{ "model": { "rank": 3419, "code": "thing-q26006", "model_id": "vr.tr.laurus-nobilis", "name": "Laurus nobilis", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise Laurus nobilis, assess a living specimen's condition and growing context, and identify appropriate care or harvest actions from recorded evidence.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.LIV", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q26006/", "tier": 2, "score": 86, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [], "aliasCount": 0, "merged": 0, "knownIn": 86, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q26006", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q26006", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T14:42:29Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 22.8, "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: 01a07c50-c354-7f31-be38-2df32489dce3\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: Laurus nobilis\nSense to describe: (none recorded)\nDomain code: PHY.OBJ\nAlso known as: (none)\n\n\nContext for this batch of 546 things:\n# Batch 003: 1001 r", "usd": 0, "recall": true }, "codex": { "seconds": 86.7, "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: 01a07c50-c346-7413-bef2-f34eafc1d5cd\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: Laurus nobilis\nRegistry id: vr.tr.laurus-nobilis\nPlane / domain: PHY / PHY.OBJ\nRegistry definition: (none recorded)\nNames folded into this entry: (no" } } }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q26006", "registryId": "vr.tr.laurus-nobilis", "name": "Laurus nobilis", "version": "0.1.0-research.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "PHY.OBJ" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q26006/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.laurus-nobilis", "name": "Laurus nobilis", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise Laurus nobilis, assess a living specimen's condition and growing context, and identify appropriate care or harvest actions from recorded evidence.", "definition": "Laurus nobilis is an aromatic evergreen shrub or tree in the family Lauraceae, native to the Mediterranean region and cultivated for its culinary leaves and ornamental foliage.", "scope_statement": "This model owns the species-level recognition and assessment of Laurus nobilis under registry entry vr.tr.laurus-nobilis in PHY / PHY.OBJ, including observations of individual plants; it does not treat the species, a cultivar, a specimen and a harvested product as interchangeable.", "in_scope": [ "Species identification, naming evidence and differentiation from other plants called laurel or bay", "Leaf, shoot, trunk, flower and fruit observations relevant to recognition and condition", "Life stage, reproductive expression and seasonal development", "Growing site, root environment and responses to environmental stress", "Cultivation, propagation and the suitability of a verified specimen for leaf harvest" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Other Laurus species and unrelated plants sharing the names laurel or bay", "Dried bay leaves, essential oils and extracts as separately processed products", "Recipes, therapeutic claims and medicinal preparations", "Whole habitat or garden management beyond its effects on the plant", "Nursery businesses, commercial product lines and trade certification systems" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Check the combination of persistent, simple, alternate leaves, short petioles and generally entire, sometimes undulating margins; do not identify the species from leaf shape alone.", "Record aroma from a gently crushed leaf as supporting evidence only; neither a bay-like smell nor a common-name label establishes identity.", "When reproductive material is present, compare small yellowish flowers in axillary clusters and dark, single-seeded fleshy fruits with a regional botanical key.", "Explicitly exclude cherry laurel, Portuguese laurel and oleander using leaf arrangement, margin details and reproductive structures; never use tasting as an identification test.", "For material labelled California bay or another Laurus species, require botanical provenance or a diagnostic key rather than assuming culinary names denote Laurus nobilis." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Identification status", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "unassessed | provisional | verified | disputed", "why_it_matters": "Controls whether species-specific care and harvest decisions have an adequate identification basis." }, { "name": "Identity evidence", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Links to specimen photographs, botanical determinations, vouchers and nursery provenance", "why_it_matters": "Makes the identification reviewable and separates observed evidence from inherited labels." }, { "name": "Growth form and training", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "shrub | single-stem tree | multi-stem tree; untrained | hedge | topiary | other", "why_it_matters": "Pruning can alter appearance substantially and affects interpretation of size and condition." }, { "name": "Plant dimensions", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Height and crown spread in m, with observation date", "why_it_matters": "Supports placement, clearance and growth assessment without treating size as a species diagnosis." }, { "name": "Leaf diagnostic observations", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Arrangement, margin, shape, texture, upper and lower surface features, and aroma observation", "why_it_matters": "Provides a combined identification record and exposes mismatches with lookalikes." }, { "name": "Leaf dimensions", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Blade length and maximum width in mm, with sample size and shoot maturity", "why_it_matters": "Allows comparison with botanical descriptions while accounting for variation within a plant." }, { "name": "Observed reproductive expression", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "not observed | male flowers observed | female flowers observed | other or uncertain", "why_it_matters": "Supports assessment of flowering and fruiting without interpreting an absence of fruit as illness." }, { "name": "Seasonal development", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "vegetative growth | flower buds | flowering | developing fruit | mature fruit | no active growth; multiple values allowed", "why_it_matters": "Places care and reproductive observations in their local seasonal context." }, { "name": "Root environment", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "in ground | container; drainage, moisture and root restriction observations", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes site limitations from symptoms caused by pests or other factors." }, { "name": "Stress exposure", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Dated records of frost, heat, drought, waterlogging and wind exposure", "why_it_matters": "Allows changes in foliage and shoots to be compared with actual exposure events." }, { "name": "Foliage and shoot condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Observed chlorosis, scorch, curling, lesions, deposits, dieback or no visible damage, with extent and date", "why_it_matters": "Records symptoms without prematurely assigning a cause." }, { "name": "Leaf harvest eligibility", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "not assessed | pending identity verification | pending treatment or contamination review | eligible for stated use", "why_it_matters": "Separates botanical identity from the suitability of a particular plant's leaves for harvest." } ], "affordances": [ "Compare a specimen with diagnostic references and record a provisional or verified identification.", "Monitor leaf, shoot, flower and fruit changes through dated observations.", "Assess planting position or container conditions against the plant's observed performance and locally supported requirements.", "Plan watering, repotting or pruning after identifying the relevant growth stage and stress evidence.", "Select a propagation approach while preserving parent identity and recording whether cultivar fidelity matters.", "Assess a proposed leaf harvest using identity, plant condition, ownership and treatment history." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "bay-laurel-identity", "name": "Bay laurel identity", "description": "Establish what the Laurus nobilis entry denotes and how a plant is assigned to it.", "rationale": "Shared laurel and bay names make labels alone insufficient for recognition or harvest decisions.", "layers": [ { "id": "taxonomic-boundary", "name": "Taxonomic boundary", "description": "Separate the registered species from common names, related taxa and named cultivated selections.", "findings": [ { "id": "species-name-evidence", "name": "Species name evidence", "description": "Record the authority supporting the species determination and preserve any unresolved naming conflict.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which botanical reference supports assigning this material to Laurus nobilis?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "species-name-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Does the supplied name identify the species, a cultivar, another Laurus taxon or merely a plant called bay?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "species-name-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "lookalike-exclusion", "name": "Lookalike exclusion", "description": "Assess the combined vegetative and reproductive evidence against plausible local alternatives.", "findings": [ { "id": "diagnostic-character-combination", "name": "Diagnostic character combination", "description": "Use several visible characters together and retain uncertainty where sterile or damaged material prevents a reliable determination.", "questions": [ { "text": "What leaf arrangement, margin, surface and reproductive characters are visible in the specimen?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "diagnostic-character-combination-q01" }, { "text": "Which observations exclude Prunus laurels, oleander, California bay and other locally plausible alternatives?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "diagnostic-character-combination-q02" }, { "text": "What additional photograph, specimen material or expert determination is needed before identity-dependent action?", "kind": "action", "id": "diagnostic-character-combination-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evergreen-growth-and-reproduction", "name": "Evergreen growth and reproduction", "description": "Describe the plant's woody architecture, foliage renewal and reproductive development.", "rationale": "A clipped bay hedge, a container standard and an untrained tree can present very different appearances within the same species.", "layers": [ { "id": "architecture-and-leaf-cohorts", "name": "Architecture and leaf cohorts", "description": "Interpret size, branching and foliage in relation to age and training.", "findings": [ { "id": "growth-versus-training", "name": "Growth versus training", "description": "Distinguish natural growth observations from the effects of clipping, stem training and container restriction.", "questions": [ { "text": "What are the plant's height, crown spread, stem arrangement and recent shoot extension?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "growth-versus-training-q01" }, { "text": "Which aspects of its form result from documented pruning or training?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "growth-versus-training-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "flowering-and-fruiting", "name": "Flowering and fruiting", "description": "Record reproductive expression and development using direct observations.", "findings": [ { "id": "reproductive-observation", "name": "Reproductive observation", "description": "Keep flower observations, pollination context and fruit development separate so that missing fruit does not imply a single cause.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which flower types and fruit stages were observed, and on what dates?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "reproductive-observation-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence distinguishes immaturity, flowering expression, pollination limitations and fruit loss when fruit is absent?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "reproductive-observation-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "growing-site-and-stress", "name": "Growing site and stress", "description": "Connect root conditions and local exposure with the performance of a bay plant.", "rationale": "Care decisions require the actual site and growing system, especially when a woody evergreen is maintained in a container.", "layers": [ { "id": "roots-water-and-container", "name": "Roots, water and container", "description": "Assess moisture access, drainage and physical rooting space.", "findings": [ { "id": "root-zone-constraints", "name": "Root zone constraints", "description": "Record evidence of drying, persistent saturation and restricted roots before selecting an irrigation or repotting response.", "questions": [ { "text": "How does root-zone moisture change after watering or rain, and what drainage evidence is available?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "root-zone-constraints-q01" }, { "text": "Do root observations and container dimensions support repotting, irrigation adjustment or further investigation?", "kind": "action", "id": "root-zone-constraints-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "exposure-and-injury", "name": "Exposure and injury", "description": "Relate foliage and shoot damage to documented weather and site conditions.", "findings": [ { "id": "exposure-linked-response", "name": "Exposure-linked response", "description": "Evaluate frost, heat, wind and light exposure without assuming a universal tolerance threshold.", "questions": [ { "text": "What temperatures, exposure duration, wind and light conditions preceded the observed damage?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "exposure-linked-response-q01" }, { "text": "What locally supported evidence justifies moving, sheltering or changing the exposure of this plant?", "kind": "action", "id": "exposure-linked-response-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "health-and-cultivation", "name": "Health and cultivation", "description": "Support diagnosis, pruning and propagation while retaining uncertainty about causes and outcomes.", "rationale": "Bay foliage is both a diagnostic surface and a potential harvested part, so care must connect symptoms with intervention history.", "layers": [ { "id": "foliage-and-shoot-diagnosis", "name": "Foliage and shoot diagnosis", "description": "Distinguish visible symptoms from identified pests, pathogens and environmental causes.", "findings": [ { "id": "symptom-cause-separation", "name": "Symptom and cause separation", "description": "Document curled leaves, deposits, discoloration and dieback with sufficient detail to test competing explanations.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which leaf ages and plant regions are affected, and are insects, scale-like bodies, honeydew or lesions directly visible?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "symptom-cause-separation-q01" }, { "text": "What diagnostic evidence supports a named cause rather than an inference from leaf appearance alone?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "symptom-cause-separation-q02" }, { "text": "Should the next step be monitoring, closer inspection, diagnostic sampling or a supported intervention?", "kind": "action", "id": "symptom-cause-separation-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "pruning-and-propagation", "name": "Pruning and propagation", "description": "Relate interventions to desired form, current vigour and the identity of propagated material.", "findings": [ { "id": "cultivation-intent-and-lineage", "name": "Cultivation intent and lineage", "description": "Make the purpose of cutting or propagation explicit and preserve the distinction between seedlings and vegetatively reproduced selections.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is the intended outcome a hedge, topiary, tree form, recovery of damaged growth or production of harvestable shoots?", "kind": "definition", "id": "cultivation-intent-and-lineage-q01" }, { "text": "Which propagation method and parent record support the required species identity and any claimed cultivar fidelity?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "cultivation-intent-and-lineage-q02" }, { "text": "What timing and extent of pruning or propagation are supported for this plant's condition and local season?", "kind": "action", "id": "cultivation-intent-and-lineage-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "leaf-harvest-and-use-boundary", "name": "Leaf harvest and use boundary", "description": "Assess the transition from a living bay plant to collected material for a specified use.", "rationale": "Recognition as Laurus nobilis does not establish the suitability of every specimen or preparation for consumption.", "layers": [ { "id": "harvest-eligibility", "name": "Harvest eligibility", "description": "Connect verified identity with treatment history, contamination evidence and collection authority.", "findings": [ { "id": "specimen-specific-harvest-decision", "name": "Specimen-specific harvest decision", "description": "Evaluate a proposed collection against the evidence available for the actual plant.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is the plant's identity verified, and what pesticide, other treatment or contamination history is documented?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "specimen-specific-harvest-decision-q01" }, { "text": "Is collection authorised, and does the available evidence support harvesting these leaves for the stated use?", "kind": "action", "id": "specimen-specific-harvest-decision-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "collection-and-product-handoff", "name": "Collection and product handoff", "description": "Record collection impact and transfer harvested material to the appropriate product model.", "findings": [ { "id": "leaf-lot-traceability", "name": "Leaf lot traceability", "description": "Retain source-plant identity and collection details without extending plant-level conclusions to oils, extracts or medicinal preparations.", "questions": [ { "text": "What quantity and proportion of foliage would be removed, and what evidence supports that level of harvest for this plant?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "leaf-lot-traceability-q01" }, { "text": "Which source-plant, plant-part, collection-date and treatment records must accompany the harvested lot?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "leaf-lot-traceability-q02" }, { "text": "At what processing step does assessment transfer to a dried-herb, extract or essential-oil model?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "leaf-lot-traceability-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "This is recalled knowledge; no sources were consulted.", "Height and leaf dimensions are approximate and vary with growing conditions and pruning.", "The precise native range is complicated by a long history of cultivation and naturalisation." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of Laurus nobilis this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "Botanical nomenclature", "value_or_pattern": "Laurus nobilis L.", "note": "The author abbreviation L. denotes Linnaeus; common names include bay laurel, sweet bay and true laurel." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of Laurus nobilis this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation", "name": "Standards and regulation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants (ICN), adopted through International Botanical Congresses, governs its botanical naming." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of Laurus nobilis this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Fresh or dried leaves flavour soups, stews, sauces and other foods.", "Cultivated as hedges, topiary and container plants.", "Leafy branches are used in laurel wreaths associated with achievement and honour." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Laurus nobilis this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "Mature height when grown without restrictive pruning", "typical_range": "Approximately 2-15", "unit": "m" }, { "quantity": "Leaf length", "typical_range": "Approximately 5-12", "unit": "cm" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of Laurus nobilis this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Waterlogged soil can cause root damage and root rot.", "Severe frost can damage foliage and shoots.", "Scale insects and bay suckers can damage cultivated plants.", "Other plants called laurel, including cherry laurel and mountain laurel, are toxic and must not be treated as culinary substitutes." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Laurus nobilis this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Grows outdoors as a shrub or tree in Mediterranean and other sufficiently mild climates.", "In colder regions, it is often grown in containers and protected during winter.", "The culinary name bay leaf can refer to other species in different regions, so the common name alone does not establish identity." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of Laurus nobilis this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Laurus azorica", "difference": "A separate species of Laurus associated with the Azores; it is not another name for Laurus nobilis." }, { "name": "Prunus laurocerasus", "difference": "Cherry laurel belongs to Rosaceae and has flower racemes and cyanogenic foliage; it is not culinary bay laurel." }, { "name": "Umbellularia californica", "difference": "California bay is a different genus in Lauraceae, native to western North America, with more pungent aromatic leaves." }, { "name": "Cinnamomum tamala", "difference": "Indian bay leaf comes from a different genus in Lauraceae and typically has three conspicuous major veins running from near the leaf base." }, { "name": "Bay leaf", "difference": "A culinary ingredient category that may derive from Laurus nobilis or other species; Laurus nobilis denotes the organism species." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of Laurus nobilis this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Which current taxonomic treatment and regional identification keys should govern separation of Laurus nobilis from other Laurus taxa?", "Which diagnostic characters remain reliable for juvenile, heavily clipped or non-flowering specimens, and when is expert determination necessary?", "What locally validated frost, heat, moisture and container-care guidance applies across plant ages and cultivated selections?", "Which pests and pathogens are documented in the intended deployment region, and what evidence is required to distinguish them from environmental injury?", "What evidence supports local propagation timing, sustainable foliage removal and harvest eligibility following treatments used on ornamental nursery stock?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 18, "questions": 32 } }, "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 Laurus nobilis, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an agent to recognise Laurus nobilis, assess a living specimen's condition and growing context, and identify appropriate care or harvest actions from recorded evidence.", "characteristics": { "substance": "living", "origin": "natural", "agency": "autonomous", "mobility": "self-moving" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Described in 86 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 Laurus nobilis, 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 86 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 Laurus nobilis from another, and a Laurus nobilis 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 Laurus nobilis, 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 Laurus nobilis, 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 Laurus nobilis 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 Laurus nobilis, 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 Laurus nobilis, 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 Laurus nobilis 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 Laurus nobilis 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 Laurus nobilis, 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 Laurus nobilis, 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 Laurus nobilis 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 Laurus nobilis from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Laurus nobilis, 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 Laurus nobilis, 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 Laurus nobilis 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 Laurus nobilis 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 Laurus nobilis, 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 Laurus nobilis, 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 Laurus nobilis 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 Laurus nobilis and the stages it passes through.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a Laurus nobilis, 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 Laurus nobilis, 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 Laurus nobilis 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 Laurus nobilis is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a Laurus nobilis, 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 Laurus nobilis, 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 Laurus nobilis 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 Laurus nobilis is, how it got there and where it may go (self-moving).", "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 Laurus nobilis is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a Laurus nobilis, 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 Laurus nobilis, 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 Laurus nobilis 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 Laurus nobilis 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 Laurus nobilis, 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 Laurus nobilis, 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 Laurus nobilis 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 Laurus nobilis 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 Laurus nobilis between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Laurus nobilis, 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 Laurus nobilis, 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 Laurus nobilis 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 Laurus nobilis, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Laurus nobilis 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 Laurus nobilis, 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 Laurus nobilis, 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 Laurus nobilis 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 Laurus nobilis 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 Laurus nobilis, 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 Laurus nobilis 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 Laurus nobilis 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 identification as confirmed rather than provisional?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "life-cycle-and-condition", "name": "Life stages, condition and behaviour", "description": "What Laurus nobilis does over its life and how its state is judged.", "rationale": "Stage and condition change what may be done - handled, treated, harvested, left alone - and both are observations with a time.", "layers": [ { "id": "stages-and-reproduction", "name": "Stages and reproduction", "description": "Development from origin to death, including forms that look like different animals.", "findings": [ { "id": "life-stages", "name": "Life stages and their marks", "description": "The stages worth recording and what tells them apart.", "questions": [ { "id": "life-stages-q01", "text": "What stages does Laurus nobilis pass through, and what observable change marks each transition?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "life-stages-q02", "text": "Which stages are so unlike the adult that they are 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 Laurus nobilis 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 Laurus nobilis 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 Laurus nobilis, 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 Laurus nobilis 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 Laurus nobilis 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 Laurus nobilis and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Laurus nobilis, 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 Laurus nobilis, 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 Laurus nobilis 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 Laurus nobilis is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Laurus nobilis, 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 Laurus nobilis, 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 Laurus nobilis is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 8, "layers": 17, "findings": 19, "questions": 51 } } } }