{ "model": { "rank": 5398, "code": "thing-q209789", "model_id": "vr.tr.burping", "name": "burping", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise and describe burping episodes, assess their context and impact, and identify appropriate observation or support without inferring a diagnosis.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Information and virtual systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "INF", "domain": "INF.KNW", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q209789/", "tier": 2, "score": 67, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "Ruktus", "wet burp" ], "aliasCount": 2, "merged": 2, "knownIn": 67, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q209789", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q209789", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-09T22:16:57Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 16.9, "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: 01a0883e-0560-77c0-941c-778866ed55ae\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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called belching, as the bodily event of gas passing outward through the mouth from the oesophagus or stomach, including individual episodes and recurring patterns; it preserves registry placement vr.tr.burping in XCT / XCT.STA while distinguishing events from reported symptoms and diagnosed conditions.", "in_scope": [ "Individual burping episodes and sequences of episodes", "Observed, reported or instrumentally assessed features of gas expulsion", "Timing and associations with eating, drinking, posture and activity", "Perceived control, discomfort and interference with daily life", "Evidence supporting distinctions between gastric and supragastric belching" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Flatulence and intestinal gas expelled through the anus", "Hiccups as distinct respiratory muscle events", "Vomiting, regurgitation and rumination as movement of stomach contents", "Underlying gastrointestinal diseases and their diagnostic criteria", "Infant feeding and caregiver burping techniques as care 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"name": "Episode count and observation window", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "number of episodes per explicitly recorded interval", "why_it_matters": "Makes frequency interpretable without assuming a universal abnormality threshold." }, { "name": "Episode grouping", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "isolated | clustered | recurring across observation windows | uncertain", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes a single event from a persistent reported pattern." }, { "name": "Mechanism attribution", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "gastric | supragastric | other proposed mechanism | undetermined; retain evidence and assessor", "why_it_matters": "Prevents the ordinary term burping from being treated as proof of a particular gas pathway." }, { "name": "Relation to meals and drinks", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "associated meal or drink, elapsed time in minutes, and reported association", "why_it_matters": "Allows recurring contextual associations to be examined 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observation windows and identify reported changes.", "Separate gas expulsion from accompanying liquid return, hiccups or vocal sounds.", "Compare meal, drink and activity associations without presenting them as proven causes.", "Prepare a concise symptom history for an appropriate professional assessment.", "Record preferences for assistance and evaluate the reported effects of an agreed response." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "episode-recognition", "name": "Episode recognition", "description": "Establish what happened and whether burping is the appropriate event label.", "rationale": "Sounds, bodily sensations and related digestive events can be mistaken for one another.", "layers": [ { "id": "gas-expulsion-evidence", "name": "Gas expulsion evidence", "description": "Capture evidence of outward gas passage through the mouth.", "findings": [ { "id": "recognised-burping-event", "name": "Recognised burping event", "description": "Record the reported or observed 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event description?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "gas-versus-other-events-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "gas-pathway-and-control", "name": "Gas pathway and control", "description": "Represent proposed mechanisms and experienced control with their evidential limits.", "rationale": "The label burping does not by itself settle gas origin, physiological pathway or intentionality.", "layers": [ { "id": "mechanism-evidence", "name": "Mechanism evidence", "description": "Track whether a mechanism has been established or remains a hypothesis.", "findings": [ { "id": "gastric-supragastric-attribution", "name": "Gastric or supragastric attribution", "description": "Keep mechanism attribution separate from everyday descriptions and retain the assessment supporting it.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is the episode classified as gastric, supragastric or undetermined, and by whom?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "gastric-supragastric-attribution-q01" }, { "text": "What assessment supports that 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circumstances.", "rationale": "A burping pattern is interpretable only when episode counts, observation coverage and contextual associations are explicit.", "layers": [ { "id": "episode-sequences", "name": "Episode sequences", "description": "Measure isolated events, clusters and changes across comparable periods.", "findings": [ { "id": "frequency-with-denominator", "name": "Frequency with denominator", "description": "Record counts alongside observation duration and the rule used to separate adjacent burps.", "questions": [ { "text": "How many episodes occurred during what observation interval, and were any periods unobserved?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "frequency-with-denominator-q01" }, { "text": "How were closely spaced expulsions counted as separate episodes or a cluster?", "kind": "definition", "id": "frequency-with-denominator-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "meal-drink-activity-context", "name": "Meal, drink and activity context", "description": "Record potential associations 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"name": "Bodily and social impact", "description": "Separate physical experiences from effects on participation and context-specific social judgments.", "findings": [ { "id": "relief-discomfort-and-interference", "name": "Relief, discomfort and interference", "description": "Capture whether episodes bring relief, accompany discomfort or disrupt activities, using the person's account.", "questions": [ { "text": "What sensations occur before and after burping, including any relief or accompanying symptoms?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "relief-discomfort-and-interference-q01" }, { "text": "How does burping affect eating, speaking, sleep or social participation, and whose judgment of that impact is recorded?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "relief-discomfort-and-interference-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "response-selection-and-review", "name": "Response selection and review", "description": "Connect observation, assistance or professional assessment to the stated concern and available evidence.", "findings": [ { "id": "supported-next-action", "name": "Supported next action", "description": "Record what assistance is wanted, the authority supporting any intervention and the outcome to be reviewed.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the person want documentation, help describing the pattern or professional assessment?", "kind": "action", "id": "supported-next-action-q01" }, { "text": "If a response is proposed, what evidence or professional advice supports it, and what outcome will determine whether it helped?", "kind": "action", "id": "supported-next-action-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "The sense assumed here is the human bodily process, rather than an abstract concept; the supplied domain assignment warrants checking.", "Clinical criteria distinguish ordinary belching from a belching disorder; exact diagnostic thresholds and classification codes require verification.", "This account is based on recall, without source consultation." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of burping 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 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"evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "Belching frequency", "typical_range": "Variable with eating, drinking, behaviour and observation method; no single universal normal range is supplied here.", "unit": "episodes per hour or per day" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of burping 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": [ "Frequent, bothersome belching can interfere with conversation, eating and social activity.", "Supragastric belching can interact with gastro-oesophageal reflux.", "Belching alone does not establish the cause of accompanying chest 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"name": "Flatulence", "difference": "Gas exits through the anus rather than the mouth." }, { "name": "Hiccup", "difference": "An involuntary inspiratory muscle contraction followed by glottic closure, rather than oral gas expulsion." }, { "name": "Regurgitation", "difference": "Liquid or food returns into the throat or mouth; belching primarily expels gas, although both can occur together." }, { "name": "Aerophagia", "difference": "Excessive air swallowing is an intake process; belching is an expulsion event and does not necessarily imply aerophagia." }, { "name": "Gastro-oesophageal reflux", "difference": "Stomach contents move back into the oesophagus; belching does not by itself demonstrate reflux disease." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of burping this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does XCT / XCT.STA 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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. 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Each is a model waiting to be split out when one does.", "targets": [ "Ruktus", "wet burp" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 67 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 2 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 burping from another, and a burping 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 burping, 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 burping, 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 burping 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 burping, 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 burping, 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 burping 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 burping 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 burping, 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 burping, 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 burping 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 burping from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a burping, 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 burping, 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 burping 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 burping 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 burping between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a burping, 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 burping, 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 burping 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 burping, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a burping 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 burping, 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 burping, 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 burping is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "content-and-access", "name": "Content, encoding and access", "description": "What a burping says, how it is encoded and who may read it.", "rationale": "An informational thing carries content that can be copied, versioned and withheld, none of which its physical carrier explains.", "layers": [ { "id": "content-and-encoding", "name": "Content and encoding", "description": "The content itself, its format and its language.", "findings": [ { "id": "content-and-format", "name": "Content, format and language", "description": "What a burping contains and in what form it is held.", "questions": [ { "id": "content-and-format-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the content of a burping, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "content-and-format-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the content of a burping, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "content-and-format-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the content of a burping is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "access-and-rights", "name": "Access, rights and retention", "description": "Who may read, copy or change it, and for how long it is kept.", "findings": [ { "id": "access-rules", "name": "Access rules and retention", "description": "The permissions attached to a burping and the period it survives.", "questions": [ { "id": "access-rules-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes access to a burping, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "access-rules-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about access to a burping, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "access-rules-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once access to a burping is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "subject-and-method", "name": "Subject matter and method", "description": "What burping studies and how it establishes anything.", "rationale": "A field is identified by its questions and its methods, and those are what distinguish it from the fields next to it.", "layers": [ { "id": "subject", "name": "Subject matter", "description": "The questions it takes as its own.", "findings": [ { "id": "subject-record", "name": "Questions and objects of study", "description": "What it is about, stated so a neighbouring field can be told apart.", "questions": [ { "id": "subject-record-q01", "text": "What questions and objects does burping take as its own?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "subject-record-q02", "text": "Which questions does it share with a neighbouring field, and who claims them?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "method", "name": "Method and evidence", "description": "How claims are established and what counts as evidence.", "findings": [ { "id": "method-record", "name": "Methods and standards of evidence", "description": "The methods used and what they are taken to establish.", "questions": [ { "id": "method-record-q01", "text": "By what methods does burping establish claims, and what counts as sufficient evidence?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "method-record-q02", "text": "What kind of claim can this field not settle, and where should an agent look instead?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "institutions-and-classification", "name": "Institutions and classification", "description": "Where burping is practised and how catalogues place it.", "rationale": "The institutional footprint is the evidence that a field exists as a field rather than as a topic.", "layers": [ { "id": "institutions", "name": "Institutional markers", "description": "Societies, journals, degrees and departments.", "findings": [ { "id": "institution-record", "name": "Bodies and venues", "description": "Where the field organises itself.", "questions": [ { "id": "institution-record-q01", "text": "Which societies, journals or degrees mark burping as an established field?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "institution-record-q02", "text": "What would show that it is emerging or dissolving rather than established?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "classification", "name": "Classification schemes", "description": "Where library and research classifications put it.", "findings": [ { "id": "classification-record", "name": "Codes and their disagreements", "description": "The classification codes that place it, and where they differ.", "questions": [ { "id": "classification-record-q01", "text": "Which classification schemes place burping, under what codes?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "classification-record-q02", "text": "Where do those schemes disagree about its scope?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a burping 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 burping and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a burping, 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 burping, 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 burping 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 burping is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a burping, 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 burping, 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 burping is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 12, "findings": 14, "questions": 38 } } } }