{ "model": { "rank": 2234, "code": "thing-q47722", "model_id": "vr.tr.broccoli", "name": "broccoli", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise broccoli as a cultivated plant, assess its development and condition, and decide suitable cultivation, protection and harvest actions.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.LIV", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q47722/", "tier": 2, "score": 111, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "Sparacello" ], "aliasCount": 1, "merged": 1, "knownIn": 111, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": "vr.tr.broccoli", "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q47722", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q47722", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T11:37:38Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 29.3, "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: 01a07ba7-a54c-7320-aa36-25942c799620\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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"kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Air temperature in °C with duration, date and developmental stage", "why_it_matters": "Allows abnormal heading or flowering to be investigated against actual exposure rather than a single temperature reading." }, { "name": "Root-zone water condition", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Soil water content or water potential using a stated method, depth and timestamp", "why_it_matters": "Supports watering decisions and assessment of drought or waterlogging stress." }, { "name": "Affected crop fraction", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Affected plants divided by inspected plants, expressed as %, with symptom and sampling method", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes isolated damage from a crop-level problem." } ], "affordances": [ "Identify a broccoli plant or planting cohort from provenance and stage-appropriate morphology.", "Track central-head and side-shoot development to schedule inspection and harvest.", "Adjust irrigation and 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head initiation and shoot architecture against the identified cultivar and planting history.", "questions": [ { "text": "Has this plant initiated a central head or harvestable sprouting shoots, and when was that first observed?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "heading-progress-q01" }, { "text": "Is its current architecture consistent with the recorded heading or sprouting cultivar?", "kind": "definition", "id": "heading-progress-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "buds-flowering-and-seed", "name": "Buds, flowering and seed", "description": "Distinguish closed-bud harvest development from open flowering and seed production.", "findings": [ { "id": "reproductive-destination", "name": "Reproductive destination", "description": "Interpret bud opening against whether the plant is intended for vegetable harvest or reproduction.", "questions": [ { "text": "Are the target shoots still in closed bud, opening flowers or developing seed-bearing structures?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "reproductive-destination-q01" }, { "text": "Should this plant be harvested for edible shoots or retained for reproduction under the stated crop purpose?", "kind": "action", "id": "reproductive-destination-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "growing-conditions-and-heading", "name": "Growing conditions and heading", "description": "Connect broccoli establishment and head development to measured growing conditions.", "rationale": "A broccoli model must support investigation of poor or premature heading without assuming one universal climate or cultivation threshold.", "layers": [ { "id": "temperature-and-planting-window", "name": "Temperature and planting window", "description": "Relate temperature history and planting timing to cultivar-specific development.", "findings": [ { "id": "thermal-history-of-head-development", "name": "Thermal history of head development", "description": "Preserve exposure timing so small premature heads, delayed heading or early flower opening can be investigated 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"measurement", "id": "resource-limits-on-head-growth-q01" }, { "text": "What irrigation, nutrition or spacing response is justified by those observations and applicable broccoli guidance?", "kind": "action", "id": "resource-limits-on-head-growth-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "broccoli-health-and-damage", "name": "Broccoli health and damage", "description": "Describe symptoms and their distribution across broccoli tissues and crop populations.", "rationale": "Leaf feeding, root dysfunction and head deterioration affect broccoli differently and require distinct evidence before intervention.", "layers": [ { "id": "tissue-specific-inspection", "name": "Tissue-specific inspection", "description": "Inspect foliage, stems, roots and bud clusters as distinct diagnostic locations.", "findings": [ { "id": "symptoms-and-causal-evidence", "name": "Symptoms and causal evidence", "description": "Record visible damage separately from proposed causes, including insects within heads, leaf feeding, root 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"damage-extent-and-intervention-q01" }, { "text": "Which response is supported by the diagnosis, crop stage and applicable local guidance, including any harvest restrictions?", "kind": "action", "id": "damage-extent-and-intervention-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "harvest-and-crop-continuation", "name": "Harvest and crop continuation", "description": "Determine when broccoli shoots meet the intended harvest target and what remains after cutting.", "rationale": "Central-head harvest can leave a living plant with further shoot potential, so harvesting is not automatically the end of the crop.", "layers": [ { "id": "head-readiness", "name": "Head readiness", "description": "Evaluate target heads and shoots using observable maturity and condition.", "findings": [ { "id": "closed-bud-harvest-decision", "name": "Closed-bud harvest decision", "description": "Use bud closure, compactness, size and condition to assess harvest readiness for the specified cultivar and use.", "questions": [ { "text": 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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 broccoli 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 broccoli, 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 broccoli, 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 broccoli 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 broccoli 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 broccoli, 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 broccoli, 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 broccoli 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 broccoli from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a broccoli, 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 broccoli, 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 broccoli 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 broccoli 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 broccoli, 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 broccoli, 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 broccoli 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 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"Place and movement", "description": "Where a broccoli 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 broccoli is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a broccoli, 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 broccoli, 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 broccoli 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 broccoli moves on its own.", "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 broccoli, 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 broccoli, 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 broccoli 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 broccoli 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 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{ "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a broccoli 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 broccoli, 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 broccoli, 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 broccoli is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "taxonomic-placement", 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[ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "How is the condition of broccoli 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 broccoli 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 broccoli, 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 broccoli 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 broccoli came from and when it held.", 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"id": "claim-provenance-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a broccoli 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 broccoli is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a broccoli, 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 broccoli, 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