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Kew accepts this species in Brassicaceae. [Kew Plants of the World Online](https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn%3Alsid%3Aipni.org%3Anames%3A138141-2)", "Use the combination of annual habit, divided lower leaves, and three-lobed cotyledons as identification evidence within Lepidium; do not accept any single character as decisive. [Flora of China identification key](https://efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=118034)", "Inspect mature fruits for an oblong-ovate to elliptic outline, broad marginal and apical wings, and an apical notch; Flora of China reports approximately 4-7 mm length and 3-5.5 mm width. [Flora of China](https://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200009589)", "Where flowers are available, check developed white or lavender petals and six stamens as part of a regional identification key; these help distinguish garden cress from Lepidium taxa with reduced petals or fewer stamens. [Flora of North America](https://efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=200009589)" ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Identification confidence", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "unverified label | provisional morphological match | verified against identification key | conflicting evidence", "why_it_matters": "Prevents ambiguous cress labels or immature plants from being treated as confirmed Lepidium sativum." }, { "name": "Cultivar or accession", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Named cultivar or accession linked to supporting records; unknown permitted", "why_it_matters": "Allows leaf form and growth differences to be attributed to a documented lineage without splitting the registry species." }, { "name": "Seed-lot origin", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Supplier or parent cohort, lot identifier, collection or purchase date, and treatment record", "why_it_matters": "Connects garden-cress cohorts to reproducible propagation material." }, { "name": "Developmental stage", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "dry seed | imbibed seed | germinating | cotyledon stage | true-leaf stage | flowering | fruiting | senescent", "why_it_matters": "Determines which identification characters and harvest or propagation actions are available." }, { "name": "Lower-leaf division", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "undivided | pinnatifid | pinnatisect | twice divided | indeterminate; record leaf position", "why_it_matters": "Supports identification while preserving developmental and cultivated variation." }, { "name": "Mature fruit dimensions", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Length and width in mm, with maturity and sample count", "why_it_matters": "Provides measurable evidence for identification when seedlings or leaf forms are ambiguous." }, { "name": "Observed germination fraction", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "% of tested seeds meeting a stated germination criterion by a stated time", "why_it_matters": "Supports sowing decisions and comparison of garden-cress seed lots under recorded conditions." }, { "name": "Growing conditions", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Temperature in °C, light duration in h/day, and substrate moisture using a stated method", "why_it_matters": "Makes growth and emergence observations interpretable without inventing universal cultivation targets." }, { "name": "Cohort condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Record emergence uniformity, wilting, discoloration, collapse, and visible contamination separately", "why_it_matters": "Supports inspection and intervention without assigning an unverified cause." }, { "name": "Intended endpoint", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "young shoots | leaves | seed production | identification voucher | experimental observation", "why_it_matters": "Changes which developmental state counts as readiness and whether plants must remain unharvested." } ], "affordances": [ "Identify a candidate garden-cress plant using provenance and stage-appropriate botanical characters.", "Sow a documented seed lot and measure germination under recorded conditions.", "Track a cohort from cotyledon emergence through leaf development, flowering, and fruiting.", "Adjust growing conditions using observed responses and an applicable cultivation protocol.", "Select plants for leaf or shoot harvest, or retain them for identification and seed production.", "Trace collected seeds, vouchers, and experimental samples back to their parent cohort." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "garden-cress-identity", "name": "Garden cress identity", "description": "Resolve the registered species and establish whether observed material belongs to it.", "rationale": "Common cress names and immature crop material can conceal a species mismatch.", "layers": [ { "id": "taxonomic-anchor", "name": "Taxonomic anchor", "description": "Connect the registry entry to a documented taxonomic concept.", "findings": [ { "id": "accepted-name-and-sense", "name": "Accepted name and sense", "description": "Anchor this model to Lepidium sativum L., accepted by Kew, while treating common names and cultivar labels as evidence requiring resolution. [Kew Plants of the World Online](https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn%3Alsid%3Aipni.org%3Anames%3A138141-2)", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the specimen or seed-lot record explicitly identify Lepidium sativum L., or only use a common name?", "kind": "definition", "id": "accepted-name-and-sense-q01" }, { "text": "Which taxonomic authority and dated record support the identification?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "accepted-name-and-sense-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "stage-specific-diagnosis", "name": "Stage-specific diagnosis", "description": "Match identification evidence to the organs actually present.", "findings": [ { "id": "diagnostic-character-combination", "name": "Diagnostic character combination", "description": "Record cotyledon form, lower-leaf division, flowers, and mature fruit characters as a combined diagnosis; leave missing characters explicitly unobserved.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which cotyledon, leaf, flower, and fruit characters have actually been observed on this material?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "diagnostic-character-combination-q01" }, { "text": "Which alternative cress species remain plausible under the applicable regional identification key?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "diagnostic-character-combination-q02" }, { "text": "Should a representative plant be retained until flowering or fruiting to resolve the identification?", "kind": "action", "id": "diagnostic-character-combination-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "seed-lot-and-establishment", "name": "Seed lot and establishment", "description": "Connect garden-cress establishment to identifiable propagation material and measured germination.", "rationale": "An agent needs to distinguish seed-lot performance from effects of the sowing environment.", "layers": [ { "id": "propagation-lineage", "name": "Propagation lineage", "description": "Preserve cultivar, accession, and parent-lot relationships.", "findings": [ { "id": "traceable-cress-seed", "name": "Traceable cress seed", "description": "Associate each sowing with its seed lot, documented identity, storage history, and any declared treatment.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which lot, cultivar, accession, or parent plants supplied these garden-cress seeds?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "traceable-cress-seed-q01" }, { "text": "What storage conditions and treatments are documented for the lot?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "traceable-cress-seed-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "germination-and-emergence", "name": "Germination and emergence", "description": "Separate seed germination from successful emergence and subsequent survival.", "findings": [ { "id": "establishment-performance", "name": "Establishment performance", "description": "Record seed counts, germination criteria, emergence, elapsed time, and test conditions rather than assigning garden cress a fixed germination time.", "questions": [ { "text": "What fraction of the tested seeds germinated, and what observable criterion defined germination?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "establishment-performance-q01" }, { "text": "How many seedlings emerged and remained alive at each recorded observation time?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "establishment-performance-q02" }, { "text": "Does the evidence support sowing this lot, changing the establishment conditions, or repeating the test?", "kind": "action", "id": "establishment-performance-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "development-and-growing-response", "name": "Development and growing response", "description": "Interpret garden-cress growth in relation to stage, cultivation conditions, and intended endpoint.", "rationale": "A cohort grown for young shoots requires different decisions from plants retained for mature diagnostic organs or seeds.", "layers": [ { "id": "developmental-trajectory", "name": "Developmental trajectory", "description": "Follow the transition from seedling organs to vegetative and reproductive growth.", "findings": [ { "id": "stage-and-endpoint", "name": "Stage and endpoint", "description": "Record actual developmental events and relate them to the chosen endpoint instead of treating age alone as readiness.", "questions": [ { "text": "Are these plants at cotyledon, true-leaf, flowering, fruiting, or senescent stage?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "stage-and-endpoint-q01" }, { "text": "Is this cohort intended for young shoots, leaves, mature identification, or seed production?", "kind": "definition", "id": "stage-and-endpoint-q02" }, { "text": "Should the cohort be harvested now or retained to reach the required stage?", "kind": "action", "id": "stage-and-endpoint-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "cultivation-response", "name": "Cultivation response", "description": "Connect observed garden-cress performance to the conditions under which it grew.", "findings": [ { "id": "conditions-and-symptoms", "name": "Conditions and symptoms", "description": "Record substrate, moisture, temperature, light, density, and visible symptoms; 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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 Lepidium sativum, 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 Lepidium sativum, 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 Lepidium sativum 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 Lepidium sativum, 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 Lepidium sativum, 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 Lepidium sativum 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 Lepidium sativum 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 Lepidium sativum, 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 Lepidium sativum, 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 Lepidium sativum 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 Lepidium sativum from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Lepidium sativum, 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 Lepidium sativum, 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 Lepidium sativum 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 Lepidium sativum 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 Lepidium sativum, 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 Lepidium sativum, 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 Lepidium sativum 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 Lepidium sativum and the stages it passes through.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a Lepidium sativum, 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 Lepidium sativum, 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 Lepidium sativum 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 Lepidium sativum is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a Lepidium sativum, 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 Lepidium sativum, 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 Lepidium sativum 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 Lepidium sativum 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 Lepidium sativum is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a Lepidium sativum, 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 Lepidium sativum, 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 Lepidium sativum 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 Lepidium sativum 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 Lepidium sativum, 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 Lepidium sativum, 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 Lepidium sativum 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 Lepidium sativum 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 Lepidium sativum between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Lepidium sativum, 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 Lepidium sativum, 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 Lepidium sativum 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 Lepidium sativum, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Lepidium sativum 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 Lepidium sativum, 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 Lepidium sativum, 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 Lepidium sativum 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 Lepidium sativum 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 Lepidium sativum, 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 Lepidium sativum 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 Lepidium sativum 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 Lepidium sativum 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 Lepidium sativum 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 Lepidium sativum 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 Lepidium sativum 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 Lepidium sativum, 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 Lepidium sativum 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 Lepidium sativum 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 Lepidium sativum and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Lepidium sativum, 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 Lepidium sativum, 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 Lepidium sativum 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 Lepidium sativum is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Lepidium sativum, 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 Lepidium sativum, 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 Lepidium sativum 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 } } } }