{ "model": { "rank": 6104, "code": "thing-q210427", "model_id": "vr.tr.cerebral-palsy", "name": "cerebral palsy", "purpose": "Let an agent explain cerebral palsy and its types respectfully and in general terms from clinical and disability sources, describe causes, support and rights, and route personal questions to clinicians and support organisations.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Cross-cutting context", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "XCT", "domain": "XCT.STA", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q210427/", "tier": 2, "score": 62, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "infantile cerebral palsy", "mixed cerebral palsy", "ataxic cerebral palsy", "dyskinetic cerebral palsy", "spastic cerebral palsy", "spastic hemiplegia", "cerebral palsy spastic hemiplegic" ], "aliasCount": 7, "merged": 7, "knownIn": 62, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": "vr.tr.cerebral-palsy", "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q210427", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q210427", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-13T03:32:00Z", "providers": [ "Claude" ], "breadth": "written by Claude from model knowledge without web access - no source was read, every claim is a lead to verify", "pass": 2, "wave": 3, "engine": "claude" }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q210427", "registryId": "vr.tr.cerebral-palsy", "name": "cerebral palsy", "version": "0.2.0-wave.3", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "XCT.STA" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q210427/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.cerebral-palsy", "name": "cerebral palsy", "purpose": "Let an agent explain cerebral palsy and its types respectfully and in general terms from clinical and disability sources, describe causes, support and rights, and route personal questions to clinicians and support organisations.", "definition": "A group of permanent movement disorders appearing in early childhood, caused by damage to or abnormal development of the brain before, during or shortly after birth, affecting muscle tone, posture and coordination in forms classified as spastic including hemiplegia, diplegia and quadriplegia, dyskinetic, ataxic and mixed cerebral palsy, often accompanied by other conditions such as epilepsy, sensory and communication differences; cerebral palsy is non-progressive, varies widely in severity, and is supported through therapy, equipment, medical care and inclusion.", "what_it_is_for": "Not applicable; a condition.", "affordances": [ "explain types and causes", "relay support and therapies", "describe rights and inclusion", "route personal questions" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Non-progressive brain origin", "Movement and posture effects", "Wide severity range", "Lifelong support" ], "appearance": "Not a visible object; varied effects on movement and posture.", "visual_identification": [ "Permanent early childhood movement disorder from brain injury", "Spastic, dyskinetic, ataxic and mixed types; spastic hemiplegia", "Muscular dystrophy is progressive muscle disease; spina bifida is a spinal malformation" ], "physical_properties": [ { "quantity": "prevalence", "typical_range": "about 2-3", "unit": "per 1000 live births", "note": "" }, { "quantity": "spastic share", "typical_range": "about 70-80", "unit": "percent", "note": "of cases" } ], "families_and_kinds": [ "spastic cerebral palsy including hemiplegia, diplegia and quadriplegia", "dyskinetic cerebral palsy", "ataxic cerebral palsy", "mixed cerebral palsy", "classification by function using GMFCS levels" ], "related_models": [ { "relation": "is a kind of", "target": "palsy", "why": "in registry terms" }, { "relation": "is a kind of", "target": "cerebral degeneration", "why": "in registry terms, though it is non-progressive" }, { "relation": "is classified by", "target": "Gross Motor Function Classification System", "why": "for function" }, { "relation": "is supported by", "target": "physical therapy", "why": "among other services" } ], "identifiers": [ { "scheme": "ICD-11", "value_or_pattern": "8D20", "note": "cerebral palsy" }, { "scheme": "MeSH", "value_or_pattern": "D002547", "note": "cerebral palsy" } ], "standards_and_regulation": [ "Clinical guidelines such as NICE on cerebral palsy", "Disability rights law and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities", "Education and accessibility requirements" ], "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Agents giving personal medical advice", "Disrespectful or deficit-focused language", "Presenting contested treatments as proven", "Confusing with progressive conditions" ], "in_scope": [], "out_of_scope": [], "characteristics": [] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "understand", "name": "Understand", "description": "What cerebral palsy is.", "rationale": "Clinical.", "layers": [ { "id": "definition", "name": "Definition", "description": "Definition and types.", "findings": [ { "id": "definition-finding", "name": "Definition", "description": "Definition.", "questions": [ { "text": "What is cerebral palsy, and how do spastic, dyskinetic, ataxic and mixed types differ?", "kind": "definition" }, { "text": "Is the question about cerebral palsy or another movement or muscle condition?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "causes", "name": "Causes", "description": "Causes and diagnosis.", "findings": [ { "id": "causes-finding", "name": "Causes", "description": "Causes.", "questions": [ { "text": "What causes cerebral palsy, and how is it diagnosed in early childhood?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Is the user asking about their own child, which needs their clinicians?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "support", "name": "Support", "description": "Support and therapy.", "rationale": "Clinical.", "layers": [ { "id": "therapies", "name": "Therapies", "description": "Therapies.", "findings": [ { "id": "therapies-finding", "name": "Therapies", "description": "Therapies.", "questions": [ { "text": "What therapies, equipment and medical treatments help, per guidelines, and what evidence supports them?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which references are standard?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "living", "name": "Living", "description": "Living with cerebral palsy.", "findings": [ { "id": "living-finding", "name": "Living", "description": "Living.", "questions": [ { "text": "How do people with cerebral palsy describe their lives, and what support services exist?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Is the presentation respectful and person-centred?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "rights", "name": "Rights", "description": "Rights and inclusion.", "rationale": "Regulation.", "layers": [ { "id": "rights", "name": "Rights", "description": "Rights.", "findings": [ { "id": "rights-finding", "name": "Rights", "description": "Rights.", "questions": [ { "text": "What rights to education, accessibility and support apply?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which sources are cited?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "organisations", "name": "Organisations", "description": "Organisations.", "findings": [ { "id": "organisations-finding", "name": "Organisations", "description": "Organisations.", "questions": [ { "text": "What organisations support people with cerebral palsy and their families?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which entry fits the specific organisation?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "context", "name": "Context", "description": "Research and history.", "rationale": "Context.", "layers": [ { "id": "research", "name": "Research", "description": "Research.", "findings": [ { "id": "research-finding", "name": "Research", "description": "Research.", "questions": [ { "text": "What research addresses prevention, early detection and new treatments, with findings attributed?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which entry fits cerebral palsy research?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "history", "name": "History", "description": "History.", "findings": [ { "id": "history-finding", "name": "History", "description": "History.", "questions": [ { "text": "How was cerebral palsy described by Little and later understood?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which entry fits the history of neurology?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Should spastic cerebral palsy be a separate primary entry?", "How should clinical guidelines and disability organisations be linked?", "The registry entry has merged aliases naming types; should they be split off?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 4, "layers": 8, "findings": 8, "questions": 16 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "abstract concept", "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 cerebral palsy, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Let an agent explain cerebral palsy and its types respectfully and in general terms from clinical and disability sources, describe causes, support and rights, and route personal questions to clinicians and support organisations.", "characteristics": { "substance": "abstract", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "inert" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: infantile cerebral palsy, mixed cerebral palsy, ataxic cerebral palsy, dyskinetic cerebral palsy, spastic cerebral palsy, spastic hemiplegia, cerebral palsy spastic hemiplegic.", "7 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 62 Wikipedia languages, which is a measure of how widely the thing is known, not of how important it is." ], "openQuestionsForResearch": [ "Which of the bundles below does a real task actually need, and which are ceremony?", "What does this thing have that the facets do not capture at all?", "Which neighbouring kind is most often confused with a cerebral palsy, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "an abstraction with no physical instance", "physicalCharacter": [ "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": [ "Nothing to see. What is recognised is an instance of it, and which instances count is exactly what is argued about." ], "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": [ "infantile cerebral palsy", "mixed cerebral palsy", "ataxic cerebral palsy", "dyskinetic cerebral palsy", "spastic cerebral palsy", "spastic hemiplegia", "cerebral palsy spastic hemiplegic" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 62 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 7 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 cerebral palsy from another, and a cerebral palsy 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 cerebral palsy, 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 cerebral palsy, 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 cerebral palsy 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 cerebral palsy, 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 cerebral palsy, 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 cerebral palsy 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 cerebral palsy 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 cerebral palsy, 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 cerebral palsy, 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 cerebral palsy 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 cerebral palsy from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a cerebral palsy, 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 cerebral palsy, 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 cerebral palsy 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 cerebral palsy 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 cerebral palsy between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a cerebral palsy, 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 cerebral palsy, 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 cerebral palsy 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 cerebral palsy, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a cerebral palsy 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 cerebral palsy, 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 cerebral palsy, 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 cerebral palsy is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "definitions-in-contest", "name": "Definitions and who holds them", "description": "What cerebral palsy is taken to mean, and by whom.", "rationale": "When a field disagrees about a concept, the disagreement is the content. A model that picks one definition silently destroys the information.", "layers": [ { "id": "competing-definitions", "name": "Competing definitions", "description": "The main readings and the traditions behind them.", "findings": [ { "id": "definition-map", "name": "Definitions and their holders", "description": "Each definition with the school or body that holds it.", "questions": [ { "id": "definition-map-q01", "text": "Which definitions of cerebral palsy are in use, and which tradition or body holds each?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "definition-map-q02", "text": "What turns on the difference between them in practice?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "operationalisation", "name": "Operationalisation", "description": "How it is measured or applied when it has to be.", "findings": [ { "id": "operational-record", "name": "Measures and proxies", "description": "Instruments and indicators used to stand in for it.", "questions": [ { "id": "operational-record-q01", "text": "How is cerebral palsy operationalised or measured in practice, and by what instrument?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "operational-record-q02", "text": "What does that operationalisation leave out, and when does that matter?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "instances-and-use", "name": "Instances, use and consequence", "description": "What counts as an instance of cerebral palsy and what follows from calling something that.", "rationale": "Applying a concept is an act with consequences, so a model must say what the label licenses and what it does not.", "layers": [ { "id": "instances", "name": "What counts as an instance", "description": "Clear cases, borderline cases and non-cases.", "findings": [ { "id": "instance-tests", "name": "Tests for an instance", "description": "What would settle whether something falls under it.", "questions": [ { "id": "instance-tests-q01", "text": "What would settle whether something is an instance of cerebral palsy?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "instance-tests-q02", "text": "Which borderline cases are argued about, and on what grounds?", "kind": "definition" } ] } ] }, { "id": "consequence", "name": "Consequence of application", "description": "Rights, duties or decisions that follow from the label.", "findings": [ { "id": "consequence-record", "name": "What the label licenses", "description": "What an agent may do once something is classified this way.", "questions": [ { "id": "consequence-record-q01", "text": "What follows practically once something is treated as cerebral palsy?", "kind": "action" }, { "id": "consequence-record-q02", "text": "What must an agent not infer from the label alone?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a cerebral palsy 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 cerebral palsy and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a cerebral palsy, 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 cerebral palsy, 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 cerebral palsy 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 cerebral palsy is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a cerebral palsy, 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 cerebral palsy, 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 cerebral palsy is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 10, "findings": 12, "questions": 32 } } } }