{ "model": { "rank": 2585, "code": "thing-q79928", "model_id": "vr.tr.acne", "name": "acne", "purpose": "Let an agent give accurate general information on acne, explain evidence-based care and when to seek professional help, address wellbeing, and avoid individual medical advice.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Cross-cutting context", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "XCT", "domain": "XCT.STA", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q79928/", "tier": 2, "score": 101, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "Acne medicamentosa", "Steroid acne", "acne aestivalis", "neonatal acne", "maskne", "familial disseminated comedones without dyskeratosis", "acne cosmetica", "Infantile acne", "acne venenata", "Occupational acne", "cystic acne", "acne keloidalis nuchae", "Acne mechanica", "Pirzik", "Pomade acne", "acne fulminans", "Acne conglobata", "Tropical acne", "irritant contact dermatitis due to oils and greases", "Tar acne" ], "aliasCount": 20, "merged": 20, "knownIn": 101, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": "vr.tr.acne", "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q79928", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79928", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-11T20:18:40Z", "providers": [ "Claude" ], "breadth": "written by Claude from model knowledge without web access - no source was read, every claim is a lead to verify", "pass": 2, "wave": 2, "engine": "claude" }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q79928", "registryId": "vr.tr.acne", "name": "acne", "version": "0.2.0-wave.2", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "XCT.STA" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q79928/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.acne", "name": "acne", "purpose": "Let an agent give accurate general information on acne, explain evidence-based care and when to seek professional help, address wellbeing, and avoid individual medical advice.", "definition": "A common skin condition in which hair follicles become blocked with oil and dead skin cells, producing comedones, pimples and sometimes cysts, mainly on the face, chest and back, most common in adolescence but occurring at any age, with variants such as neonatal acne, steroid and drug-induced acne and mask-related acne; acne is treatable and can affect wellbeing and self-esteem.", "what_it_is_for": "A common skin condition needing informed care.", "affordances": [ "explain causes and types in general terms", "describe evidence-based treatments", "explain when to see a professional", "address myths and wellbeing" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Follicular condition", "Common in adolescence", "Graded by severity", "Treatable" ], "appearance": "Comedones, pimples, pustules and sometimes nodules on the skin.", "visual_identification": [ "Blocked follicles and inflamed spots", "Face, chest and back", "Rosacea and folliculitis can look similar" ], "physical_properties": [], "families_and_kinds": [ "adolescent and adult acne", "neonatal and infantile acne", "drug-induced and steroid acne", "mechanical and mask-related acne", "severe nodulocystic acne" ], "related_models": [ { "relation": "is a kind of", "target": "sebaceous gland disease", "why": "category" }, { "relation": "involves", "target": "gland", "why": "sebaceous glands" }, { "relation": "is related to", "target": "cosmetics", "why": "skincare products" }, { "relation": "is related to", "target": "nail disease", "why": "other dermatology topic" } ], "identifiers": [], "standards_and_regulation": [ "Dermatology clinical guidelines on acne", "Medicines regulation for acne treatments", "Advertising rules for skincare claims" ], "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Unproven treatments and scarring from picking", "Agents diagnosing or recommending prescription medicines", "Stigma and distress" ], "in_scope": [], "out_of_scope": [], "characteristics": [] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "understand", "name": "Understand", "description": "What acne is.", "rationale": "General information.", "layers": [ { "id": "causes", "name": "Causes", "description": "Causes and types.", "findings": [ { "id": "causes-finding", "name": "Causes", "description": "Causes.", "questions": [ { "text": "What causes acne, and which type does this description resemble, in general terms?", "kind": "definition" }, { "text": "Is the user asking for a diagnosis of their own skin?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "myths", "name": "Myths", "description": "Myths and facts.", "findings": [ { "id": "myths-finding", "name": "Myths", "description": "Myths.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which common beliefs about acne, such as diet and hygiene, are supported by evidence, according to dermatology sources?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which are unsupported?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "care", "name": "Care", "description": "Treatment.", "rationale": "Evidence-based.", "layers": [ { "id": "selfcare", "name": "Self-care", "description": "Over-the-counter care.", "findings": [ { "id": "selfcare-finding", "name": "Self-care", "description": "Self-care.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which self-care and over-the-counter approaches do guidelines support for mild acne?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "How long should they be tried?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "professional", "name": "Professional", "description": "Seeing a professional.", "findings": [ { "id": "professional-finding", "name": "Professional", "description": "Professional care.", "questions": [ { "text": "When should a doctor or dermatologist be seen, such as for moderate to severe or scarring acne?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which prescription options exist, in general terms, without recommending them?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "wellbeing", "name": "Wellbeing", "description": "Impact on life.", "rationale": "Support.", "layers": [ { "id": "mental", "name": "Mental", "description": "Mental health.", "findings": [ { "id": "mental-finding", "name": "Mental", "description": "Mental health.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is acne affecting the person mood or self-esteem significantly?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "text": "Which support exists?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "scarring", "name": "Scarring", "description": "Preventing scars.", "findings": [ { "id": "scarring-finding", "name": "Scarring", "description": "Scarring.", "questions": [ { "text": "How can scarring be minimised, according to guidance?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which treatments address existing scars?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "special", "name": "Special", "description": "Special situations.", "rationale": "Context matters.", "layers": [ { "id": "variants", "name": "Variants", "description": "Drug-induced and other variants.", "findings": [ { "id": "variants-finding", "name": "Variants", "description": "Variants.", "questions": [ { "text": "What is known about neonatal, drug-induced or mask-related acne, in general terms?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Should a prescriber be consulted about a medicine?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "products", "name": "Products", "description": "Skincare products.", "findings": [ { "id": "products-finding", "name": "Products", "description": "Products.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which product ingredients are commonly used for acne-prone skin, and which claims are substantiated?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "How should products be patch tested?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Should severe acne be a separate entry?", "How should guidelines be linked?", "How should mental health support be linked?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 4, "layers": 8, "findings": 8, "questions": 16 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "abstract concept", "method": "Written from the archetype playbook - what this kind of thing needs beyond identity and provenance - and from the structure that recurred across 6,333 models already researched by two engines. Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched. This entry carries no facets of its own, so they were inferred from its domain - a guess about a whole domain applied to one thing.", "facetsInferred": true, "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.", "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a acne, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Let an agent give accurate general information on acne, explain evidence-based care and when to seek professional help, address wellbeing, and avoid individual medical advice.", "characteristics": { "substance": "abstract", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "inert" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: Acne medicamentosa, Steroid acne, acne aestivalis, neonatal acne, maskne, familial disseminated comedones without dyskeratosis, acne cosmetica, Infantile acne, acne venenata, Occupational acne, cystic acne, acne keloidalis nuchae.", "20 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 101 Wikipedia languages, which is a measure of how widely the thing is known, not of how important it is." ], "openQuestionsForResearch": [ "Which of the bundles below does a real task actually need, and which are ceremony?", "What does this thing have that the facets do not capture at all?", "Which neighbouring kind is most often confused with a acne, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "an abstraction with no physical instance", "physicalCharacter": [ "Does nothing on its own; everything it does, something else did to it.", "These come from the domain this entry sits in rather than from the entry itself, so treat them as a first guess about the whole domain applied to one thing." ], "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [ "observe it, measure it, record its state" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "Nothing to see. What is recognised is an instance of it, and which instances count is exactly what is argued about." ], "relatedModels": [ { "relation": "covers", "note": "Finer kinds folded into this entry because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it. Each is a model waiting to be split out when one does.", "targets": [ "Acne medicamentosa", "Steroid acne", "acne aestivalis", "neonatal acne", "maskne", "familial disseminated comedones without dyskeratosis", "acne cosmetica", "Infantile acne", "acne venenata", "Occupational acne", "cystic acne", "acne keloidalis nuchae" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 101 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 20 finer distinctions are held inside this entry as names rather than as separate models.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one acne from another, and a acne from things that resemble it.", "rationale": "Recognition comes before every other claim. Without stable identity nothing else in the model can be trusted to be about the same thing twice.", "layers": [ { "id": "naming-and-identifiers", "name": "Names and identifiers", "description": "The names this thing goes by and the identifiers that survive translation and time.", "findings": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases", "name": "Preferred name, aliases and local names", "description": "Which name to use, which names mean the same thing, and which merely sound similar.", "questions": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the name of a acne, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the name of a acne, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a acne 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 acne, 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 acne, 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 acne 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 acne 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 acne, 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 acne, 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 acne 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 acne from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a acne, 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 acne, 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 acne 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 acne 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 acne between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a acne, 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 acne, 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 acne 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 acne, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a acne 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 acne, 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 acne, 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 acne is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "definitions-in-contest", "name": "Definitions and who holds them", "description": "What acne is taken to mean, and by whom.", "rationale": "When a field disagrees about a concept, the disagreement is the content. A model that picks one definition silently destroys the information.", "layers": [ { "id": "competing-definitions", "name": "Competing definitions", "description": "The main readings and the traditions behind them.", "findings": [ { "id": "definition-map", "name": "Definitions and their holders", "description": "Each definition with the school or body that holds it.", "questions": [ { "id": "definition-map-q01", "text": "Which definitions of acne are in use, and which tradition or body holds each?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "definition-map-q02", "text": "What turns on the difference between them in practice?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "operationalisation", "name": "Operationalisation", "description": "How it is measured or applied when it has to be.", "findings": [ { "id": "operational-record", "name": "Measures and proxies", "description": "Instruments and indicators used to stand in for it.", "questions": [ { "id": "operational-record-q01", "text": "How is acne operationalised or measured in practice, and by what instrument?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "operational-record-q02", "text": "What does that operationalisation leave out, and when does that matter?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "instances-and-use", "name": "Instances, use and consequence", "description": "What counts as an instance of acne and what follows from calling something that.", "rationale": "Applying a concept is an act with consequences, so a model must say what the label licenses and what it does not.", "layers": [ { "id": "instances", "name": "What counts as an instance", "description": "Clear cases, borderline cases and non-cases.", "findings": [ { "id": "instance-tests", "name": "Tests for an instance", "description": "What would settle whether something falls under it.", "questions": [ { "id": "instance-tests-q01", "text": "What would settle whether something is an instance of acne?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "instance-tests-q02", "text": "Which borderline cases are argued about, and on what grounds?", "kind": "definition" } ] } ] }, { "id": "consequence", "name": "Consequence of application", "description": "Rights, duties or decisions that follow from the label.", "findings": [ { "id": "consequence-record", "name": "What the label licenses", "description": "What an agent may do once something is classified this way.", "questions": [ { "id": "consequence-record-q01", "text": "What follows practically once something is treated as acne?", "kind": "action" }, { "id": "consequence-record-q02", "text": "What must an agent not infer from the label alone?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a acne 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 acne and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a acne, 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 acne, 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 acne 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 acne is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a acne, 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 acne, 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 acne is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 10, "findings": 12, "questions": 32 } } } }