{ "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-12T10:16:03Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 16.8, "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: 01a0951c-f853-71e3-b642-ea57f154e3cd\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: hilum\nSense to describe: (none recorded)\nDomain code: PHY.LIV\nAlso known as: (none)\n\n\nContext for this batch of 1001 things:\n# Batch 043: 1001 registere", "usd": 0.0, "recall": true }, "codex": { "seconds": 64.6, "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: 01a0951c-f861-7871-96bf-2cd0372b955b\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: hilum\nRegistry id: vr.tr.hilum\nPlane / domain: PHY / PHY.LIV\nRegistry definition: (none recorded)\nNames folded into this entry: (none)\n\n\nContext for " } }, "enrichment": { "pass": 3, "engine": "claude", "producedAt": "2026-10-06T12:00:00Z", "ingestedAt": "2026-10-06T08:54:48+00:00", "fields": [ "agent_conduct", "ethics", "failure_modes_and_hazards", "owners", "visual_identification" ] } }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q4131640", "registryId": "vr.tr.hilum", "name": "hilum", "version": "0.1.0-research.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "PHY.LIV" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q4131640/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.hilum", "name": "hilum", "purpose": "Enable an agent to identify a hilum in its biological context, record its boundaries and condition, and select appropriate observation or specialist assessment.", "definition": "A hilum is a localized attachment or passage region in a biological structure, notably the scar marking a seed's former attachment to its funiculus or the region of an organ through which vessels, nerves, or ducts pass.", "scope_statement": "This model owns the context-dependent structural feature registered as vr.tr.hilum, provisionally distinguishing seed attachment scars, organ entry-and-exit regions, and other explicitly documented biological usages; the intended registry sense remains unresolved.", "in_scope": [ "Resolution of the biological meaning of hilum for each observation", "Relationship to the containing seed, organ, or other biological structure", "Location, boundaries, dimensions, and visible morphology", "Former attachments or structures crossing the hilar region, where applicable", "Observed condition and limits of identification" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Whole-organism taxonomy, distribution, and conservation assessment", "Complete anatomy or physiology of the containing organ", "Complete seed development, germination, and cultivation models", "Independent models of vessels, nerves, ducts, or attachment stalks", "Disease diagnosis and treatment protocols" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Require a named biological host and sense: a seed scar and an organ hilum cannot share an unqualified anatomical description.", "For a seed hilum, establish evidence of former attachment rather than identifying any pale patch, pore, or abrasion as the hilum.", "Distinguish the seed attachment scar from the micropyle and adjacent seed-coat structures using a relevant morphological reference.", "For an organ hilum, identify the localized entry-and-exit region rather than equating it with the entire organ or the structures traversing it.", "For a starch-grain or spore usage, require a context-specific definition rather than importing seed or organ criteria." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Biological sense", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "seed attachment scar | organ entry-and-exit region | starch-grain hilum | spore attachment feature | other documented sense | unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Determines which identification tests and measurements apply." }, { "name": "Containing structure", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Reference to a particular seed, named organ, starch grain, or other documented host", "why_it_matters": "A hilum is a feature of another structure, not an organism or taxon." }, { "name": "Host-relative position", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Surface, orientation, side, and landmarks appropriate to the selected sense", "why_it_matters": "Supports recognition and prevents mismatching observations." }, { "name": "Hilar dimensions", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Length and width in µm or mm; method and boundary convention required", "why_it_matters": "Makes size comparisons meaningful across specimens and observation methods." }, { "name": "Visible morphology", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Recorded outline, relief, texture, and contrast against surrounding tissue", "why_it_matters": "Documents the features used to identify and delineate the hilum." }, { "name": "Attachment or crossing relationships", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Former attachment, current attachment, entering structure, leaving structure, uncertain, or not applicable", "why_it_matters": "Separates developmental attachment evidence from present anatomical passage." }, { "name": "Observed integrity", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "No visible disruption | disrupted | obscured | altered by preparation | indeterminate", "why_it_matters": "Prevents preparation damage or poor visibility from becoming a biological conclusion." }, { "name": "Identification support", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Reference-supported | provisional | conflicting | unidentifiable from available evidence", "why_it_matters": "Controls whether the feature can support downstream comparison or action." } ], "affordances": [ "Assign a supported biological sense or retain an unresolved identification.", "Locate and annotate the hilum on a specimen image using host-specific landmarks.", "Measure its extent with a recorded scale and boundary convention.", "Map former attachment or crossing relationships without inferring unseen connections.", "Compare morphology with a reference matched to the host and developmental stage.", "Request targeted imaging, microscopy, or specialist interpretation when identification or condition remains uncertain." ], "agent_conduct": { "may": [ "Identify and describe the hilum of a seed or organ from botanical and anatomical sources.", "Annotate specimens or images for teaching and research." ], "must_not": [ "Interpret findings at the hilum of a person's lung or kidney scan as a diagnosis.", "Use human tissue or scans outside the consent they were taken under.", "Damage seeds or specimens in collections it has been asked only to catalogue." ], "requires_human": [ "Discussing hilar findings in a person's own medical report." ] }, "ethics": { "considerations": [ "Findings in human organs touch on serious diagnoses and must be handled carefully.", "Seed banks hold irreplaceable genetic diversity." ], "affected_parties": [ "Patients", "Seed bank and herbarium keepers", "Researchers" ] }, "owners": { "steward": "Nobody owns the structure; the clinic, herbarium or seed bank answers for specimens it keeps.", "master_systems": [ "Seed bank accession records" ] }, "visual_identification": [ "A scar or spot on a seed coat where it was attached, as on a bean.", "An indented region on an organ where vessels and ducts enter." ], "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Enlarged lymph nodes at the lung hilum can signal serious disease and need clinical review.", "Mishandled seeds can lose viability." ], "what_it_is_for": [ "An organ hilum is encountered in anatomy, medical imaging and surgery as a localized region where vessels, nerves or ducts enter or leave an organ.", "It serves as an anatomical landmark for describing these connections and assessing abnormalities near them." ], "standards_and_regulation": [ "Terminologia Anatomica, issued by the Federative International Programme for Anatomical Terminology under the International Federation of Associations of Anatomists, standardizes names for anatomical structures including organ hila." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata item Q4131640: hilum", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4131640", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "identity and sense of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api" }, { "id": "wikipedia-en", "title": "Wikipedia: Hilum (anatomy)", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilum_%28anatomy%29", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "general description of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api sitelink" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "hilar-meaning", "name": "Hilar meaning", "description": "Resolve what hilum denotes before applying structural or functional expectations.", "rationale": "The registry supplies no definition, and the name has several biological meanings.", "layers": [ { "id": "documented-sense", "name": "Documented sense", "description": "Select a meaning supported by biological context.", "findings": [ { "id": "multiple-biological-usages", "name": "Multiple biological usages", "description": "Botanical terminology includes seed scars, starch-grain reference points, and spore attachment features under hilum; these require separate recognition criteria. See [Missouri Botanical Garden terminology](https://www.mobot.org/mobot/latindict/keyDetail.aspx?keyWord=Hhilum).", "questions": [ { "text": "Which documented biological meaning applies to this instance?", "kind": "definition", "id": "multiple-biological-usages-q01" }, { "text": "What registry provenance or specimen context supports that choice?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "multiple-biological-usages-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "host-and-instance", "name": "Host and instance", "description": "Bind the feature to a particular containing structure.", "findings": [ { "id": "feature-ownership", "name": "Feature ownership", "description": "Require a host reference and distinguish a particular observed hilum from a general description of hila.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which seed, organ, grain, or other structure bears this hilum?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "feature-ownership-q01" }, { "text": "Does the evidence describe this specimen or only its biological type?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "feature-ownership-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "seed-attachment-scar", "name": "Seed attachment scar", "description": "Apply seed-specific recognition only when the seed sense is supported.", "rationale": "A seed hilum records an attachment relationship and must be distinguished from nearby openings and superficial damage.", "layers": [ { "id": "attachment-origin", "name": "Attachment origin", "description": "Establish why the observed mark qualifies as a hilum.", "findings": [ { "id": "former-seed-attachment", "name": "Former seed attachment", "description": "In seed terminology, the hilum marks the former attachment to the funiculus or placenta. See [Missouri Botanical Garden terminology](https://www.mobot.org/mobot/latindict/keyDetail.aspx?keyWord=Hhilum).", "questions": [ { "text": "What supports interpreting this mark as an attachment scar?", "kind": "definition", "id": "former-seed-attachment-q01" }, { "text": "Is the attachment history observed directly or inferred from a reference?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "former-seed-attachment-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "seed-surface-boundaries", "name": "Seed surface boundaries", "description": "Separate the scar from neighboring seed features.", "findings": [ { "id": "scar-delimitation", "name": "Scar delimitation", "description": "Record which visible margin belongs to the hilum and which belongs to an adjacent feature or damaged seed coat.", "questions": [ { "text": "How is this hilum distinguished from the micropyle, raphe, outgrowths, and abrasions in this host?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "scar-delimitation-q01" }, { "text": "What are the scar's length and width under the stated boundary convention?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "scar-delimitation-q02" }, { "text": "Would another view or greater magnification resolve its uncertain edge?", "kind": "action", "id": "scar-delimitation-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "organ-hilar-region", "name": "Organ hilar region", "description": "Apply organ-specific localization and connection mapping when the anatomical sense is supported.", "rationale": "The host organ determines the relevant hilar boundaries and associated structures.", "layers": [ { "id": "organ-localization", "name": "Organ localization", "description": "Locate the hilum relative to the organ surface and surrounding anatomy.", "findings": [ { "id": "host-specific-hilar-boundary", "name": "Host-specific hilar boundary", "description": "Require a named organ, side where applicable, and an explicit boundary convention; distinguish the surface region from its depiction in an image.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which organ and side contain the hilum being described?", "kind": "definition", "id": "host-specific-hilar-boundary-q01" }, { "text": "Does the annotation delimit the anatomical region or an imaging contour?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "host-specific-hilar-boundary-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "hilar-connections", "name": "Hilar connections", "description": "Record associated structures individually and according to evidence.", "findings": [ { "id": "observed-crossing-structures", "name": "Observed crossing structures", "description": "Distinguish a structure demonstrated to cross the hilar boundary from one merely adjacent to it; avoid transferring one organ's arrangement to another.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which structures are demonstrated to enter or leave through this region?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "observed-crossing-structures-q01" }, { "text": "What observation establishes each connection and its orientation?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "observed-crossing-structures-q02" }, { "text": "Which expected connections remain unobserved?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "observed-crossing-structures-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "hilar-observation", "name": "Hilar observation", "description": "Make identification and measurement interpretable across specimens and methods.", "rationale": "Visibility, preparation, and scale can change the apparent boundary and condition of a hilum.", "layers": [ { "id": "view-and-scale", "name": "View and scale", "description": "Record how the feature became visible and how measurements were obtained.", "findings": [ { "id": "measurement-interpretability", "name": "Measurement interpretability", "description": "Tie hilar dimensions to the selected sense, calibrated scale, viewing plane, and visible boundary.", "questions": [ { "text": "What method, viewing plane, and scale produced this observation?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "measurement-interpretability-q01" }, { "text": "Is the measured extent complete, projected, or partly hidden?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "measurement-interpretability-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-artifact", "name": "Condition and artifact", "description": "Separate visible alteration from its possible explanation.", "findings": [ { "id": "interpretable-hilar-condition", "name": "Interpretable hilar condition", "description": "Describe disruption, deformation, or obscuration without assigning an unsupported cause or functional consequence.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which hilar features are visibly altered, and against what matched reference?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "interpretable-hilar-condition-q01" }, { "text": "Could sectioning, drying, handling, or imaging account for the appearance?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "interpretable-hilar-condition-q02" }, { "text": "What additional observation would distinguish specimen condition from artifact?", "kind": "action", "id": "interpretable-hilar-condition-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "hilar-interpretation-and-use", "name": "Hilar interpretation and use", "description": "Connect supported observations to identification, comparison, and next actions.", "rationale": "A visible hilar feature can guide work, but appearance alone does not establish viability, organ function, or disease.", "layers": [ { "id": "matched-comparison", "name": "Matched comparison", "description": "Select comparisons that preserve biological meaning.", "findings": [ { "id": "comparable-hilar-features", "name": "Comparable hilar features", "description": "Compare instances only after aligning their biological sense, host, developmental context, and observation method.", "questions": [ { "text": "Do the compared hila share the same biological meaning and compatible host context?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "comparable-hilar-features-q01" }, { "text": "Which morphological differences remain after accounting for scale and preparation?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "comparable-hilar-features-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-limited-action", "name": "Evidence-limited action", "description": "Choose the next step according to what the hilar evidence actually establishes.", "findings": [ { "id": "hilar-evidence-to-action", "name": "Hilar evidence to action", "description": "Use supported hilar observations for annotation and targeted investigation; route broader physiological or clinical conclusions to the relevant host model.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the evidence support identification, further examination, or specialist interpretation?", "kind": "action", "id": "hilar-evidence-to-action-q01" }, { "text": "What independent evidence is needed before inferring seed viability or organ dysfunction?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "hilar-evidence-to-action-q02" }, { "text": "Which unresolved hilar observation determines the next useful examination?", "kind": "action", "id": "hilar-evidence-to-action-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": [ "No sense is recorded: the registry should establish whether this entry means a seed hilum, an anatomical hilum, or a starch-granule hilum.", "In starch microscopy, hilum denotes the granule's growth origin, a distinct usage from an attachment scar or organ gateway.", "Dimensions and clinically relevant abnormalities depend on the particular structure; no universal measurement range applies." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of hilum 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": [ "Seed hilum", "Renal hilum", "Pulmonary hilum", "Splenic hilum", "Lymph-node hilum", "Starch-granule hilum" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of hilum 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": [ "Terminologia Anatomica, maintained by the Federative International Programme for Anatomical Terminology, provides standardized names for anatomical hila." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of hilum 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": [ "Seed identification using hilar shape, position, size, and appearance.", "Anatomical orientation during dissection and surgery.", "Localization of hilar structures and abnormalities in medical imaging.", "Microscopic characterization of starch granules using hilum position and appearance." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of hilum 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": [ "Injury to vessels at an organ's hilum can cause substantial bleeding.", "Masses or enlarged lymph nodes near a hilum can compress structures passing through it.", "Confusing a seed's hilum with its micropyle can lead to incorrect morphological descriptions." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of hilum 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": "funiculus", "difference": "The funiculus is the stalk attaching an ovule or seed to the placenta; the seed hilum marks its attachment site." }, { "name": "micropyle", "difference": "The micropyle is an opening in the ovule's integuments that may remain recognizable on the seed; the hilum is the funicular attachment scar." }, { "name": "root of the lung", "difference": "The lung root comprises structures connecting the lung to the mediastinum; the pulmonary hilum is the surface region through which those structures pass." }, { "name": "renal sinus", "difference": "The renal sinus is an internal cavity containing collecting structures, vessels, and fat; the renal hilum is its opening at the kidney's medial border." }, { "name": "organism", "difference": "A hilum is a structural feature, not an organism or taxon." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of hilum this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does the source registry intend a seed hilum, an anatomical hilum, or another biological meaning?", "Does an existing Vercy model already own the intended concept, requiring this registry entry to link to it?", "If the registry intends a broad concept, which biological usages belong here and which should remain terminology cross-references?", "Which host-specific references establish reliable hilar boundaries, neighboring landmarks, and expected variation?", "What evidence supports using hilar appearance to infer attachment history, function, viability, or abnormality in the selected host?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 16, "questions": 30 } }