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breed.", "scope_statement": "This model owns the breed-specific interpretation of an individual Siberian Husky's identity, physical condition, behaviour, living requirements and suitability for activities, while keeping documented ancestry separate from appearance and individual observations separate from breed expectations.", "in_scope": [ "Evidence supporting Siberian Husky identity and uncertainty about ancestry", "Individual coat, conformation, movement and functional condition", "Observed exercise needs, recovery and response to environmental conditions", "Individual escape behaviour, recall, chase behaviour and social compatibility", "Suitability and prerequisites for companionship, enrichment and harness activities" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Canine anatomy, life stages and routine care shared across dog breeds", "Veterinary diagnosis, treatment protocols and disease-specific models", "Other breeds, including Alaskan Malamute, and mixed-ancestry dogs as separate identities", "Kennel organisations, pedigree registries and their governance", "Harnesses, enclosures, transport equipment and their product specifications", "Breeding operations, sled-racing events and ownership law" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Check whether pedigree or registration evidence identifies this individual as a Siberian Husky and is linked to its physical identifier; a visual resemblance alone leaves ancestry unresolved.", "Compare the complete combination of proportions, coat, ears, tail carriage and movement against a named Siberian Husky standard, explicitly considering Alaskan Malamute and other northern spitz alternatives.", "Treat the label 'husky' as insufficient identification: establish whether it means Siberian Husky, Alaskan husky, another population or an informal appearance description.", "Reject eye colour or coat markings as standalone identity tests; record how much independent evidence remains when those traits are excluded.", "Distinguish breed identity from conformity: a documented Siberian Husky can depart from a show standard without thereby becoming another breed." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Breed identity evidence", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "documented ancestry; reported ancestry; appearance-based attribution; disputed; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Controls whether breed-specific expectations may inform decisions and prevents appearance from being treated as proof." }, { "name": "Linked pedigree and registration", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Issuing organisation, record identifier, individual identifier and verification status", "why_it_matters": "Makes ancestry claims traceable to the particular dog." }, { "name": "Conformation assessment", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Named standard and version, assessor, observed traits and departures", "why_it_matters": "Separates comparison with a breed standard from identity and functional welfare." }, { "name": "Body mass and condition", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "kg; body-condition score with named scale; observation date", "why_it_matters": "Supports assessment of changes that a dense coat may obscure and informs activity planning." }, { "name": "Coat and skin condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Undercoat condition, shedding pattern, matting, skin observations and inspection date", "why_it_matters": "Makes grooming needs and coat-related welfare observations explicit." }, { "name": "Environmental response", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Observed response paired with temperature in °C, relative humidity in %, exposure duration and activity", "why_it_matters": "Supports individual decisions about exposure and exertion without assuming that breed identity guarantees temperature tolerance." }, { "name": "Exercise and recovery profile", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Activity type, duration in min, distance in km, recovery time in min and observed response", "why_it_matters": "Allows workload to follow demonstrated capacity rather than a generic breed exercise prescription." }, { "name": "Containment and recall reliability", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Observed escape methods, enclosure context, recall successes and failures, distraction level and recency", "why_it_matters": "Informs supervision, enclosure changes and off-lead decisions." }, { "name": "Chase and social response", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Observed response by species or individual, setting, distance, trigger and supervision", "why_it_matters": "Prevents sociability in one context from being taken as evidence of compatibility in another." }, { "name": "Harness activity readiness", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "unassessed; foundation training; ready for specified activity; restricted; paused", "why_it_matters": "Separates breed association with sled work from this dog's actual readiness." } ], "affordances": [ "Assess a Siberian Husky identity claim and request missing evidence.", "Create an individual coat-care, enrichment and exercise plan from recorded observations.", "Evaluate a proposed enclosure or outing against observed escape, recall and chase behaviour.", "Adapt activity to current condition, environmental exposure and recovery.", "Assess prerequisites for a specified harness activity and refer unresolved fitness questions to a veterinarian.", "Flag changes in movement, coat, behaviour or recovery for appropriate professional assessment." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "wikipedia-siberian-husky", "title": "Siberian Husky", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberian_Husky", "what_it_supports": "Origin among the Chukchi, breed history including the 1925 Nome serum run, morphology, health, uses, and neighbour breeds.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "shca-akc-standard", "title": "AKC Siberian Husky Standard", "url": "https://www.shca.org/siberian-husky-standard", "what_it_supports": "Official size, coat, eye, gait and disqualification criteria; parent-club standard approved 12 May 2021.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "kennel-club-standard", "title": "Siberian Husky Breed Standard", "url": "https://www.royalkennelclub.com/breed-standards/working/siberian-husky/", "what_it_supports": "UK Working Group standard, including merle as unacceptable and metric size limits.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "wikidata-q39295", "title": "Siberian Husky (Q39295)", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q39295", "what_it_supports": "Wikidata item, AKC breed slug, and other catalogue identifiers.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "smith-2024-gbe", "title": "Comparative Population Genomics of Arctic Sled Dogs Reveals a Deep and Complex History", "url": "https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11403282/", "what_it_supports": "Four genetically distinct Siberian populations (show, pet, racing, Seppala) and relative genetic load.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "akc-husky-vs-malamute", "title": "Siberian Husky vs. Alaskan Malamute: Two Similar Yet Different Breeds", "url": "https://www.akc.org/expert-advice/dog-breeds/siberian-husky-vs-alaskan-malamute/", "what_it_supports": "Practical tests that separate Siberian Husky from Alaskan Malamute (size, eye colour, ear set, coat, original work).", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "fci-sledge-commission", "title": "FCI Sledge Dog Commission", "url": "https://fci.be/en/Kommission-fur-Schlittenhunde-6885.html", "what_it_supports": "FCI placement in Group 5 Section 1 (Nordic Sledge Dogs), closed studbook since 1930, and parent-club stance against cross-breeding.", "url_status": "unverified" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "siberian-husky-identity", "name": "Siberian Husky identity", "description": "Establish what supports the breed attribution and how competing identifications are handled.", "rationale": "The word 'husky' and familiar visual traits can produce an identity claim stronger than the available evidence.", "layers": [ { "id": "ancestry-and-record-linkage", "name": "Ancestry and record linkage", "description": "Connect documentary claims to the individual dog.", "findings": [ { "id": "traceable-breed-attribution", "name": "Traceable breed attribution", "description": "Record the asserted breed, its source and whether the supporting record demonstrably belongs to this dog.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who identifies this dog as a Siberian Husky, and what pedigree or registration evidence supports that claim?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "traceable-breed-attribution-q01" }, { "text": "How is that evidence linked to the dog's microchip or other physical identifier?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "traceable-breed-attribution-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "lookalikes-and-standard-comparison", "name": "Lookalikes and standard comparison", "description": "Separate resemblance, standard conformity and documented identity.", "findings": [ { "id": "bounded-visual-identification", "name": "Bounded visual identification", "description": "Record a multi-trait comparison and retain uncertainty where appearance cannot distinguish ancestry.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which named standard supports the assessment of proportions, coat, ears, tail carriage and movement?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "bounded-visual-identification-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence distinguishes Siberian Husky from Alaskan Malamute, an Alaskan husky or a northern-breed cross in this case?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "bounded-visual-identification-q02" }, { "text": "Which observed departures concern standard conformity, and which actually weaken the identity claim?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "bounded-visual-identification-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "coat-and-functional-condition", "name": "Coat and functional condition", "description": "Interpret the dog's coat, body condition and movement in ways relevant to daily welfare and activity.", "rationale": "A breed-associated appearance must not substitute for direct assessment of the body beneath the coat or its ability to move comfortably.", "layers": [ { "id": "undercoat-and-skin", "name": "Undercoat and skin", "description": "Track coat maintenance needs and changes requiring investigation.", "findings": [ { "id": "individual-coat-cycle", "name": "Individual coat cycle", "description": "Record shedding, undercoat retention, matting and skin observations against this dog's established pattern.", "questions": [ { "text": "What shedding and undercoat pattern has been observed across seasons in this dog's actual living environment?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "individual-coat-cycle-q01" }, { "text": "Which coat or skin changes require grooming intervention or professional assessment before they are attributed to normal shedding?", "kind": "action", "id": "individual-coat-cycle-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-gait", "name": "Condition and gait", "description": "Assess physical function independently of a coat-based impression or show evaluation.", "findings": [ { "id": "body-and-movement-baseline", "name": "Body and movement baseline", "description": "Record body condition and movement at rest and during relevant activities, including departures from the individual's baseline.", "questions": [ { "text": "What do measured weight and a named body-condition assessment show beyond the dog's coated silhouette?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "body-and-movement-baseline-q01" }, { "text": "What asymmetry, discomfort or change in stride appears during walking, trotting or harness work?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "body-and-movement-baseline-q02" }, { "text": "Which observed changes should pause planned exertion pending professional assessment?", "kind": "action", "id": "body-and-movement-baseline-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "exercise-and-environmental-response", "name": "Exercise and environmental response", "description": "Connect activity choices to individual capacity, recovery and environmental exposure.", "rationale": "Association with endurance and cold-weather work does not establish safe workloads or exposure for a particular Siberian Husky.", "layers": [ { "id": "workload-and-recovery", "name": "Workload and recovery", "description": "Build a record of activities the individual tolerates and recovers from.", "findings": [ { "id": "demonstrated-activity-capacity", "name": "Demonstrated activity capacity", "description": "Record activity dose and response without assigning a universal daily exercise requirement.", "questions": [ { "text": "What duration, distance, pace and terrain has this dog completed comfortably, and how long did recovery take?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "demonstrated-activity-capacity-q01" }, { "text": "How should the next activity change in response to age, conditioning, current restrictions and the last recorded recovery?", "kind": "action", "id": "demonstrated-activity-capacity-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "exposure-and-shelter", "name": "Exposure and shelter", "description": "Assess the conditions surrounding activity and rest.", "findings": [ { "id": "contextual-temperature-tolerance", "name": "Contextual temperature tolerance", "description": "Record environmental conditions and actual responses, keeping climate adaptation separate from guaranteed safety.", "questions": [ { "text": "What temperature, humidity, sun exposure, surface conditions and duration accompanied the observed response?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "contextual-temperature-tolerance-q01" }, { "text": "What access to water, shade, shelter and a suitable resting environment is available for the proposed activity?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "contextual-temperature-tolerance-q02" }, { "text": "What observed response or professional restriction requires shortening, relocating or stopping exposure?", "kind": "action", "id": "contextual-temperature-tolerance-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "containment-and-behaviour", "name": "Containment and behaviour", "description": "Assess individual roaming, escape, recall, chase and social responses in their actual contexts.", "rationale": "Containment and compatibility decisions require behavioural evidence rather than reassuring or alarming breed stereotypes.", "layers": [ { "id": "escape-and-recall", "name": "Escape and recall", "description": "Connect enclosure and handling decisions to demonstrated behaviour.", "findings": [ { "id": "context-specific-control", "name": "Context-specific control", "description": "Record attempts to dig, climb, squeeze through or pass gates, alongside recall performance under relevant distractions.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which escape methods has this dog attempted, and at which specific enclosure features?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "context-specific-control-q01" }, { "text": "Under what distractions has recall succeeded or failed, and how recently was that observed?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "context-specific-control-q02" }, { "text": "What containment and supervision are justified for the proposed setting by that evidence?", "kind": "action", "id": "context-specific-control-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "chase-and-household-compatibility", "name": "Chase and household compatibility", "description": "Distinguish responses to people, dogs and other animals.", "findings": [ { "id": "target-specific-behaviour", "name": "Target-specific behaviour", "description": "Record compatibility and chase behaviour by target and setting without generalising from friendliness elsewhere.", "questions": [ { "text": "How does this dog respond to household animals, unfamiliar dogs and moving wildlife in the settings observed?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "target-specific-behaviour-q01" }, { "text": "Where does the available evidence stop supporting a claim of safe coexistence?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "target-specific-behaviour-q02" }, { "text": "What separation, supervision or professional behavioural assessment is needed before changing access?", "kind": "action", "id": "target-specific-behaviour-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "enrichment-and-harness-participation", "name": "Enrichment and harness participation", "description": "Determine which activities suit the individual and what must be established before participation.", "rationale": "Siberian Husky working associations create useful activity possibilities but do not prove motivation, training or fitness.", "layers": [ { "id": "engagement-and-settling", "name": "Engagement and settling", "description": "Assess whether daily activities support both engagement and rest.", "findings": [ { "id": "individual-activity-preferences", "name": "Individual activity preferences", "description": "Record responses to exploration, scent tasks, training, social activity and pulling opportunities where appropriate.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which activities does this dog voluntarily engage with, and which produce avoidance, frustration or sustained over-arousal?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "individual-activity-preferences-q01" }, { "text": "What activity and rest pattern supports settling in this household, based on repeated observation?", "kind": "action", "id": "individual-activity-preferences-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "harness-work-prerequisites", "name": "Harness work prerequisites", "description": "Evaluate readiness for a named pulling or team activity.", "findings": [ { "id": "specified-work-readiness", "name": "Specified work readiness", "description": "Record conditioning, training, equipment fit, handler control and any professional restrictions for the proposed activity.", "questions": [ { "text": "What exact activity, load, distance, terrain and individual or team arrangement is proposed?", "kind": "definition", "id": "specified-work-readiness-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence establishes suitable fitness, harness fit, trained cues and compatibility with any teammates?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "specified-work-readiness-q02" }, { "text": "Which unmet prerequisite requires postponing or modifying participation?", "kind": "action", "id": "specified-work-readiness-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "show/conformation Siberian Husky", "racing Siberian Husky", "pet/companion Siberian Husky", "Seppala Siberian Sleddog", "woolly-coated Siberian (non-standard coat)", "gray or black-and-white colour type", "red/copper colour type", "pure-white colour type" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of Siberian Husky 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": "Q39295", "note": "Item for the dog breed Siberian Husky." }, { "scheme": "FCI breed number", "value_or_pattern": "270", "note": "FCI Group 5 (Spitz and primitive types), Section 1 (Nordic sledge dogs)." }, { "scheme": "AKC breed ID", "value_or_pattern": "siberian-husky", "note": "American Kennel Club breed slug; Working Group." }, { "scheme": "Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID", "value_or_pattern": "animal/Siberian-husky", "note": "Britannica animal entry." }, { "scheme": "UKC breed name", "value_or_pattern": "Siberian Husky", "note": "Registered by the United Kennel Club as Arctic Husky from 1938 until the name change in 1991." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of Siberian Husky 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": [ "AKC Official Standard of the Siberian Husky, Siberian Husky Club of America parent club, approved 9 February 2021 and effective 12 May 2021 (height over 23.5 in dogs / 22 in bitches is a disqualification).", "FCI-Standard N° 270 Siberian Husky, Fédération Cynologique Internationale (Group 5, Section 1).", "The Kennel Club (UK) Siberian Husky breed standard, Working Group; merle marked unacceptable.", "Canadian Kennel Club and United Kennel Club breed standards for registration and conformation.", "Closed studbook in the United States since AKC recognition in 1930; SHCA published statement condemning cross-breeding of the Siberian Husky.", "Breeding screening practice (not a statute): OFA/eye-clinic exams for juvenile cataract, PRA, glaucoma and hip dysplasia before breeding." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of Siberian Husky 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": [ "Kept mainly as a companion and house pet; high energy and a drive to run make mismatch with sedentary homes common.", "Recreational and club-level sledding, skijoring, bikejoring, canicross and dryland carting.", "Tourist husky-safari teams in snow regions such as Finnish Lapland.", "Conformation showing and parent-club working events; competitive distance racing is now dominated by Alaskan Husky crosses rather than registered Siberians.", "Historical work as Chukchi transport dogs, Nome-era freight and race dogs, the 1925 diphtheria-serum relay, Antarctic survey teams, and U.S. Army Arctic search-and-rescue in the Second World War.", "Frequent intake at shelters after owners buy on appearance (including after film and television wolf-lookalike fads) and cannot meet exercise and containment needs." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Siberian Husky 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": "height at withers, males", "typical_range": "53-60 (21-23.5 in; over 23.5 in is an AKC disqualification)", "unit": "cm" }, { "quantity": "height at withers, females", "typical_range": "51-56 (20-22 in; over 22 in is an AKC disqualification)", "unit": "cm" }, { "quantity": "body mass, males", "typical_range": "20-27 (45-60 lb)", "unit": "kg" }, { "quantity": "body mass, females", "typical_range": "16-23 (35-50 lb)", "unit": "kg" }, { "quantity": "life expectancy", "typical_range": "about 11.9 in a 2024 UK cohort (popular range often given as 12-14)", "unit": "year" }, { "quantity": "litter size", "typical_range": "4-8", "unit": "pup" }, { "quantity": "OFA-tested hip dysplasia prevalence", "typical_range": "about 2 (low among surveyed breeds)", "unit": "%" }, { "quantity": "recommended containment fence height", "typical_range": "1.8 (some individuals clear 2.4)", "unit": "m" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of Siberian Husky 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": [ "Escape by digging, chewing or jumping; electric pet fences are often ineffective.", "Destructive indoor behaviour and vocal howling when under-exercised or left alone.", "High prey drive toward livestock, cats and wildlife.", "Heavy seasonal shed of the undercoat (\"blowing coat\").", "Heat stress in warm climates; a woolly coat also overheats and ices up in harness work.", "Inherited eye disease: juvenile cataract, X-linked progressive retinal atrophy (RPGR), glaucoma and corneal dystrophy.", "Idiopathic epilepsy and, less often, hypothyroidism and zinc-responsive dermatosis.", "In racing dogs: gastric disease, bronchial \"ski asthma\" and gastric ulceration.", "Founder-effect risk from a small 1930 import base and inbreeding in show and Seppala subpopulations.", "High shelter surrender; the breed is typically a poor guard dog because it is friendly to strangers." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Siberian Husky 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": [ "In Chukotka the ancestral Chukotka sled dog remains a working landrace; the kennel-club \"Siberian Husky\" is a North American and European closed-studbook construct from 1908-1930 imports.", "United States: AKC Working Group, SHCA parent club, studbook closed 1930; show versus racing split is sharp.", "FCI countries: Group 5, Section 1 Nordic Sledge Dogs, number 270.", "United Kingdom: Working Group; merle explicitly unacceptable in the Kennel Club standard.", "United Kennel Club used the name Arctic Husky from 1938 to 1991.", "Nordic tourism (Finland and neighbouring countries) uses large numbers of Siberians and mixes in commercial safari teams.", "Local names include Chukcha/Chuksha, Sibe, husky de Sibérie, husky siberiano and siperianhusky; Nome miners once nicknamed the smaller imports \"Siberian rats\"." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of Siberian Husky 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": "Alaskan Malamute", "difference": "Freighting build typically 34-39 kg with coarser, longer coat over neck and rump; brown eyes only (blue is a disqualification); ears set more to the side and pointing slightly forward rather than high and straight up." }, { "name": "Alaskan Husky", "difference": "A performance-bred open type, not a closed kennel-club breed; appearance and ancestry vary, often with non-Arctic (European) admixture, and it is selected for race speed rather than a written standard." }, { "name": "Chukotka sled dog", "difference": "The Siberian landrace progenitor still used in Chukotka; it is not the same as an AKC/FCI-registered Siberian Husky with a closed 1930 studbook." }, { "name": "Greenland Dog or Canadian Eskimo Dog", "difference": "Inuit Arctic dogs that DNA studies place on a separate lineage from the Siberian-Malamute-Alaskan cluster." }, { "name": "Seppala Siberian Sleddog", "difference": "A working strain from Leonhard Seppala's lines, treated by UKC as a separate breed; genetically a Siberian subpopulation rather than the show-ring Siberian." }, { "name": "Wolf or wolf-dog hybrid", "difference": "Siberians are domestic dogs; blue or parti-coloured eyes, a friendly social temperament, and a kennel-club pedigree separate them from wolves and most wolf-dog crosses, despite pop-culture lookalike demand." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of Siberian Husky this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Which breed standards and registry authorities should anchor identification, and how should differences between their criteria be represented?", "What evidence supports Siberian Husky-specific health screening beyond general canine care, and which recommendations depend on age, lineage or intended breeding?", "What research can support workload and environmental decision guidance without inventing universal exercise durations or temperature cutoffs?", "How well are reported breed tendencies concerning escape, chase, sociability and vocalisation supported, and how much variation exists between individuals?", "Which coat-care interventions are supported for routine shedding, severe matting and medical circumstances, and where is professional assessment necessary?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 18, "questions": 34 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "organism", "method": "Written from the archetype playbook - what this kind of thing needs beyond identity and provenance - and from the structure that recurred across 6,333 models already researched by two engines. Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched. This entry carries no facets of its own, so they were inferred from its domain - a guess about a whole domain applied to one thing.", "facetsInferred": true, "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.", "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a Siberian Husky, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a registered Siberian Husky, assess its individual condition and needs, and identify appropriate care, containment and activities.", "characteristics": { "substance": "living", "origin": "natural", "agency": "autonomous", "mobility": "self-moving" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Described in 61 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 Siberian Husky, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "a living thing", "physicalCharacter": [ "Moves under its own power or of its own accord.", "Acts on its own behalf.", "These come from the domain this entry sits in rather than from the entry itself, so treat them as a first guess about the whole domain applied to one thing." ], "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [ "observe it, measure it, record its state" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "Recognised by diagnostic characters, and those differ by life stage - the young of many kinds are mistaken for other kinds entirely. A sighting is settled by characters, a photograph and a place, not by a name alone." ], "relatedModels": [], "standing": "Described in 61 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one Siberian Husky from another, and a Siberian Husky 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 Siberian Husky, 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 Siberian Husky, 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 Siberian Husky 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 Siberian Husky, 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 Siberian Husky, 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 Siberian Husky 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 Siberian Husky 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 Siberian Husky, 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 Siberian Husky, 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 Siberian Husky 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 Siberian Husky from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Siberian Husky, 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 Siberian Husky, 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 Siberian Husky 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 Siberian Husky 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 Siberian Husky, 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 Siberian Husky, 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 Siberian Husky is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "material-and-composition", "name": "Material and composition", "description": "Anatomy, parts and life stage.", "findings": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials", "name": "Parts and life stages", "description": "The parts of a Siberian Husky and the stages it passes through.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a Siberian Husky, 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 Siberian Husky, 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 Siberian Husky 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 Siberian Husky is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a Siberian Husky, 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 Siberian Husky, 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 Siberian Husky 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 Siberian Husky is, how it got there and where it may go (self-moving).", "rationale": "A thing that can move needs its position recorded with a time, or every later claim about it is about a place it has left.", "layers": [ { "id": "location-and-placement", "name": "Location and placement", "description": "Position, containment and the reference frame the position is given in.", "findings": [ { "id": "position-and-frame", "name": "Position, container and reference frame", "description": "Where a Siberian Husky is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a Siberian Husky, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and 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[ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "observations-and-status", "name": "Observations and current status", "description": "What is observed about a Siberian Husky, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Siberian Husky 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 Siberian Husky, 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 Siberian Husky, 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 Siberian Husky is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "taxonomic-placement", "name": "Taxonomic placement and identification", "description": "What Siberian Husky is called scientifically, by whose authority, and how a specimen is recognised.", "rationale": "Names change with revisions while the organism does not, so a name without its authority and date cannot be reconciled later.", "layers": [ { "id": "accepted-name", "name": "Accepted name and synonymy", "description": "The current binomial, its author and date, and the names it replaced.", "findings": [ { "id": "name-and-authority", "name": "Accepted name, authority and synonyms", "description": "What to record so a later revision can be applied without losing the old data.", "questions": [ { "id": "name-and-authority-q01", "text": "What is the accepted scientific name of Siberian Husky, with its author and year, and which synonyms does it absorb?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "name-and-authority-q02", "text": "Which taxonomic authority is being followed, and what would a competing authority say?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "field-identification", "name": "Field identification", "description": "The characters that separate Siberian Husky from what it is confused with.", "findings": [ { "id": "diagnostic-characters", "name": "Diagnostic characters and confusable kinds", "description": "Features that settle an identification, and those that only suggest it.", "questions": [ { "id": "diagnostic-characters-q01", "text": "Which observable characters distinguish Siberian Husky from its closest look-alikes, and at which life stage are they visible?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "diagnostic-characters-q02", "text": "What evidence is enough to record an identification as confirmed rather than provisional?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "life-cycle-and-condition", "name": "Life stages, condition and behaviour", "description": "What Siberian Husky does over its life and how its state is judged.", "rationale": "Stage and condition change what may be done - handled, treated, harvested, left alone - and both are observations with a time.", "layers": [ { "id": "stages-and-reproduction", "name": "Stages and reproduction", "description": "Development from origin to death, including forms that look like different animals.", "findings": [ { "id": "life-stages", "name": "Life stages and their marks", "description": "The stages worth recording and what tells them apart.", "questions": [ { "id": "life-stages-q01", "text": "What stages does Siberian Husky pass through, and what observable change marks each transition?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "life-stages-q02", "text": "Which stages are so unlike the adult that they are mistaken for another kind?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "health-and-condition", "name": "Health and condition", "description": "How condition is assessed and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "condition-assessment", "name": "Condition assessment", "description": "Signs of health, injury and stress, and who is competent to judge them.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "How is the condition of Siberian Husky judged, on what scale, and by whom?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "condition-assessment-q02", "text": "What condition obliges an agent to act, and what act is permitted to whom?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "range-and-status", "name": "Habitat, range and conservation status", "description": "Where Siberian Husky lives and how threatened it is.", "rationale": "Range and status govern what is lawful, and both are assessments with an assessor and a year rather than facts of nature.", "layers": [ { "id": "habitat-and-range", "name": "Habitat and range", "description": "Native range, introductions and the habitat it needs.", "findings": [ { "id": "range-record", "name": "Range, introductions and habitat", "description": "What to record about where it is found and how it got there.", "questions": [ { "id": "range-record-q01", "text": "What is the native range of Siberian Husky, where has it been introduced, and what habitat does it require?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "range-record-q02", "text": "What distinguishes a native record from an introduced or vagrant one?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "protection-status", "name": "Protection and legal status", "description": "Conservation assessments and the rules that follow from them.", "findings": [ { "id": "status-and-rules", "name": "Conservation status and legal consequence", "description": "The assessment, its date, and what it forbids or requires where.", "questions": [ { "id": "status-and-rules-q01", "text": "What conservation status does Siberian Husky hold, under which assessment and year?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "status-and-rules-q02", "text": "What does that status forbid or require of an agent, and in which jurisdiction?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a Siberian Husky 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 Siberian Husky and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Siberian Husky, 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 Siberian Husky, 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 Siberian Husky 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 Siberian Husky is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Siberian Husky, 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 Siberian Husky, 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 Siberian Husky 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 } } } }