{ "model": { "rank": 4869, "code": "thing-tube", "model_id": "vr.tr.tube", "name": "tube", "purpose": "conduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct objects or liquids or gases", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.OBJ", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/tube/", "tier": 2, "score": 72, "payload": { "layer": "wordnet", "aliases": [ "airline", "air hose", "barrel", "gun barrel", "blowgun", "blowpipe", "blowtube", "blow tube", "briar", "briar pipe", "calabash", "calabash pipe", "calumet", "peace pipe", "pipe of peace", "cannula", "capillary", "capillary tube", "capillary tubing", "catheter", "chimneypot", "clay pipe", "coil", "column", "chromatography column", "condenser", "culvert", "discharge pipe", "drain", "drainpipe", "waste pipe", "drilling pipe", "dudeen", "elbow", "electric main", "endotracheal tube", "exhaust manifold", "exhaust pipe", "fire hose", "fireplug" ], "aliasCount": 114, "merged": 72, "knownIn": 0, "facets": { "substance": "material", "origin": "manufactured", "agency": "inert", "mobility": "fixed", "scale": "built", "affordances": [ "traversable" ] }, "markers": [ "artifact", "way" ], "lexicalClass": "noun.artifact", "senseRank": 0, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "oewn:2024", "synset": "oewn-04500800-n", "ili": "i60614", "license": "CC BY 4.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-09T21:10:18Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 23.8, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.4\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: 01a08800-e3e1-7fd1-8e55-79bc6c234c9a\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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/ PHY.OBJ: a long hollow conduit used to hold or conduct objects, liquids or gases, including the geometry, wall properties, interfaces and condition that determine its suitability for a particular use.", "in_scope": [ "The hollow passage, enclosing wall, ends and openings of a tube", "Rigid and flexible tubes with circular or other cross-sections", "Containment and conveyance of specified objects, liquids or gases", "Tube materials, linings and construction features relevant to service", "Connection, support, inspection and service limits of a tube" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Pumps, compressors and other devices that drive contents through a tube", "Complete piping networks and their system-level control", "Separate valves, fittings, connectors and supports", "Contained substances or transported objects as independently modelled things", "Hollow members used solely for structural support without a containment or conveyance role", "Biological organs and electronic devices called tubes when they do not match the registered conduit sense" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Has an elongated internal passage enclosed by a wall along its length; an open channel does not meet this test.", "Provides a hollow space for holding or conducting contents; a solid rod does not meet this test.", "Its intended role includes containment or conveyance; hollow appearance alone does not establish membership.", "Can hold contents without through-flow, so a closed end does not automatically exclude it.", "Labels such as pipe, hose and sleeve do not by themselves establish a separate kind; classification requires the intended function and the registry boundary." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Passage geometry", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Internal diameter or cross-sectional dimensions in mm; minimum clear area in mm²", "why_it_matters": "Determines available passage space and whether contents or transported objects can pass." }, { "name": "Length and route", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Centreline length in m; bend radius in mm", "why_it_matters": "Affects installation fit, passage continuity and resistance to movement." }, { "name": "Wall geometry", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "External dimensions and wall thickness in mm, with tolerances", "why_it_matters": "Supports assessment of connection fit and wall integrity." }, { "name": "Cross-section form", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Circular, oval, rectangular or other specified profile; constant or varying", "why_it_matters": "Avoids assuming that every tube is cylindrical or has a uniform bore." }, { "name": "Wall construction", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Specified material, lining, reinforcement and seam construction", "why_it_matters": "Identifies the surfaces and structures whose compatibility and limits must be established." }, { "name": "Intended contents", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Referenced liquids, gases or objects, including 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"description": "Identifies the materials and construction features forming the containment boundary.", "findings": [ { "id": "wetted-wall-and-supporting-wall", "name": "Contact wall and supporting wall", "description": "Distinguish the surface contacting contents from linings, reinforcement and external protection.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which materials form the inner surface, wall body, reinforcement and outer surface?", "kind": "definition", "id": "wetted-wall-and-supporting-wall-q01" }, { "text": "What records establish material identity and whether the tube is seamless, seamed, layered or otherwise constructed?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "wetted-wall-and-supporting-wall-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "content-and-environment-exposure", "name": "Content and environment exposure", "description": "Assesses compatibility under the intended exposure conditions.", "findings": [ { "id": "conditional-compatibility", "name": "Conditional compatibility", "description": "Record compatibility 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"name": "Contents and driving conditions", "description": "Describes what moves or remains inside and what causes movement.", "findings": [ { "id": "service-mode", "name": "Service mode", "description": "Identify storage, fluid conveyance or object guidance and the conditions required for that mode.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is the tube used for static containment, continuous flow, intermittent transfer or passage of discrete objects?", "kind": "definition", "id": "service-mode-q01" }, { "text": "What fluid throughput or transported-object dimensions and clearances are required, with units?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "service-mode-q02" }, { "text": "What external pressure source, gravity arrangement or mechanical drive moves the contents?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "service-mode-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "qualified-service-limits", "name": "Qualified service limits", "description": "Keeps operating limits attached to their evidence and conditions.", "findings": [ { "id": "pressure-temperature-and-deformation-envelope", "name": "Pressure, temperature and deformation envelope", "description": "Record applicable limits without treating a single rating as universal.", "questions": [ { "text": "What internal and external pressure differentials, temperatures and bend limits are documented for the intended service?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "pressure-temperature-and-deformation-envelope-q01" }, { "text": "Which manufacturer records, tests or standards with identified issuing bodies support those limits?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "pressure-temperature-and-deformation-envelope-q02" }, { "text": "Which combinations of conditions require derating, additional qualification or withdrawal from service?", "kind": "action", "id": "pressure-temperature-and-deformation-envelope-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "ends-routing-and-installation", "name": "Ends, routing and installation", "description": "Describes how the tube joins its surroundings while retaining its 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connection enters service?", "kind": "action", "id": "opening-and-joint-compatibility-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "routing-and-restraint", "name": "Routing and restraint", "description": "Captures installation conditions affecting passage shape and wall loading.", "findings": [ { "id": "installed-shape-and-support", "name": "Installed shape and support", "description": "Record permitted bends, restraints and movement for the selected tube construction.", "questions": [ { "text": "What route, bend radii, support spacing and movement allowance does the installation require?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "installed-shape-and-support-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence establishes allowable bending, clamping and end loads for this tube?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "installed-shape-and-support-q02" }, { "text": "How should the tube be installed to avoid kinking, crushing, abrasion or excessive joint loading?", "kind": "action", "id": "installed-shape-and-support-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "passage-integrity-and-intervention", "name": "Passage integrity and intervention", "description": "Connects observable tube condition to decisions about continued use and intervention.", "rationale": "A tube may retain its external shape while losing internal clearance or containment integrity.", "layers": [ { "id": "wall-and-bore-condition", "name": "Wall and bore condition", "description": "Separately assesses wall integrity and the ability of contents to pass.", "findings": [ { "id": "obstruction-and-containment-evidence", "name": "Obstruction and containment evidence", "description": "Record inspection evidence for deposits, blockage, deformation, wall damage and leakage.", "questions": [ { "text": "What inspection or test establishes current passage clearance and containment integrity?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "obstruction-and-containment-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "What wall loss, deformation, blockage or leakage has been measured, and where?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "obstruction-and-containment-evidence-q02" }, { "text": "Which acceptance criteria determine whether the observed condition permits continued service?", "kind": "action", "id": "obstruction-and-containment-evidence-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "cleaning-repair-and-replacement", "name": "Cleaning, repair and replacement", "description": "Defines interventions appropriate to the tube's contents, construction and condition.", "findings": [ { "id": "qualified-return-to-service", "name": "Qualified return to service", "description": "Link intervention choices to isolation requirements and evidence of restored suitability.", "questions": [ { "text": "What isolation, draining, depressurisation or other preparation is required before opening or working on this tube?", "kind": "action", "id": "qualified-return-to-service-q01" }, { "text": "Which cleaning, clearing or repair methods are qualified, and when is replacement required?", "kind": "action", "id": "qualified-return-to-service-q02" }, { "text": "What verification must follow intervention before the tube may hold or conduct its intended contents again?", "kind": "action", "id": "qualified-return-to-service-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "This describes the conduit sense, not electronic tubes, anatomical structures, or hollow sections used 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Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched.", "facetsInferred": false, "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. 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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": [ "airline", "air hose", "barrel", "gun barrel", "blowgun", "blowpipe", "blowtube", "blow tube", "briar", "briar pipe", "calabash", "calabash pipe" ] } ], "standing": "72 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 tube from another, and a tube 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 tube, 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 tube, 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 tube 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 tube, 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 tube, 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 tube 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 tube 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 tube, 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 tube, 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 tube 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 tube from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a tube, 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 tube, 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 tube 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 tube 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 at built scale.", "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 tube, 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 tube, 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 tube 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 tube is built from and which parts are replaceable.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a tube, 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 tube, 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 tube 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 tube is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a tube, 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 tube, 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 tube 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 tube is, how it got there and where it may go (fixed).", "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 tube is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a tube, 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 tube, 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 tube 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 tube 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 tube, 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 tube, 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 tube 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 tube 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 tube between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a tube, 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 tube, 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 tube 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 tube, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a tube 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 tube, 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 tube, 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 tube 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 tube 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 tube 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 tube, 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 tube 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 tube 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 tube 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 tube 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 tube 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 tube, 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 tube 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 tube and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a tube, 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 tube, 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 tube 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 tube is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a tube, 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 tube, 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 tube 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 } } } }