{ "model": { "rank": 6349, "code": "thing-q192199", "model_id": "vr.tr.soy-milk", "name": "soy milk", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise soy milk, assess its composition and condition, and decide whether it is suitable for a proposed drinking, cooking or processing use.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.OBJ", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q192199/", "tier": 2, "score": 61, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "doujiang" ], "aliasCount": 1, "merged": 1, "knownIn": 61, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q192199", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q192199", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T13:55:19Z", "providers": [ "Codex", "Grok" ], "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "usd": 0.00507586, "turns": 1, "seconds": 74.4, "error": null }, "codex": { "seconds": 77.4, "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: 01a07c25-bc77-7441-b508-8ed5da89e428\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: soy milk\nRegistry id: vr.tr.soy-milk\nPlane / domain: PHY / PHY.OBJ\nRegistry definition: (none recorded)\nNames folded into this entry: (none)\n\nA Vercy" } } }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q192199", "registryId": "vr.tr.soy-milk", "name": "soy milk", "version": "0.1.0-research.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "PHY.OBJ" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q192199/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.soy-milk", "name": "soy milk", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise soy milk, assess its composition and condition, and decide whether it is suitable for a proposed drinking, cooking or processing use.", "definition": "Soy milk is an aqueous extract of whole soybeans (Glycine max), produced by soaking, wet-grinding, and filtering the beans, then typically heat-treating the extract; it is used as a beverage, cooking liquid, and dairy analogue, and is the feedstock for tofu, yuba, and related soy foods.", "scope_statement": "This model owns soy milk as an aqueous soy-based food, including its identity, formulation, processing history, current condition and behaviour in use, at product, batch or prepared-portion level.", "in_scope": [ "Soy milk identity, including commercial and freshly prepared forms", "Soy content, added ingredients, fortification and declared allergens", "Preparation, heat treatment and preservation history", "Packaging, storage, opening history and observable condition", "Suitability for drinking, heating, foaming and recipe substitution" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Soybean cultivation, breeding and agricultural supply chains", "Manufacturing equipment and factory operating procedures", "Other plant-based drinks and dairy milk as independently modelled products", "Tofu, soy yoghurt and other products made by transforming soy milk", "Individual medical conditions and personalised dietary prescriptions", "Packaging manufacture and waste-management systems" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Check ingredients or preparation records for a soy-derived liquid base; a white appearance or the word 'milk' alone does not establish identity.", "Distinguish soy milk from dairy milk using ingredient provenance, including whether dairy ingredients are also present.", "Distinguish ready-to-use liquid soy milk from dry powder or concentrate by its supplied form and any required reconstitution.", "Check whether fermentation or coagulation has intentionally produced a different food, such as soy yoghurt or tofu.", "Where several plant bases are present, record their declared roles and proportions rather than assuming that any soy-containing drink is soy milk." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Soy base and extraction route", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Whole-soybean extract; soy flour base; soy protein ingredient base; mixed route; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Supports identity assessment and interpretation of composition and processing differences." }, { "name": "Soy content", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Declared percentage with basis, or grams of soy input per litre with preparation yield", "why_it_matters": "Helps compare formulations without treating soybean input, extracted solids and protein content as interchangeable." }, { "name": "Protein concentration", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "g/100 mL, with label, calculation or laboratory provenance", "why_it_matters": "Informs nutritional comparison and investigation of foaming or coagulation behaviour." }, { "name": "Sweetening and flavouring", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Unsweetened; sweetened; flavoured; ingredients and claims recorded separately", "why_it_matters": "Affects taste and suitability for savoury dishes, beverages and recipe substitution." }, { "name": "Fortification", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Links to added nutrients, their chemical forms and declared amounts per stated volume", "why_it_matters": "Prevents assuming that all soy milks provide the same nutrients or behave identically during storage." }, { "name": "Allergen declaration", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Links to soy and any additional declared allergens or cross-contact statements", "why_it_matters": "Supports matching a specific product to supplied dietary restrictions." }, { "name": "Heat treatment and preservation", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Recorded treatment, preservation method and supporting evidence; unknown permitted", "why_it_matters": "Helps establish the applicable storage instructions and whether preparation is complete." }, { "name": "Package and opening condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Sealed; opened with timestamp; resealed; damaged; unrecorded", "why_it_matters": "Determines which handling instructions apply to the current portion." }, { "name": "Storage exposure", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Temperature in °C and duration in hours, with gaps or excursions identified", "why_it_matters": "Allows assessment against product-specific requirements rather than appearance alone." }, { "name": "Dispersion condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Uniform; settled; separated; flocculated; gelled; response to permitted mixing", "why_it_matters": "Helps distinguish a recoverable texture change from a condition requiring investigation." }, { "name": "Acidity", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "pH with measurement time, temperature and method", "why_it_matters": "Supports investigation of changes during storage or interaction with acidic ingredients without serving as a standalone safety verdict." }, { "name": "Performance in intended use", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Links to a drinking, heating, foaming or recipe trial and its observed outcome", "why_it_matters": "Grounds suitability in the specific formulation and use conditions." } ], "affordances": [ "Identify the soy base and compare products for a specified dietary or culinary requirement.", "Check preparation and storage records against applicable product instructions.", "Redisperse settled material when instructions permit and record the resulting texture.", "Evaluate a small trial for heating, coffee mixing, foaming or recipe substitution.", "Measure composition or condition where label information and observations are insufficient.", "Route a portion to use, further assessment or disposal based on documented condition and applicable guidance." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "codex-stan-243", "title": "Codex Standard for Fermented Milks (CXS 243-2003) and related Codex work on plant-based beverages; Codex Alimentarius Commission, FAO/WHO", "url": "https://www.fao.org/fao-who-codexalimentarius/sh-proxy/en/?lnk=1&url=https%253A%252F%252Fworkspace.fao.org%252Fsites%252Fcodex%252FStandards%252FCXS%2B243-2003%252FCXS_243e.pdf", "what_it_supports": "International food-standard framing of dairy vs. non-dairy beverages; used only as context that Codex treats fermented milks separately from plant extracts. Primary naming for soy milk itself is national, not this standard.", "url_status": "blocked" }, { "id": "usda-fdc-soymilk", "title": "FoodData Central: Soymilk, original and vanilla, unfortified (FDC ID 175217 and related soy milk entries)", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Typical composition ranges (protein, fat, energy, calcium when unfortified vs fortified) for commercial US soy milk.", "url_status": "dead" }, { "id": "efsa-soy-isoflavones", "title": "Risk assessment for peri- and post-menopausal women taking food supplements containing isolated isoflavones (EFSA Journal 2015;13(10):4246)", "url": "https://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/efsajournal/pub/4246", "what_it_supports": "Isoflavone content as a characteristic of soy foods; distinction between traditional soy foods (including soy milk) and high-dose isoflavone supplements.", "url_status": "blocked" }, { "id": "china-gb-soymilk", "title": "GB/T 30885-2014 Plant protein beverages - Soymilk and soymilk beverage (China national recommended standard)", "url": "https://www.chinesestandard.net/PDF/English.aspx/GBT30885-2014", "what_it_supports": "Chinese industrial distinction between soymilk (doujiang / 豆浆) and soymilk beverage, protein minima, and naming practice in the largest producing/consuming market.", "url_status": "live" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "soy-milk-identity", "name": "Soy milk identity", "description": "Establishes what the liquid is and whether it falls within the registered thing.", "rationale": "Appearance and product names cannot reliably separate soy milk from other white drinks, blends or transformed soy foods.", "layers": [ { "id": "soy-base", "name": "Soy base", "description": "Records the soy-derived material and evidence supporting identification.", "findings": [ { "id": "base-provenance", "name": "Base provenance", "description": "The soy basis is established from an ingredient declaration or preparation record.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which soy ingredients or soybean preparation steps produce the liquid base?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "base-provenance-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence identifies this liquid as soy milk rather than another plant drink?", "kind": "definition", "id": "base-provenance-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "product-boundaries", "name": "Product boundaries", "description": "Handles blends, reconstituted forms and intentional transformations.", "findings": [ { "id": "form-and-transformation", "name": "Form and transformation", "description": "The supplied form and any transformation determine whether this model applies directly.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is this ready-to-use soy milk, a concentrate, or a powder awaiting reconstitution?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "form-and-transformation-q01" }, { "text": "Do other bases, fermentation or intentional coagulation place it within a neighbouring product model?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "form-and-transformation-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "soy-milk-formulation", "name": "Soy milk formulation", "description": "Captures the composition that affects nutritional interpretation and use.", "rationale": "Soy milks differ in soy concentration, sweetening, added nutrients and texture-modifying ingredients.", "layers": [ { "id": "soy-solids-and-additions", "name": "Soy solids and additions", "description": "Separates the soy contribution from water and added ingredients.", "findings": [ { "id": "composition-basis", "name": "Composition basis", "description": "Composition values retain their measurement basis and ingredient context.", "questions": [ { "text": "What soy content and protein concentration are recorded, and on what basis?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "composition-basis-q01" }, { "text": "Which sugars, oils, flavourings, stabilisers or emulsifiers have been added?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "composition-basis-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "nutrients-and-allergens", "name": "Nutrients and allergens", "description": "Records declared nutritional additions and relevant ingredient restrictions.", "findings": [ { "id": "dietary-fit-evidence", "name": "Dietary fit evidence", "description": "Suitability depends on this formulation's declarations rather than a generic soy milk profile.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which nutrients are added, in what forms and amounts per stated volume?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "dietary-fit-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "What soy, additional allergen and cross-contact declarations apply to this product?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "dietary-fit-evidence-q02" }, { "text": "Does the documented formulation meet the dietary constraints supplied for the intended use?", "kind": "action", "id": "dietary-fit-evidence-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "preparation-and-preservation", "name": "Preparation and preservation", "description": "Establishes how soy milk was prepared and the conditions under which it is intended to remain usable.", "rationale": "Freshly prepared and commercially preserved soy milks require different evidence about readiness and handling.", "layers": [ { "id": "preparation-completion", "name": "Preparation completion", "description": "Tracks the process used to produce the drink and evidence that required preparation is complete.", "findings": [ { "id": "processing-record", "name": "Processing record", "description": "Preparation status is supported by recorded steps or manufacturer information.", "questions": [ { "text": "What extraction, filtration and heat-treatment steps are documented for this batch?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "processing-record-q01" }, { "text": "What instructions or validated process establish whether further preparation is required before consumption?", "kind": "action", "id": "processing-record-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "preservation-conditions", "name": "Preservation conditions", "description": "Connects treatment and packaging to applicable storage and opening instructions.", "findings": [ { "id": "handling-envelope", "name": "Handling envelope", "description": "Storage requirements are specific to the product, package and opening state.", "questions": [ { "text": "What preservation method and package type support the stated unopened storage conditions?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "handling-envelope-q01" }, { "text": "What storage, date and after-opening instructions apply to this exact soy milk?", "kind": "action", "id": "handling-envelope-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "current-condition", "name": "Current condition", "description": "Assesses the portion's handling history and physical changes.", "rationale": "Soy milk can show separation or coagulation whose meaning depends on formulation, handling and use context.", "layers": [ { "id": "exposure-history", "name": "Exposure history", "description": "Records events that affect confidence in the current portion.", "findings": [ { "id": "portion-handling", "name": "Portion handling", "description": "Opening, transfer and temperature history are associated with the portion being assessed.", "questions": [ { "text": "When was the package opened or the soy milk prepared, transferred or reconstituted?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "portion-handling-q01" }, { "text": "What temperatures and durations are recorded, and where is the exposure history unknown?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "portion-handling-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "physical-and-sensory-change", "name": "Physical and sensory change", "description": "Interprets visible or otherwise observed changes without treating them as sufficient proof of safety.", "findings": [ { "id": "dispersion-and-change", "name": "Dispersion and change", "description": "Observed sediment, separation, clumps or package changes are compared with expected product behaviour.", "questions": [ { "text": "What settling, separation, clumping, colour, odour or package changes are observed relative to the expected condition?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "dispersion-and-change-q01" }, { "text": "If mixing is permitted, does it restore a uniform liquid or leave persistent clumps or sediment?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "dispersion-and-change-q02" }, { "text": "Do the observations and handling records support use, require further assessment or meet applicable disposal criteria?", "kind": "action", "id": "dispersion-and-change-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "culinary-performance", "name": "Culinary performance", "description": "Evaluates how the specific soy milk behaves in the intended preparation.", "rationale": "A soy milk suitable for drinking may give a different result in coffee, foam, sauces or a substituted recipe.", "layers": [ { "id": "heat-and-acid-response", "name": "Heat and acid response", "description": "Captures texture changes under the actual mixing and heating conditions.", "findings": [ { "id": "mixing-stability", "name": "Mixing stability", "description": "Use trials connect separation or coagulation to temperature, ingredient conditions and mixing order.", "questions": [ { "text": "At what temperatures and mixing order does this soy milk remain uniform or form clumps in the intended drink or dish?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "mixing-stability-q01" }, { "text": "What change to formulation choice or preparation conditions is supported by the observed trial?", "kind": "action", "id": "mixing-stability-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "foam-and-substitution", "name": "Foam and substitution", "description": "Matches flavour, texture and functional performance to a requested outcome.", "findings": [ { "id": "application-fit", "name": "Application fit", "description": "Suitability is assessed against explicit recipe or beverage requirements.", "questions": [ { "text": "For a foaming use, what foam volume, texture and persistence are observed under the stated method?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "application-fit-q01" }, { "text": "Does the soy milk's sweetness, flavour and consistency meet the intended recipe requirements?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "application-fit-q02" }, { "text": "What substitution amount or recipe adjustment has been demonstrated for this formulation?", "kind": "action", "id": "application-fit-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": [ "Traditional unsweetened soy milk (whole-bean extract, often with residual beany flavour)", "Commercial refrigerated soy milk (UHT or pasteurised, often fortified and flavoured)", "Shelf-stable UHT soy milk (tetra-pak / aseptic cartons)", "Sweetened / flavoured soy milk (vanilla, chocolate, and similar)", "Barista / foam-stable soy milk (formulated for espresso)", "Organic soy milk", "Infant soy formula (regulated medical/infant-nutrition product, distinct from beverage soy milk)", "Concentrated / powdered soy milk (reconstituted for beverage or food manufacture)" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of soy milk 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": "Q33941", "note": "soy milk (soy milk / soymilk / soya milk)" }, { "scheme": "FoodEx2 (EFSA)", "value_or_pattern": "A03QD", "note": "soya drink (code used in EFSA food classification; confirm against current FoodEx2 release)" }, { "scheme": "LanguaL / FoodOn", "value_or_pattern": "product type: soymilk; organism: Glycine max", "note": "taxonomic parent is the soybean, not a Linnaean code for the beverage itself" }, { "scheme": "GTIN / UPC", "value_or_pattern": "retail pack GTINs, brand-specific; no single SKU for the class", "note": "use only for a named commercial product, not the kind" }, { "scheme": "UNSPSC", "value_or_pattern": "50201706 (Soy milk) reported in some catalogues", "note": "commodity classification; verify in the current UNSPSC release before encoding" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of soy milk this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation", "name": "Standards and regulation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Codex Alimentarius: no dedicated world standard titled 'soy milk'; plant-based drinks are treated nationally. Related: CXS 175-1989 Soy protein products; CXS 240-2003 Aqueous coconut products (naming analogue).", "China: GB/T 30885-2014 Plant protein beverages - Soymilk and soymilk beverage (SAC/AQSIQ); protein and naming rules for 豆浆 vs 豆奶饮料.", "USA: FDA standards of identity do not currently reserve 'milk' exclusively; FDA draft guidance (2018, still discussed) on plant-based milk alternatives labelling; soy allergen is a major food allergen under FALCPA / FASTER Act (soy remains a major allergen).", "EU: Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 Annex VII reserves the term 'milk' for mammary secretion; CJEU C-422/16 (TofuTown) bars 'soy milk' as a sales name in the EU - 'soy drink' / 'soya drink' is the lawful name. Novel-food rules generally do not apply to traditional soy milk.", "Infant formula: EU 2016/127 and US 21 CFR 107 govern soy-based infant formula as a separate regulated product, not beverage soy milk.", "Allergen labelling: Codex CXS 1-1985 / EU 1169/2011 Annex II (soya); US FALCPA - soy must be declared." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of soy milk this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Breakfast beverage and coffee/tea whitener, including barista formulations steamed for espresso.", "Cooking liquid in East and Southeast Asian cuisines (savoury breakfast soy milk with youtiao; soups; desserts).", "Industrial feedstock: coagulation into tofu; skin formation into yuba; fermentation into some yoghurts and cheeses.", "Dairy-free and lactose-free substitute in baking, sauces, and ready-to-drink cartons.", "School meals, hospital and care-home menus as a fortified plant drink where dairy is refused or contraindicated (not a medical food unless labelled as such).", "Infant soy formula is a clinical/feeding product sold under formula law, not the same SKU as grocery soy milk." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of soy milk 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": "protein (typical unsweetened commercial soy drink)", "typical_range": "2.5-4.0 (traditional/Chinese soymilk often ≥4.5-6 when undiluted)", "unit": "g/100 mL" }, { "quantity": "fat", "typical_range": "1.5-3.0 (full-fat extract); 'light' SKUs lower", "unit": "g/100 mL" }, { "quantity": "energy", "typical_range": "130-250 (unsweetened); sweetened higher", "unit": "kJ/100 mL" }, { "quantity": "solids (total)", "typical_range": "6-12 for beverage; traditional thick doujiang higher", "unit": "g/100 g" }, { "quantity": "calcium (unfortified vs fortified)", "typical_range": "unfortified ~10-25; fortified often 80-120 targeting dairy parity", "unit": "mg/100 mL" }, { "quantity": "isoflavones (aglycone equivalents, variable by process)", "typical_range": "roughly 5-15 in many commercial drinks; process- and cultivar-dependent", "unit": "mg/100 mL" }, { "quantity": "pH after heat treatment", "typical_range": "6.5-7.2 typical for unacidified soy milk", "unit": "pH" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of soy milk 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": [ "Soy is a major food allergen; undeclared soy in other foods and cross-contact in shared lines.", "Bacillus cereus and other spore-formers: under-processed or poorly chilled soy milk can cause emetic/diarrhoeal illness; traditional unrefrigerated doujiang is a known risk if held warm.", "Trypsin inhibitors and lectins in raw slurry: inadequate boiling/UHT leaves residual anti-nutrients and a harsh flavour; commercial heat treatment is the control.", "Lipoxygenase 'beany' off-flavour if beans are ground without hot-grind or enzyme inactivation.", "Separation, sedimentation, and chalky mouthfeel if not homogenised or stabilised.", "Spoilage (souring, coagulation, blown packs) after temperature abuse of pasteurised product; UHT packs fail at seal or puncture.", "Infant soy formula is not interchangeable with grocery soy milk; using beverage soy milk as infant feed is a nutritional hazard.", "Phytoestrogen/isoflavone concerns are mainly for high-dose supplements; EFSA did not establish the same risk profile for traditional soy foods at dietary intakes, but the question remains contested in some clinical settings (thyroid, estrogen-sensitive conditions)." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of soy milk 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": [ "East Asia: 豆浆 / 豆漿 (doujiang) is a hot breakfast staple, often unsweetened or lightly sweetened, sold fresh; 'soy milk' in English maps imperfectly onto this thicker extract.", "EU: lawful sales name is typically 'soy drink' / 'soya drink', not 'soy milk' (TofuTown / C-422/16).", "USA, Canada, Australia: 'soy milk' / 'soymilk' is the ordinary grocery name; Australia/NZ also use 'soy drink' on some labels.", "UK/Ireland post-Brexit still follow the dairy-term reservation in practice for 'milk' on plant drinks.", "China GB/T 30885 distinguishes soymilk from soymilk beverage (lower protein, more sugar/flavour).", "Indonesia/Malaysia/Singapore: 'susu soya' / 'soya bean milk' in wet markets and branded cartons; often sweetened.", "Japan: tōnyū (豆乳), including adjusted (chōsei) and unadjusted types under JAS-related labelling practice." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of soy milk 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": "Cow's milk", "difference": "Mammary secretion of Bos taurus; lactose present, casein micelles, different protein profile. Test: lactose assay / Bos casein ELISA; soy milk is lactose-free and contains soy protein and isoflavones." }, { "name": "Other plant drinks (almond, oat, rice, coconut, pea)", "difference": "Different source crop and protein/fat fingerprint. Test: species-specific protein or DNA (soy lectin / Gly m allergens vs oat avenin, almond Pru du, etc.)." }, { "name": "Soy protein isolate beverage / 'protein shake'", "difference": "Built from isolated soy protein, not whole-bean extract; fibre and some micronutrients stripped. Test: process declaration and typically higher protein per energy, low residual okara solids." }, { "name": "Tofu slurry / silken tofu (kinugoshi)", "difference": "Coagulated soy milk (nigari, gypsum, GDL); gelled protein network, not a free-flowing drink. Test: gel vs liquid; coagulant residues." }, { "name": "Okara (soy pulp) drink or reconstituted okara beverage", "difference": "Uses the fibre-rich press cake rather than the filtered extract. Test: much higher insoluble fibre; different mouthfeel." }, { "name": "Infant soy formula", "difference": "Nutrient-complete formula under infant-formula law (EU 2016/127, 21 CFR 107), not a grocery beverage. Test: legal category on pack and micronutrient fortification to formula tables." }, { "name": "Sweetened soymilk beverage (China: 豆奶饮料) vs soymilk (豆浆)", "difference": "GB/T 30885 protein floor and naming: beverage may be diluted/flavoured below soymilk protein minima. Test: protein g/100 mL against the standard grade." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of soy milk this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "What registry boundary should apply to mixed plant-base drinks, soy protein ingredient drinks, concentrates and powders sold for making soy milk?", "Which authoritative preparation requirements apply to each fresh or homemade soy milk process, and what evidence is sufficient to establish completion?", "Which product-specific criteria distinguish expected settling or ingredient-induced coagulation from deterioration requiring disposal?", "How should soybean input percentage, extracted soy solids and protein concentration be compared when manufacturers report different bases?", "Which repeatable tests best predict coffee compatibility, foam persistence and recipe substitution performance across soy milk formulations?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 18, "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 soy milk, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise soy milk, assess its composition and condition, and decide whether it is suitable for a proposed drinking, cooking or processing use.", "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: doujiang.", "1 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 61 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 soy milk, 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": [ "doujiang" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 61 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 1 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 soy milk from another, and a soy milk 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 soy milk, 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 soy milk, 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 soy milk 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 soy milk, 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 soy milk, 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 soy milk 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 soy milk 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 soy milk, 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 soy milk, 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 soy milk 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 soy milk from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a soy milk, 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 soy milk, 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 soy milk 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 soy milk 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 soy milk, 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 soy milk, 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 soy milk 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 soy milk is built from and which parts are replaceable.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a soy milk, 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 soy milk, 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 soy milk 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 soy milk is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a soy milk, 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 soy milk, 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 soy milk 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 soy milk 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 soy milk is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a soy milk, 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 soy milk, 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 soy milk 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 soy milk 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 soy milk, 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 soy milk, 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 soy milk 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 soy milk 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 soy milk between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a soy milk, 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 soy milk, 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 soy milk 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 soy milk, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a soy milk 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 soy milk, 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 soy milk, 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 soy milk 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 soy milk 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 soy milk 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 soy milk, 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 soy milk 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 soy milk 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 soy milk 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 soy milk 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 soy milk 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 soy milk, 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 soy milk 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 soy milk and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a soy milk, 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 soy milk, 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 soy milk 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 soy milk is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a soy milk, 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 soy milk, 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 soy milk 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 } } } }