{ "model": { "rank": 6740, "code": "thing-q271628", "model_id": "vr.tr.trident", "name": "trident", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise a trident, record its three-pronged construction and condition, and judge handling, display or use against its documented purpose.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.OBJ", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q271628/", "tier": 2, "score": 59, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "korzeka", "trident spear" ], "aliasCount": 2, "merged": 2, "knownIn": 59, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q271628", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q271628", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-09T23:24:22Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 17, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.4\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: 01a0887b-c60b-7ae2-8633-fcb36591c051\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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implement with a head terminating in three principal prongs, including functional, ceremonial and representational examples whose intended role must be established separately.", "in_scope": [ "Three-pronged head geometry and its connection to the shaft", "Materials, dimensions, mass and handling characteristics", "Evidence distinguishing fishing, weapon, ceremonial and display roles", "Prong, shaft and joint condition affecting handling or use", "Physical markings and documented associations that identify an example" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Spears, forks and multipronged fishing implements that do not meet the trident boundary", "Fishing practices, combat techniques and training programmes", "Deities, religious traditions and mythological narratives associated with tridents", "Two-dimensional trident symbols, logos and heraldic designs", "Products or systems named Trident without the physical implement form" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "The head has three principal projecting prongs; a single spear point or a head with another prong count does not pass this form test.", "The prongs form the terminal head of a shafted implement; three teeth on an unrelated mechanism are insufficient.", "A three-tined fork can overlap geometrically, so documented designation and intended role must resolve that boundary.", "Three visible points alone do not establish functionality: blunt props, ceremonial objects and functional implements require separate classification.", "A damaged example with a missing prong requires evidence of its original three-pronged configuration." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Principal prong configuration", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Three intact; originally three with loss; uncertain; record subsidiary barbs separately", "why_it_matters": "Supports identification without counting barbs as additional principal prongs." }, { "name": "Head dimensions", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Head length, outer-prong span, individual prong lengths and tip spacing in mm", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes head forms and establishes clearance needed for storage and handling." }, { "name": "Prong profile", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Straight or curved; parallel or splayed; pointed or blunt; barbed or unbarbed; mixed; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Records contact geometry and snagging potential without inferring use solely from appearance." }, { "name": "Overall size and balance", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Overall length in mm; mass in kg; balance point in mm from the shaft butt", "why_it_matters": "Determines support requirements and whether handling the shaft can cause uncontrolled head movement." }, { "name": "Head and shaft materials", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Material recorded separately for head, shaft and fittings; unknown where unverified", "why_it_matters": "Informs interpretation of damage and appropriate care." }, { "name": "Head attachment", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Integral; socketed; tanged; threaded; other documented attachment; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Identifies where loosening, separation or undocumented repair may occur." }, { "name": "Documented role", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Fishing; weapon; ceremonial; display; theatrical prop; multiple; unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Prevents shape or sharpness alone from being treated as evidence of intended use." }, { "name": "Structural and tip condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Per-prong loss, bending, cracking and tip exposure; shaft damage; joint movement; unassessed", "why_it_matters": "Supports handling restrictions and referral for examination." }, { "name": "Evidence for attribution", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Links to inscriptions, collection records, maker documentation, images or examination reports", "why_it_matters": "Separates supported identity and role from visual resemblance or seller claims." } ], "affordances": [ "Classify an example by its three-pronged form while flagging ambiguous fork or spear boundaries.", "Compare prong geometry and shaft proportions with documented examples.", "Record missing, bent or cracked prongs and movement at the head attachment.", "Assess protective covers, supports and clearances for carrying, storage or display.", "Identify whether evidence supports a functional, ceremonial or prop designation.", "Refer uncertain structural condition or historically significant repairs for specialist assessment." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "three-pronged-identity", "name": "Three-pronged identity", "description": "Establishes whether the object belongs to the trident kind.", "rationale": "Prong count is central, but damage and overlap with three-tined forks make silhouette alone insufficient.", "layers": [ { "id": "head-form", "name": "Head form", "description": "Records the principal prongs and evidence of their original arrangement.", "findings": [ { "id": "principal-prong-count", "name": "Principal prong count", "description": "Distinguishes the three main branches from barbs, decorative projections and damaged remnants.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the terminal head have three principal prongs, independently of any subsidiary barbs?", "kind": "definition", "id": "principal-prong-count-q01" }, { "text": "If a prong is missing, what surviving feature or record establishes the original three-pronged form?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "principal-prong-count-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "neighbouring-implement-boundaries", "name": "Neighbouring implement boundaries", "description": "Resolves overlap with forks, spears and other fishing implements.", "findings": [ { "id": "trident-designation", "name": "Trident designation", "description": "Combines physical form with documented terminology instead of making prong count the only classification rule.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence identifies this three-pronged implement as a trident rather than a fork or another named implement?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "trident-designation-q01" }, { "text": "Is this a physical trident, a physical representation of one, or only an object carrying a trident motif?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "trident-designation-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "head-and-shaft-construction", "name": "Head and shaft construction", "description": "Records the geometry and assembly that determine the physical behaviour of the implement.", "rationale": "Three projecting prongs and an extended shaft create distinct clearance, attachment and balance concerns.", "layers": [ { "id": "prong-geometry", "name": "Prong geometry", "description": "Describes the arrangement and surface features of each prong.", "findings": [ { "id": "tip-spacing-and-profile", "name": "Tip spacing and profile", "description": "Records differences among the central and outer prongs without assuming a standard pattern.", "questions": [ { "text": "What are the individual prong lengths, adjacent tip spacings and overall outer-prong span in mm?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "tip-spacing-and-profile-q01" }, { "text": "Which prongs are curved, splayed, pointed or barbed, and where are those features located?", "kind": "definition", "id": "tip-spacing-and-profile-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "shaft-and-attachment", "name": "Shaft and attachment", "description": "Connects head construction with shaft dimensions and support requirements.", "findings": [ { "id": "assembly-and-balance", "name": "Assembly and balance", "description": "Documents the head-to-shaft connection and the distribution of mass along the assembled implement.", "questions": [ { "text": "How is the three-pronged head attached to the shaft, and what materials are present at that connection?", "kind": "definition", "id": "assembly-and-balance-q01" }, { "text": "What are the assembled length, mass and balance-point distance from the shaft butt, where measurement is appropriate?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "assembly-and-balance-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "intended-role-and-attribution", "name": "Intended role and attribution", "description": "Separates documented function from ceremonial meaning and visual styling.", "rationale": "Similar three-pronged forms can serve materially different purposes, so intended use cannot be read directly from shape.", "layers": [ { "id": "functional-role", "name": "Functional role", "description": "Establishes whether a practical role is documented for the example.", "findings": [ { "id": "use-evidence", "name": "Use evidence", "description": "Records the basis for fishing, weapon or other functional attribution.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which records support a fishing, weapon or other functional role for this example?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "use-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Does the evidence establish actual use, intended use, or only resemblance to a functional trident?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "use-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "ceremonial-and-representational-role", "name": "Ceremonial and representational role", "description": "Records supported ceremonial, display or theatrical identity.", "findings": [ { "id": "attribution-and-representation", "name": "Attribution and representation", "description": "Connects ornament, inscriptions and records to an attributed role while preserving uncertainty.", "questions": [ { "text": "What documentation supports any claimed ceremonial, religious, theatrical or display association?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "attribution-and-representation-q01" }, { "text": "Is the object an original implement, a replica, a miniature or a prop, and which evidence supports that distinction?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "attribution-and-representation-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-controlled-handling", "name": "Condition and controlled handling", "description": "Links prong, shaft and attachment condition to handling, storage and examination decisions.", "rationale": "Multiple exposed tips, possible barbs and a potentially loose head require more specific assessment than a general intact-or-damaged label.", "layers": [ { "id": "prong-and-joint-integrity", "name": "Prong and joint integrity", "description": "Assesses damage at each prong and along the head-to-shaft assembly.", "findings": [ { "id": "damage-and-repair", "name": "Damage and repair", "description": "Records deformation, material loss and repairs that may affect the assembly or interpretation.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which prongs show bending, cracks, missing tips or material loss, and is movement visible at the head attachment?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "damage-and-repair-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence distinguishes original prong geometry from later bending, replacement or repair?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "damage-and-repair-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "tip-protection-and-support", "name": "Tip protection and support", "description": "Determines how the 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"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": [ "The physical implement sense is inferred from PHY.OBJ; the name also occurs in unrelated named systems and symbols.", "Dimensions, materials and prong geometry vary substantially with period and purpose; no defensible typical dimensional range is supplied.", "No trident-specific identification scheme or technical standard is confidently recalled." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of trident this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Recalled without web 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"evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "Number of head prongs", "typical_range": "3", "unit": "prongs" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of trident 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": [ "Sharp prongs can cause puncture wounds and impalement.", "Prongs can bend or break under impact or lateral loading.", "A loose head-to-shaft connection can allow the head to detach.", "A wooden shaft can split or break.", "Corrosion can weaken metal components." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure 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"knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a trident 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 trident, 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 trident, 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 trident 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 trident 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 trident, 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 trident, 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 trident 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 trident from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a trident, 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 trident, 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 trident 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 trident 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 trident, 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 trident, 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 trident 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 trident is built from and which parts are replaceable.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a trident, 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 trident, 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 trident 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 trident is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a trident, 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 trident, 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 trident 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 trident 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 trident is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a trident, 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 trident, 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 trident 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 trident 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 trident, 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 trident, 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 trident 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 trident 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 trident between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a trident, 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 trident, 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 trident 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 trident, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a trident 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 trident, 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 trident, 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 trident is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "function-and-principle", "name": "Function and operating principle", "description": "What trident is for and how it achieves it.", "rationale": "Two devices with the same name can work on different principles, and the principle is what predicts failure and constrains use.", "layers": [ { "id": "intended-function", "name": "Intended function", "description": "The job it does, and the jobs it is used for anyway.", "findings": [ { "id": "function-record", "name": "Function, principle and variants", "description": "What it does, how, and which variants do it differently.", "questions": [ { "id": "function-record-q01", "text": "What function does trident perform, on what operating principle, and which variants differ in that principle?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "function-record-q02", "text": "What use falls outside the intended function but happens in practice?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "capacity-and-rating", "name": "Capacity and rating", "description": "The numbers that say what it can do and where it stops.", "findings": [ { "id": "ratings", "name": "Ratings and their conditions", "description": "Rated capacity, power, throughput and the conditions each assumes.", "questions": [ { "id": "ratings-q01", "text": "What ratings characterise trident, in what units, and under what stated conditions?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "ratings-q02", "text": "What happens beyond the rating - degradation, refusal, damage - and how is that detected?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "operation-and-state", "name": "Operation, controls and state", "description": "How trident is operated and what state it is in right now.", "rationale": "An agent acting on a device needs its current state and the controls that change it, not just its specification.", "layers": [ { "id": "controls-and-modes", "name": "Controls and modes", "description": "What can be set, what that changes, and what is interlocked.", "findings": [ { "id": "control-surface", "name": "Control surface and interlocks", "description": "The settings available and the conditions that block them.", "questions": [ { "id": "control-surface-q01", "text": "What controls and modes does trident have, and what does each change?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "control-surface-q02", "text": "Which actions are interlocked or forbidden in which state, and what must be true before acting?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-maintenance", "name": "Condition and maintenance", "description": "Wear, service intervals, consumables and the line between working and broken.", "findings": [ { "id": "service-record", "name": "Condition, service and consumables", "description": "What is consumed, what is serviced, and how condition is judged.", "questions": [ { "id": "service-record-q01", "text": "What consumables and service does trident need, at what interval, and on whose authority?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "service-record-q02", "text": "What evidence separates a unit that is working from one that is out of service?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "kind-model-unit", "name": "Kind, model and unit", "description": "Whether a claim about trident is about the kind, a product line, or one physical unit.", "rationale": "This is the boundary most often got wrong for made things, and getting it wrong mixes a catalogue entry with the machine in the yard.", "layers": [ { "id": "level-of-reference", "name": "Level of reference", "description": "The three levels and what belongs at each.", "findings": [ { "id": "level-rules", "name": "What belongs to kind, model and unit", "description": "Which properties are shared by all of them and which are not.", "questions": [ { "id": "level-rules-q01", "text": "Which facts about trident hold for every one of them, which for a model, and which only for one unit?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "level-rules-q02", "text": "What identifies an individual unit, and what should an agent do when it has only the kind?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "standards-and-conformity", "name": "Standards and conformity", "description": "The standards a working example must meet and who attests it.", "findings": [ { "id": "conformity", "name": "Standards, marks and attestation", "description": "Which standard applies, who certifies, and what the mark means.", "questions": [ { "id": "conformity-q01", "text": "Which standards govern trident, issued by whom, and what does conformity actually assert?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "conformity-q02", "text": "What may an agent conclude from a certification mark, and what may it not?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a trident 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 trident and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a trident, 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 trident, 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 trident 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 trident is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a trident, 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 trident, 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 trident 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 } } } }