{ "model": { "rank": 3049, "code": "thing-q25434", "model_id": "vr.tr.saffron", "name": "saffron", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise saffron, assess the condition of its living or harvested form, and determine appropriate cultivation, handling, verification or use actions.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.MAT", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q25434/", "tier": 2, "score": 92, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "Zafferano dell'Aquila PDO", "Azafrán de la Mancha" ], "aliasCount": 2, "merged": 2, "knownIn": 92, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": "vr.tr.saffron-food", "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q25434", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25434", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T14:24:21Z", "providers": [ "Codex", "Grok" ], "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "usd": 0.00378692, "turns": 1, "seconds": 41.5, "error": null }, "codex": { "seconds": 79.5, "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: 01a07c40-45c2-7581-b136-fe423b9d7165\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. 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"Provisionally owns saffron as the living plant identified as Crocus sativus and the saffron material harvested from its stigmas, preserving the distinction between plant, fresh harvest and dried spice until the registry's intended boundary is confirmed.", "in_scope": [ "Identification of the living plant and its harvested stigma material", "Corm condition, growth stage, flowering and propagation readiness", "Harvested plant parts and their connection to the source plants", "Drying, storage, deterioration and quality of saffron material", "Evidence of authenticity, adulteration and suitability for an intended use" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Whole-farm operations, land ownership and irrigation infrastructure", "Recipes, finished foods and their overall composition", "Clinical effects, treatment decisions and medicinal product authorisation", "Commercial contracts, pricing and supply-chain organisations", "Other crocus species, safflower and turmeric as independently modelled things" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "For a living specimen, require a documented botanical identification using flower, stigma, leaf and corm evidence; colour or a seller's common name alone does not establish saffron identity.", "For whole spice, examine whether the material has stigma morphology consistent with an authenticated saffron reference rather than petal strips, unrelated fibres or excess non-stigma floral tissue.", "For powdered material, require an analytical method capable of testing the suspected substitution; its original floral morphology is no longer available for ordinary visual inspection.", "Separate evidence of saffron identity from evidence of purity: a sample may contain genuine saffron alongside fillers, added colourants or other plant material.", "Treat colour release and aroma observations as screening evidence whose ability to distinguish genuine, adulterated and exhausted material must be established." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Represented form", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "living plant | corm | fresh floral harvest | fresh stigmas | dried threads | powder", "why_it_matters": "Determines which identity tests, condition assessments and actions apply." }, { "name": "Identity assessment", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "unassessed | provisionally identified | supported by stated method | disputed", "why_it_matters": "Prevents a trade name or appearance from becoming an unsupported botanical or material identification." }, { "name": "Plant developmental stage", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "dormant | emerging | vegetative | flowering | senescing | uncertain", "why_it_matters": "Supports stage-appropriate observation, harvest and cultivation decisions." }, { "name": "Corm condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "recorded firmness, lesions, visible decay, damage and sprouting condition", "why_it_matters": "Supports decisions about planting, isolation, further examination or rejection." }, { "name": "Harvest origin", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "links to source plants or growing lot, location and harvest event; unknown where unsupported", "why_it_matters": "Connects harvested material to its biological origin and allows origin claims to be checked." }, { "name": "Floral-part composition", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "observed stigma, attached style, other floral tissue and foreign material", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes the intended saffron material from additional plant parts and contaminants." }, { "name": "Moisture condition", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "moisture content in % with method and basis; water activity as a separate dimensionless measurement", "why_it_matters": "Provides evidence for drying and storage decisions without treating different moisture measures as interchangeable." }, { "name": "Quality-test results", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "method-specific results, units, sampling date and uncertainty for relevant colour, aroma or flavour indicators", "why_it_matters": "Makes quality judgements comparable only where the test methods and sample conditions support comparison." }, { "name": "Adulteration assessment", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "not tested | suspected | detected | not detected within stated test scope | inconclusive", "why_it_matters": "Keeps a limited negative test from being interpreted as proof of universal purity." }, { "name": "Storage exposure", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "elapsed storage time, temperature in °C, relative humidity in %, and recorded light or package exposure where available", "why_it_matters": "Helps interpret changes in condition and prioritise reassessment." } ], "affordances": [ "Identify a plant or spice sample using evidence appropriate to its physical form.", "Assess a corm or growing plant before planting, propagation or harvest.", "Separate harvested floral parts and document the transformation into dried saffron.", "Sample material for authenticity, moisture, contamination or quality testing.", "Select or revise storage and handling conditions using measured condition and applicable guidance.", "Accept, hold, segregate or reject material for a specified use while preserving the evidence and unresolved concerns." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "saffron-identity-and-form", "name": "Saffron identity and form", "description": "Establishes what the subject is and whether the evidence concerns a living plant, harvested tissue or processed spice.", "rationale": "The name saffron can bridge biological and traded-material forms, but those forms require different recognition evidence.", "layers": [ { "id": "living-plant-identification", "name": "Living plant identification", "description": "Tests the proposed botanical identity against observable plant evidence.", "findings": [ { "id": "botanical-identity-evidence", "name": "Botanical identity evidence", "description": "Records the basis and limitations of identifying the specimen as Crocus sativus.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which flower, stigma, leaf and corm observations support the identification, and which authenticated reference was used?", "kind": "definition", "id": "botanical-identity-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Which similar plants remain plausible, especially when the specimen is not flowering?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "botanical-identity-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "harvested-material-identification", "name": "Harvested material identification", "description": "Determines the form and identity of material presented as saffron.", "findings": [ { "id": "stigma-material-recognition", "name": "Stigma material recognition", "description": "Separates observed tissue identity from labelling and distinguishes threads from powder.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is the material fresh stigmas, dried threads or powder, and what evidence supports its identity in that form?", "kind": "definition", "id": "stigma-material-recognition-q01" }, { "text": "What examination distinguishes the sample from petal substitutes, unrelated fibres or coloured filler?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "stigma-material-recognition-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "corm-growth-and-flowering", "name": "Corm growth and flowering", "description": "Captures the living saffron plant's developmental state and suitability for cultivation actions.", "rationale": "Actions involving corms and flowers depend on biological stage and condition rather than spice quality.", "layers": [ { "id": "corm-viability", "name": "Corm viability", "description": "Assesses planting material through observations of corm condition.", "findings": [ { "id": "corm-condition-and-disposition", "name": "Corm condition and disposition", "description": "Connects observed corm damage, decay and development to a justified next action.", "questions": [ { "text": "What are the corm's dimensions, firmness, visible injuries, lesions and sprouting condition?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "corm-condition-and-disposition-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence supports planting, retaining, isolating or rejecting this corm?", "kind": "action", "id": "corm-condition-and-disposition-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "growth-and-flower-readiness", "name": "Growth and flower readiness", "description": "Interprets developmental observations in their local growing context.", "findings": [ { "id": "stage-dependent-cultivation", "name": "Stage-dependent cultivation", "description": "Records the plant's current stage and the evidence needed before intervening or collecting flowers.", "questions": [ { "text": "What observations establish dormancy, emergence, vegetative growth, flowering or senescence?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "stage-dependent-cultivation-q01" }, { "text": "Given the stage and observed growing conditions, what cultivation or flower-collection action is justified?", "kind": "action", "id": "stage-dependent-cultivation-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "flower-to-spice-transformation", "name": "Flower-to-spice transformation", "description": "Tracks the origin, separation and drying of the floral material that becomes saffron spice.", "rationale": "Recognition and quality assessment require knowing which plant parts entered the material and how they were processed.", "layers": [ { "id": "harvest-and-part-selection", "name": "Harvest and part selection", "description": "Connects collected flowers and separated tissues to an identifiable harvest.", "findings": [ { "id": "selected-floral-material", "name": "Selected floral material", "description": "Establishes harvest origin and the actual floral parts retained.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which growing lot and harvest event produced this material, and were multiple harvests combined?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "selected-floral-material-q01" }, { "text": "Which floral parts were retained, including attached style or other tissue, and how was that composition assessed?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "selected-floral-material-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "drying-and-material-continuity", "name": "Drying and material continuity", "description": "Records the processing history needed to interpret the resulting spice.", "findings": [ { "id": "drying-history-and-endpoint", "name": "Drying history and endpoint", "description": "Connects drying conditions and endpoint evidence to the identity of the finished material.", "questions": [ { "text": "What drying method, duration and measured temperature history were applied to the separated material?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "drying-history-and-endpoint-q01" }, { "text": "What measured endpoint justified ending drying and moving the material into storage?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "drying-history-and-endpoint-q02" }, { "text": "Was the material subsequently ground, blended or reprocessed, and which resulting portions retain this history?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "drying-history-and-endpoint-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "saffron-authenticity-and-quality", "name": "Saffron authenticity and quality", "description": "Evaluates authenticity and quality through explicitly scoped observations and tests.", "rationale": "Genuine identity, freedom from adulteration and useful quality are separate judgements that require different evidence.", "layers": [ { "id": "substitution-and-addition", "name": "Substitution and addition", "description": "Examines suspected replacement material, fillers and added colourants.", "findings": [ { "id": "adulteration-test-coverage", "name": "Adulteration test coverage", "description": "Records what a test can detect and limits conclusions to the sampled material and method.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which suspected substitutes or additives does the selected method detect, and which remain outside its scope?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "adulteration-test-coverage-q01" }, { "text": "What result, detection limit and sampling basis support the adulteration assessment?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "adulteration-test-coverage-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "sensory-and-analytical-quality", "name": "Sensory and analytical quality", "description": "Assesses the material's colour, aroma and flavour-related condition without inventing universal thresholds.", "findings": [ { "id": "quality-evidence-and-grade", "name": "Quality evidence and grade", "description": "Links any quality or grade claim to a named method and applicable interpretation.", "questions": [ { "text": "What sensory observations and analytical results describe the sample's colour, aroma and flavour-related quality?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "quality-evidence-and-grade-q01" }, { "text": "Which specification and version support a claimed grade, and does that specification apply to this material form?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "quality-evidence-and-grade-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "spice-preservation-and-use-readiness", "name": "Spice preservation and use readiness", "description": "Determines whether stored saffron remains suitable for a specified next use.", "rationale": "Past authenticity or grade does not establish the present condition of material exposed to storage and handling.", "layers": [ { "id": "storage-and-deterioration", "name": "Storage and deterioration", "description": "Relates package and exposure history to observed changes in saffron material.", "findings": [ { "id": "stored-material-condition", "name": "Stored material condition", "description": "Records evidence of moisture change, sensory deterioration, infestation or other damage.", "questions": [ { "text": "What packaging, opening history and recorded light, temperature or humidity exposures apply to this portion?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "stored-material-condition-q01" }, { "text": "What changes in moisture condition, aroma, colour or visible contamination have been observed since packing?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "stored-material-condition-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "intended-use-disposition", "name": "Intended-use disposition", "description": "Translates current evidence into a bounded handling or acceptance decision.", "findings": [ { "id": "release-hold-or-reject", "name": "Release, hold or reject", "description": "Records whether the material meets the evidence requirements for its stated use.", "questions": [ { "text": "What authenticity, condition and contamination requirements apply to the intended use, and which remain unevaluated?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "release-hold-or-reject-q01" }, { "text": "Should this material be accepted, held for testing, segregated or rejected, and what evidence supports that action?", "kind": "action", "id": "release-hold-or-reject-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 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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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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 saffron, 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 saffron, 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 saffron 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 saffron, 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 saffron, 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 saffron 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 saffron 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 saffron, 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 saffron, 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 saffron 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 saffron from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a saffron, 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 saffron, 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 saffron 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 saffron 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 saffron, 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 saffron, 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 saffron is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "material-and-composition", "name": "Material and composition", "description": "Materials, parts and how they are put together.", "findings": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials", "name": "Parts and materials", "description": "What a saffron is built from and which parts are replaceable.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a saffron, 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 saffron, 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 saffron 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 saffron is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a saffron, 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 saffron, 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 saffron is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "place-and-movement", "name": "Place and movement", "description": "Where a saffron is, how it got there and where it may go (varies).", "rationale": "A thing that can move needs its position recorded with a time, or every later claim about it is about a place it has left.", "layers": [ { "id": "location-and-placement", "name": "Location and placement", "description": "Position, containment and the reference frame the position is given in.", "findings": [ { "id": "position-and-frame", "name": "Position, container and reference frame", "description": "Where a saffron is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a saffron, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the location of a saffron, 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 saffron 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 saffron is carried, installed or relocated.", "findings": [ { "id": "movement-events", "name": "Movement events and constraints", "description": "What counts as a movement, what records it and what limits it.", "questions": [ { "id": "movement-events-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the movement of a saffron, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the movement of a saffron, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the movement of a saffron 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 saffron 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 saffron between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a saffron, 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 saffron, 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 saffron 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 saffron, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a saffron 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 saffron, 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 saffron, 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 saffron is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "use-and-operation", "name": "Use and operation", "description": "What can be done with a saffron and what it takes to do it.", "rationale": "An agent that can recognise a thing but not act on it has only half a model.", "layers": [ { "id": "intended-use", "name": "Intended use and function", "description": "What a saffron is for, and what it is used for anyway.", "findings": [ { "id": "function-and-purpose", "name": "Function, purpose and misuse", "description": "The function a saffron performs and the uses that fall outside it.", "questions": [ { "id": "function-and-purpose-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the use of a saffron, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "function-and-purpose-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the use of a saffron, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "function-and-purpose-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the use of a saffron is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "handling-and-procedure", "name": "Handling and procedure", "description": "The steps, skills and tools involved in using a saffron.", "findings": [ { "id": "procedures-and-skills", "name": "Procedures, skills and required tools", "description": "What an agent needs before it can act on a saffron at all.", "questions": [ { "id": "procedures-and-skills-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes handling a saffron, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "procedures-and-skills-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about handling a saffron, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "procedures-and-skills-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once handling a saffron is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "supply-and-consumption", "name": "Supply and consumption", "description": "Quantities, rates and what running out means.", "findings": [ { "id": "consumption-and-stock", "name": "Consumption, stock and replenishment", "description": "How much of a saffron there is and how fast it goes.", "questions": [ { "id": "consumption-and-stock-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the supply of a saffron, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "consumption-and-stock-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the supply of a saffron, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "consumption-and-stock-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the supply of a saffron is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "composition-and-identity", "name": "Composition, grade and chemical identity", "description": "What saffron is made of and how pure the thing in hand is.", "rationale": "Grade decides what a substance may be used for, so a model that records only the name cannot support any decision about use.", "layers": [ { "id": "chemical-identity", "name": "Chemical identity", "description": "Formula, structure and the registry numbers that name it unambiguously.", "findings": [ { "id": "identity-record", "name": "Identity and registry numbers", "description": "What identifies this substance across suppliers and regulators.", "questions": [ { "id": "identity-record-q01", "text": "What formula, structure and registry identifiers name saffron unambiguously?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "identity-record-q02", "text": "Which related substances share a name in common use but not an identifier?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "grade-and-impurities", "name": "Grade, purity and impurities", "description": "The specification a batch meets and what else is in it.", "findings": [ { "id": "specification", "name": "Specification and assay", "description": "How purity is stated and measured, and which impurities matter.", "questions": [ { "id": "specification-q01", "text": "What grades of saffron exist, how is purity assayed, and which impurities are limited?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "specification-q02", "text": "Which use requires which grade, and what happens when a lower grade is substituted?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "properties-and-behaviour", "name": "Properties and behaviour", "description": "How saffron behaves under conditions an agent can measure or change.", "rationale": "Physical constants are the part of a substance model that transfers between contexts, and each needs its unit and its conditions.", "layers": [ { "id": "physical-constants", "name": "Physical constants", "description": "Values that hold for the pure substance, with their conditions.", "findings": [ { "id": "constants-record", "name": "Constants and conditions", "description": "The quantities worth recording and the state they apply in.", "questions": [ { "id": "constants-record-q01", "text": "What are the defining physical constants of saffron, in what units and under what conditions?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "constants-record-q02", "text": "Which of these values change with grade or form rather than being fixed?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "stability-and-reactivity", "name": "Stability and reactivity", "description": "What it reacts with, degrades into, and how it is stored.", "findings": [ { "id": "incompatibilities", "name": "Incompatibilities and degradation", "description": "What must not meet it, and what it becomes over time.", "questions": [ { "id": "incompatibilities-q01", "text": "What is saffron incompatible with, and what does it degrade into under storage?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "incompatibilities-q02", "text": "What storage and handling does that require, and who is competent to do it?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "hazard-and-regulation", "name": "Hazard classification and regulation", "description": "How saffron can harm, and what the law says about holding and moving it.", "rationale": "A substance model without its hazard class and its regulatory identity is unusable in exactly the situations that matter.", "layers": [ { "id": "hazard-class", "name": "Hazard classification", "description": "Classified hazards, exposure limits and protective measures.", "findings": [ { "id": "classified-hazards", "name": "Classified hazards and limits", "description": "The classification, the scheme it belongs to, and the limits set.", "questions": [ { "id": "classified-hazards-q01", "text": "How is saffron classified for hazard, under which scheme, and what exposure limits apply?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "classified-hazards-q02", "text": "What protection does handling require, and what must an agent refuse to do without it?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "regulatory-identity", "name": "Regulatory identity and control", "description": "Registration, restriction and transport rules by jurisdiction.", "findings": [ { "id": "controls", "name": "Controls and jurisdiction", "description": "Where it is restricted and what the restriction attaches to.", "questions": [ { "id": "controls-q01", "text": "Which registrations, restrictions or transport rules cover saffron, and where?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "controls-q02", "text": "Does the control attach to the substance, its concentration, or its intended use?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a saffron 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 saffron and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a saffron, 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 saffron, 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 saffron 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 saffron is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a saffron, 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 saffron, 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 saffron is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 9, "layers": 20, "findings": 22, "questions": 60 } } } }