissues and renewal structures.", "findings": [ { "id": "critical-tissue-integrity", "name": "Critical-tissue integrity", "description": "Record damage to the basal plate, buds and scales, retaining uncertainty about its cause and effect on viability.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which tissues show wounds, softening, discoloration, pest damage or loss, and what proportion is affected?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "critical-tissue-integrity-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence supports retaining, isolating or seeking diagnosis for this bulb before planting or propagation?", "kind": "action", "id": "critical-tissue-integrity-q02" }, { "text": "Which apparent defects may be normal dry coverings rather than deterioration of living tissue?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "critical-tissue-integrity-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "dormancy-and-growth-readiness", "name": "Dormancy and growth readiness", "description": "The bulb's present growth activity and the evidence needed to choose its next growing or storage conditions.", "rationale": "Absent shoots alone cannot establish dormancy, death or readiness for a particular treatment.", "layers": [ { "id": "renewal-activity", "name": "Renewal activity", "description": "Observable development of roots and renewal shoots.", "findings": [ { "id": "root-and-bud-state", "name": "Root and bud state", "description": "Record root activity, bud condition and shoot emergence separately, including which structures cannot be observed.", "questions": [ { "text": "Are roots or shoots emerging, elongating, deteriorating or absent from view?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "root-and-bud-state-q01" }, { "text": "What observations and seasonal history support a dormancy assessment rather than unexplained inactivity?", "kind": "definition", "id": "root-and-bud-state-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "environmental-history-and-next-step", "name": "Environmental history and next step", "description": "Past exposures and identity-specific requirements relevant to continued storage or planting.", "findings": [ { "id": "supported-growth-transition", "name": "Supported growth transition", "description": "Record the evidence for timing and environmental conditions needed for the next intended growth stage.", "questions": [ { "text": "What temperature and moisture exposures has this bulb experienced, and for how long?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "supported-growth-transition-q01" }, { "text": "What verified requirements for this identity and stage support planting, continued storage or a temperature treatment?", "kind": "action", "id": "supported-growth-transition-q02" }, { "text": "What evidence would be needed before treating bulb size or a visible shoot as evidence of flowering readiness?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "supported-growth-transition-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "offsets-and-intervention", "name": "Offsets and intervention", "description": "The bulb's connections to other growth units and the consequences of handling or propagation.", "rationale": "Attached offsets complicate individual identity, and separation can damage tissues required by either resulting unit.", "layers": [ { "id": "individual-and-offset-boundaries", "name": "Individual and offset boundaries", "description": "The boundary between a single bulb, its attached offsets and a multi-bulb clump.", "findings": [ { "id": "connected-growth-units", "name": "Connected growth units", "description": "Record distinct bulb units, their attachments and the evidence for recognising an offset separately.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is the assessed thing one bulb, a bulb with attached offsets or a clump requiring separate individual records?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "connected-growth-units-q01" }, { "text": "Which offsets have distinguishable basal tissue, buds or roots, and how are they connected to the parent?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "connected-growth-units-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "handling-and-propagation-decisions", "name": "Handling and propagation decisions", "description": "Evidence and constraints governing separation, planting orientation and tissue disturbance.", "findings": [ { "id": "intervention-readiness", "name": "Intervention readiness", "description": "Record whether the proposed operation is supported for the bulb's identity, anatomy, condition and current stage.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence supports separating an offset now, and what tissues must each resulting unit retain?", "kind": "action", "id": "intervention-readiness-q01" }, { "text": "Can the basal plate and shoot end be located well enough to support the proposed planting orientation?", "kind": "action", "id": "intervention-readiness-q02" }, { "text": "Which handling or propagation steps should be deferred because identity, tissue integrity or seasonal suitability remains uncertain?", "kind": "action", "id": "intervention-readiness-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "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": [ "true bulb (tunicate)", "true bulb (imbricate / non-tunicate)", "bulbils / bulblets", "onion-type (Allium) food bulbs", "tulip / hyacinth ornamental bulbs", "lily-type scaly bulbs", "forced / pre-chilled commercial bulbs", "wild geophyte bulbs" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of bulb 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": "Q190245", "note": "Item for the botanical organ 'bulb' (not the electric lamp)." }, { "scheme": "PO (Plant Ontology)", "value_or_pattern": "PO:0025271", "note": "Plant Ontology term 'bulb'; confirm against current PO release before citing as a product code." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of bulb this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation", "name": "Standards and regulation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; 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"Real-world use", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Food: onion, garlic, shallot and related Allium bulbs as vegetables and flavouring.", "Ornamental horticulture: tulip, daffodil, hyacinth, lily, crocus-trade often lumped as 'bulbs' even when some are corms.", "Forcing and cut-flower production: pre-cooled tulip and hyacinth bulbs for greenhouse flowering.", "Wild geophytes as forage, traditional food or conservation targets (e.g. some Liliaceae, Amaryllidaceae).", "Propagation stock: commercial bulb production, offsets, bulbils; also a pathway for soil-borne pests and viruses in trade." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of bulb 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": "bulb circumference (trade size)", "typical_range": "6-14 (species-dependent; tulip often 10-12+)", "unit": "cm" }, { "quantity": "fresh mass of a mature planting bulb", "typical_range": "5-150 (onion and large lily toward the high end)", "unit": "g" }, { "quantity": "dry-matter / storage-carbohydrate content", "typical_range": "10-40", "unit": "% fresh mass" }, { "quantity": "chilling / vernalization requirement for flowering", "typical_range": "4-16 weeks at ~1-9", "unit": "weeks at °C" }, { "quantity": "planting depth (to basal plate)", "typical_range": "5-20 (often 2-3× bulb height)", "unit": "cm" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of bulb 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": [ "Basal rot, neck rot, Botrytis 'fire', Fusarium, and storage moulds destroying the bulb in ground or store.", "Virus complexes (e.g. tulip breaking virus, onion yellow dwarf) spread by aphids and by vegetative propagation.", "Nematodes, mites (e.g. bulb mite Rhizoglyphus), and Narcissus fly larvae in bulbs.", "Physiological failure: lack of cold, premature sprouting, 'blind' (non-flowering) bulbs, freeze-thaw damage.", "Ingestion hazard: many ornamental bulbs (Narcissus, Hyacinthus, Colchicum, some Lilium) are toxic to humans and especially cats; confusion with onions in kitchens.", "Invasive or weedy escape of planted geophytes; phytosanitary interceptions in international bulb trade.", "Allergenic contact dermatitis from handling hyacinth and tulip bulbs (tulipalin)." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of bulb 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": [ "English 'bulb' in garden centres often includes corms (crocus, gladiolus), tubers and rhizomes; botanical 'true bulb' is narrower.", "Dutch flower-bulb industry (Keukenhof / BKD sizing by circumference in centimetres) dominates ornamental trade vocabulary worldwide.", "Allium food bulbs: 'shallot', 'multiplier onion', 'potato onion' and regional landraces named inconsistently across Europe, South Asia and East Asia.", "South African and Mediterranean geophyte floras use 'bulb' for many Amaryllidaceae that horticulture may also call 'amaryllis' or 'nerine'.", "Some languages distinguish tunicate food bulbs from scaly lily bulbs more sharply than English garden usage does." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of bulb 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": "corm", "difference": "A corm is a swollen solid stem with nodes and a papery tunic; a true bulb is mostly leaf-scale tissue around a small basal plate. Vertical section: solid stem vs layered scales." }, { "name": "tuber", "difference": "A tuber is a swollen stem (potato) or root (dahlia, sweet potato) without a basal plate of concentric fleshy leaves; eyes/buds are axillary, not a single terminal bud on a plate." }, { "name": "rhizome", "difference": "A rhizome is a horizontal stem with internodes growing at or below the soil surface (iris, ginger); a bulb is a condensed vertical shoot." }, { "name": "pseudobulb", "difference": "An orchid pseudobulb is a thickened aerial or terrestrial stem internodes, not a subterranean leaf-storage organ with a basal plate." }, { "name": "incandescent / LED lamp ('light bulb')", "difference": "Unrelated artefact; domain PHY.LIV and plant-anatomy identifiers (Wikidata Q190245, PO:0025271) versus electrical-device items." }, { "name": "bulb of the penis / olfactory bulb / hair bulb", "difference": "Homonymous anatomical terms in animals; not a plant storage organ. Context and organism separate them." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of bulb this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does vr.tr.bulb specifically denote a true botanical bulb, or does the registry intend a broader horticultural category containing other underground storage organs?", "Does an existing Vercy world model already own botanical bulbs or their relevant storage-organ concept, requiring this registry entry to link to it?", "Which identity-specific evidence reliably distinguishes dormancy, dehydration and loss of viability without destructive inspection?", "Which authoritative sources establish planting, storage, temperature-treatment and offset-separation requirements for the taxa this entry must cover?", "How should continuity of an individual bulb be recorded when renewal, replacement or offset development changes the boundaries of the original structure?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 9, "findings": 16, "questions": 28 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "device, machine or tool", "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 bulb, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a botanical bulb, assess its viability and developmental state, and decide whether to retain, plant, store, divide or investigate it.", "characteristics": { "substance": "material", "origin": "manufactured", "agency": "inert", "mobility": "varies" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: lily bulb as food, Bulbus fritillariae cirrhosae, bulbil, flowering bulbs, white lily bulb, corm.", "6 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 62 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 bulb, 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, by the arrangement of its controls, and by markings - a plate, a model number, a certification mark. 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": [ "lily bulb as food", "Bulbus fritillariae cirrhosae", "bulbil", "flowering bulbs", "white lily bulb", "corm" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 62 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 6 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 bulb from another, and a bulb 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 bulb, 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 bulb, 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 bulb 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 bulb, 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 bulb, 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 bulb 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 bulb 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 bulb, 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 bulb, 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 bulb 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 bulb from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a bulb, 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 bulb, 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 bulb 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 bulb 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 bulb, 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 bulb, 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 bulb 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 bulb is built from and which parts are replaceable.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a bulb, 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 bulb, 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 bulb 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 bulb is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a bulb, 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 bulb, 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 bulb 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 bulb 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 bulb is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a bulb, 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 bulb, 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 bulb 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 bulb 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 bulb, 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 bulb, 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 bulb 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 bulb 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 bulb between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a bulb, 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 bulb, 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 bulb 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 bulb, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a bulb 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 bulb, 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 bulb, 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 bulb 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 bulb 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 bulb 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 bulb, 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 bulb 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 bulb 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 bulb 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 bulb 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 bulb 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 bulb, 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 bulb 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 bulb and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a bulb, 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 bulb, 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 bulb 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 bulb is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a bulb, 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 bulb, 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 bulb 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 } } } }