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so that starch gelatinization and cell-wall rupture determine texture rather than intact slice or dice geometry.", "scope_statement": "This model owns an identifiable portion or batch of prepared mashed potato: its potato-based identity, incorporated ingredients, preparation history, texture, handling state and suitability for an intended use.", "in_scope": [ "Prepared mash made from cooked potatoes or reconstituted potato ingredients", "Added liquids, fats, seasonings and inclusions that remain part of the mash", "Texture, consistency, appearance and their variation within a batch", "Preparation, holding, storage and reheating history relevant to the current portion", "Readiness for serving, adjustment or use as an ingredient or topping" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Raw potato cultivation, cultivar classification and crop quality", "Dry potato flakes, granules and instant-mash mixes before preparation", "Complete recipes and meal-level nutritional planning", "Finished composite dishes such as shepherd's pie or potato croquettes", "Cookware, mashers, mixers and refrigeration equipment as independent things" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Establish that potato supplies the preparation's defining mashed body; a pale vegetable mash is not identifiable as mashed potato by colour alone.", "Confirm that the potato has been cooked and reduced into a cohesive mash; separate boiled pieces or sliced potatoes do not satisfy this test.", "Distinguish prepared mash from dry flakes or powder by whether reconstitution has occurred and an edible mash has formed.", "Record whether the intended preparation is mash, a pourable potato soup or a shaped dough; smoothness alone does not establish that boundary.", "Distinguish a separable mash component from a finished composite dish; baking or plating the mash does not automatically make the entire dish mashed potato." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Potato basis", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Cooked whole potatoes; reconstituted potato ingredients; mixed basis; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Establishes the preparation's identity and informs interpretation of its preparation history." }, { "name": "Incorporated ingredients", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Ingredient identities linked to declared or measured quantities, with unknown ingredients explicit", "why_it_matters": "Supports composition checks, dietary suitability and informed adjustment." }, { "name": "Batch or portion origin", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Source batch, preparation event and any subsequent split or combination events", "why_it_matters": "Connects the observed portion to the history and ingredient evidence that apply to it." }, { "name": "Portion mass", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "g or kg, with measurement time", "why_it_matters": "Supports portioning and quantitative additions without assuming a fixed serving size." }, { "name": "Particle texture", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Smooth; fine-grained; deliberately chunky; unexpectedly lumpy; mixed; unassessed", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes intended texture from preparation defects." }, { "name": "Consistency", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Pourable; spoonable; mound-holding; stiff; other, with temperature and observation method", "why_it_matters": "Determines suitability for serving, spreading, piping or incorporation." }, { "name": "Adhesiveness", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Low; moderate; high; unassessed, using a stated spoon or palate assessment", "why_it_matters": "Separates sticky or gluey behaviour from thickness alone." }, { "name": "Visible separation", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "None observed; liquid pooling; visible free fat; both; unassessed", "why_it_matters": "Identifies nonuniformity that may affect serving quality or require investigation." }, { "name": "Product temperature", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Degrees Celsius, with time, sampling location and instrument", "why_it_matters": "Provides evidence for handling decisions and interpretation of texture." }, { "name": "Handling history", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Timed preparation, holding, cooling, storage, thawing and reheating events, including gaps", "why_it_matters": "Allows an agent to evaluate the portion against applicable handling requirements." }, { "name": "Intended use", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Side dish; spread topping; piped garnish; ingredient; other; unspecified", "why_it_matters": "Makes readiness and texture judgments relative to an actual task." } ], "affordances": [ "Portion and serve mash when composition, condition and handling evidence support the intended use.", "Adjust seasoning, liquid or fat against a stated texture and flavour target, recording additions.", "Mash, rice or sieve further when remaining potato pieces conflict with the intended texture.", "Spread or pipe mash when its consistency and inclusions suit the required form.", "Cool, store, freeze, thaw or reheat under an applicable validated handling procedure.", "Incorporate mash into another preparation while preserving its ingredient and handling provenance." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "codex-alimentarius-stan-192", "title": "General Standard for Food Additives (CODEX STAN 192-1995), food category 04.2.2.5 (puréed and mashed vegetables)", "url": "https://www.fao.org/fao-who-codexalimentarius/codex-texts/list-standards/en/", "what_it_supports": "Places mashed/puréed vegetables, including potato mash, in the Codex food-category system used for additive permissions.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "cfr-21-101-4", "title": "21 CFR 101.4 - Food; designation of ingredients (common or usual name)", "url": "https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-21/chapter-I/subchapter-B/part-101/section-101.4", "what_it_supports": "US labeling of potato, milk, butter and other mash ingredients under their common or usual names.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "usda-fsis-food-data-central-mashed", "title": "FoodData Central - Potatoes, mashed, home-prepared, whole milk and margarine added (and related mashed-potato entries)", "url": "https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/", "what_it_supports": "Typical composition, energy and nutrient ranges for prepared mashed potato as consumed.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "codex-stan-151", "title": "Codex Standard for Gari (CXS 151-1985) is not this product; relevant comparator is dehydrated potato products practice and national dried-mash specs", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Marks the boundary between fresh mash and dehydrated potato flake/granule products that reconstitute into mash." }, { "id": "wikidata-q13274", "title": "Wikidata item Q13274 - mashed potato", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13274", "what_it_supports": "Canonical identifier and aliases for the dish as a named food preparation.", "url_status": "live" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "potato-mash-identity", "name": "Potato mash identity", "description": "Establishes what makes the preparation mashed potato and which material the model describes.", "rationale": "Appearance alone cannot distinguish potato mash from neighbouring purees, soups or composite dishes.", "layers": [ { "id": "potato-basis", "name": "Potato basis", "description": "Identifies the potato material supplying the mashed body.", "findings": [ { "id": "basis-and-preparation-evidence", "name": "Basis and preparation evidence", "description": "Record whether identity rests on ingredient declarations, observed preparation or another traceable basis.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence establishes that potato supplies the defining mashed body?", "kind": "definition", "id": "basis-and-preparation-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Was this mash prepared from cooked potatoes, reconstituted potato ingredients or a combination?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "basis-and-preparation-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "preparation-boundary", "name": "Preparation boundary", "description": "Locates the mash relative to adjacent preparations and dishes.", "findings": [ { "id": "mash-or-neighbouring-preparation", "name": "Mash or neighbouring preparation", "description": "Record the intended culinary identity and whether the mash remains an identifiable component.", "questions": [ { "text": "What distinguishes this preparation from potato soup, crushed boiled potatoes or potato dough in its intended use?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "mash-or-neighbouring-preparation-q01" }, { "text": "Is the subject a standalone portion of mash or the mash component of a larger dish?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "mash-or-neighbouring-preparation-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "mash-composition", "name": "Mash composition", "description": "Records what has been incorporated into the potato base and how reliably it is known.", "rationale": "Mashed potato can carry substantial additions that change its texture, flavour and suitability for a particular eater.", "layers": [ { "id": "liquid-and-fat-additions", "name": "Liquid and fat additions", "description": "Describes the ingredients used to enrich or loosen the mash.", "findings": [ { "id": "incorporated-liquid-and-fat", "name": "Incorporated liquid and fat", "description": "Record liquid and fat identities and amounts without assuming a standard recipe.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which liquids and fats were incorporated, and what evidence identifies them?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "incorporated-liquid-and-fat-q01" }, { "text": "What quantities were added relative to the potato base or finished batch mass?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "incorporated-liquid-and-fat-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "seasonings-and-inclusions", "name": "Seasonings and inclusions", "description": "Captures flavouring ingredients, retained skins and other pieces within the mash.", "findings": [ { "id": "inclusion-and-dietary-evidence", "name": "Inclusion and dietary evidence", "description": "Record intentional inclusions and ingredient evidence relevant to the intended recipient.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which seasonings, skins, cheeses, vegetables or other inclusions are present, and which remain unidentified?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "inclusion-and-dietary-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Does the available ingredient and cross-contact evidence support serving this mash to the intended recipient?", "kind": "action", "id": "inclusion-and-dietary-evidence-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "mash-texture-and-uniformity", "name": "Mash texture and uniformity", "description": "Describes the mashed structure and how it behaves during handling and eating.", "rationale": "Chunkiness, stiffness, stickiness and separation are distinct properties that lead to different judgments and actions.", "layers": [ { "id": "potato-particle-structure", "name": "Potato particle structure", "description": "Assesses remaining pieces and the character of the mashed body.", "findings": [ { "id": "intended-and-unintended-pieces", "name": "Intended and unintended pieces", "description": "Distinguish deliberate rustic texture from unwanted lumps or unidentified particles.", "questions": [ { "text": "What size and distribution of potato pieces, skins or other particles are observed?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "intended-and-unintended-pieces-q01" }, { "text": "Which observed pieces belong to the intended texture, and which require further assessment?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "intended-and-unintended-pieces-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "consistency-and-separation", "name": "Consistency and separation", "description": "Assesses shape retention, adhesiveness and visible liquid or fat separation.", "findings": [ { "id": "handling-behaviour", "name": "Handling behaviour", "description": "Record behaviour under a stated handling test and at a recorded temperature.", "questions": [ { "text": "At the observed temperature, does a spooned sample pour, hold a mound, spread cleanly or adhere strongly to the utensil?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "handling-behaviour-q01" }, { "text": "Is liquid or free fat visible, and is separation localised or distributed throughout the portion?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "handling-behaviour-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "preparation-and-holding-state", "name": "Preparation and holding state", "description": "Connects the current mash to its cooking, mechanical processing and subsequent handling.", "rationale": "A portion's present appearance does not establish how it was prepared or whether its handling history supports use.", "layers": [ { "id": "mash-formation-history", "name": "Mash formation history", "description": "Records how cooked or reconstituted potato became the current mash.", "findings": [ { "id": "cooking-draining-and-working", "name": "Cooking, draining and working", "description": "Capture known preparation steps relevant to interpreting lumps, moisture and adhesiveness.", "questions": [ { "text": "What cooking or reconstitution, draining and liquid-addition steps produced this batch?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "cooking-draining-and-working-q01" }, { "text": "Which mashing, ricing, sieving, mixing or blending operations have already been applied?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "cooking-draining-and-working-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "post-preparation-handling", "name": "Post-preparation handling", "description": "Records time and temperature evidence after the mash was prepared.", "findings": [ { "id": "holding-history-and-disposition", "name": "Holding history and disposition", "description": "Assess handling against an identified procedure, keeping unknown history explicit and separate from sensory quality.", "questions": [ { "text": "What timed temperature records cover holding, cooling, storage, thawing and reheating, and where are the gaps?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "holding-history-and-disposition-q01" }, { "text": "Under the applicable handling procedure, does that evidence support serving, continued storage, further processing or disposal?", "kind": "action", "id": "holding-history-and-disposition-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "use-readiness-and-adjustment", "name": "Use readiness and adjustment", "description": "Matches the mash's present properties to a specific serving or preparation task.", "rationale": "Mash suitable for spooning beside a meal may need different properties from mash intended for piping or a pie topping.", "layers": [ { "id": "task-specific-readiness", "name": "Task-specific readiness", "description": "Defines the target portion, texture and presentation for the next use.", "findings": [ { "id": "serving-or-component-fit", "name": "Serving or component fit", "description": "Judge readiness using the intended task rather than a universal ideal of smooth mash.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is this portion intended for spooned service, spreading, piping or incorporation into another preparation?", "kind": "definition", "id": "serving-or-component-fit-q01" }, { "text": "Do its quantity, temperature, consistency and inclusions meet the stated requirements of that use?", "kind": "action", "id": "serving-or-component-fit-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "controlled-adjustment", "name": "Controlled adjustment", "description": "Identifies justified changes and the observations needed to evaluate them.", "findings": [ { "id": "adjustment-and-reassessment", "name": "Adjustment and reassessment", "description": "Record an adjustment target, permitted changes and the resulting condition without assuming every texture defect is reversible.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which additions or processing steps are permitted by the target composition and use, and what observed issue should each address?", "kind": "action", "id": "adjustment-and-reassessment-q01" }, { "text": "After adjustment, what changed in mass, texture, flavour, temperature and ingredient declarations?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "adjustment-and-reassessment-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Plain mashed potato (boiled potato, fat, and liquid only)", "Creamed mashed potato (high dairy: cream, butter, milk)", "Garlic mashed potato", "Skin-on / rustic smash (partially crushed, skins retained)", "Instant reconstituted mashed potato (dehydrated flakes or granules plus liquid)", "Pomme purée / ricer-and-butter French puree (very smooth, high butter)", "Colcannon / champ-style mash (potato mash with greens or scallions folded in)", "Sweet-potato mash (Ipomoea batatas; often sold or plated under the same dish name)" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of mashed potato this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "Wikidata", "value_or_pattern": "Q13274", "note": "Item for mashed potato as a dish." }, { "scheme": "LanguaL / FoodEx2-style food category", "value_or_pattern": "puréed/mashed potato preparations (vegetable puree of Solanum tuberosum)", "note": "No single global GS1 brick is exclusive to the home-style dish; retail SKUs use GTIN per pack." }, { "scheme": "USDA FoodData Central", "value_or_pattern": "FDC IDs in the mashed-potato family, e.g. home-prepared whole-milk-and-margarine mash; dehydrated flakes as a separate commodity", "note": "Nutrient-database identifiers, not a legal identity." }, { "scheme": "GTIN / UPC", "value_or_pattern": "per packaged product (instant flakes, refrigerated mash, frozen mash)", "note": "Applies to industrial SKUs, not to the generic dish." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of mashed potato this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation", "name": "Standards and regulation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Codex Alimentarius CAC/GL 36 and CODEX STAN 192-1995 - food category 04.2.2.5 Puréed and mashed cooked vegetables, including mashed potato, for additive use (FAO/WHO Codex Alimentarius Commission).", "US FDA 21 CFR Part 101 - labeling of mash sold as a food; ingredients by common or usual name; allergen declaration for milk and (if used) wheat (U.S. Food and Drug Administration).", "US FDA Food Code / equivalent national hygiene codes - time/temperature control for cooked plant foods that may be held hot or cooled (FDA; national food-hygiene authorities).", "EU Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 - food information to consumers, including allergen labeling of milk, sulphites in some dehydrated potato, and origin claims on prepacked mash (European Parliament and Council).", "Dehydrated mashed-potato products: national commodity standards and military/institutional specs (e.g. USDA commodity specifications for dehydrated potato flakes/granules) distinct from the freshly prepared dish." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of mashed potato this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Table side dish with roast meat, gravy, or sausages in British, Irish, North American and Northern European meals.", "Filling or topping: shepherd's/cottage pie, fish pie, mashed-potato-topped bakes.", "Institutional catering: school, hospital, military and airline trays, often from dehydrated flakes or refrigerated bulk mash.", "Infant and dysphagia diets: smooth mash used as a soft, high-carbohydrate puree (texture-modified food).", "Snack and street forms derived from mash: croquettes, potato cakes, tater-tot-like fry-offs, leftover-mash pancakes.", "Industrial ingredient: dehydrated flakes/granules reconstituted by foodservice, or used in snacks and processed foods." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of mashed potato this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "Moisture / water content of finished mash", "typical_range": "75-85", "unit": "g/100 g" }, { "quantity": "Energy density as consumed (plain to rich dairy mash)", "typical_range": "350-750", "unit": "kJ/100 g" }, { "quantity": "Fat content (plain vs butter-heavy purée)", "typical_range": "2-15", "unit": "g/100 g" }, { "quantity": "Sodium (unsalted home mash vs seasoned or instant)", "typical_range": "10-400", "unit": "mg/100 g" }, { "quantity": "Hot-hold temperature for service", "typical_range": "≥60 (often 63-74 in catering codes)", "unit": "°C" }, { "quantity": "Dry-matter potato to finished mash mass ratio", "typical_range": "roughly 1:1.3-1:1.8 after liquid and fat", "unit": "kg/kg" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of mashed potato this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Gluey or pasty texture from overworking high-starch (mealy) cultivars in a high-shear mixer, releasing excess free starch.", "Watery or grainy mash from undercooked cores, waxy cultivars that resist cell rupture, or excess liquid.", "Bacillus cereus and Clostridium perfringens growth if cooked mash is cooled slowly through 60-10 °C or held in the danger zone; toxin risk in leftover mash.", "Botulism hazard is not typical of aerated mash, but vacuum-packed chilled mash and sous-vide potato products need validated chill chains.", "Allergen undeclared milk, soya (in some instant mixes), or sulphite residues in dehydrated potato.", "Acrylamide is mainly a high-temperature fried-potato issue; mash itself is a wet cook, but mash later fried (croquettes, cakes) can form acrylamide.", "Glycoalkaloids (solanine/chaconine) if green or sprouted tubers are used.", "Choking or aspiration if mash is too cohesive for dysphagia diets (IDDSI levels must be specified, not assumed)." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of mashed potato this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "United Kingdom and Ireland: 'mash' as default; champ (scallion), colcannon (cabbage/kale), and 'creamed potatoes' as named variants; often served with bangers or stew.", "France: pomme purée or purée de pommes de terre, typically riced and mounted with butter, smoother than Anglo mash.", "United States: 'mashed potatoes' as a holiday and diner staple; instant flakes common in foodservice; 'smashed' potatoes as a rustic skin-on variant.", "Germany/Austria: Kartoffelpüree / Erdäpfelpüree, often with nutmeg; distinguished from Kartoffelsalat.", "West Africa and Caribbean: mashed or pounded starchy staples (fufu, pounded yam) are neighbours in use, not the same tuber or process.", "Japan: mashed potato appears in korokke (croquettes) and salad-style cold mash (potesara), often sweeter and with mayonnaise." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of mashed potato this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Potato puree / pomme purée", "difference": "Same dish family; puree is specified as fully smooth (ricer/drum sieve, high fat), mash may be lumpy. Separation is process and particle-size specification, not a different species." }, { "name": "Smashed / crushed potatoes", "difference": "Tubers are flattened but largely intact, skins usually on; pieces remain recognizable. Mash has no intact tuber geometry." }, { "name": "Dehydrated potato flakes or granules", "difference": "A dried commodity that reconstitutes into mash; identity is the dry product until liquid is added. Test: water activity and form (dry vs spoonable)." }, { "name": "Potato soup or vichyssoise base", "difference": "Flowable liquid with potato as a thickener; mash is plastic/viscoelastic and holds a peak. Test: spoon-stand / slump, not drinkability." }, { "name": "Sweet-potato mash", "difference": "Different species (Ipomoea batatas vs Solanum tuberosum); sweeter, often orange flesh, different starch and moisture. Test: botanical identity of the tuber, not the mashing process." }, { "name": "Polenta, mashed swede/rutabaga, or other vegetable mash", "difference": "Same mechanical idea, different raw material. Test: ingredient declaration or starch/botanical markers." }, { "name": "Duchess potatoes / piped pommes duchesse", "difference": "Mash (usually egg-enriched) that is piped and baked; the dish is a formed, browned product, not the bulk mash itself." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of mashed potato this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Where should the registry place the boundaries between mashed potato, potato puree, crushed potatoes and mixed-vegetable mash?", "Which repeatable assessment methods and reference examples should distinguish stiffness, adhesiveness, graininess and deliberate chunkiness?", "Which validated handling requirements apply to each intended setting, formulation and storage method?", "Which texture problems can be usefully corrected after preparation, and under what ingredient and processing conditions?", "Does an existing Vercy publication already own this concept or provide shared models for food ingredients, dietary suitability and handling history?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 18, "questions": 28 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "chemical substance or material", "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. 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Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.", "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a mashed potato, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an agent to recognise mashed potato, assess its composition and current condition, and decide whether and how it can be served, adjusted, stored or incorporated into another preparation.", "characteristics": { "substance": "material", "origin": "natural", "agency": "inert", "mobility": "varies" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured", "consumed or used up" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: Aligot, instant mashed potatoes.", "2 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 63 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 mashed potato, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "matter you can touch", "physicalCharacter": [ "Mobility varies between examples.", "Does nothing on its own; everything it does, something else did to it.", "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", "use it up, and then need more of it" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "Not recognisable by sight in any reliable way. Appearance varies with grade, form and additives; identification is by label, by documentation, or by assay." ], "relatedModels": [ { "relation": "covers", "note": "Finer kinds folded into this entry because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it. Each is a model waiting to be split out when one does.", "targets": [ "Aligot", "instant mashed potatoes" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 63 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 2 finer distinctions are held inside this entry as names rather than as separate models.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one mashed potato from another, and a mashed potato 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 mashed potato, 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 mashed potato, 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 mashed potato 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 mashed potato, 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 mashed potato, 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 mashed potato 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 mashed potato 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 mashed potato, 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 mashed potato, 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 mashed potato 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 mashed potato from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a mashed potato, 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 mashed potato, 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 mashed potato 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 mashed potato 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 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"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 mashed potato is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a mashed potato, 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 mashed potato, 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 mashed potato is known, and what must it 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"values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the location of a mashed potato, 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 mashed potato 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 mashed potato 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 mashed potato, and in what 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"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 mashed potato between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a mashed potato, 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 mashed potato, 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 mashed potato is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", 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"observation-record-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a mashed potato is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "use-and-operation", "name": "Use and operation", "description": "What can be done with a mashed potato and what it takes to do it.", "rationale": "An agent that can recognise a thing but not act on it has only half a model.", "layers": [ { "id": "intended-use", "name": "Intended use and function", "description": "What a mashed potato is for, and what it is used for anyway.", "findings": [ { "id": "function-and-purpose", "name": "Function, purpose and misuse", "description": "The function a mashed potato performs and the uses that fall outside it.", "questions": [ { "id": "function-and-purpose-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the use of a mashed potato, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "function-and-purpose-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the use of a mashed potato, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "function-and-purpose-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the use of a mashed potato is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "handling-and-procedure", "name": "Handling and procedure", "description": "The steps, skills and tools involved in using a mashed potato.", "findings": [ { "id": "procedures-and-skills", "name": "Procedures, skills and required tools", "description": "What an agent needs before it can act on a mashed potato at all.", "questions": [ { "id": "procedures-and-skills-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes handling a mashed potato, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "procedures-and-skills-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about handling a mashed potato, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "procedures-and-skills-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once handling a mashed potato is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "supply-and-consumption", "name": "Supply and consumption", "description": "Quantities, rates and what running out means.", "findings": [ { "id": "consumption-and-stock", "name": "Consumption, stock and replenishment", "description": "How much of a mashed potato there 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"description": "How purity is stated and measured, and which impurities matter.", "questions": [ { "id": "specification-q01", "text": "What grades of mashed potato exist, how is purity assayed, and which impurities are limited?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "specification-q02", "text": "Which use requires which grade, and what happens when a lower grade is substituted?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "properties-and-behaviour", "name": "Properties and behaviour", "description": "How mashed potato behaves under conditions an agent can measure or change.", "rationale": "Physical constants are the part of a substance model that transfers between contexts, and each needs its unit and its conditions.", "layers": [ { "id": "physical-constants", "name": "Physical constants", "description": "Values that hold for the pure substance, with their conditions.", "findings": [ { "id": "constants-record", "name": "Constants and conditions", "description": "The quantities worth recording 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"name": "Regulatory identity and control", "description": "Registration, restriction and transport rules by jurisdiction.", "findings": [ { "id": "controls", "name": "Controls and jurisdiction", "description": "Where it is restricted and what the restriction attaches to.", "questions": [ { "id": "controls-q01", "text": "Which registrations, restrictions or transport rules cover mashed potato, and where?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "controls-q02", "text": "Does the control attach to the substance, its concentration, or its intended use?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a mashed potato 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 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