{ "model": { "rank": 6518, "code": "thing-q25062", "model_id": "vr.tr.ruta-graveolens", "name": "Ruta graveolens", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise Ruta graveolens, assess an individual plant or traceable specimen, and choose evidence-supported observation, cultivation, propagation and handling actions.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.LIV", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q25062/", "tier": 2, "score": 60, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [], "aliasCount": 0, "merged": 0, "knownIn": 60, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q25062", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25062", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T15:06:23Z", "providers": [ "Codex", "Grok" ], "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "usd": 0.01293768, "turns": 1, "seconds": 168.7, "error": null }, "codex": { "seconds": 88.8, "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: 01a07c63-02f3-7913-8449-b604b0f77d5b\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. 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[Comparative botanical study](https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3733200/)", "Inspect developed capsules: blunt lobe apices support Ruta graveolens, whereas sharply projecting apices support Ruta chalepensis; assess these alongside flowers. [Comparative botanical study](https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3733200/)", "Check for alternate, repeatedly divided, glaucous, gland-dotted leaves as supporting evidence; foliage alone does not reliably separate the two species. [Comparative botanical study](https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3733200/)", "For chopped or powdered material sold as rue, require a traceable identification or validated analytical method; a common name and aromatic odour do not establish species identity. [Comparative botanical study](https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3733200/)" ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Identification status", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "unassessed | provisional | confirmed against cited identification evidence | conflicting", "why_it_matters": "Prevents a nursery label or common name from resolving confusion with other rue species." }, { "name": "Petal margin", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "non-fringed | fringed | damaged | unavailable", "why_it_matters": "Provides a practical comparison with Ruta chalepensis." }, { "name": "Capsule lobe apex", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "blunt | sharply projecting | immature | unavailable", "why_it_matters": "Supplies reproductive evidence independent of leaf appearance." }, { "name": "Leaf diagnostic observations", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Recorded arrangement, degree of division, surface colour and visible gland dots", "why_it_matters": "Documents supporting identity evidence and distinguishes normal appearance from later deterioration." }, { "name": "Plant height and canopy width", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "cm, with observation date", "why_it_matters": "Supports assessment of growth, crowding and response to intervention without assuming a universal mature size." }, { "name": "Woody framework and shoot condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Live buds, new shoots, dead branches and damaged tissue recorded by location", "why_it_matters": "Helps determine whether and where pruning or further investigation is warranted." }, { "name": "Reproductive stage", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "vegetative | budding | flowering | immature capsules | mature capsules | seed released; stages may coexist", "why_it_matters": "Controls opportunities for identification, seed collection and recruitment monitoring." }, { "name": "Root-zone moisture and drainage", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Moisture reading with method and depth; hours of observed saturation after watering or rain", "why_it_matters": "Provides evidence for irrigation decisions and investigation of decline." }, { "name": "Propagation origin", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Linked parent plant, seed lot or cutting source, with date and identification evidence", "why_it_matters": "Carries species identity and uncertainty into newly propagated plants." }, { "name": "Handling exposure context", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Intact observation | tissue cutting | sap contact possible | ingestion proposed; record skin protection and sunlight exposure", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes tasks requiring different exposure controls." } ], "affordances": [ "Document leaves, flowers and capsules, then confirm or defer species identification.", "Monitor shoots, foliage and reproductive stages to assess change over time.", "Adjust cultivation conditions using measured site conditions and observed plant response.", "Plan pruning or specimen collection with appropriate contact precautions.", "Propagate from traceable material while preserving identification uncertainty.", "Assess proposed placement or use against contact exposure, ingestion hazards and local ecological evidence." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "linnaeus-1753", "title": "Species Plantarum, vol. 1, p. 383 (Ruta graveolens)", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Original Linnaean publication of the accepted binomial, type locality implicit in the 1753 protologue, and the nomenclatural identity of the taxon." }, { "id": "kew-powo", "title": "Plants of the World Online: Ruta graveolens L.", "url": "https://powo.science.kew.org/", "what_it_supports": "Accepted name, family placement in Rutaceae, native range in the Mediterranean and Balkans, and distinction from other Ruta species.", "url_status": "blocked" }, { "id": "commission-e", "title": "The Complete German Commission E Monographs: Therapeutic Guide to Herbal Medicines (Rue / Raute)", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Negative official herbal evaluation of rue for internal use on safety grounds (phototoxicity, uterine activity, organ toxicity), issued via the German Commission E compilation." }, { "id": "tisserand-young", "title": "Essential Oil Safety, 2nd edition (rue oil / methyl nonyl ketone)", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Composition of Ruta graveolens essential oil (dominance of 2-undecanone), phototoxicity and dermal hazard, and fragrance/therapeutic cautions." }, { "id": "usda-plants", "title": "USDA NRCS PLANTS Database: Ruta graveolens L.", "url": "https://plants.usda.gov/", "what_it_supports": "North American registry symbol, naturalized status, and the standard PLANTS identifier for the species.", "url_status": "live" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "rue-identity-and-evidence", "name": "Rue identity and evidence", "description": "Establish whether an observed plant or material belongs to this registered species.", "rationale": "Confusion with Ruta chalepensis can transfer incorrect identity into cultivation records and derived material.", "layers": [ { "id": "reproductive-identification", "name": "Reproductive identification", "description": "Use flowers and capsules to test a species assignment.", "findings": [ { "id": "petal-and-capsule-agreement", "name": "Petal and capsule agreement", "description": "Record whether independently observed petal margins and capsule apices support the same identification.", "questions": [ { "text": "Do intact petals lack conspicuous fringes, and do developed capsules have blunt lobe apices?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "petal-and-capsule-agreement-q01" }, { "text": "If these characters disagree or are unavailable, what additional observation or expert determination is needed before confirming Ruta graveolens?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "petal-and-capsule-agreement-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "specimen-and-name-traceability", "name": "Specimen and name traceability", "description": "Connect names and detached material to an evidenced plant identification.", "findings": [ { "id": "identification-chain", "name": "Identification chain", "description": "Separate supplier assertions from determinations supported by photographs, vouchers or validated analyses.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who identified this plant as Ruta graveolens, using which reference and retained evidence?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "identification-chain-q01" }, { "text": "Can this detached material be linked to that identified plant, or must its species remain unresolved?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "identification-chain-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "rue-growth-and-condition", "name": "Rue growth and condition", "description": "Interpret changes in foliage and the plant's persistent woody framework.", "rationale": "An agent needs to distinguish appearance associated with this plant from damage and loss of viable growth.", "layers": [ { "id": "foliage-baseline", "name": "Foliage baseline", "description": "Establish the individual's normal leaf appearance before judging decline.", "findings": [ { "id": "foliage-change", "name": "Foliage change", "description": "Record changes in colour, turgor and leaf retention relative to earlier observations of the same plant.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which leaves have changed from the documented glaucous foliage baseline, and over what interval?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "foliage-change-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence distinguishes seasonal change from water stress, physical damage or a suspected disease?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "foliage-change-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "woody-framework-and-regrowth", "name": "Woody framework and regrowth", "description": "Locate viable shoots and damage before shaping or cutting the plant.", "findings": [ { "id": "pruning-readiness", "name": "Pruning readiness", "description": "Base a proposed cut on observed live growth and a locally supported pruning approach.", "questions": [ { "text": "Where are live buds, new shoots, dead branches and previous pruning wounds?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "pruning-readiness-q01" }, { "text": "What pruning extent and timing are supported for this plant's condition and local season?", "kind": "action", "id": "pruning-readiness-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "rue-site-and-associations", "name": "Rue site and associations", "description": "Relate growing conditions and visiting organisms to decisions about this plant.", "rationale": "Care decisions require local evidence, including whether leaf feeding conflicts with or serves the planting purpose.", "layers": [ { "id": "root-zone-and-exposure", "name": "Root zone and exposure", "description": "Record the conditions needed to evaluate placement and watering.", "findings": [ { "id": "site-response", "name": "Site response", "description": "Test care assumptions against drainage, sunlight and observed performance; rue is described as favouring well-drained sites. [NC State Extension](https://plants.ces.ncsu.edu/plants/ruta-graveolens/common-name/common-rue/)", "questions": [ { "text": "How much direct sunlight reaches this plant, and how long does its root zone remain saturated after rain or watering?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "site-response-q01" }, { "text": "Which measured condition and observed response justify changing watering, drainage or placement?", "kind": "action", "id": "site-response-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "leaf-feeding-and-flower-visits", "name": "Leaf feeding and flower visits", "description": "Record organism interactions without automatically classifying visitors as pests.", "findings": [ { "id": "associated-organism-decision", "name": "Associated organism decision", "description": "Connect observed feeding or visitation to organism identity, plant impact and the intended role of the rue planting.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which organisms are actually observed feeding or visiting, and what identification evidence is available?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "associated-organism-decision-q01" }, { "text": "Does the measured damage warrant intervention, or is tolerating feeding consistent with the planting purpose?", "kind": "action", "id": "associated-organism-decision-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "rue-reproduction-and-continuity", "name": "Rue reproduction and continuity", "description": "Track reproductive development, propagation provenance and recruitment around the parent.", "rationale": "New plants must inherit a defensible identification, while seed production creates decisions about collection and spread.", "layers": [ { "id": "flower-to-seed-development", "name": "Flower-to-seed development", "description": "Observe flowering and capsule development on the actual plant.", "findings": [ { "id": "seed-collection-readiness", "name": "Seed collection readiness", "description": "Separate the presence of capsules from evidence that collection material is mature and viable.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which dated observations establish flowering, capsule maturation and the onset of seed release?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "seed-collection-readiness-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence supports collecting these seeds now, and how will their viability be assessed?", "kind": "action", "id": "seed-collection-readiness-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "propagule-origin-and-recruitment", "name": "Propagule origin and recruitment", "description": "Maintain parentage records and observe plants appearing beyond the intended planting.", "findings": [ { "id": "propagation-and-retention-decision", "name": "Propagation and retention decision", "description": "Keep propagated plants and spontaneous recruits linked to evidence rather than assuming proximity establishes identity.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which identified parent or documented lot supplied each cutting or seed batch, and what establishment outcome was observed?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "propagation-and-retention-decision-q01" }, { "text": "Should emerging plants be retained, moved or removed given their identification and the site's documented management requirements?", "kind": "action", "id": "propagation-and-retention-decision-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "rue-contact-and-use-constraints", "name": "Rue contact and use constraints", "description": "Evaluate exposure created by handling or proposed use of the plant.", "rationale": "Routine gardening and traditional-use labels can obscure hazards that materially affect permitted actions.", "layers": [ { "id": "contact-and-light-exposure", "name": "Contact and light exposure", "description": "Record plant contact and subsequent sunlight exposure when planning handling.", "findings": [ { "id": "phototoxic-contact-control", "name": "Phototoxic contact control", "description": "Ruta graveolens-associated phytophototoxicity is documented; pruning and sampling decisions must consider skin contact and light exposure. [Clinical case report](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17303046/)", "questions": [ { "text": "Will the task cut or bruise tissue, allow skin contact, or expose contacted skin to sunlight?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "phototoxic-contact-control-q01" }, { "text": "What protective handling procedure and placement controls are needed before this task proceeds?", "kind": "action", "id": "phototoxic-contact-control-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "proposed-use-boundary", "name": "Proposed use boundary", "description": "Separate evidence of historical use from evidence supporting a particular present action.", "findings": [ { "id": "ingestion-and-product-handoff", "name": "Ingestion and product handoff", "description": "Rue has documented poison characteristics; species identification does not establish a safe ingestible preparation or dose. [NC State Extension](https://plants.ces.ncsu.edu/plants/ruta-graveolens/common-name/common-rue/)", "questions": [ { "text": "Is the proposed action ornamental cultivation, specimen collection, ingestion or preparation of a derived product?", "kind": "definition", "id": "ingestion-and-product-handoff-q01" }, { "text": "Which proposed actions require a separate toxicological, clinical or product assessment before proceeding?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "ingestion-and-product-handoff-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-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Typical garden/common rue (blue-green cultivated stock of the species)", "Compact ornamental clone 'Jackman's Blue' (intensely glaucous foliage)", "Variegated garden clone 'Variegata'", "Wild Balkan and central-eastern Mediterranean populations", "Dried aerial parts used as the herbal drug (Rutae herba)", "Steam-distilled rue essential oil", "Homeopathic Ruta graveolens (mother tincture and potencies)", "Fresh culinary sprigs used in minute quantities in Mediterranean kitchens" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of Ruta graveolens 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": "ICN binomial", "value_or_pattern": "Ruta graveolens L.", "note": "Protologue: Species Plantarum 1: 383 (1753). Family Rutaceae." }, { "scheme": "Wikidata", "value_or_pattern": "Q212548", "note": "Taxon item for Ruta graveolens." }, { "scheme": "NCBI Taxonomy", "value_or_pattern": "3329", "note": "taxid for Ruta graveolens; parent genus Ruta is 3328." }, { "scheme": "USDA PLANTS", "value_or_pattern": "RUGR", "note": "PLANTS symbol for Ruta graveolens L." }, { "scheme": "EPPO", "value_or_pattern": "RUTGR", "note": "EPPO plant code." }, { "scheme": "CAS (rue oil)", "value_or_pattern": "8014-29-7", "note": "Common CAS registry number assigned to rue essential oil, not to the living plant." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of Ruta graveolens 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": [ "International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants (ICN) - botanical naming of the taxon.", "German Commission E (BfArM / historical Commission E; compiled by the American Botanical Council) - negative (unapproved) monograph for internal herbal use of rue.", "United States FDA, 21 CFR 172.510 - rue listed among natural flavoring substances, with very low use levels rather than as an unrestricted food herb.", "EU Cosmetics Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009 - furocoumarin / bergapten limits that constrain use of phototoxic plant preparations, including rue, in leave-on and sun-exposure products.", "IFRA Standards (International Fragrance Association) - restrictions on phototoxic and methyl-ketone-rich oils such as rue oil in fragrance compounds.", "National pregnancy and abortifacient-herb controls - many medicines regulators contraindicate rue in pregnancy because of documented uterine stimulant and toxicity reports (practice varies by member state; not a single global statute)." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of Ruta graveolens 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": [ "Grown as a drought-tolerant ornamental and herb-garden plant, including named glaucous clones.", "Used historically and still occasionally as a bitter culinary herb in very small amounts (e.g. Italian grappa alla ruta; traditional Mediterranean flavouring).", "Handled as a folk medicinal aerial herb (emmenagogue, spasmolytic, topical) despite modern negative safety assessments.", "Standard homeopathic stock (Ruta) used for periosteal and tendon strains - a major contemporary encounter outside gardens.", "Planted as a reputed insect- and cat-deterrent in cottage and companion-plant beds.", "Used in Catholic and Iberian-Latin American folk practice as \"herb of grace\" / ruda in protective and cleansing rites.", "Minor source plant of rutin historically (industrial rutin now comes mainly from other taxa) and of a 2-undecanone-dominant essential oil used sparingly in flavour and fragrance." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Ruta graveolens 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": "Mature plant height", "typical_range": "40-100", "unit": "cm" }, { "quantity": "Steam-distilled essential oil yield from dried herb", "typical_range": "0.2-0.7", "unit": "% (v/w)" }, { "quantity": "2-Undecanone (methyl nonyl ketone) in the essential oil", "typical_range": "50-90", "unit": "% of oil" }, { "quantity": "Compound leaf length", "typical_range": "7-15", "unit": "cm" }, { "quantity": "Flower diameter", "typical_range": "12-20", "unit": "mm" }, { "quantity": "Rutin in dried leaf (historic pharmacognosy range)", "typical_range": "1-5", "unit": "% dry mass" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of Ruta graveolens 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": [ "Phytophotodermatitis: sap plus UVA produces delayed, often bullous burns and long-lasting hyperpigmentation - the principal occupational and garden hazard.", "Systemic toxicity in overdose (gastrointestinal, hepatic, renal, and neurological injury reported after herbal teas or oil).", "Uterine stimulant / abortifacient activity; contraindicated in pregnancy; historic folk use for this purpose is medically unsafe.", "Allergic or irritant contact dermatitis even without sun exposure.", "Mucous-membrane and CNS irritation from the 2-undecanone-rich essential oil.", "Misidentification leading to ingestion of a phototoxic, non-culinary herb in place of a food plant.", "Garden escape and self-seeding in mild Mediterranean-type climates (usually a nuisance, not a major invader)." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Ruta graveolens this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "English 'rue' / 'herb of grace' is primarily a garden and historical medicinal plant in northern Europe, rarely eaten.", "Italian and other Mediterranean kitchens still flavour spirits or sauces with a sprig; dose is culinary-small, not herbal-tea scale.", "In Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking America, 'ruda' is a major ritual and household plant; material in trade may be R. graveolens or the closely related R. chalepensis.", "In Ethiopia and Eritrea the coffee-herb 'tena adam' is ordinarily Ruta chalepensis, not R. graveolens, though English sources often gloss both as rue.", "Unani and broader West Asian herbal practice treat the plant as sudab, with a different indication set from modern European negative monographs.", "Wild harvest is relevant in the Balkans and eastern Mediterranean; elsewhere almost all material is cultivated." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of Ruta graveolens 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": "Ruta chalepensis (fringed rue)", "difference": "Leaflet margins distinctly ciliate/fringed and flowers more consistently tetramerous in R. chalepensis; R. graveolens has entire to obscurely crenulate leaflet margins and often some pentamerous flowers. Check a flowering shoot, not a vernacular label such as ruda or tena adam." }, { "name": "Peganum harmala (Syrian rue)", "difference": "Unrelated (Nitrariaceae); drug part is the seed with harmala alkaloids, not an aromatic bipinnate Rutaceae leaf. Morphology and chemistry do not overlap." }, { "name": "Dictamnus albus (burning bush)", "difference": "Also Rutaceae and phototoxic, but a larger perennial with simply pinnate leaves and showy white to pink flowers, not the small yellow rue inflorescence or 2-undecanone leaf odour." }, { "name": "Thalictrum spp. (meadow-rue)", "difference": "Name-only confusion (Ranunculaceae). Leaves are not aromatic-glandular; flowers lack rue's yellow tetramerous pattern and the plant has no rue oil or furanocoumarin burn profile." }, { "name": "Ruta montana and other western Mediterranean Ruta species", "difference": "Narrower or differently dissected foliage and distinct habit/distribution; confirm with a regional flora rather than the garden-rue concept." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of Ruta graveolens this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Which regional identification keys reliably separate Ruta graveolens from all locally plausible Ruta species when flowers or mature capsules are absent?", "Which authenticated analytical methods can distinguish fragmented or powdered Ruta graveolens from substituted or mixed rue material?", "What locally validated moisture, temperature and pruning limits apply across plant ages and cultivated forms?", "Which propagation timings and viability tests give reliable results for the specific accession and growing environment?", "What local evidence establishes spontaneous spread, associated organisms and exposure-control requirements for the intended planting context?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 18, "questions": 28 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "organism", "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 Ruta graveolens, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise Ruta graveolens, assess an individual plant or traceable specimen, and choose evidence-supported observation, cultivation, propagation and handling actions.", "characteristics": { "substance": "living", "origin": "natural", "agency": "autonomous", "mobility": "self-moving" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Described in 60 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 Ruta graveolens, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "a living thing", "physicalCharacter": [ "Moves under its own power or of its own accord.", "Acts on its own behalf.", "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 diagnostic characters, and those differ by life stage - the young of many kinds are mistaken for other kinds entirely. A sighting is settled by characters, a photograph and a place, not by a name alone." ], "relatedModels": [], "standing": "Described in 60 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one Ruta graveolens from another, and a Ruta graveolens 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 Ruta graveolens, 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 Ruta graveolens, 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 Ruta graveolens 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 Ruta graveolens, 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 Ruta graveolens, 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 Ruta graveolens 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 Ruta graveolens 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 Ruta graveolens, 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 Ruta graveolens, 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 Ruta graveolens 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 Ruta graveolens from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Ruta graveolens, 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 Ruta graveolens, 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 Ruta graveolens 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 Ruta graveolens 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 Ruta graveolens, 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 Ruta graveolens, 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 Ruta graveolens 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": "Anatomy, parts and life stage.", "findings": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials", "name": "Parts and life stages", "description": "The parts of a Ruta graveolens and the stages it passes through.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a Ruta graveolens, 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 Ruta graveolens, 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 Ruta graveolens 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 Ruta graveolens is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a Ruta graveolens, 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 Ruta graveolens, 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 Ruta graveolens is known, and what 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"types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the location of a Ruta graveolens, 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 Ruta graveolens 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 Ruta graveolens moves on its own.", "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 Ruta graveolens, 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"kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "observations-and-status", "name": "Observations and current status", "description": "What is observed about a Ruta graveolens, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Ruta graveolens 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 Ruta graveolens, 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 Ruta graveolens, 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 Ruta graveolens is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "taxonomic-placement", "name": "Taxonomic placement and identification", "description": "What Ruta graveolens is called scientifically, by whose authority, and how a specimen is recognised.", "rationale": "Names change with revisions while the organism does not, so a name without its authority and date cannot be reconciled later.", "layers": [ { "id": "accepted-name", "name": "Accepted name and synonymy", "description": "The current binomial, its author and date, and the names it replaced.", "findings": [ { "id": "name-and-authority", "name": "Accepted name, authority and synonyms", "description": "What to record so a later revision can be applied without losing the old data.", "questions": [ { "id": "name-and-authority-q01", "text": "What is the accepted scientific name of Ruta graveolens, with its author and year, and which synonyms does it absorb?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "name-and-authority-q02", "text": "Which taxonomic authority is being followed, and what would a competing authority say?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "field-identification", "name": "Field identification", "description": "The characters that separate Ruta graveolens from what it is confused with.", "findings": [ { "id": "diagnostic-characters", "name": "Diagnostic characters and confusable kinds", "description": "Features that settle an identification, and those that only suggest it.", "questions": [ { "id": "diagnostic-characters-q01", "text": "Which observable characters distinguish Ruta graveolens from its closest look-alikes, and at which life stage are they visible?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "diagnostic-characters-q02", "text": "What evidence is enough to record an 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mistaken for another kind?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "health-and-condition", "name": "Health and condition", "description": "How condition is assessed and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "condition-assessment", "name": "Condition assessment", "description": "Signs of health, injury and stress, and who is competent to judge them.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "How is the condition of Ruta graveolens judged, on what scale, and by whom?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "condition-assessment-q02", "text": "What condition obliges an agent to act, and what act is permitted to whom?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "range-and-status", "name": "Habitat, range and conservation status", "description": "Where Ruta graveolens lives and how threatened it is.", "rationale": "Range and status govern what is lawful, and both are assessments with an assessor and a year rather than facts of nature.", "layers": [ { "id": "habitat-and-range", "name": "Habitat and range", "description": "Native range, introductions and the habitat it needs.", "findings": [ { "id": "range-record", "name": "Range, introductions and habitat", "description": "What to record about where it is found and how it got there.", "questions": [ { "id": "range-record-q01", "text": "What is the native range of Ruta graveolens, where has it been introduced, and what habitat does it require?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "range-record-q02", "text": "What distinguishes a native record from an introduced or vagrant one?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "protection-status", "name": "Protection and legal status", "description": "Conservation assessments and the rules that follow from them.", "findings": [ { "id": "status-and-rules", "name": "Conservation status and legal consequence", "description": "The assessment, its date, and what it forbids or requires where.", "questions": [ { "id": "status-and-rules-q01", "text": "What conservation status does Ruta graveolens hold, under which assessment and year?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "status-and-rules-q02", "text": "What does that status forbid or require of an agent, and in which jurisdiction?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a Ruta graveolens 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 Ruta graveolens and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Ruta 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