{ "model": { "rank": 5519, "code": "thing-q842428", "model_id": "vr.tr.ascariasis", "name": "ascariasis", "purpose": "Let an agent explain ascariasis in general terms, relay transmission, symptoms, treatment and control from WHO and tropical medicine sources, route severe abdominal pain or vomiting worms to urgent care, describe and flag the veterinary aliases, and distinguish ascariasis from other soil-transmitted helminthiases, toxocariasis and veterinary ascarid infections, without diagnosing individuals.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Cross-cutting context", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "XCT", "domain": "XCT.STA", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q842428/", "tier": 2, "score": 66, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "Animal ascaridoses", "avian ascariasis", "heteracidosis" ], "aliasCount": 3, "merged": 3, "knownIn": 66, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q842428", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q842428", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-13T21:18:53Z", "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": 4, "engine": "claude" }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q842428", "registryId": "vr.tr.ascariasis", "name": "ascariasis", "version": "0.2.0-wave.4", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "XCT.STA" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q842428/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.ascariasis", "name": "ascariasis", "purpose": "Let an agent explain ascariasis in general terms, relay transmission, symptoms, treatment and control from WHO and tropical medicine sources, route severe abdominal pain or vomiting worms to urgent care, describe and flag the veterinary aliases, and distinguish ascariasis from other soil-transmitted helminthiases, toxocariasis and veterinary ascarid infections, without diagnosing individuals.", "definition": "A soil-transmitted helminth infection of humans caused by the roundworm Ascaris lumbricoides, spread by swallowing eggs from soil contaminated with human faeces, one of the most common parasitic infections worldwide, mostly mild but causing malnutrition, impaired growth and sometimes intestinal or bile duct obstruction in children; it is prevented through sanitation and hygiene and controlled by periodic deworming with albendazole or mebendazole under WHO programmes. The registry aliases animal ascaridoses, avian ascariasis and heterakidosis name veterinary infections by related worms of animals and poultry and appear misfiled under this human disease.", "what_it_is_for": "Not applicable; an infectious disease.", "affordances": [ "explain transmission and symptoms", "relay treatment and control", "flag veterinary aliases", "route severe symptoms to care" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Large roundworm", "Faecal-oral via soil", "Affects children most", "Cheap treatment" ], "appearance": "Often no signs; large pale roundworms may be passed in stool or vomit.", "visual_identification": [ "Human roundworm infection by Ascaris lumbricoides", "Animal ascaridoses, avian ascariasis, heterakidosis", "Hookworm and whipworm are other soil-transmitted helminths; toxocariasis comes from dog and cat worms; poultry ascarids infect birds" ], "physical_properties": [ { "quantity": "adult worm length", "typical_range": "up to about 35", "unit": "cm", "note": "female" }, { "quantity": "WHO control strategy", "typical_range": "preventive chemotherapy in endemic areas", "unit": "note", "note": "" }, { "quantity": "infected people", "typical_range": "hundreds of millions", "unit": "note", "note": "WHO estimates vary" } ], "families_and_kinds": [ "intestinal ascariasis", "pulmonary migration phase", "hepatobiliary ascariasis", "veterinary ascarid infections as related" ], "related_models": [ { "relation": "is a kind of", "target": "soil-transmitted helminthiasis", "why": "in registry terms" }, { "relation": "is caused by", "target": "Ascaris lumbricoides", "why": "" }, { "relation": "is treated with", "target": "albendazole", "why": "" }, { "relation": "is contrasted with", "target": "toxocariasis", "why": "" } ], "identifiers": [], "standards_and_regulation": [ "WHO guideline on preventive chemotherapy for soil-transmitted helminthiases", "WHO NTD Roadmap 2021-2030" ], "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Missing intestinal obstruction in children", "Stigmatising affected communities", "Misfiled veterinary aliases" ], "in_scope": [], "out_of_scope": [], "characteristics": [] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "understand", "name": "Understand", "description": "What ascariasis is.", "rationale": "Attribution.", "layers": [ { "id": "definition", "name": "Definition", "description": "Definition.", "findings": [ { "id": "definition-finding", "name": "Definition", "description": "Definition.", "questions": [ { "text": "What is ascariasis, and how does it differ from other worm infections, toxocariasis and veterinary ascarid infections?", "kind": "definition" }, { "text": "Is there severe abdominal pain, repeated vomiting or a swollen belly, especially in a child, in which case seek urgent care?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "aliases", "name": "Aliases", "description": "Veterinary aliases.", "findings": [ { "id": "aliases-finding", "name": "Aliases", "description": "Aliases.", "questions": [ { "text": "What are animal ascaridoses, avian ascariasis and heterakidosis, and why do they belong elsewhere?", "kind": "definition" }, { "text": "Which entry fits the specific infection?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "medical", "name": "Medical", "description": "Transmission and symptoms.", "rationale": "Attribution.", "layers": [ { "id": "lifecycle", "name": "Life cycle", "description": "Life cycle.", "findings": [ { "id": "lifecycle-finding", "name": "Life cycle", "description": "Life cycle.", "questions": [ { "text": "How does the Ascaris life cycle pass through the lungs and intestine?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which references are standard?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "symptoms", "name": "Symptoms", "description": "Symptoms and complications.", "findings": [ { "id": "symptoms-finding", "name": "Symptoms", "description": "Symptoms.", "questions": [ { "text": "What symptoms and complications are described?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which sources are cited?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "control", "name": "Control", "description": "Treatment and control.", "rationale": "Regulation.", "layers": [ { "id": "deworming", "name": "Deworming", "description": "Deworming.", "findings": [ { "id": "deworming-finding", "name": "Deworming", "description": "Deworming.", "questions": [ { "text": "How do school-based deworming programmes work, and what does evidence say about their benefits, with debates attributed?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which entry fits mass deworming?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "wash", "name": "WASH", "description": "Sanitation.", "findings": [ { "id": "wash-finding", "name": "WASH", "description": "WASH.", "questions": [ { "text": "How do sanitation and handwashing prevent infection?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which entry fits WASH?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "context", "name": "Context", "description": "Veterinary and history.", "rationale": "Context.", "layers": [ { "id": "veterinary", "name": "Veterinary", "description": "Animal ascarids.", "findings": [ { "id": "veterinary-finding", "name": "Veterinary", "description": "Veterinary.", "questions": [ { "text": "How do ascarids affect pigs, poultry and pets, and when should a vet be consulted?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which entry fits Ascaridia galli?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "history", "name": "History", "description": "History.", "findings": [ { "id": "history-finding", "name": "History", "description": "History.", "questions": [ { "text": "What do ancient remains reveal about Ascaris in human history?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which entry fits paleoparasitology?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "The registry aliases animal ascaridoses, avian ascariasis and heterakidosis should be moved to veterinary entries", "How should WHO data be linked and kept current?", "Should hepatobiliary ascariasis be a separate entry?" ], "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 ascariasis, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Let an agent explain ascariasis in general terms, relay transmission, symptoms, treatment and control from WHO and tropical medicine sources, route severe abdominal pain or vomiting worms to urgent care, describe and flag the veterinary aliases, and distinguish ascariasis from other soil-transmitted helminthiases, toxocariasis and veterinary ascarid infections, without diagnosing individuals.", "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: Animal ascaridoses, avian ascariasis, heteracidosis.", "3 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 66 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 ascariasis, 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": [ "Animal ascaridoses", "avian ascariasis", "heteracidosis" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 66 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 3 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 ascariasis from another, and a ascariasis 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 ascariasis, 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 ascariasis, 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 ascariasis 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 ascariasis, 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 ascariasis, 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 ascariasis 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 ascariasis 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 ascariasis, 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 ascariasis, 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 ascariasis 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 ascariasis from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a ascariasis, 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 ascariasis, 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 ascariasis 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 ascariasis 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 ascariasis between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a ascariasis, 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 ascariasis, 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 ascariasis 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 ascariasis, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a ascariasis 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 ascariasis, 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 ascariasis, 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 ascariasis 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 ascariasis 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 ascariasis 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 ascariasis 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 ascariasis 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 ascariasis?", "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 ascariasis?", "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 ascariasis 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 ascariasis and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a ascariasis, 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 ascariasis, 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 ascariasis 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 ascariasis is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a ascariasis, 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 ascariasis, 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 ascariasis 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 } } } }