{ "model": { "rank": 1792, "code": "thing-q9384", "model_id": "vr.tr.testicle", "name": "testicle", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise an individual testicle, record its anatomical and functional state, and identify which observations or proposed actions require further evidence or qualified clinical assessment.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.OBJ", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q9384/", "tier": 2, "score": 127, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "human testicle", "Equine testicles", "right testis", "left testis" ], "aliasCount": 4, "merged": 4, "knownIn": 127, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q9384", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9384", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-06T21:51:56Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "missingProviders": [ "Grok" ], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "usd": null, "turns": null, "seconds": 2.3, "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": 68.1, "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: 01a078b3-de48-7153-ae1d-045b39400cd7\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. 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"distinguishing_features": [ "Distinguish the organ from its enclosing scrotum: identify gonadal tissue and its boundary rather than treating the external sac as the testicle.", "Distinguish testicle from adjacent epididymis and spermatic cord using anatomical continuity, tissue organisation and examination or imaging evidence.", "Distinguish testicular from ovarian or mixed gonadal tissue using supported anatomical, histological and developmental evidence; do not classify from external appearance or hormone levels alone.", "Distinguish living or removed testicular tissue from a testicular prosthesis using operative history and tissue evidence; an implant's shape and location do not establish organ identity.", "Distinguish an absent testicle from one that is unlocated, incompletely examined or surgically removed by recording the evidence for each state." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Organism and developmental context", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Organism reference, 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and interpretation of developmental or acquired changes." }, { "name": "Dimensions and estimated volume", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Dimensions in mm and volume in mL, with acquisition method, calculation method and date", "why_it_matters": "Supports assessment of growth, asymmetry and change without treating incompatible methods as interchangeable." }, { "name": "Parenchymal appearance", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Modality-specific description of tissue homogeneity, architecture and focal changes", "why_it_matters": "Records intrinsic tissue observations separately from diagnostic interpretations." }, { "name": "Perfusion evidence", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Observed perfusion pattern, assessment method, technical adequacy, time and interpretation", "why_it_matters": "Blood-supply observations can affect urgency, but their meaning depends on the examination and clinical context." }, { "name": "Sperm-producing function evidence", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Unassessed, indirectly assessed or directly sampled; result, method and organ attribution", "why_it_matters": "Whole-organism semen results do not by themselves establish the function of an individual testicle." }, { "name": "Endocrine function evidence", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Measurements or interpretations linked to specimens, assays, dates and attribution limits", "why_it_matters": "Circulating hormone results may inform assessment without identifying the contribution of this organ." }, { "name": "Local symptom association", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Linked symptom report with location, onset, course, reporter and certainty of testicular origin", "why_it_matters": "Pain or swelling in the region may originate outside the testicle." }, { "name": "Focal abnormality", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Linked finding with intratesticular or extratesticular location, dimensions, evidence and diagnostic status", "why_it_matters": "Preserves the distinction between an observed lesion and a confirmed disease." }, { "name": "Intervention history", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Dated procedures linked to the target organ, indication, extent, outcome and resulting anatomical state", "why_it_matters": "Prior fixation, sampling or removal changes how subsequent observations and proposed actions should be interpreted." } ], "affordances": [ "Identify and track the same testicle across examinations, images and procedures.", "Compare size, tissue appearance and position over time or against the contralateral organ when comparison is appropriate.", "Attach functional evidence while preserving uncertainty about its attribution to this individual organ.", "Flag observations for qualified assessment using applicable clinical guidance and documented examination limitations.", "Represent proposed examination, surveillance, sampling or treatment with its clinical rationale, authorization and unresolved prerequisites.", "Link removed tissue or retrieved reproductive material to separate specimen records while retaining its organ of origin." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "gonadal-identity-and-location", "name": "Gonadal identity and location", "description": "Establish which organ is being represented and where it is located.", "rationale": "A scrotal structure, prosthesis or unlocated gonad must not be assumed to be an identified testicle.", "layers": [ { "id": "testicular-identity", "name": "Testicular identity", "description": "Record evidence supporting organ classification and individual identity.", "findings": [ { "id": "identity-and-laterality-evidence", "name": "Identity and laterality evidence", "description": "Capture the basis for identifying testicular tissue and assigning it to a particular organism and side.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence identifies this structure as a testicle rather than adjacent tissue, another gonadal tissue type or a prosthesis?", "kind": "definition", "id": "identity-and-laterality-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Which organism and side does it belong to, and how was that association established?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "identity-and-laterality-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "position-and-presence", "name": "Position and presence", "description": "Describe current location and distinguish absence from uncertainty.", "findings": [ { "id": "localisation-status", "name": "Localisation status", "description": "Record observed position, examination coverage and evidence for any claim of absence or removal.", "questions": [ { "text": "Where was the testicle located, by which examination method and at what time?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "localisation-status-q01" }, { "text": "If it was not located, what distinguishes incomplete localisation from documented absence or prior removal?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "localisation-status-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "testicular-structure-and-interfaces", "name": "Testicular structure and interfaces", "description": "Represent organ dimensions, intrinsic tissue and boundaries with neighbouring structures.", "rationale": "Recognition and interpretation depend on separating changes within the testicle from changes around it.", "layers": [ { "id": "dimensions-and-parenchyma", "name": "Dimensions and parenchyma", "description": "Describe the measurable organ and its internal tissue appearance.", "findings": [ { "id": "size-and-tissue-observations", "name": "Size and tissue observations", "description": "Record dimensions and structural observations with methods and appropriate comparison context.", "questions": [ { "text": "What dimensions and estimated volume were obtained, using which acquisition and calculation methods?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "size-and-tissue-observations-q01" }, { "text": "What tissue architecture or imaging appearance was observed, and which prior or contralateral observations are comparable?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "size-and-tissue-observations-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "coverings-and-neighbouring-structures", "name": "Coverings and neighbouring structures", "description": "Locate observations relative to the testicular boundary and connected anatomy.", "findings": [ { "id": "intrinsic-versus-adjacent-findings", "name": "Intrinsic versus adjacent findings", "description": "Attribute a finding to testicular tissue, its coverings or a separately modelled neighbouring structure.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is the observed change within testicular tissue, at its coverings or outside the organ, and what evidence supports that location?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "intrinsic-versus-adjacent-findings-q01" }, { "text": "Which epididymal, vascular or spermatic-cord relationships must be linked to explain the observation?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "intrinsic-versus-adjacent-findings-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "testicular-functional-evidence", "name": "Testicular functional evidence", "description": "Record evidence about sperm production and endocrine contribution without overstating organ-specific conclusions.", "rationale": "Structural presence, sperm production, hormone production and whole-organism fertility are distinct assessments.", "layers": [ { "id": "sperm-production", "name": "Sperm production", "description": "Represent observations relevant to spermatogenic activity.", "findings": [ { "id": "spermatogenic-evidence-and-attribution", "name": "Spermatogenic evidence and attribution", "description": "Separate tissue-specific evidence from indirect reproductive measurements.", "questions": [ { "text": "What observation or specimen supports an assessment of sperm production in this testicle?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "spermatogenic-evidence-and-attribution-q01" }, { "text": "Does the evidence apply to this organ, a sampled region or the reproductive system as a whole?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "spermatogenic-evidence-and-attribution-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "endocrine-contribution", "name": "Endocrine contribution", "description": "Represent endocrine evidence in developmental and organism-level context.", "findings": [ { "id": "hormonal-evidence-and-limits", "name": "Hormonal evidence and limits", "description": "Link relevant measurements while retaining limits on attribution to an individual testicle.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which hormonal measurements or tissue observations inform the assessment, with what assay, units, timing and developmental context?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "hormonal-evidence-and-limits-q01" }, { "text": "What supports attributing the interpreted endocrine function to this testicle, and what remains attributable only to the organism?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "hormonal-evidence-and-limits-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "testicular-condition-and-change", "name": "Testicular condition and change", "description": "Capture perfusion, symptoms, tissue damage and focal changes as time-dependent evidence.", "rationale": "An organ model must support assessment of changing condition while keeping observations separate from diagnoses.", "layers": [ { "id": "perfusion-and-acute-symptoms", "name": "Perfusion and acute symptoms", "description": "Connect blood-supply observations with the timing and attribution of local symptoms.", "findings": [ { "id": "time-sensitive-assessment-evidence", "name": "Time-sensitive assessment evidence", "description": "Record the evidence and limitations needed for a qualified assessment of potentially urgent change.", "questions": [ { "text": "What are the onset and course of reported pain or swelling, and how certain is their origin in this testicle?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "time-sensitive-assessment-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "What perfusion assessment is available, and what technical or temporal limitations affect its interpretation?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "time-sensitive-assessment-evidence-q02" }, { "text": "Does applicable clinical guidance require urgent assessment given these observations and remaining uncertainty?", "kind": "action", "id": "time-sensitive-assessment-evidence-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "focal-and-diffuse-abnormalities", "name": "Focal and diffuse abnormalities", "description": "Track lesions and broader tissue changes without assuming their cause.", "findings": [ { "id": "abnormality-characterisation", "name": "Abnormality characterisation", "description": "Describe the location, extent and evolution of an abnormality and the status of diagnostic evidence.", "questions": [ { "text": "What focal lesion or diffuse tissue change is observed, with what dimensions, distribution and change over time?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "abnormality-characterisation-q01" }, { "text": "Which interpretations are suspected or confirmed, and what examination, imaging or pathology evidence supports each?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "abnormality-characterisation-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "testicular-interventions-and-consequences", "name": "Testicular interventions and consequences", "description": "Represent organ-specific actions, prerequisites and resulting changes.", "rationale": "Actions involving the testicle can alter its position, tissue, function or continued presence and require precise target attribution.", "layers": [ { "id": "proposed-organ-actions", "name": "Proposed organ actions", "description": "Record the intended action and the evidence required to judge whether it may proceed.", "findings": [ { "id": "action-target-and-prerequisites", "name": "Action target and prerequisites", "description": "Tie proposed examination, surveillance, sampling or treatment to a verified organ and clinical purpose.", "questions": [ { "text": "What action is proposed for this testicle, and which documented finding or clinical objective motivates it?", "kind": "action", "id": "action-target-and-prerequisites-q01" }, { "text": "What qualified assessment, laterality verification, consent or other authorization, and functional considerations are required before proceeding?", "kind": "action", "id": "action-target-and-prerequisites-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "post-intervention-organ-state", "name": "Post-intervention organ state", "description": "Maintain continuity between the original organ, its changed state and any derived specimens.", "findings": [ { "id": "procedure-outcome-and-tissue-lineage", "name": "Procedure outcome and tissue lineage", "description": "Record what happened to the organ and connect removed material to separate specimen records.", "questions": [ { "text": "What procedure occurred, on which testicle, and what evidence establishes the resulting position, remaining tissue or removal status?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "procedure-outcome-and-tissue-lineage-q01" }, { "text": "Which tissue or reproductive-material specimens originated from this organ, and how is their identity preserved after separation?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "procedure-outcome-and-tissue-lineage-q02" }, { "text": "What organ-specific follow-up is documented, and which outcomes remain unassessed?", "kind": "action", "id": "procedure-outcome-and-tissue-lineage-q03" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does the registry intend this entry to cover human testicles only, vertebrate testes generally or all animal structures called testes, and which anatomical rules require species-specific extensions?", "How should this entry relate to neighbouring models for mixed gonadal tissue, developmental variants and organs whose identity remains uncertain?", "Which validated measurement methods and species-, age- and developmental-stage reference data should govern size and functional interpretations?", "Which clinical guidance should govern escalation of acute symptoms or uncertain perfusion findings, and how will its jurisdiction and version be recorded?", "How should organ identity persist after partial removal, complete removal, 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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 testicle, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise an individual testicle, record its anatomical and functional state, and identify which observations or proposed actions require further evidence or qualified clinical assessment.", "characteristics": { "substance": "material", "origin": "manufactured", "agency": "inert", "mobility": "varies" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: human testicle, Equine testicles, right testis, left testis.", "4 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 127 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 testicle, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "matter you can touch", "physicalCharacter": [ "Mobility varies between examples.", "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": [ "Recognised by form, by the arrangement of its controls, and by markings - a plate, a model number, a certification mark. Form alone rarely separates two models that do very different things." ], "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": [ "human testicle", "Equine testicles", "right testis", "left testis" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 127 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 4 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 testicle from another, and a testicle 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 testicle, 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 testicle, 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 testicle 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 testicle, 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 testicle, 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 testicle 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 testicle 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 testicle, 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 testicle, 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 testicle 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 testicle from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a testicle, 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 testicle, 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 testicle 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 testicle 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 testicle, 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 testicle, 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 testicle 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": "Materials, parts and how they are put together.", "findings": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials", "name": "Parts and materials", "description": "What a testicle is built from and which parts are replaceable.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a testicle, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "parts-and-materials-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the composition of a testicle, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "parts-and-materials-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the composition of a testicle is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-integrity", "name": "Condition and integrity", "description": "Wear, damage, health and the difference between working and broken.", "findings": [ { "id": "condition-assessment", "name": "Condition, damage and health", "description": "How the condition of a testicle is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a testicle, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "condition-assessment-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the condition of a testicle, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "condition-assessment-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the condition of a testicle is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "place-and-movement", "name": "Place and movement", "description": "Where a testicle is, how it got there and where it may go (varies).", "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 testicle is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a testicle, 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 testicle, 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 testicle 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 testicle is carried, installed or relocated.", "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 testicle, 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 testicle, 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 testicle 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 testicle 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 testicle between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a testicle, 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 testicle, 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 testicle 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 testicle, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a testicle 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 testicle, 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 testicle, 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 testicle is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "function-and-principle", "name": "Function and operating principle", "description": "What testicle is for and how it achieves it.", "rationale": "Two devices with the same name can work on different principles, and the principle is what predicts failure and constrains use.", "layers": [ { "id": "intended-function", "name": "Intended function", "description": "The job it does, and the jobs it is used for anyway.", "findings": [ { "id": "function-record", "name": "Function, principle and variants", "description": "What it does, how, and which variants do it differently.", "questions": [ { "id": "function-record-q01", "text": "What function does testicle perform, on what operating principle, and which variants differ in that principle?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "function-record-q02", "text": "What use falls outside the intended function but happens in practice?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "capacity-and-rating", "name": "Capacity and rating", "description": "The numbers that say what it can do and where it stops.", "findings": [ { "id": "ratings", "name": "Ratings and their conditions", "description": "Rated capacity, power, throughput and the conditions each assumes.", "questions": [ { "id": "ratings-q01", "text": "What ratings characterise testicle, in what units, and under what stated conditions?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "ratings-q02", "text": "What happens beyond the rating - degradation, refusal, damage - and how is that detected?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "operation-and-state", "name": "Operation, controls and state", "description": "How testicle is operated and what state it is in right now.", "rationale": "An agent acting on a device needs its current state and the controls that change it, not just its specification.", "layers": [ { "id": "controls-and-modes", "name": "Controls and modes", "description": "What can be set, what that changes, and what is interlocked.", "findings": [ { "id": "control-surface", "name": "Control surface and interlocks", "description": "The settings available and the conditions that block them.", "questions": [ { "id": "control-surface-q01", "text": "What controls and modes does testicle have, and what does each change?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "control-surface-q02", "text": "Which actions are interlocked or forbidden in which state, and what must be true before acting?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-maintenance", "name": "Condition and maintenance", "description": "Wear, service intervals, consumables and the line between working and broken.", "findings": [ { "id": "service-record", "name": "Condition, service and consumables", "description": "What is consumed, what is serviced, and how condition is judged.", "questions": [ { "id": "service-record-q01", "text": "What consumables and service does testicle need, at what interval, and on whose authority?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "service-record-q02", "text": "What evidence separates a unit that is working from one that is out of service?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "kind-model-unit", "name": "Kind, model and unit", "description": "Whether a claim about testicle is about the kind, a product line, or one physical unit.", "rationale": "This is the boundary most often got wrong for made things, and getting it wrong mixes a catalogue entry with the machine in the yard.", "layers": [ { "id": "level-of-reference", "name": "Level of reference", "description": "The three levels and what belongs at each.", "findings": [ { "id": "level-rules", "name": "What belongs to kind, model and unit", "description": "Which properties are shared by all of them and which are not.", "questions": [ { "id": "level-rules-q01", "text": "Which facts about testicle hold for every one of them, which for a model, and which only for one unit?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "level-rules-q02", "text": "What identifies an individual unit, and what should an agent do when it has only the kind?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "standards-and-conformity", "name": "Standards and conformity", "description": "The standards a working example must meet and who attests it.", "findings": [ { "id": "conformity", "name": "Standards, marks and attestation", "description": "Which standard applies, who certifies, and what the mark means.", "questions": [ { "id": "conformity-q01", "text": "Which standards govern testicle, issued by whom, and what does conformity actually assert?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "conformity-q02", "text": "What may an agent conclude from a certification mark, and what may it not?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a testicle 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 testicle and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a testicle, 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 testicle, 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 testicle 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 testicle is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a testicle, 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 testicle, 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 testicle is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 8, "layers": 17, "findings": 19, "questions": 51 } } } }