{ "model": { "rank": 3607, "code": "thing-weapon", "model_id": "vr.tr.weapon", "name": "weapon", "purpose": "any instrument or instrumentality used in fighting or hunting", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.OBJ", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/weapon/", "tier": 2, "score": 84, "payload": { "layer": "wordnet", "aliases": [ "arrow", "assegai", "assagai", "atom bomb", "atomic bomb", "A-bomb", "fission bomb", "plutonium bomb", "backsword", "banderilla", "bayonet", "bioweapon", "biological weapon", "bioarm", "bird shot", "buckshot", "duck shot", "boomerang", "throwing stick", "throw stick", "bow", "bow and arrow", "brass knucks", "knucks", "brass knuckles", "knuckles", "knuckle duster", "broad arrow", "broadsword", "bullet", "slug", "butt shaft", "cannonball", "cannon ball", "round shot", "cavalry sword", "saber", "sabre", "chemical weapon", "claymore" ], "aliasCount": 137, "merged": 84, "knownIn": 0, "facets": { "substance": "material", "origin": "manufactured", "agency": "inert", "mobility": "portable", "scale": "handheld", "affordances": [ "graspable", "operable", "hazardous" ] }, "markers": [ "artifact", "device", "weapon" ], "lexicalClass": "noun.artifact", "senseRank": 0, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "oewn:2024", "synset": "oewn-04572661-n", "ili": "i61038", "license": "CC BY 4.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T14:40:33Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 32.8, "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: 01a07c4f-2722-7901-bc77-0b082217c146\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: weapon\nSense to describe: any instrument or instrumentality used in fighting or hunting\nDomain code: PHY.OBJ\nAlso known as: (none)\n\n\nContext for this ba", "usd": 0, "recall": true }, "codex": { "seconds": 76.4, "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: 01a07c4f-2736-7db1-8565-1ee74edf823b\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: weapon\nRegistry id: vr.tr.weapon\nPlane / domain: PHY / PHY.OBJ\nRegistry definition: any instrument or instrumentality used in fighting or hunting\nNam" } } }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-WEAPON", "registryId": "vr.tr.weapon", "name": "weapon", "version": "0.1.0-research.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "PHY.OBJ" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/weapon/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.weapon", "name": "weapon", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise a weapon, assess its documented condition and control status, and identify which handling or disposition decisions require evidence or authorisation.", "definition": "A weapon is an instrument or instrumentality designed, adapted, or used to injure, incapacitate, kill, or damage a target in fighting or hunting.", "scope_statement": "This model owns the registry-level concept of a physical instrument or instrumentality used in fighting or hunting, including purpose-built weapons and objects evidenced as serving that role; it defines what to record about their classification, effects, condition and constraints without prescribing construction or combat use.", "in_scope": [ "Purpose-built weapons and otherwise ordinary instruments evidenced as used in fighting or hunting", "Weapon role, intended function and the distinction between design intent and actual use", "Broad effect mechanisms, energy dependencies and relationships to ammunition or other consumables", "Weapon-specific condition, readiness uncertainty and protective controls", "Evidence of identity, custody, permitted handling and lifecycle status" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Combat tactics, targeting, construction instructions and performance optimisation", "Detailed ammunition, explosive, chemical-agent and other payload models", "Chemical weapon specialisation beyond its relationship to the broader weapon concept", "Standalone protective equipment and ordinary tools without an evidenced weapon role", "Product-line specifications and individual weapon inventories as separate catalogue concepts", "Military organisations, hunting activities and jurisdiction-wide regulatory systems" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Check for a fighting or hunting role established by design or documented use; mere capacity to cause injury does not establish the role.", "Separate an ordinary tool used as a weapon from a purpose-built weapon by recording use evidence independently of original function.", "Distinguish a weapon from protective equipment by whether it delivers an offensive effect rather than solely resisting one; record combined roles explicitly.", "Distinguish the weapon from its ammunition, payload, mount and operator by identifying the chosen functional assembly boundary.", "Distinguish an inert replica or deactivated example from an operational weapon through evidence of condition rather than appearance alone." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Basis for weapon classification", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "purpose-built; evidenced fighting or hunting use; disputed; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Prevents every potentially dangerous object from being classified as a weapon." }, { "name": "Weapon role context", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "linked fighting or hunting context, with evidence and relevant time", "why_it_matters": "Captures cases where weapon status depends on how an instrument is used." }, { "name": "Broad effect mechanism", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "contact mechanical; projected mechanical; blast; thermal; electrical; chemical; biological; other; multiple; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Identifies relevant hazards and specialised models without assuming all weapons operate alike." }, { "name": "Energy source", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "human effort; stored mechanical; chemical; electrical; external supply; other; multiple; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Indicates whether hazardous energy can remain when ordinary operation has stopped." }, { "name": "Functional assembly boundary", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "linked components, payloads, mounts and external systems included or excluded", "why_it_matters": "Separates the weapon from supporting systems and prevents duplicate modelling." }, { "name": "Physical handling envelope", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "mass in kg and external dimensions in mm, with configuration and evidence", "why_it_matters": "Supports handling and storage assessment without assigning one size to the entire weapon kind." }, { "name": "Operational condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "reported functional; impaired; inoperable; deactivated with evidence; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Separates documented capability from assumptions based on appearance." }, { "name": "Hazard-bearing contents and stored energy", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "present; absent with evidence; unknown; not applicable, recorded separately for each dependency", "why_it_matters": "An inoperable or switched-off weapon may still require controlled handling." }, { "name": "Protective control condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "present and verified; present but unverified; impaired; absent; unknown; not applicable", "why_it_matters": "Records the evidence available for controls intended to prevent unintended activation or access." }, { "name": "Custody and action authority", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "responsible party and action-specific authority evidence, with jurisdiction and validity period", "why_it_matters": "Possession alone does not establish authority to handle, transfer or dispose of a weapon." } ], "affordances": [ "Classify the instrument's weapon role and route specialised cases to linked models.", "Record condition and hazard uncertainty from documentation or competent inspection.", "Flag handling or movement decisions that require qualified assessment.", "Check documented prerequisites for storage, transport, transfer or disposal.", "Trace identity, custody and deactivation claims to their evidence." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "weapon-identity-and-boundary", "name": "Weapon identity and boundary", "description": "Establishes why an instrument counts as a weapon and what the classification includes.", "rationale": "Weapon can describe both a designed kind and a role acquired through use.", "layers": [ { "id": "design-and-use", "name": "Design and use", "description": "Separates intended weapon function from a contextual weapon role.", "findings": [ { "id": "classification-basis", "name": "Classification basis", "description": "Record the evidence supporting classification without treating harmful potential as sufficient.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is the instrument designed for fighting or hunting, documented as used for either, or only suspected of such a role?", "kind": "definition", "id": "classification-basis-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence supports that classification, and does it apply to the kind or a particular use event?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "classification-basis-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "assembly-and-specialisation", "name": "Assembly and specialisation", "description": "Places the weapon among components, supporting systems and narrower weapon kinds.", "findings": [ { "id": "weapon-system-boundary", "name": "Weapon system boundary", "description": "Identify the functional instrument while keeping specialised payloads and systems linked to their own models.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which components constitute the weapon, and which are separate ammunition, payloads, mounts or platforms?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "weapon-system-boundary-q01" }, { "text": "Which narrower registered model, including chemical weapon where applicable, owns additional requirements?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "weapon-system-boundary-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "effects-and-dependencies", "name": "Effects and dependencies", "description": "Records broad effect mechanisms and the dependencies relevant to recognising capability and hazards.", "rationale": "Weapons cannot be assessed through firearm assumptions alone.", "layers": [ { "id": "effect-mechanism", "name": "Effect mechanism", "description": "Describes how the instrument produces its intended fighting or hunting effect at a nonprocedural level.", "findings": [ { "id": "intended-and-residual-effects", "name": "Intended and residual effects", "description": "Distinguish intended effects from associated hazards that may persist outside use.", "questions": [ { "text": "What broad physical or other effect makes this instrument a weapon in its recorded context?", "kind": "definition", "id": "intended-and-residual-effects-q01" }, { "text": "Which residual hazards are documented for this weapon kind, and which require a specialised assessment?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "intended-and-residual-effects-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "energy-and-consumables", "name": "Energy and consumables", "description": "Identifies energy sources and external dependencies without giving operating instructions.", "findings": [ { "id": "capability-dependencies", "name": "Capability dependencies", "description": "Record which energy, consumables or external systems are necessary and which may retain hazards independently.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the weapon depend on human effort, stored energy, ammunition, a payload or an external system?", "kind": "definition", "id": "capability-dependencies-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence establishes whether each hazard-bearing dependency is present, absent or unknown?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "capability-dependencies-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-unintended-activation", "name": "Condition and unintended activation", "description": "Structures evidence about functional condition, degradation and protective controls.", "rationale": "Apparent inactivity or damage does not establish that a weapon is safe to handle.", "layers": [ { "id": "condition-evidence", "name": "Condition evidence", "description": "Separates observed condition, reported operability and unresolved hazard state.", "findings": [ { "id": "documented-condition", "name": "Documented condition", "description": "Record inspection findings with their limitations rather than inferring safety from external appearance.", "questions": [ { "text": "What competent inspection or documentation supports the recorded operational condition, and when was it produced?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "documented-condition-q01" }, { "text": "Which signs of degradation, damage or alteration require qualified assessment before handling?", "kind": "action", "id": "documented-condition-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "protective-controls", "name": "Protective controls", "description": "Records applicable barriers against unintended activation or unauthorised access.", "findings": [ { "id": "control-verification", "name": "Control verification", "description": "Distinguish a control's presence from evidence that it functions in the relevant configuration.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which protective controls apply to this weapon kind, and which are absent or not applicable?", "kind": "definition", "id": "control-verification-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence verifies those controls, and what handling restrictions follow when their condition is unknown?", "kind": "action", "id": "control-verification-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "custody-and-permitted-actions", "name": "Custody and permitted actions", "description": "Connects weapon identity and responsibility to evidence needed for particular actions.", "rationale": "Weapon decisions depend on traceability and contextual authority as well as physical condition.", "layers": [ { "id": "identity-and-custody", "name": "Identity and custody", "description": "Tracks available identifiers and responsibility without assuming every weapon is serialised.", "findings": [ { "id": "traceable-responsibility", "name": "Traceable responsibility", "description": "Record markings or other identification evidence, current custody and uncertainties in attribution.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which markings, records or documented distinguishing features support identification?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "traceable-responsibility-q01" }, { "text": "Who has documented custody, and where are ownership or transfer records missing or disputed?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "traceable-responsibility-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "action-specific-authority", "name": "Action-specific authority", "description": "Separates authority for possession, handling, movement and disposition.", "findings": [ { "id": "applicable-action-constraints", "name": "Applicable action constraints", "description": "Attach authoritative requirements to an action, weapon category, place and time.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which current authoritative sources govern the proposed action for this weapon category and jurisdiction?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "applicable-action-constraints-q01" }, { "text": "What qualifications, permissions or responsible-party approvals must be evidenced before that action proceeds?", "kind": "action", "id": "applicable-action-constraints-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "storage-and-end-of-service", "name": "Storage and end of service", "description": "Covers controlled storage, maintenance status and substantiation of retirement or deactivation.", "rationale": "A weapon's hazards and control obligations may continue after active use ends.", "layers": [ { "id": "storage-and-maintenance", "name": "Storage and maintenance", "description": "Records applicable storage conditions and qualified maintenance dependencies.", "findings": [ { "id": "controlled-retention", "name": "Controlled retention", "description": "Identify storage and maintenance evidence relevant to preventing access, deterioration and unintended effects.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which documented storage requirements apply to the weapon and any associated hazardous contents?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "controlled-retention-q01" }, { "text": "Which overdue inspections or maintenance uncertainties require referral before handling or return to service?", "kind": "action", "id": "controlled-retention-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "retirement-and-deactivation", "name": "Retirement and deactivation", "description": "Distinguishes administrative retirement, physical inoperability and evidenced deactivation.", "findings": [ { "id": "end-of-service-evidence", "name": "End-of-service evidence", "description": "Record the basis and limits of deactivation or disposal status, including unresolved residual hazards.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence distinguishes a retired or damaged weapon from one formally assessed as deactivated?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "end-of-service-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Which residual hazards and action constraints remain unresolved before display, transfer or disposal?", "kind": "action", "id": "end-of-service-evidence-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "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 general fighting-or-hunting instrument sense, including purpose-built and improvised weapons; it excludes purely figurative uses.", "Kinds overlap and are illustrative rather than an exhaustive classification; no meaningful typical measurement range spans the entire category.", "Regulatory names are recalled without source verification; researchers should check current text, participation, jurisdiction, and category-specific applicability." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of weapon this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Hand-held striking or edged weapons", "Thrown weapons", "Bows and crossbows", "Firearms", "Explosive weapons", "Chemical weapons" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of weapon this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "Manufacturer model designation", "value_or_pattern": "Manufacturer-specific name or alphanumeric code", "note": "Identifies a design or product model rather than the general category or an individual specimen." }, { "scheme": "Serial number", "value_or_pattern": "Manufacturer- or authority-assigned alphanumeric identifier", "note": "Identifies an individual specimen where assigned; not universal across weapon types." }, { "scheme": "NATO Stock Number", "value_or_pattern": "13 digits, commonly grouped as 4-2-7", "note": "Identifies a supply item under the NATO Codification System; applicable to catalogued military equipment, not every weapon or individual specimen." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of weapon this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation", "name": "Standards and regulation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "United Nations Arms Trade Treaty: international transfers of specified conventional arms.", "United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons and its protocols: restrictions or prohibitions concerning specified conventional weapons.", "Chemical Weapons Convention, implemented through states parties and the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons: chemical weapons prohibition and verification.", "C.I.P. decisions under the Convention for the Reciprocal Recognition of Proof Marks on Small Arms: proof testing and ammunition requirements within their scope." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of weapon this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Military combat.", "Law-enforcement operations.", "Personal defence.", "Hunting.", "Training and sporting activities using weapons, including target shooting and archery." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of weapon this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Unintended activation or discharge can injure users and bystanders.", "Structural failure, corrosion, or component wear can impair function or cause injury.", "Incorrect or incompatible ammunition or other consumables can cause malfunction where applicable.", "Effects can extend beyond the intended target through missed projectiles, ricochet, blast, fragmentation, or agent dispersal.", "Some weapons leave persistent hazards, including unexploded ordnance or toxic contamination." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of weapon this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Legal definitions, possession rules, licensing, and distinctions between civilian and military weapons vary by jurisdiction.", "Hunting rules vary in permitted weapon types, seasons, species, and methods.", "Proof-testing and marking requirements differ between jurisdictions and weapon categories." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of weapon this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "name": "tool", "difference": "A tool need not serve fighting or hunting; an ordinary tool can acquire a weapon role through its use." }, { "name": "firearm", "difference": "A firearm is a narrower projectile-launching category; weapons also include blades, bows, and other instrumentalities." }, { "name": "chemical weapon", "difference": "A chemical weapon adds toxic chemical action and specific treaty-defined boundaries to the broader weapon concept." }, { "name": "ammunition", "difference": "Ammunition generally supplies projectiles, propellant, or other expendable payloads; some munitions also constitute weapons in their own right." }, { "name": "weapon system", "difference": "A weapon system includes an integrated arrangement of weapons and supporting components such as targeting, control, and launch equipment." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of weapon this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does an existing Vercy world model already cover weapon, requiring this registry entry to link to it?", "Does the registry intend purpose-built weapons never used in fighting or hunting to qualify, and when does an ordinary object's contextual weapon role end?", "Where should the registry place ammunition, traps, weapon-bearing platforms, inert replicas and permanently deactivated examples?", "Which effect mechanisms and requirements belong in specialised weapon models rather than this parent model?", "Which authoritative technical and jurisdictional sources should establish inspection, storage and deactivation evidence requirements for each weapon family?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 18, "questions": 28 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "device, machine or tool", "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.", "facetsInferred": false, "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 weapon, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "any instrument or instrumentality used in fighting or hunting", "characteristics": { "substance": "material", "origin": "manufactured", "agency": "inert", "mobility": "portable", "scale": "handheld" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "picked up and handled", "operated or controlled", "harmful if handled wrongly" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: arrow, assegai, assagai, atom bomb, atomic bomb, A-bomb, fission bomb, plutonium bomb, backsword, banderilla, bayonet, bioweapon.", "84 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it." ], "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 weapon, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "matter you can touch", "physicalCharacter": [ "Fits in a hand and is carried without help.", "Moved by a person without machinery.", "Does nothing on its own; everything it does, something else did to it." ], "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [ "pick it up, hold it, put it somewhere else", "operate it, set it, turn it on and off", "be harmed by it if it is handled wrongly" ], "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": [ "arrow", "assegai", "assagai", "atom bomb", "atomic bomb", "A-bomb", "fission bomb", "plutonium bomb", "backsword", "banderilla", "bayonet", "bioweapon" ] } ], "standing": "84 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 weapon from another, and a weapon 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 weapon, 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 weapon, 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 weapon 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 weapon, 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 weapon, 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 weapon 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 weapon 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 weapon, 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 weapon, 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 weapon 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 weapon from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a weapon, 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 weapon, 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 weapon 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 weapon 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 handheld 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 weapon, 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 weapon, 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 weapon 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 weapon is built from and which parts are replaceable.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a weapon, 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 weapon, 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 weapon 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 weapon is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a weapon, 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 weapon, 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 weapon 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 weapon is, how it got there and where it may go (portable).", "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 weapon is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a weapon, 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 weapon, 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 weapon 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 weapon 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 weapon, 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 weapon, 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 weapon 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 weapon 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 weapon between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a weapon, 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 weapon, 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 weapon 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 weapon, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a weapon 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 weapon, 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 weapon, 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 weapon is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "safety-and-constraints", "name": "Safety, rules and constraints", "description": "How a weapon can hurt someone, and what the rules say about it.", "rationale": "A model of a thing that can cause harm has to carry the harm and the rule, or the agent will infer neither.", "layers": [ { "id": "hazards-and-mitigations", "name": "Hazards and mitigations", "description": "What goes wrong, to whom, and what prevents it.", "findings": [ { "id": "hazard-profile", "name": "Hazard profile and mitigations", "description": "The ways a weapon causes harm and the measures that reduce it.", "questions": [ { "id": "hazard-profile-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the hazards of a weapon, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "hazard-profile-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the hazards of a weapon, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "hazard-profile-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the hazards of a weapon is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "rules-and-permissions", "name": "Rules, permits and jurisdiction", "description": "Who is allowed to do what with a weapon, and where.", "findings": [ { "id": "applicable-rules", "name": "Applicable rules and permissions", "description": "The rules that bind an agent acting on a weapon, with the jurisdiction they hold in.", "questions": [ { "id": "applicable-rules-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the rules covering a weapon, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "applicable-rules-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the rules covering a weapon, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "applicable-rules-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the rules covering a weapon 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 weapon 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 weapon 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 weapon, 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 weapon 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 weapon 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 weapon 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 weapon 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 weapon 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 weapon, 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 weapon 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 weapon and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a weapon, 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 weapon, 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 weapon 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 weapon is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a weapon, 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 weapon, 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 weapon is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 9, "layers": 19, "findings": 21, "questions": 57 } } } }