artillery
Let an agent explain artillery in historical and classificatory terms with attribution, identify historical pieces for museum, heritage and research purposes, describe arms control and heritage aspects, and decline operational or technical detail.
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4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Understand Artillery in history.
Types
Historical types.
Types
Types.
- How do historians classify artillery into cannon, howitzers, mortars and naval and coastal guns, and how did the types develop? provenance
- Is the request seeking technical, operational or tactical detail, which must be declined? boundary
Identify
Historical pieces.
Identify
Identification.
- What is this historical gun, such as a late nineteenth-century naval piece, and where is it documented or displayed? provenance
- Which entry fits it? action
History Historical development.
Development
Development.
Development
Development.
- How did artillery develop from medieval bombards through the industrial era, according to historians? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Conflicts
Artillery in conflicts.
Conflicts
Conflicts.
- How have historians described the role of artillery in past conflicts, with positions attributed? provenance
- Is the presentation neutral? boundary
Heritage Museums and arms control.
Museums
Museums and memorials.
Museums
Museums.
- Which museums and memorials display historical artillery, and how are pieces deactivated and conserved? provenance
- Which entry fits a specific museum? action
Control
Arms control.
Control
Arms control.
- How is artillery counted and limited under arms control treaties and export controls? provenance
- Which entry fits arms control? action
Learn Culture and teaching.
Culture
Artillery in culture.
Culture
Culture.
- How does artillery appear in ceremonial salutes, art and literature? provenance
- Which entry fits ceremonial gun salutes? action
Teach
Teaching.
Teach
Teaching.
- How can military technology history be taught neutrally? action
- Which misconceptions arise? provenance
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Physical world and living systems
- Entry kind
- thing
- Plane
- PHY
- Domain
- PHY.OBJ
- Other names and narrower kinds
- 203 mm 50 caliber Pattern 1905, 15 cm SK L/45, 180mm Pattern 1931-1933, 38 cm SK L/45 gun, 28 cm SK L/40 gun, Canon de 164 mm Modèle 1893, 15cm Uto C16 L/45, rocket artillery, 90 mm gun, 7.5 cm field gun w/1965, Divine Invincible Great General Cannon, coastal artillery weapon
What it is Filled
Large-calibre projectile weapons such as cannon, howitzers, mortars and naval guns, historically muzzle-loaded and later breech-loaded, exemplified by naval and coastal guns of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries such as the German 28 cm, 38 cm and 15 cm naval guns, the French 164 mm model of 1893 and Russian patterns; artillery is treated here as a subject of military history, museum collections and arms control, with attribution and without technical, operational or tactical detail.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent explain artillery in historical and classificatory terms with attribution, identify historical pieces for museum, heritage and research purposes, describe arms control and heritage aspects, and decline operational or technical detail.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Large calibre
- Historical types
- Museum and memorial presence
- Arms control subject
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Assist in building, acquiring, aiming or using artillery to harm people.
- Provide targeting for strikes.
- Handle or move unexploded shells.
- Glorify attacks on civilians.
Only with a human decision
- Any action relating to ordnance or military systems.
May
- Describe artillery history and types at the level of reference works.
- Explain international humanitarian law limits on its use.
- Report unexploded ordnance to authorities.
Moral aspects Filled
- Artillery kills civilians in populated areas.
- Unexploded shells harm people long after wars end.
Who is affected
- Civilians
- Soldiers
- Deminers
Owners Filled
Steward
The armed force that holds it; heritage pieces are kept by museums.
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- Q1194773 - registry parent class
related
- projectile weapon - category
- cannon - the principal historical type
- fortress - fortifications armed with artillery
- armored fighting vehicle - another military history entry
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.artillery
- Wikidata: Q64418 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q64418)
Direct properties required Filled
- Overall length: m - Overall length is recorded from collection documentation or a dimensional survey with the mounting configuration specified.
- Total mass: kg - Total mass is obtained from documented specifications or suitable weighing equipment with included components identified.
- Overall width: m - Overall width is measured across the widest part of the documented display or storage configuration.
Recognition required Filled
- Large-calibre gun
- Field, naval, coastal or siege
- Small arms are individual weapons; rockets are not guns
- Large guns on carriages, mounts or ships, seen in museums and memorials.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- explain historical classification
- identify historical pieces
- describe arms control and heritage
- decline operational detail
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Providing technical, operational or tactical detail
- Glorification of weapons
- Partisan presentation of conflicts
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- Arms control treaties and export controls
- Museum deactivation and display rules
- International humanitarian law
Context of use required Filled
- Large-calibre projectile weapons.
- historical cannon and siege artillery
- field artillery of the modern era as historically described
- naval guns such as late nineteenth and early twentieth century pieces
- coastal artillery
- artillery in museums and memorials
Sources Filled
- Wikidata item Q64418: artillery - identity and sense of the item
- Wikipedia: Artillery - general description of the item
Open questions
- Should each historical gun type be a separate entry?
- How should museum collections be linked?
- How should arms control data be linked?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q64418/spec.json