{ "model": { "rank": 1774, "code": "thing-q41607", "model_id": "vr.tr.umbrella", "name": "umbrella", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise an umbrella, assess its sheltering and mechanical condition, and decide whether and how it can be opened, positioned, carried, maintained or stored.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.OBJ", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q41607/", "tier": 2, "score": 128, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "Bulgarian umbrella", "parasol", "nodategasa", "INSEAD umbrella", "beach umbrella", "umbraculum", "wagasa", "tilting umbrella", "payung" ], "aliasCount": 9, "merged": 11, "knownIn": 128, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q41607", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41607", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-06T21:49:38Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "missingProviders": [ "Grok" ], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "usd": null, "turns": null, "seconds": 2.3, "error": "Error: Internal error: {\n \"message\": \"API error (status 402 Payment Required): Grok Build usage balance exhausted\",\n \"http_status\": 402\n}", "retried": true }, "codex": { "seconds": 58.2, "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: 01a078b1-e905-7a13-8420-e102484a1d3d\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. 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dedicated parasols and fixed outdoor umbrellas share this registry entry remains unresolved.", "in_scope": [ "Canopy geometry, coverage and observed ability to shed rain or provide shade", "Ribs, stretchers, shaft and their assembled condition", "Opening, closing, locking and telescoping behaviour where present", "Handheld grip or supported mounting configuration", "Wetness, damage, repair needs and readiness for storage" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Weather systems and location-specific forecasts", "The user's clothing, mobility and personal exposure", "Buildings, awnings, tents and other independently modelled shelters", "Separate stands, tables and ground anchors beyond their interface with the umbrella", "Retail offers, purchase transactions and warranty agreements" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "When deployed, a flexible canopy is spread by ribs connected to a central shaft rather than supported primarily by poles around its perimeter.", "The canopy is positioned over a person or area as a local overhead shelter rather than worn as a body-covering garment.", "The frame gathers the canopy towards the shaft for closure, distinguishing it from a rigid roof or permanently stretched awning.", "A grip or mounting interface transfers support through the shaft; the canopy does not normally form an enclosed, occupiable shelter.", "Rain protection versus shade-only use must be established from evidence about the individual item; appearance alone does not settle the umbrella-parasol boundary." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Intended shelter function", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "rain protection | shade | both | unknown", "why_it_matters": "Determines what protection the agent should investigate before selecting the umbrella." }, { "name": "Support configuration", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "handheld | mounted | convertible | unknown", "why_it_matters": "Determines whether a user, stand or other support must hold the shaft." }, { "name": "Deployed 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condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Observed tears, holes, seam separation, detachment and leakage, each located or recorded as not assessed", "why_it_matters": "Separates visible fabric condition from demonstrated shelter performance." }, { "name": "Frame and shaft condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Observed bending, fractures, joint looseness, corrosion and misalignment, each located or recorded as not assessed", "why_it_matters": "Identifies defects that may prevent deployment, retention or controlled closure." }, { "name": "Drying state", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "dry | damp | wet | unknown, with inspected region recorded", "why_it_matters": "Supports decisions about drying, wrapping and enclosed storage." }, { "name": "Support interface compatibility", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Specific grip, holder or stand interface, supported by dimensions or a fit assessment", "why_it_matters": "Prevents assuming that a shaft will fit or remain secure in any available holder." } ], "affordances": [ "Open and retain the canopy using the identified mechanism after checking deployment clearance.", "Position the canopy to shelter a specified person or area.", "Close, retract and secure the umbrella in its observed mechanism-specific sequence.", "Inspect the canopy, rib attachments, joints and shaft to judge readiness for use.", "Dry, clean or arrange repair of identified umbrella components.", "Carry or mount the umbrella using a suitable grip or verified support interface." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "umbrella-identity-and-configuration", "name": "Umbrella identity and configuration", "description": "Establishes whether the item belongs to this model and what shelter and support configuration it has.", "rationale": "An agent must distinguish a deployable umbrella from neighbouring shelters and avoid inferring rain suitability from its silhouette.", "layers": [ { "id": "shelter-form-and-boundary", "name": "Shelter form and boundary", "description": "Records the physical arrangement that supports umbrella identification.", "findings": [ { "id": "ribbed-canopy-on-shaft", "name": "Ribbed canopy on a shaft", "description": "Record how the canopy, ribs and shaft form a deployable overhead shelter, including departures from this arrangement.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the canopy spread on ribs connected to a central shaft and gather towards that shaft when closed?", "kind": "definition", "id": "ribbed-canopy-on-shaft-q01" }, { "text": "What observed feature distinguishes this item from an awning, tent, wearable rain cover or rigid shade?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "ribbed-canopy-on-shaft-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "intended-use-and-support", "name": "Intended use and support", "description": "Separates intended protection from the way the umbrella is held or mounted.", "findings": [ { "id": "documented-shelter-configuration", "name": "Documented shelter configuration", "description": "Record evidence for rain or shade use and identify whether the shaft is handheld or supported.", "questions": [ { "text": "What label, instructions or other identifiable evidence establishes intended rain protection, shade use or both?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "documented-shelter-configuration-q01" }, { "text": "Is the umbrella handheld, mounted or convertible, and which physical interface establishes that configuration?", "kind": "definition", "id": "documented-shelter-configuration-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "canopy-coverage-and-performance", "name": "Canopy coverage and performance", "description": "Describes the deployed shelter envelope and the evidence for its protective performance.", "rationale": "Canopy size, condition and positioning determine what can be sheltered; an open canopy alone does not establish effective protection.", "layers": [ { "id": "deployed-shelter-envelope", "name": "Deployed shelter envelope", "description": "Records canopy geometry and its relationship to the intended shelter target.", "findings": [ { "id": "coverage-and-edge-clearance", "name": "Coverage and edge clearance", "description": "Record deployed span, canopy shape and the placement needed to cover the intended person or area.", "questions": [ { "text": "What are the canopy spans along two identified axes when fully deployed?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "coverage-and-edge-clearance-q01" }, { "text": "Where must the shaft and canopy be positioned to cover the intended target while keeping the rim clear of nearby people and objects?", "kind": "action", "id": "coverage-and-edge-clearance-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "canopy-barrier-condition", "name": "Canopy barrier condition", "description": "Separates visible canopy defects from observed or documented protective performance.", "findings": [ { "id": "rain-and-shade-evidence", "name": "Rain and shade evidence", "description": "Record holes, seam defects and leakage observations alongside any traceable protection claims, with assessment conditions.", "questions": [ { "text": "Where are tears, holes, detached panels or leaking seams observed, and under what inspection or use conditions?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "rain-and-shade-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence supports water-shedding or ultraviolet-protection claims for this canopy, and what remains unassessed?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "rain-and-shade-evidence-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "frame-and-deployment-mechanics", "name": "Frame and deployment mechanics", "description": "Captures how the umbrella opens, retains its shape, closes and responds to mechanical defects.", "rationale": "The linked canopy and frame must reach and hold usable configurations without uncontrolled movement or forced operation.", "layers": [ { "id": "controls-and-retention", "name": "Controls and retention", "description": "Identifies the operating sequence and the means of retaining open and closed configurations.", "findings": [ { "id": "deployment-sequence-and-locking", "name": "Deployment sequence and locking", "description": "Record applicable buttons, runner movement, catches and shaft retraction, distinguishing automatic canopy closure from complete reset.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which controls and movements open, close and reset this umbrella according to its instructions or verified operation?", "kind": "action", "id": "deployment-sequence-and-locking-q01" }, { "text": "Does the mechanism retain the fully open and intended closed configurations, or is either state unverified or unstable?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "deployment-sequence-and-locking-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "frame-alignment-and-failure", "name": "Frame alignment and failure", "description": "Records defects in ribs, stretchers, joints and shaft that affect deployment or shelter shape.", "findings": [ { "id": "structural-obstructions-and-inversion", "name": "Structural obstructions and inversion", "description": "Locate bent or broken members, detached attachments, jams and inversion without assuming they can be corrected by force.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which ribs, stretchers, joints, canopy attachments or shaft sections are damaged or misaligned, and how does that affect canopy shape?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "structural-obstructions-and-inversion-q01" }, { "text": "If the umbrella is inverted or jammed, what supported recovery procedure applies, or should operation stop pending repair?", "kind": "action", "id": "structural-obstructions-and-inversion-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "handling-and-use-readiness", "name": "Handling and use readiness", "description": "Connects support, surroundings and post-use condition to practical handling and storage decisions.", "rationale": "An umbrella may deploy correctly yet lack suitable support, operating clearance or a condition suitable for packing.", "layers": [ { "id": "support-and-operating-context", "name": "Support and operating context", "description": 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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 umbrella 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 umbrella 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": [ { 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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 umbrella 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 umbrella 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 umbrella, 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 umbrella, 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 umbrella 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 umbrella 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 umbrella between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a umbrella, 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 umbrella, 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 umbrella 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 umbrella, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a umbrella 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 umbrella, 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 umbrella, 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 umbrella 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 umbrella 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 umbrella 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 umbrella, 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 umbrella 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 umbrella 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 umbrella 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 umbrella 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 umbrella 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 umbrella, 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 umbrella 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 umbrella and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a umbrella, 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 umbrella, 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 umbrella 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 umbrella is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a umbrella, 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 umbrella, 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 umbrella 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 } } } }