{ "model": { "rank": 5043, "code": "thing-q189511", "model_id": "vr.tr.electronic-cigarette", "name": "electronic cigarette", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise an electronic cigarette, assess its configuration and condition, and determine which use, servicing, storage or disposal actions are appropriate.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.OBJ", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q189511/", "tier": 2, "score": 70, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "Puff Bar", "Elf Bar", "Pod Salt", "Blu" ], "aliasCount": 4, "merged": 4, "knownIn": 70, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q189511", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q189511", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-09T21:33:00Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 24, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.4\n--------\nworkdir: R:\\02_PROJECTS\\02_Meta_Models_Platforms\\Ver.cy\\current\\thing-registry-backlog\nmodel: gpt-6-astra\nprovider: openai\napproval: never\nsandbox: read-only\nreasoning effort: none\nreasoning summaries: none\nsession id: 01a08815-a2fc-7772-970f-571b0fc6b71d\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: electronic cigarette\nSense to describe: (none recorded)\nDomain code: PHY.OBJ\nAlso known as: (none)\n\n\nContext for this batch of 1001 things:\n# Batch 005:", "usd": 0, "recall": true }, "codex": { "seconds": 66.3, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.4\n--------\nworkdir: R:\\02_PROJECTS\\02_Meta_Models_Platforms\\Ver.cy\\current\\thing-registry-backlog\nmodel: gpt-6-astra\nprovider: openai\napproval: never\nsandbox: read-only\nreasoning effort: none\nreasoning summaries: none\nsession id: 01a08815-a304-7c23-924c-516a6e8e689c\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: electronic cigarette\nRegistry id: vr.tr.electronic-cigarette\nPlane / domain: PHY / PHY.OBJ\nRegistry definition: (none recorded)\nNames folded into thi" } } }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q189511", "registryId": "vr.tr.electronic-cigarette", "name": "electronic cigarette", "version": "0.1.0-research.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "PHY.OBJ" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q189511/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.electronic-cigarette", "name": "electronic cigarette", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise an electronic cigarette, assess its configuration and condition, and determine which use, servicing, storage or disposal actions are appropriate.", "definition": "An electronic cigarette is an electrically powered device that heats a liquid, with or without nicotine, to generate an aerosol for inhalation through a mouthpiece without burning tobacco.", "scope_statement": "This model owns the electronic-cigarette device kind registered as vr.tr.electronic-cigarette in PHY / PHY.OBJ: electrically powered devices that generate an inhalable aerosol from an e-liquid, including nicotine-free configurations, while distinguishing the kind from commercial product models and individual units.", "in_scope": [ "Device architecture, including integrated, cartridge, pod and refillable configurations", "E-liquid containment, delivery to the aerosol generator and compatibility", "Electrical power, activation controls and operating states", "Airflow and aerosol delivery through the mouthpiece", "Device condition, protective functions, serviceability and end-of-life handling" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Combustible cigarettes and their combustion processes", "Heated-tobacco devices whose aerosol source is a tobacco substrate", "Medical nebulisers and therapeutic inhalers", "E-liquid formulation and chemical toxicology as independent substance models", "Human vaping behaviour, dependence and clinical outcomes", "Commercial product catalogues and individual-device histories as separate records" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Uses electrical energy to generate aerosol from an e-liquid rather than relying on sustained combustion.", "Includes or accepts a liquid supply connected to an aerosol-generating component and an inhalation path.", "An electronic-cigarette appearance alone is insufficient: establish whether the aerosol source is e-liquid, a tobacco substrate or another material.", "Nicotine content does not determine device identity; a compatible nicotine-free liquid does not change the device kind.", "Distinguish it from a medical aerosol device through intended purpose and documented product classification rather than the presence of a mouthpiece alone." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Liquid-supply architecture", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "sealed integrated reservoir | replaceable prefilled cartridge or pod | refillable reservoir | other | unknown", "why_it_matters": "Determines which replenishment actions are supported and which components can be separated." }, { "name": "Aerosol-generation mechanism", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "resistive heating | other documented mechanism | unknown", "why_it_matters": "Identifies the operating principle and the component constraints that require verification." }, { "name": "Compatible liquid specification", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Link to documented liquid requirements and exclusions", "why_it_matters": "Prevents an agent from assuming that any liquid is suitable for the device." }, { "name": "Declared nicotine concentration", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "mg/mL, with label provenance; unknown when unverified", "why_it_matters": "Characterises the installed consumable without treating nicotine as a defining device feature." }, { "name": "Reservoir capacity", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "mL; distinguish nominal capacity from estimated remaining liquid", "why_it_matters": "Supports replenishment planning and interpretation of liquid-level observations." }, { "name": "Activation method", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "draw activated | button activated | combined | other | unknown", "why_it_matters": "Explains how aerosol generation starts and how unintended activation might occur." }, { "name": "Operating state", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "off | ready | activated | locked | charging | depleted | fault | unknown", "why_it_matters": "Separates readiness from charging, lockout and fault conditions." }, { "name": "Electrical operating envelope", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Documented output power in W, voltage in V and supported atomiser resistance in ohms, where applicable", "why_it_matters": "Allows settings and replacement components to be checked against supported limits." }, { "name": "Battery configuration", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "integrated non-rechargeable | integrated rechargeable | replaceable cell | other | unknown", "why_it_matters": "Determines charging, replacement and disposal options." }, { "name": "Charging requirements", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Link to specified input ratings, charging interface and compatible charging equipment", "why_it_matters": "Physical connector fit alone does not establish charging compatibility." }, { "name": "Protective functions", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Documented activation lock, puff cutoff, short-circuit protection, thermal protection or other functions; present | absent | unverified for each", "why_it_matters": "Makes protective capabilities explicit without assuming every device provides them." }, { "name": "Observed condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Record leakage, enclosure damage, battery deformation, abnormal heating, airflow obstruction and connector contamination separately", "why_it_matters": "Supports a condition assessment without compressing different faults into a single vague status." } ], "affordances": [ "Classify the device architecture and distinguish it from combustible, heated-tobacco and medical aerosol devices.", "Check whether a liquid, pod, atomiser, battery or charger is documented as compatible.", "Interpret controls, indicators and fault signals to assess readiness or lockout.", "Identify supported replenishment, cleaning and component-replacement actions.", "Flag conditions that require taking the device out of service and consulting product-specific guidance.", "Identify disposal routes for the assembled device, batteries and residual liquid using applicable local requirements." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "device-identity-and-boundaries", "name": "Device identity and boundaries", "description": "Establish what makes the object an electronic cigarette and which architecture it uses.", "rationale": "Similar-looking inhalation devices can use different aerosol sources and require different models.", "layers": [ { "id": "aerosol-source-and-purpose", "name": "Aerosol source and purpose", "description": "Identify the source material and intended role of the inhalation device.", "findings": [ { "id": "electronic-cigarette-membership", "name": "Electronic-cigarette membership", "description": "Record evidence that the device electrically generates aerosol from e-liquid for vaping, including how ambiguous or multipurpose products are classified.", "questions": [ { "text": "What material does the device aerosolise, and by what documented mechanism?", "kind": "definition", "id": "electronic-cigarette-membership-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence separates this device from a heated-tobacco product, medical nebuliser or other vaporiser?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "electronic-cigarette-membership-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "architecture-and-component-boundary", "name": "Architecture and component boundary", "description": "Describe how the power unit, liquid supply and aerosol generator form a working device.", "findings": [ { "id": "integrated-and-modular-configurations", "name": "Integrated and modular configurations", "description": "Distinguish an assembled electronic cigarette from its replaceable components, commercial model designation and individual-unit record.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which components are integrated, user-replaceable or supplied separately?", "kind": "definition", "id": "integrated-and-modular-configurations-q01" }, { "text": "Does the referenced object denote a complete device, a component, a product model or a particular unit?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "integrated-and-modular-configurations-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "liquid-supply-and-aerosol-generation", "name": "Liquid supply and aerosol generation", "description": "Connect the installed liquid, its containment and its delivery to the aerosol-generating component.", "rationale": "A device can be electrically functional while its liquid supply or atomiser configuration makes operation inappropriate.", "layers": [ { "id": "liquid-identity-and-containment", "name": "Liquid identity and containment", "description": "Record liquid identification, capacity and the reservoir or cartridge interface.", "findings": [ { "id": "installed-liquid-and-reservoir", "name": "Installed liquid and reservoir", "description": "Keep declared liquid properties, remaining quantity and containment condition distinct from verified compatibility.", "questions": [ { "text": "What identifies the installed liquid, including its declared nicotine concentration and the source of that declaration?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "installed-liquid-and-reservoir-q01" }, { "text": "What are the reservoir capacity, observable liquid level and signs of leakage?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "installed-liquid-and-reservoir-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "liquid-feed-and-atomiser", "name": "Liquid feed and atomiser", "description": "Describe how liquid reaches the aerosol generator and which consumable components it requires.", "findings": [ { "id": "feed-and-generator-compatibility", "name": "Feed and generator compatibility", "description": "Record the atomiser mechanism, liquid-feed arrangement and documented limits for compatible liquids and replacement parts.", "questions": [ { "text": "How does liquid reach the aerosol-generating component, and which parts degrade or require replacement?", "kind": "definition", "id": "feed-and-generator-compatibility-q01" }, { "text": "Which liquid specifications and atomiser configurations are supported by the device documentation?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "feed-and-generator-compatibility-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "activation-airflow-and-output", "name": "Activation, airflow and output", "description": "Model the transition from user input to aerosol delivery through the inhalation path.", "rationale": "Activation logic, airflow and output settings jointly determine whether the device behaves as intended.", "layers": [ { "id": "controls-and-state-transitions", "name": "Controls and state transitions", "description": "Interpret draw sensors, buttons, locks, indicators and fault states.", "findings": [ { "id": "activation-and-lockout-behaviour", "name": "Activation and lockout behaviour", "description": "Record how activation starts and ends, how readiness is indicated and how documented lockouts operate.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which inputs move the device between off, ready, activated, locked and fault states?", "kind": "definition", "id": "activation-and-lockout-behaviour-q01" }, { "text": "How can an agent verify the current state and apply a documented activation lock?", "kind": "action", "id": "activation-and-lockout-behaviour-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "air-path-and-output-envelope", "name": "Air path and output envelope", "description": "Connect mouthpiece condition, airflow adjustment and supported electrical output.", "findings": [ { "id": "delivery-path-and-supported-settings", "name": "Delivery path and supported settings", "description": "Record the airflow route, evidence of obstruction and supported settings without equating electrical power with inhaled dose.", "questions": [ { "text": "What airflow controls and mouthpiece passages exist, and what observations indicate blockage or liquid accumulation?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "delivery-path-and-supported-settings-q01" }, { "text": "Which output settings are supported for the installed atomiser, and where are those limits documented?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "delivery-path-and-supported-settings-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "battery-charging-and-protection", "name": "Battery, charging and protection", "description": "Describe the energy source, charging interface and protective functions of the device.", "rationale": "Rechargeability, cell compatibility and fault protection vary independently of the liquid-supply architecture.", "layers": [ { "id": "energy-source-and-charging-interface", "name": "Energy source and charging interface", "description": "Identify battery construction and documented charging requirements.", "findings": [ { "id": "battery-and-charger-compatibility", "name": "Battery and charger compatibility", "description": "Distinguish integrated and replaceable batteries and record charging support independently from refillability.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is the battery rechargeable or replaceable, and what evidence establishes its specification?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "battery-and-charger-compatibility-q01" }, { "text": "Which charging equipment, input ratings and charging states does the manufacturer permit?", "kind": "action", "id": "battery-and-charger-compatibility-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "protective-functions-and-fault-response", "name": "Protective functions and fault response", "description": "Identify documented safeguards and conditions that prevent further operation.", "findings": [ { "id": "protection-evidence-and-abnormal-condition", "name": "Protection evidence and abnormal condition", "description": "Keep documented protection features separate from observed battery or electrical faults and unverified assumptions about safety.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which electrical, thermal and activation protections are documented, and what evidence supports each claimed function?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "protection-evidence-and-abnormal-condition-q01" }, { "text": "What product-specific response is required for abnormal heating, battery deformation, damaged contacts or repeated fault indications?", "kind": "action", "id": "protection-evidence-and-abnormal-condition-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "serviceability-conformity-and-end-of-life", "name": "Serviceability, conformity and end of life", "description": "Determine supported maintenance, evidence of applicable conformity and the route out of service.", "rationale": "Electronic cigarettes combine consumable liquid, aerosol-contact parts and electrical waste with architecture-specific service limits.", "layers": [ { "id": "maintenance-and-consumable-replacement", "name": "Maintenance and consumable replacement", "description": "Identify permitted cleaning, refilling and component-replacement actions.", "findings": [ { "id": "supported-service-boundary", "name": "Supported service boundary", "description": "Record which maintenance actions the design and documentation support and which observations indicate exhausted or degraded components.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which parts may be cleaned, refilled or replaced, and what documented procedure applies to each?", "kind": "action", "id": "supported-service-boundary-q01" }, { "text": "Which observed symptoms distinguish liquid depletion, atomiser degradation, leakage and electrical failure?", "kind": "definition", "id": "supported-service-boundary-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "conformity-and-disposal-evidence", "name": "Conformity and disposal evidence", "description": "Associate jurisdiction-specific requirements and disposal instructions with the relevant device configuration.", "findings": [ { "id": "applicable-requirements-and-claims", "name": "Applicable requirements and claims", "description": "Record applicable standards and regulatory requirements with issuing bodies, versions, jurisdiction and evidence, while distinguishing a visible mark from a verified claim.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which standards or requirements apply to this configuration, intended market and assessment date, and who issues them?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "applicable-requirements-and-claims-q01" }, { "text": "What declaration, test report or certification record supports each conformity claim?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "applicable-requirements-and-claims-q02" } ] }, { "id": "retirement-and-waste-routing", "name": "Retirement and waste routing", "description": "Determine when the device leaves service and how its battery, electronics and residual liquid must be handled.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which documented condition or depletion threshold makes this configuration ready for retirement?", "kind": "definition", "id": "retirement-and-waste-routing-q01" }, { "text": "Which local collection route accepts the device and residual liquid, and is any component separation explicitly supported?", "kind": "action", "id": "retirement-and-waste-routing-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "This describes the device kind, not a particular brand, product model, physical unit, or the activity of vaping.", "Measurement ranges are approximate recall-based examples, not specification limits; device architecture and market strongly affect them.", "Check current jurisdictional rules, standard editions, and product-specific applicability first; electrical or battery compliance does not establish aerosol safety." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of electronic cigarette this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Disposable devices with non-refillable liquid reservoirs", "Reusable devices with replaceable prefilled cartridges or pods", "Refillable pod systems", "Pen-style refillable devices", "Tank systems with adjustable-power battery units", "Mechanical devices without electronic power regulation" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of electronic cigarette this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "GTIN", "value_or_pattern": "An 8-, 12-, 13-, or 14-digit trade-item identifier", "note": "Identifies a marketed product or packaging configuration, not the device kind or an individual physical unit." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of electronic cigarette this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation", "name": "Standards and regulation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "European Parliament and Council Directive 2014/40/EU, Article 20, establishes requirements for electronic cigarettes and refill containers within its scope.", "US Food and Drug Administration tobacco-product rules regulate electronic nicotine delivery systems within their scope, including applicable premarket authorization requirements.", "IEC 62133-2, issued by the International Electrotechnical Commission, addresses safety of portable sealed rechargeable lithium cells and batteries.", "UL 8139, issued by UL Standards & Engagement, addresses electrical-system safety of electronic cigarettes and vaping devices.", "UN Manual of Tests and Criteria, subsection 38.3, sets transport tests for lithium cells and batteries." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of electronic cigarette this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Inhalation of nicotine-containing aerosol.", "Inhalation of nicotine-free flavored aerosol.", "Use by some smokers as a substitute for combustible cigarettes or during attempts to stop smoking.", "Concurrent use with combustible tobacco products." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of electronic cigarette this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "Liquid reservoir capacity", "typical_range": "Approximately 1-10 for many cartridge, pod, and tank products; some devices hold more", "unit": "mL" }, { "quantity": "Battery capacity", "typical_range": "Approximately 200-3000 for many single-cell devices", "unit": "mAh" }, { "quantity": "Electrical heating power", "typical_range": "Approximately 5-100 across many pod and adjustable-power devices", "unit": "W" }, { "quantity": "Heating-coil resistance", "typical_range": "Approximately 0.1-3", "unit": "Ω" }, { "quantity": "Nicotine concentration in liquid", "typical_range": "Approximately 0-50 in commonly encountered products, with substantial market variation", "unit": "mg/mL" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of electronic cigarette this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Battery short circuits, damage, or unsuitable charging can cause overheating, fire, or cell rupture.", "Liquid leakage can expose users or children to nicotine through ingestion or skin contact.", "Insufficient liquid supply to the heater can overheat the wick and liquid, producing a burnt aerosol and increased thermal decomposition products.", "Aerosol can contain irritants, carbonyl compounds, and metals; composition depends on liquid, device materials, power, and operating conditions.", "Nicotine-containing products can cause dependence and acute poisoning; unintended activation or hot liquid droplets can cause burns." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of electronic cigarette this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Jurisdictions differ in whether products are regulated as tobacco products, consumer products, medicines, or prohibited goods.", "Restrictions on nicotine concentration, liquid capacity, flavors, disposable products, advertising, and purchaser age vary by jurisdiction.", "Product availability and the prevalence of refillable, prefilled, and disposable designs differ between markets." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of electronic cigarette this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Combustible cigarette", "difference": "Burns tobacco to produce smoke; an electronic cigarette heats liquid to produce aerosol." }, { "name": "Heated tobacco product", "difference": "Heats a tobacco substrate rather than primarily aerosolizing an e-liquid." }, { "name": "Medical nebulizer", "difference": "Generates an aerosol for medical delivery, commonly by compressed gas, ultrasound, or a vibrating mesh rather than an e-cigarette heating coil." }, { "name": "E-liquid", "difference": "Is the consumable formulation placed in the device, rather than the device itself." }, { "name": "Vaporizer", "difference": "Is a broader device category that can include equipment for liquids, dry herbs, or other materials; electronic cigarettes are a narrower inhalation-device category." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of electronic cigarette this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does an existing Vercy world model already own this concept, and which neighbouring models should supply shared battery, liquid and aerosol-generator concepts?", "Where should the registry boundary fall for multipurpose liquid vaporisers and devices using aerosol-generation mechanisms other than resistive heating?", "Which authoritative standards, issuing bodies and conformity requirements apply across the intended jurisdictions and device architectures?", "What sourced capacity, dimension and electrical-output ranges are representative of each architecture without implying universal limits?", "Which observable fault symptoms reliably support state assessment, and which require product-specific diagnostics or laboratory measurement?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 20, "questions": 31 } }, "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 electronic cigarette, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an agent to recognise an electronic cigarette, assess its configuration and condition, and determine which use, servicing, storage or disposal actions are appropriate.", "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: Puff Bar, Elf Bar, Pod Salt, Blu.", "4 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 70 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 electronic cigarette, 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": [ "Puff Bar", "Elf Bar", "Pod Salt", "Blu" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 70 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 4 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 electronic cigarette from another, and a electronic cigarette 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 electronic cigarette, 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 electronic cigarette, 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 electronic cigarette 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 electronic cigarette, 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 electronic cigarette, 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 electronic cigarette 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 electronic cigarette 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 electronic cigarette, 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 electronic cigarette, 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 electronic cigarette 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 electronic cigarette from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a electronic cigarette, 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 electronic cigarette, 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 electronic cigarette 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 electronic cigarette 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 electronic cigarette, 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 electronic cigarette, 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 electronic cigarette 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 electronic cigarette is built from and which parts are replaceable.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a electronic cigarette, 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 electronic cigarette, 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 electronic cigarette 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 electronic cigarette is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a electronic cigarette, 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 electronic cigarette, 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 electronic cigarette 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 electronic cigarette 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 electronic cigarette is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a electronic cigarette, 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 electronic cigarette, 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 electronic cigarette 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 electronic cigarette 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 electronic cigarette, 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 electronic cigarette, 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 electronic cigarette 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 electronic cigarette 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 electronic cigarette between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a electronic cigarette, 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 electronic cigarette, 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 electronic cigarette 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 electronic cigarette, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a electronic cigarette 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 electronic cigarette, 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 electronic cigarette, 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 electronic cigarette 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 electronic cigarette 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 electronic cigarette 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 electronic cigarette, 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 electronic cigarette 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 electronic cigarette 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 electronic cigarette 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 electronic cigarette 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 electronic cigarette 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 electronic cigarette, 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 electronic cigarette 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 electronic cigarette and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a electronic cigarette, 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 electronic cigarette, 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 electronic cigarette 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 electronic cigarette is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a electronic cigarette, 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 electronic cigarette, 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 electronic cigarette 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 } } } }