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manually manipulated pointed implement, primarily intended to dislodge food debris between teeth, including variants also offered for picking up or securing small food portions.", "in_scope": [ "Toothpick identity, intended uses and boundaries with adjacent implements", "Shaft, tip and grip geometry", "Materials, surface finishes and added substances", "Condition, cleanliness and packaging relevant to use", "Suitability for interdental or food-handling tasks" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Diagnosis or treatment of dental and gum conditions", "Dental floss, interdental brushes and powered oral-cleaning devices", "Cooking skewers, cocktail stirrers and specialist dental instruments as independent kinds", "Manufacturing machinery and factory quality-management systems", "Product-line identities, individual sales listings and waste-management infrastructure" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Has a slender shaft with at least one tapered working end; a thread or bristled working section instead indicates a neighbouring cleaning implement.", "Its pointed shaft directly performs the picking action under hand control, without a powered mechanism.", "Toothpick identity is supported by its stated purpose or documented conventional use; a short pointed stick alone is insufficient to distinguish it from a miniature skewer.", "A food-serving or decorative variant remains a toothpick only where product designation or documented use supports that classification; ornamentation alone does not establish oral suitability." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Intended use", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "interdental picking | food pickup | food securing | decorative serving | multiple stated uses | unknown", "why_it_matters": "Separates the object's identity from assumptions about which tasks its particular construction permits." }, { "name": "Overall length", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "mm", "why_it_matters": "Affects reach, handling and comparison with neighbouring 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"name": "Material and surface treatment", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "declared material; coating, flavouring or other treatment; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Supports assessment of surface integrity, exposure and compatibility with the intended task." }, { "name": "Structural condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "intact | bent | cracked | splintered | broken | tip damaged | unassessed", "why_it_matters": "Makes defects relevant to handling and fragment release explicit." }, { "name": "Cleanliness and use history", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "protected and unused | exposed and unused | previously used | visibly soiled | unknown", "why_it_matters": "Prevents appearance or packaging from being treated as proof of sterility or suitability for reuse." }, { "name": "Use and contact instructions", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "reference to applicable product instructions or supporting declaration", "why_it_matters": "Connects decisions about oral contact, food contact and reuse to evidence for the relevant variant." } ], "affordances": [ "Classify a candidate as a toothpick using its construction and intended-use evidence.", "Compare shaft and tip geometry with a specified picking or food-serving task.", "Inspect working ends for blunting, splitting, cracks or loose material.", "Check packaging and instructions for contact uses, treatments and reuse limitations.", "Identify a used, damaged or unsuitable pick for removal from service and disposal under applicable instructions." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "toothpick-identity", "name": "Toothpick identity", "description": "Establishes what makes the implement a toothpick and which uses a variant represents.", "rationale": "Small pointed sticks overlap in appearance with skewers and serving picks, so shape alone cannot settle classification.", "layers": [ { "id": "defining-purpose", "name": "Defining purpose", "description": "Connects the pointed implement to 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"questions": [ { "text": "What distinguishes this candidate from a miniature skewer, interdental brush or specialist dental instrument?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "skewer-and-dental-tool-boundaries-q01" }, { "text": "Does a decorative or food-serving variant have evidence of oral suitability, or only of its serving role?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "skewer-and-dental-tool-boundaries-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "shaft-and-working-ends", "name": "Shaft and working ends", "description": "Describes the geometry through which hand movement produces the picking action.", "rationale": "A toothpick's working capability depends on its taper, cross-section and usable gripping length.", "layers": [ { "id": "working-end-profile", "name": "Working-end profile", "description": "Captures the number, shape and dimensions of pointed ends.", "findings": [ { "id": "point-and-taper", "name": "Point and taper", "description": "Describe each working end independently where ends differ, without assuming a sharpness or size suitable for every task.", "questions": [ { "text": "How many working points are present, and what are their taper lengths and tip shapes?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "point-and-taper-q01" }, { "text": "Are the ends equivalent, or is one intended for gripping or a different picking action?", "kind": "definition", "id": "point-and-taper-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "shaft-and-grip", "name": "Shaft and grip", "description": "Captures the shaft profile and the portion available for controlled handling.", "findings": [ { "id": "handling-geometry", "name": "Handling geometry", "description": "Record overall dimensions, changing shaft thickness and any grip or ornament that affects manipulation.", "questions": [ { "text": "What are the overall length, cross-section and shaft dimensions at specified positions?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "handling-geometry-q01" }, { "text": "Can the intended task be performed while retaining a usable grip clear of the working point?", "kind": "action", "id": "handling-geometry-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "material-and-contact-surfaces", "name": "Material and contact surfaces", "description": "Connects toothpick composition and surface treatment to its declared contact uses.", "rationale": "The shaft and tip may contact the mouth or food directly, making surface condition and treatment evidence central to suitability.", "layers": [ { "id": "substrate-and-finish", "name": "Substrate and finish", "description": "Describes the material forming the pick and the condition of its exposed surface.", "findings": [ { "id": "material-and-surface-integrity", "name": "Material and surface integrity", "description": "Record declared composition separately from observations of roughness, loose fibres, burrs or coating damage.", "questions": [ { "text": "What material and finish are declared, and where is that information documented?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "material-and-surface-integrity-q01" }, { "text": "Do the tip or shaft show rough edges, loose fibres, burrs or detached surface material?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "material-and-surface-integrity-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "treatments-and-contact-claims", "name": "Treatments and contact claims", "description": "Captures added substances and evidence supporting mouth or food contact.", "findings": [ { "id": "declared-contact-suitability", "name": "Declared contact suitability", "description": "Keep flavouring, coating and other treatment claims linked to documentation, with oral and food-serving uses assessed separately.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which coatings, flavourings or other added substances are declared for this variant?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "declared-contact-suitability-q01" }, { "text": "What documentation supports its intended oral or food-contact use, including any restrictions?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "declared-contact-suitability-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "use-readiness-and-retirement", "name": "Use readiness and retirement", "description": "Assesses exposure, damage and use history before selecting or retiring a toothpick.", "rationale": "An intact-looking pointed implement can have an unknown use history, while damaged tips or shafts can change its fitness for picking.", "layers": [ { "id": "cleanliness-and-access", "name": "Cleanliness and access", "description": "Records how packaging, dispensing and prior handling affect the pick's known condition.", "findings": [ { "id": "protected-or-exposed-pick", "name": "Protected or exposed pick", "description": "Distinguish protected unused picks from exposed or used ones, preserving uncertainty where handling history is unavailable.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is the pick individually wrapped, held in a dispenser or loose, and is its protection intact?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "protected-or-exposed-pick-q01" }, { "text": "What is known about previous use and handling of the working ends?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "protected-or-exposed-pick-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "damage-and-end-of-use", "name": "Damage and end of use", "description": "Connects tip and shaft defects, prior use and instructions to removal from service.", "findings": [ { "id": "withdrawal-and-disposal", "name": "Withdrawal and disposal", "description": "Record defects and applicable reuse or disposal instructions without inferring that a durable material makes a pick reusable.", "questions": [ { "text": "Are either point or the shaft bent, cracked, splintered, broken or missing material?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "withdrawal-and-disposal-q01" }, { "text": "Given its condition, use history and instructions, should the pick be withdrawn, disposed of or processed for documented reuse?", "kind": "action", "id": "withdrawal-and-disposal-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 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"knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a toothpick 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 toothpick, 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 toothpick, 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 toothpick 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 toothpick 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 toothpick, 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 toothpick, by which method, and when was it 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"questions": [ { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the dimensions of a toothpick, 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 toothpick, 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 toothpick 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 toothpick is built from and which parts are replaceable.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a toothpick, 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 toothpick, 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 toothpick 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 toothpick is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a toothpick, 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 toothpick, 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 toothpick 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 toothpick 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 toothpick is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a toothpick, 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 toothpick, 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 toothpick 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 toothpick 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 toothpick, 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 toothpick, 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 toothpick 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 toothpick 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 toothpick between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a toothpick, 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 toothpick, 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 toothpick 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 toothpick, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a toothpick 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 toothpick, 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 toothpick, 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 toothpick 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 toothpick 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 toothpick 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 toothpick, 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 toothpick 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 toothpick 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 toothpick 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 toothpick 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 toothpick 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 toothpick, 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 toothpick 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 toothpick and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a toothpick, 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 toothpick, 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 toothpick 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 toothpick is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a toothpick, 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 toothpick, 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 toothpick 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 } } } }