{ "model": { "rank": 3445, "code": "thing-q474187", "model_id": "vr.tr.thirst", "name": "thirst", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise and track thirst as an experienced motivation to drink, distinguish it from related states, and identify appropriate responses without inferring hydration status from thirst alone.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Information and virtual systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "INF", "domain": "INF.KNW", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q474187/", "tier": 2, "score": 86, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [], "aliasCount": 0, "merged": 0, "knownIn": 86, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": "vr.tr.thirst", "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q474187", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q474187", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T14:46:36Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 22.1, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.3\n--------\nworkdir: R:\\02_PROJECTS\\02_Meta_Models_Platforms\\Ver.cy\\current\\thing-registry-backlog\nmodel: gpt-6-astra\nprovider: openai\napproval: never\nsandbox: read-only\nreasoning effort: none\nreasoning summaries: none\nsession id: 01a07c54-ce9f-74b1-9473-7a2215ff6e2a\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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learned cues.", "scope_statement": "This model owns thirst in the literal bodily sense: its reported experience, temporal course, possible eliciting conditions, orientation toward drinking, and perceived relief; physiological explanations remain hypotheses unless independently supported.", "in_scope": [ "Episodes of felt thirst and their reported intensity and qualities", "The distinction between thirst, dry mouth, beverage craving, and habitual drinking", "Possible eliciting conditions and their evidential status", "Motivation to drink and barriers to acting on it", "Changes in thirst before, during, and after drinking" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Hydration status and fluid balance as independently assessed physiological states", "Diagnosis and treatment of conditions associated with unusual thirst", "Water supply infrastructure and drinking-water quality", "Beverage composition, nutrition, and metabolism", "Metaphorical thirst for knowledge, power, or other non-beverage objects" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "An instance involves an experienced need or urge to drink; observing fluid consumption alone does not establish thirst.", "A report of mouth dryness requires a separate question about the urge to drink before it is classified as thirst.", "Wanting the taste, stimulation, or social experience of a particular beverage does not by itself establish thirst.", "Thirst intensity and independently assessed hydration status must be recorded separately rather than treated as interchangeable measurements.", "The intended relief concerns a bodily drinking-related experience; metaphorical uses of 'thirst' fall outside this model." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Reported thirst intensity", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Score on an explicitly identified scale, including anchors and assessment time", "why_it_matters": "Supports comparison within an episode while preserving differences between measurement instruments." }, { "name": "Experiential qualities", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Participant wording plus optional tags: urge to drink, mouth dryness, throat sensation, other, unclear", "why_it_matters": "Preserves how thirst is experienced without reducing it to one sensation." }, { "name": "Episode course", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Newly noticed, increasing, stable, decreasing, reportedly relieved, recurrent, unknown", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes momentary ratings from the trajectory of the experience." }, { "name": "Reporting basis", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Contemporaneous self-report, retrospective self-report, proxy interpretation, behavioural inference, unavailable", "why_it_matters": "Prevents an inference about thirst from being presented as a directly reported experience." }, { "name": "Candidate eliciting conditions", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Links to preceding or concurrent conditions, each marked as reported attribution, observed association, or supported explanation", "why_it_matters": "Allows investigation of causes without turning temporal coincidence into a causal finding." }, { "name": "Drink access and constraints", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Links to available drinks, assistance needs, access barriers, and applicable care instructions", "why_it_matters": "Explains why a person may remain thirsty without drinking." }, { "name": "Reported relief", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Change on the same thirst scale, with elapsed time and associated drinking event recorded", "why_it_matters": "Tracks perceived response without equating relief with physiological restoration." } ], "affordances": [ "Elicit a thirst report that separates intensity, sensory qualities, and beverage preference.", "Track an episode using consistently anchored assessments.", "Link thirst to contextual observations while labelling causal uncertainty.", "Identify practical barriers to obtaining or consuming a drink.", "Compare reported thirst before and after drinking.", "Flag persistent, unusual, or difficult-to-interpret reports for human review under an applicable care protocol." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "thirst-experience-and-boundaries", "name": "Thirst experience and boundaries", "description": "Establishes which experience is being called thirst and how neighbouring experiences are distinguished.", "rationale": "The registry has no definition, so recognition requires an explicit working sense and boundary tests.", "layers": [ { "id": "felt-need-to-drink", "name": "Felt need to drink", "description": "Records the person's account of the bodily experience and its orientation toward drinking.", "findings": [ { "id": "literal-thirst-instance", "name": "Literal thirst instance", "description": "Represent the reported experience before assigning a mechanism or inferring it from behaviour.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the person describe a bodily need or urge to drink, and what words do they use?", "kind": "definition", "id": "literal-thirst-instance-q01" }, { "text": "Is this account a direct report, a retrospective recollection, or another observer's interpretation?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "literal-thirst-instance-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "neighbouring-experiences", "name": "Neighbouring experiences", "description": "Separates thirst from mouth dryness, beverage-specific desire, and nonliteral language.", "findings": [ { "id": "dryness-and-desire-separation", "name": "Dryness and desire separation", "description": "Keep co-occurring sensations and preferences distinct instead of using them as substitutes for thirst.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is mouth dryness present, and is an urge to drink reported separately?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "dryness-and-desire-separation-q01" }, { "text": "Is the person seeking bodily relief, a particular beverage experience, or both?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "dryness-and-desire-separation-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "thirst-assessment-and-course", "name": "Thirst assessment and course", "description": "Captures the strength and development of thirst while retaining measurement limitations.", "rationale": "An agent needs to distinguish a transient sensation from a persistent or recurring experience using interpretable observations.", "layers": [ { "id": "intensity-assessment", "name": "Intensity assessment", "description": "Defines how thirst is elicited, scored, and compared.", "findings": [ { "id": "anchored-thirst-report", "name": "Anchored thirst report", "description": "Attach scale wording, anchors, timing, and reporting method to each intensity value.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which question and scale anchors were used to assess thirst intensity?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "anchored-thirst-report-q01" }, { "text": "Can the person use this assessment method, and what communication support or proxy interpretation was involved?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "anchored-thirst-report-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "episode-timing", "name": "Episode timing", "description": "Tracks onset, persistence, recurrence, and interruptions in observation.", "findings": [ { "id": "thirst-trajectory", "name": "Thirst trajectory", "description": "Represent change over time without treating missing reports as an absence of thirst.", "questions": [ { "text": "When was thirst first noticed, and how has its reported intensity changed since then?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "thirst-trajectory-q01" }, { "text": "Does the record describe continuous thirst, separate recurring episodes, or observations too sparse to distinguish them?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "thirst-trajectory-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "eliciting-context-and-physiological-links", "name": "Eliciting context and physiological links", "description": "Connects the experience to potentially relevant events and independently assessed bodily states.", "rationale": "Thirst invites physiological explanations, but the model must separate contextual evidence from established causes.", "layers": [ { "id": "preceding-and-concurrent-conditions", "name": "Preceding and concurrent conditions", "description": "Records the circumstances surrounding thirst without presuming they explain it.", "findings": [ { "id": "candidate-thirst-elicitors", "name": "Candidate thirst elicitors", "description": "Capture relevant timing of drinking, eating, exertion, environmental exposure, and other reported changes as candidate context.", "questions": [ { "text": "What drinking, eating, activity, environmental exposure, or other changes preceded the report of thirst?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "candidate-thirst-elicitors-q01" }, { "text": "Which proposed explanation comes from the person, which from an observer, and which has independent supporting evidence?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "candidate-thirst-elicitors-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "hydration-evidence-boundary", "name": "Hydration evidence boundary", "description": "Links 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"Relief and unresolved thirst", "description": "Associate drinking events with subsequent reports without assuming that either drinking or relief settles physiological needs.", "questions": [ { "text": "What was consumed, when, and how did thirst change at explicitly recorded follow-up times?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "relief-and-unresolved-thirst-q01" }, { "text": "If thirst persists or recurs unusually for this person, what applicable protocol determines whether human review is needed?", "kind": "action", "id": "relief-and-unresolved-thirst-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "The sense assumed here is physiological thirst, not metaphorical longing.", "The listed kinds distinguish mechanisms and contexts; they overlap and are not a single exhaustive classification.", "Rating-scale ranges describe instrument formats, not normal physiological ranges; exact instruments and anchors require verification." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of thirst this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Osmotic thirst, stimulated by increased effective concentration of body fluids", "Hypovolemic thirst, stimulated by reduced circulating fluid volume", "Prandial thirst, associated with eating" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of thirst this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Motivating drinking to maintain fluid balance", "Assessing subjective symptoms during clinical history-taking", "Studying fluid regulation and drinking behaviour", "Monitoring perceived hydration needs during exercise and heat exposure" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of thirst this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "Subjective thirst intensity", "typical_range": "0-10 on a numerical rating scale; wording and anchors depend on the instrument", "unit": "dimensionless rating" }, { "quantity": "Subjective thirst intensity", "typical_range": "0-100 on a 100 mm visual analogue scale, commonly anchored by no thirst and extreme thirst", "unit": "mm" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of thirst this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Impaired or absent thirst can allow fluid deficits to develop without a strong desire to 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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 thirst 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 thirst, 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 thirst, 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 thirst 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 thirst 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 thirst, 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 thirst, 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 thirst 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 thirst from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a thirst, 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 thirst, 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 thirst 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 thirst 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 thirst between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes 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superseded rather than overwritten.", "questions": [ { "id": "observation-record-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a thirst, 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 thirst, 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 thirst is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "content-and-access", "name": "Content, encoding and access", "description": "What a thirst says, how it is encoded and who may read it.", "rationale": "An informational thing carries content that can be copied, versioned and withheld, none of which its physical carrier explains.", "layers": [ { "id": "content-and-encoding", "name": "Content and encoding", "description": "The content itself, its format and its language.", "findings": [ { "id": "content-and-format", "name": "Content, format and language", "description": "What a thirst contains and in what form it is held.", "questions": [ { "id": "content-and-format-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the content of a thirst, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "content-and-format-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the content of a thirst, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "content-and-format-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the content of a thirst is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "access-and-rights", "name": "Access, rights and retention", "description": "Who may read, copy or change it, and for how long it is kept.", "findings": [ { "id": "access-rules", "name": "Access rules and retention", "description": "The permissions attached to a thirst and the period it survives.", "questions": [ { "id": "access-rules-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes access to a thirst, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "access-rules-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about access to a thirst, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "access-rules-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once access to a thirst is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "subject-and-method", "name": "Subject matter and method", "description": "What thirst studies and how it establishes anything.", "rationale": "A field is identified by its questions and its methods, and those are what distinguish it from the fields next to it.", "layers": [ { "id": "subject", "name": "Subject matter", "description": "The questions it takes as its own.", "findings": [ { "id": "subject-record", "name": "Questions and objects of study", "description": "What it is about, stated so a neighbouring field can be told apart.", "questions": [ { "id": "subject-record-q01", "text": "What questions and objects does thirst take as its own?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "subject-record-q02", "text": "Which questions does it share with a neighbouring field, and who claims them?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "method", "name": "Method and evidence", "description": "How claims are established and what counts as evidence.", "findings": [ { "id": "method-record", "name": "Methods and standards of evidence", "description": "The methods used and what they are taken to establish.", "questions": [ { "id": "method-record-q01", "text": "By what methods does thirst establish claims, and what counts as sufficient evidence?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "method-record-q02", "text": "What kind of claim can this field not settle, and where should an agent look instead?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "institutions-and-classification", "name": "Institutions and classification", "description": "Where thirst is practised and how catalogues place it.", "rationale": "The institutional footprint is the evidence that a field exists as a field rather than as a topic.", "layers": [ { "id": "institutions", "name": "Institutional markers", "description": "Societies, journals, degrees and departments.", "findings": [ { "id": "institution-record", "name": "Bodies and venues", "description": "Where the field organises itself.", "questions": [ { "id": "institution-record-q01", "text": "Which societies, journals or degrees mark thirst as an established field?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "institution-record-q02", "text": "What would show that it is emerging or dissolving rather than established?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "classification", "name": "Classification schemes", "description": "Where library and research classifications put it.", "findings": [ { "id": "classification-record", "name": "Codes and their disagreements", "description": "The classification codes that place it, and where they differ.", "questions": [ { "id": "classification-record-q01", "text": "Which classification schemes place thirst, under what codes?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "classification-record-q02", "text": "Where do those schemes disagree about its scope?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a thirst 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 thirst and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a thirst, 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 thirst, 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 thirst 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 thirst is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a thirst, 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 thirst, 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 thirst is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 12, "findings": 14, "questions": 38 } } } }