{ "model": { "rank": 5714, "code": "thing-q552461", "model_id": "vr.tr.hand-washing", "name": "hand washing", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a hand-washing procedure or episode, assess its recorded execution and identify appropriate next actions without treating observed washing as proof of microbiological safety.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Information and virtual systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "INF", "domain": "INF.KNW", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q552461/", "tier": 2, "score": 65, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "Handwashing in Judaism", "Ayliffe Technique" ], "aliasCount": 2, "merged": 2, "knownIn": 65, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q552461", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q552461", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T09:05:49Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "missingProviders": [ "Grok" ], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "usd": null, "turns": null, "seconds": 10.2, "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": 83.2, "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: 01a07b1c-97ef-75e0-bf57-b1a5a6942826\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. 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actions on hand surfaces, rinsing, drying and evidence of completion.", "in_scope": [ "Descriptions of hand-washing procedures and their applicability", "Individual washing episodes and their relationship to a procedure", "Water, cleansing material and drying resources used or required", "Recorded sequence, duration and coverage of washing actions", "Completion, interruptions and contact that may compromise the result", "Evidence and uncertainty supporting assessments of execution" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Alcohol-based hand rubbing as a separate hygiene procedure", "Surgical hand preparation protocols beyond their relationship to ordinary hand washing", "Diagnosis or treatment of skin conditions and infections", "Design, maintenance and water-quality management of plumbing systems", "Manufacture, formulation and regulatory approval of cleansing products", "Organisation-wide infection-control policies and compliance programmes" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "The target is the person's hands; washing equipment, gloves or other body regions does not establish a hand-washing episode.", "The procedure uses water to wash the hands; applying a hand rub without a water-washing step is a neighbouring practice.", "The record distinguishes water-only rinsing from washing with a cleansing material instead of treating them as interchangeable.", "An instruction describes what should happen, while an episode records what happened; possession of the instruction does not establish execution.", "A surgical-preparation context triggers a boundary check rather than automatic classification as ordinary hand washing." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Record role", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "procedure description | washing episode", "why_it_matters": "Separates prescribed actions from evidence that someone performed them." }, { "name": "Washing occasion", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "recorded preceding activity, anticipated activity or other stated reason; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Provides the context needed to select applicable instructions." }, { "name": "Applicable procedure", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "reference to a procedure with issuer, version and applicability", "why_it_matters": "Makes any judgement of conformity traceable to an identified instruction." }, { "name": "Cleansing material used", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "none | identified soap or cleanser | unidentified material | unknown", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes water-only rinsing from cleansing-material use without assuming product suitability." }, { "name": "Water delivery", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "running outlet | poured water | shared standing water | other recorded arrangement | unknown", "why_it_matters": "Records how wetting and rinsing were possible for comparison with the applicable procedure." }, { "name": "Timed phase", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "seconds, with named phase, start event, end event and timing method", "why_it_matters": "Prevents total episode duration from being mistaken for time spent rubbing." }, { "name": "Hand-surface coverage", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "per named surface: observed | reported | omitted | not assessable", "why_it_matters": "Allows incomplete coverage to be recorded without inferring unseen actions." }, { "name": "Episode progress", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "not started | in progress | interrupted | ended; conformity assessed separately", "why_it_matters": "Separates an episode ending from its satisfying the selected procedure." }, { "name": "Drying method", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "identified method or material | no drying recorded | unknown", "why_it_matters": "Captures the final handling of wet hands and enables context-specific assessment." }, { "name": "Post-wash contact", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "contact event linking a hand, contacted surface and time relative to rinsing or drying", "why_it_matters": "Supports review of subsequent exposure without declaring every contact contaminating." }, { "name": "Assessment evidence", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "direct observation | self-report | instrument record | mixed | absent", "why_it_matters": "Constrains how confidently an agent can assess the episode." } ], "affordances": [ "Identify whether a record describes hand washing, water-only rinsing or a neighbouring hygiene practice.", "Match a washing occasion to a sourced procedure whose applicability has been established.", "Check whether required washing and drying resources are available.", "Guide or document the procedure's actions, coverage and explicitly defined timing phases.", "Compare recorded execution with the selected procedure and flag omissions or unobservable steps.", "Identify whether an interruption or subsequent contact requires review under the applicable procedure." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "washing-identity-and-occasion", "name": "Washing identity and occasion", "description": "Identifies the practice being represented and the occasion for a particular washing episode.", "rationale": "An agent must distinguish hand washing from adjacent practices before applying instructions or evaluating execution.", "layers": [ { "id": "practice-boundary", "name": "Practice boundary", "description": "Establishes whether the record concerns water-based hand washing and whether it describes instructions or execution.", "findings": [ { "id": "washing-mode-and-record-role", "name": "Washing mode and record role", "description": "Record the use of water and cleansing material, the hand target and whether the record is a procedure or an episode.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does this record describe instructions for washing hands or an actual washing episode?", "kind": "definition", "id": "washing-mode-and-record-role-q01" }, { "text": "Does the action use water on the hands, and is it water-only rinsing, cleanser-assisted washing or a neighbouring practice?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "washing-mode-and-record-role-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "washing-occasion", "name": "Washing occasion", "description": "Connects washing to the activities and setting that determine which instructions may apply.", "findings": [ { "id": "occasion-and-applicable-instructions", "name": "Occasion and applicable instructions", "description": "Record the stated reason for washing and the source of any procedure selected for that occasion.", "questions": [ { "text": "What preceding activity, anticipated activity or stated concern prompted this washing episode?", "kind": "definition", "id": "occasion-and-applicable-instructions-q01" }, { "text": "Which issuer and version supply the washing instructions for this setting, and what establishes their applicability?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "occasion-and-applicable-instructions-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "washing-resources-and-access", "name": "Washing resources and access", "description": "Records whether the person can access and use the resources needed for the selected washing procedure.", "rationale": "A procedure may be understood yet impossible to execute because water, cleanser, drying resources or physical access are missing.", "layers": [ { "id": "water-and-cleanser", "name": "Water and cleanser", "description": "Identifies the water arrangement and cleansing material available and actually used.", "findings": [ { "id": "washing-inputs", "name": "Washing inputs", "description": "Distinguish available resources from resources used, with suitability assessed against identified instructions.", "questions": [ { "text": "What water delivery arrangement and cleansing material were available, and which were actually used?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "washing-inputs-q01" }, { "text": "What sourced requirements govern the suitability of those resources for this washing occasion?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "washing-inputs-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "access-and-assistance", "name": "Access and assistance", "description": "Captures practical barriers to reaching resources and performing washing actions.", "findings": [ { "id": "executable-washing-arrangement", "name": "Executable washing arrangement", "description": "Record barriers involving reach, controls, hand movement or assistance without inferring a medical diagnosis.", "questions": [ { "text": "Can the person reach and operate the water, cleanser and drying resources and perform the prescribed hand movements?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "executable-washing-arrangement-q01" }, { "text": "What assistance or procedure-supported adaptation is needed to make this episode executable?", "kind": "action", "id": "executable-washing-arrangement-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "washing-actions-and-coverage", "name": "Washing actions and coverage", "description": "Represents the performed washing sequence, attention to hand surfaces and 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"findings": [ { "id": "subsequent-hand-contacts", "name": "Subsequent hand contacts", "description": "Record relevant contacts and defer their significance to the applicable procedure and exposure context.", "questions": [ { "text": "What did the hands touch after rinsing or drying, including outlet controls, drying materials and door hardware?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "subsequent-hand-contacts-q01" }, { "text": "Under the applicable instructions, does any recorded contact call for another hygiene action before the next activity?", "kind": "action", "id": "subsequent-hand-contacts-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "execution-evidence-and-assessment", "name": "Execution evidence and assessment", "description": "Separates evidence of washing actions from conformity judgements and claims about their effects.", "rationale": "An agent needs a defensible basis for declaring a procedure complete and must preserve uncertainty about unseen actions and unmeasured outcomes.", "layers": [ { "id": 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time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a hand washing 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 hand washing, 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 hand washing, 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 hand washing 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 hand washing 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 hand washing, 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 hand washing, by which method, 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"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 hand washing 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 hand washing and the period it survives.", "questions": [ { "id": "access-rules-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes access to a hand washing, 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 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"subject-record-q01", "text": "What questions and objects does hand washing 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 hand washing 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 hand washing 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 hand washing 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 hand washing, 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 hand washing 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 hand washing and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a hand washing, 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 hand washing, 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 hand washing 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 hand washing is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a hand washing, 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 hand washing, 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 hand washing 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 } } } }