{ "model": { "rank": 3641, "code": "thing-q32907", "model_id": "vr.tr.dominoes", "name": "dominoes", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise physical domino tiles and sets, assess their completeness and usability, and determine suitable handling, play, or arrangement actions.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.OBJ", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q32907/", "tier": 2, "score": 83, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "Pai gow", "Muggins" ], "aliasCount": 2, "merged": 2, "knownIn": 83, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q32907", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q32907", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T14:45:50Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 20.5, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.3\n--------\nworkdir: R:\\02_PROJECTS\\02_Meta_Models_Platforms\\Ver.cy\\current\\thing-registry-backlog\nmodel: gpt-6-astra\nprovider: openai\napproval: never\nsandbox: read-only\nreasoning effort: none\nreasoning summaries: none\nsession id: 01a07c54-1a90-73b3-9ad5-125d64a9d9cd\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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playing domino is a discrete tile whose face has two identifiable fields; record each field separately, including an intentionally blank field.", "For conventional numbered dominoes, tile identity is the pair of end values, with reversed orientation normally representing the same identity.", "Domino set membership depends on a declared family of face pairs, distinguishing a set from an arbitrary collection of marked blocks.", "Two-field pairing distinguishes conventional dominoes from single-field numbered tiles, while a rigid tile body distinguishes them from playing cards.", "Unmarked pieces sold for domino toppling require an explicit boundary decision: toppling capability alone does not identify a playing domino." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Object level", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "individual tile | set | mixed collection", "why_it_matters": "Prevents confusing a tile's properties with inventory or completeness properties of a set." }, { "name": "Domino family", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "declared numbered family | other marked family | unmarked toppling piece | unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Determines how face identity and expected set composition should be interpreted." }, { "name": "Face-field identities", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "two recorded field values or symbols; distinguish blank, unreadable, and unknown", "why_it_matters": "Supports tile recognition and matching without treating damage or missing observations as a blank value." }, { "name": "Tile dimensions", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "length × width × thickness in mm", "why_it_matters": "Affects grip, rack fit, replacement compatibility, and the ability to stand tiles on edge." }, { "name": "Tile mass", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "g per tile", "why_it_matters": "Helps assess handling consistency and differences that may affect drawing or toppling." }, { "name": "Material and surface construction", "kind": "category", 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"why_it_matters": "Separates cosmetic wear from defects affecting recognition, handling, or continued use." }, { "name": "Set membership", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "tile belongs to an identified physical set, with original or replacement status where known", "why_it_matters": "Preserves provenance when tiles are mixed, replaced, or returned to storage." } ], "affordances": [ "Read and catalogue both face fields while preserving uncertainty about obscured markings.", "Compare a collection with its declared inventory and identify missing or excess tile identities.", "Sort and match tiles by their face values or symbols.", "Assess and perform shuffling, concealed drawing, or rack placement appropriate to the tiles.", "Test standing and toppling arrangements on a specified surface.", "Select compatible replacements and appropriate cleaning or storage actions from observed construction and condition." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "tile-identity-and-markings", "name": "Tile identity and markings", "description": "Recognise domino tiles through their paired face fields and interpret markings without assuming every family uses the same notation.", "rationale": "An agent must identify the physical tile and its face pair before it can inventory, match, or evaluate it.", "layers": [ { "id": "physical-sense-and-family", "name": "Physical sense and family", "description": "Establish whether the object is a playing domino and which marking family it follows.", "findings": [ { "id": "domino-identification", "name": "Domino identification", "description": "Record the observed two-field structure and evidence for the declared domino family; keep uncertain or unmarked cases explicit.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the object have two distinguishable face fields, and what evidence identifies it as a domino tile?", "kind": "definition", "id": "domino-identification-q01" }, { "text": "Is this a marked playing tile, an 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"description": "Relate the physical inventory to a declared domino family and preserve tile membership when collections are mixed.", "rationale": "A collection can contain usable individual dominoes while still being incomplete or unsuitable as a particular set.", "layers": [ { "id": "expected-inventory", "name": "Expected inventory", "description": "Establish which face pairs and multiplicities the intended set should contain.", "findings": [ { "id": "declared-set-reference", "name": "Declared set reference", "description": "Use an identified set specification to define completeness; do not assume that every domino family includes every possible pair exactly once.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which packaging, maker record, or documented set convention establishes the intended face pairs and their multiplicities?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "declared-set-reference-q01" }, { "text": "What range of values or symbols and which pair combinations belong to this declared set?", "kind": "definition", "id": "declared-set-reference-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "observed-inventory", "name": "Observed inventory", "description": "Compare counted tile identities with the reference and identify mixed or replacement pieces.", "findings": [ { "id": "inventory-reconciliation", "name": "Inventory reconciliation", "description": "Record missing pairs, excess multiplicities, unreadable tiles, and uncertain membership separately.", "questions": [ { "text": "How many tiles of each face-pair identity are present, and how does that compare with the declared inventory?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "inventory-reconciliation-q01" }, { "text": "Which tiles should be returned, replaced, or kept separate to restore the intended set?", "kind": "action", "id": "inventory-reconciliation-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "handling-and-arrangement", "name": "Handling and arrangement", "description": "Assess the physical properties that support domino-specific drawing, placement, standing, and toppling.", "rationale": "Correct markings and inventory do not establish that tiles can be handled consistently or used in the intended arrangement.", "layers": [ { "id": "concealed-handling", "name": "Concealed handling", "description": "Evaluate face-down mixing and drawing, including whether physical differences reveal tile identity.", "findings": [ { "id": "draw-and-concealment-suitability", "name": "Draw and concealment suitability", "description": "Inspect backs, edges, dimensions, and wear for differences that affect mixing or allow particular tiles to be recognised.", "questions": [ { "text": "Can any tile be identified from its back, edges, thickness, or distinctive damage while its face is hidden?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "draw-and-concealment-suitability-q01" }, { "text": "Can these tiles be mixed and drawn on the intended surface without sticking, catching, or exposing their faces?", "kind": "action", "id": "draw-and-concealment-suitability-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "standing-and-toppling", "name": "Standing and toppling", "description": "Assess edge-standing stability and propagation through an arranged sequence under stated conditions.", "findings": [ { "id": "arrangement-feasibility", "name": "Arrangement feasibility", "description": "Treat standing and toppling performance as dependent on tile geometry, spacing, orientation, and supporting surface.", "questions": [ { "text": "What are the tile dimensions and mass, and on which edge and surface can each tile stand reliably?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "arrangement-feasibility-q01" }, { "text": "What tested spacing and orientation allow one falling tile to topple the next in the intended arrangement?", "kind": "action", "id": "arrangement-feasibility-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-set-preservation", "name": "Condition and set preservation", "description": "Assess defects and care actions that affect face recognition, consistent handling, and retention of a usable set.", "rationale": "Wear or an unsuitable repair can change a tile's identity cues and handling properties even when it remains physically present.", "layers": [ { "id": "damage-and-readability", "name": "Damage and readability", "description": "Inspect the face fields and tile body for defects that affect matching, concealed use, or handling.", "findings": [ { "id": "use-affecting-defects", "name": "Use-affecting defects", "description": "Distinguish worn pips or symbols, identifying surface damage, unstable edges, and fractures when judging suitability for a particular use.", "questions": [ { "text": "Are both face fields unambiguous, and do chips, cracks, or warping affect grip or edge-standing?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "use-affecting-defects-q01" }, { "text": "Should the tile remain in use, be restricted to a particular activity, or be removed pending repair or replacement?", "kind": "action", "id": "use-affecting-defects-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "care-and-replacement", "name": 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"method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a dominoes 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 dominoes 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 dominoes, 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 dominoes, 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 dominoes 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 dominoes is built from and which parts are replaceable.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a dominoes, 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 dominoes, 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 dominoes 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 dominoes is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a dominoes, 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 dominoes, 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 dominoes 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 dominoes 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 dominoes is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a dominoes, 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 dominoes, 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 dominoes 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 dominoes 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 dominoes, 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 dominoes, 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 dominoes 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 dominoes 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 dominoes between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a dominoes, 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 dominoes, 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 dominoes 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 dominoes, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a dominoes 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 dominoes, 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 dominoes, 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 dominoes 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 dominoes 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 dominoes 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 dominoes, 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 dominoes 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 dominoes 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 dominoes 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 dominoes 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 dominoes 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 dominoes, 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 dominoes 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 dominoes and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a dominoes, 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 dominoes, 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 dominoes 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 dominoes is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a dominoes, 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 dominoes, 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 dominoes 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 } } } }