{ "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-12T10:16:42Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 15.4, "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: 01a0951d-728f-7140-80bc-5bd3085bc679\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: Hippomobile\nSense to describe: (none recorded)\nDomain code: PHY.OBJ\nAlso known as: (none)\n\n\nContext for this batch of 1001 things:\n# Batch 043: 1001 reg", "usd": 0.0, "recall": true }, "codex": { "seconds": 72.8, "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: 01a0951d-7280-7623-9185-f46ec92d6785\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: Hippomobile\nRegistry id: vr.tr.hippomobile\nPlane / domain: PHY / PHY.OBJ\nRegistry definition: (none recorded)\nNames folded into this entry: (none)\n\n\n" } }, "enrichment": { "pass": 3, "engine": "claude", "producedAt": "2026-10-06T12:00:00Z", "ingestedAt": "2026-10-06T08:53:27+00:00", "fields": [ "agent_conduct", "ethics", "failure_modes_and_hazards", "owners", "visual_identification" ] }, "gate": { "passed": true, "version": "1.0", "at": "2026-10-07T10:10:33+00:00", "evidence": [ "completeness 1.00", "sense: Wikidata description", "2 live sources", "review by codex: pass" ] } }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q906560", "registryId": "vr.tr.hippomobile", "name": "Hippomobile", "version": "0.1.0-research.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "PHY.OBJ" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q906560/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.hippomobile", "name": "Hippomobile", "purpose": "Enable an agent to identify the Hippomobile, assess evidence about its construction and operation, and decide which interpretation, conservation or demonstration actions are justified.", "definition": "The Hippomobile was an experimental road vehicle built by Étienne Lenoir in 1863 to demonstrate propulsion using his early internal-combustion engine.", "scope_statement": "This model provisionally interprets vr.tr.hippomobile as Étienne Lenoir's vehicle associated with 1863, owning its historical design identity and vehicle-level integration while distinguishing documented configurations from reconstructions; the registry referent still requires confirmation.", "in_scope": [ "Identification of Lenoir's named Hippomobile and its documented configurations", "Integration of combustion engine, fuel supply and road carriage", "Steering, transmission, braking and load arrangements evidenced for the vehicle", "Evidence supporting reported journeys and performance", "Authenticity, condition and permissible use of attributed surviving material or replicas" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Horse-drawn vehicles generally, described in French as hippomobile", "Lenoir engines considered independently of installation in this vehicle", "The complete biography and inventions of Étienne Lenoir", "Internal-combustion automobiles as a general vehicle class", "Hydrogen production and fuel infrastructure beyond the vehicle interface", "Independent catalogue identities for replicas or museum collections" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Requires evidence linking the object or design to Lenoir's named Hippomobile; the word hippomobile alone can also describe horse-drawn transport.", "An onboard combustion engine supplies propulsion, distinguishing the intended referent from a horse-drawn carriage.", "Identification concerns an integrated road vehicle, rather than a stationary Lenoir engine displayed separately.", "Historical attribution must distinguish the intended vehicle from other Lenoir experiments and later reconstructions.", "A hydrogen label alone is insufficient for identification: fuel claims must be tied to a documented vehicle configuration." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Referent confidence", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "provisional Lenoir identification | confirmed Lenoir identification | conflicting referent", "why_it_matters": "The registry supplies no definition, so an incorrect interpretation would change the entire model." }, { "name": "Representation status", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "historical design | attributed original vehicle | attributed component | reconstruction | scale model | depiction", "why_it_matters": "Evidence from a reconstruction cannot automatically establish original construction." }, { "name": "Configuration attribution", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "relationship to dated drawing, account, patent, inventory or inspected artifact", "why_it_matters": "Prevents combining incompatible details from different experiments or representations." }, { "name": "Fuel and mixture preparation", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "source-stated fuel, onboard preparation method and confidence; unresolved permitted", "why_it_matters": "Determines how mobile operation was possible and which fuel narratives are supportable." }, { "name": "Installed engine arrangement", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "documented cylinder arrangement, ignition method and compression regime; unknown permitted", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes an evidenced installation from assumptions based on other Lenoir engines." }, { "name": "Running gear arrangement", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "wheel count, steered wheels, driven wheels and transmission path, each evidence-qualified", "why_it_matters": "Supports recognition and assessment of movement, handling and reconstruction fidelity." }, { "name": "Vehicle dimensions and mass", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "length, width, height and wheelbase in m; mass in kg; configuration and measurement basis required", "why_it_matters": "Supports exhibit planning, transport and evaluation of mechanical plausibility." }, { "name": "Reported journey performance", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "distance in km; elapsed and moving time in h; speed in km/h; route and evidence required", "why_it_matters": "Prevents treating a journey average as maximum speed or conflating one-way and return distances." }, { "name": "Permitted movement state", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "unassessed | static display | supported rolling | unpowered movement | authorized powered demonstration", "why_it_matters": "Connects inspection and custodial decisions to actions on a particular physical representation." } ], "affordances": [ "Compare an attributed vehicle, drawing or replica with documented Hippomobile configurations.", "Trace a fuel, construction or performance claim to the evidence supporting that specific claim.", "Explain the evidenced path from onboard fuel to wheel propulsion while marking unknown mechanisms.", "Reconcile journey accounts using explicit distance and timing conventions.", "Identify reconstruction substitutions that affect historical interpretation or operation.", "Determine whether inspection, display, transport or demonstration is supported by the artifact's assessed state." ], "agent_conduct": { "may": [ "Describe the vehicle's role in early internal combustion history.", "Support museums in documenting reconstructions or surviving parts." ], "must_not": [ "Present contested claims about its first journey as settled fact.", "Run a reconstruction without fire safety and qualified supervision.", "Damage or alter heritage objects without the custodian's approval." ], "requires_human": [ "Any demonstration run of a reconstruction." ] }, "ethics": { "considerations": [ "Credit for invention is often disputed; fair history names the evidence." ], "affected_parties": [ "Historians", "Museum visitors" ] }, "owners": { "steward": "The museum that holds any reconstruction; nobody owns the history.", "master_systems": [] }, "visual_identification": [ "A light three-wheeled carriage frame carrying an early single-cylinder engine.", "No bodywork in the modern sense, with exposed engine and running gear." ], "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Early engines are prone to fire and fuel leaks.", "Historical accounts of its performance are thin and often repeated uncritically." ], "what_it_is_for": [ "The Hippomobile is encountered in histories of early automobiles and internal-combustion propulsion as an experimental road vehicle built in 1863.", "Historical records, museum interpretation and reconstructions use it to explain the transition from stationary engines to powered road transport.", "Assessment of a claimed original component or reconstruction depends on provenance and evidence about the historical design." ], "facets_not_applicable": { "interfaces": "No vehicle-specific standard or regulation can be assigned to this historical prototype without a present-day jurisdiction and intended activity." } }, "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata item Q906560: Hippomobile", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q906560", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "identity and sense of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api" }, { "id": "wikipedia-en", "title": "Wikipedia: Hippomobile", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippomobile", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "general description of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api sitelink" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-attribution", "name": "Identity and attribution", "description": "Establish what the registry name denotes and which representations belong to it.", "rationale": "The proper name can be confused with a broad French term for horse-drawn transport.", "layers": [ { "id": "registry-referent", "name": "Registry referent", "description": "Resolve the name before applying vehicle-specific assumptions.", "findings": [ { "id": "lenoir-identification", "name": "Lenoir identification", "description": "The working interpretation is Lenoir's Hippomobile associated with 1863, supported by a heritage programme describing that vehicle; this does not independently resolve the registry mapping. [Heritage programme](https://journeesdupatrimoine.lu/submission/etienne-lenoir-le-premier-moteur-reprend-vie-au-musee-de-lardoise/)", "questions": [ { "text": "Which registry identifier, import record or linked authority confirms that Hippomobile means Lenoir's vehicle?", "kind": "definition", "id": "lenoir-identification-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence excludes the generic horse-drawn-vehicle meaning?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "lenoir-identification-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "historical-representations", "name": "Historical representations", "description": "Separate original design evidence from later objects and illustrations.", "findings": [ { "id": "configuration-lineage", "name": "Configuration lineage", "description": "Record the date, attribution and evidential role of each depiction, component or reconstruction without assuming all show one unchanged vehicle.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which dated source connects this representation to the named Hippomobile?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "configuration-lineage-q01" }, { "text": "Does it depict an original configuration, another Lenoir experiment or a later reconstruction?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "configuration-lineage-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "combustion-and-mobile-fuel", "name": "Combustion and mobile fuel", "description": "Describe how the attributed installation supplied and converted fuel while travelling.", "rationale": "Fuel identity and independence from stationary supply are central to interpreting the Hippomobile.", "layers": [ { "id": "fuel-supply-evidence", "name": "Fuel supply evidence", "description": "Keep fuel identity separate from preparation and storage claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "fuel-configuration", "name": "Fuel configuration", "description": "Require configuration-specific evidence for fuel composition, containment and mixture preparation; leave competing accounts unresolved until checked.", "questions": [ { "text": "What fuel does the earliest reliable account explicitly identify for this configuration?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "fuel-configuration-q01" }, { "text": "How was that fuel carried, generated or prepared aboard the vehicle?", "kind": "definition", "id": "fuel-configuration-q02" }, { "text": "Do hydrogen, illuminating-gas and liquid-fuel descriptions refer to the same experiment?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "fuel-configuration-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "installed-combustion-mechanism", "name": "Installed combustion mechanism", "description": "Establish the actual engine arrangement rather than inheriting every feature of the Lenoir engine family.", "findings": [ { "id": "engine-cycle-and-support", "name": "Engine cycle and support", "description": "Capture evidenced ignition, gas exchange, compression, cooling and lubrication arrangements at the installed-engine boundary.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which drawing or inspected component establishes the installed engine's cycle and ignition arrangement?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "engine-cycle-and-support-q01" }, { "text": "What cooling and lubrication provisions supported operation away from a stationary installation?", "kind": "definition", "id": "engine-cycle-and-support-q02" }, { "text": "Which bore, stroke, displacement or output measurements are supported, and under what conditions?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "engine-cycle-and-support-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "carriage-and-propulsion-integration", "name": "Carriage and propulsion integration", "description": "Model how the carriage carried the machinery and translated engine motion into controlled travel.", "rationale": "The vehicle's identity depends on the engine-carriage combination, beyond the engine alone.", "layers": [ { "id": "frame-and-running-gear", "name": "Frame and running gear", "description": "Establish the physical layout from evidence tied to a specific representation.", "findings": [ { "id": "supported-layout", "name": "Supported layout", "description": "Record wheel arrangement, frame geometry, engine position and accommodation with explicit distinctions between measured, depicted and inferred details.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which evidence establishes wheel count, wheel placement and engine position for the intended vehicle?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "supported-layout-q01" }, { "text": "What are the supported wheelbase, track, overall dimensions and loaded mass?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "supported-layout-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "drive-and-control-paths", "name": "Drive and control paths", "description": "Follow mechanical power and operator inputs through the integrated carriage.", "findings": [ { "id": "propulsion-steering-and-stopping", "name": "Propulsion, steering and stopping", "description": "Identify transmission, steering and stopping mechanisms only where evidence supports them; do not assume modern pedals, clutch or brakes.", "questions": [ { "text": "Through which evidenced components did engine motion reach the driven wheels?", "kind": "definition", "id": "propulsion-steering-and-stopping-q01" }, { "text": "How did the operator steer, regulate propulsion and bring the vehicle to rest?", "kind": "action", "id": "propulsion-steering-and-stopping-q02" }, { "text": "Which controls on a reconstruction are modern additions?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "propulsion-steering-and-stopping-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "journeys-and-performance-evidence", "name": "Journeys and performance evidence", "description": "Evaluate accounts of travel without converting disputed figures into design specifications.", "rationale": "Reported journeys can establish demonstrated mobility, but inconsistent route and timing conventions can distort performance.", "layers": [ { "id": "journey-reconstruction", "name": "Journey reconstruction", "description": "Tie each reported trip to its own account and configuration.", "findings": [ { "id": "route-and-observation", "name": "Route and observation", "description": "Treat the reported Paris-Joinville-le-Pont journey as a research target requiring checked endpoints, date, direction and observational basis.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which earliest accessible account records the journey, and was its author a witness?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "route-and-observation-q01" }, { "text": "Does its distance describe one leg, a return trip or another route?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "route-and-observation-q02" }, { "text": "Which vehicle configuration and passenger load does the account describe?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "route-and-observation-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "performance-interpretation", "name": "Performance interpretation", "description": "Separate observations, calculations and later retellings.", "findings": [ { "id": "qualified-performance", "name": "Qualified performance", "description": "Attach distance, duration, speed and endurance claims to their measurement basis rather than assigning unsupported typical capacities.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does reported duration include stops, repairs, replenishment or demonstrations?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "qualified-performance-q01" }, { "text": "Is a quoted speed observed, calculated from elapsed time or asserted by a later source?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "qualified-performance-q02" }, { "text": "What operational conclusion is justified by this trip, and what remains untested?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "qualified-performance-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "material-evidence-and-permitted-use", "name": "Material evidence and permitted use", "description": "Connect authenticity and assessed condition to handling or demonstration of an attributed object.", "rationale": "A historical design, original component and working replica support different claims and actions.", "layers": [ { "id": "survival-and-reconstruction", "name": "Survival and reconstruction", "description": "Establish whether physical evidence survives and what later work has changed.", "findings": [ { "id": "authenticity-and-substitutions", "name": "Authenticity and substitutions", "description": "Require provenance for claimed original material and identify reconstruction choices affecting fuel delivery, ignition, drivetrain or carriage form.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does an original vehicle or attributable component survive, and what custody record supports that attribution?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "authenticity-and-substitutions-q01" }, { "text": "Which reconstructed features follow direct evidence and which are interpretive substitutions?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "authenticity-and-substitutions-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "display-and-demonstration", "name": "Display and demonstration", "description": "Determine permissible actions for the particular physical object under assessment.", "findings": [ { "id": "movement-readiness", "name": "Movement readiness", "description": "Assess carriage integrity, propulsion isolation and any installed fuel and ignition system before assigning a movement state; a historical account does not establish present readiness.", "questions": [ { "text": "What inspection supports static display, unpowered movement or powered demonstration of this object?", "kind": "action", "id": "movement-readiness-q01" }, { "text": "Which observed defects in the frame, wheels, drive, fuel containment or stopping mechanism restrict movement?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "movement-readiness-q02" }, { "text": "What custodian-approved procedures and applicable venue requirements govern the proposed demonstration?", "kind": "action", "id": "movement-readiness-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": [ "The name is interpreted as Lenoir's specific historical vehicle; French 'hippomobile' can also describe horse-drawn transport.", "Check the exact fuel, engine configuration, dimensions and performance against historical documentation before adding specifications.", "The hazards listed are general mechanical and combustion hazards, not recalled reports of incidents involving this vehicle." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of Hippomobile 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": [ "Experimental demonstration of internal-combustion propulsion for road transport.", "Historical study of automobile development before widespread commercial production." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Hippomobile 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": [ "Combustible fuel leakage and ignition.", "Burn hazards from exposed engine and exhaust components.", "Exposure to moving mechanical parts." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Hippomobile 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": "Lenoir engine", "difference": "The engine is the propulsion mechanism; the Hippomobile is the complete experimental vehicle incorporating it." }, { "name": "Horse-drawn vehicle", "difference": "A horse-drawn vehicle uses animal traction; Lenoir's Hippomobile used an internal-combustion engine." }, { "name": "Steam carriage", "difference": "A steam carriage uses a boiler and steam engine rather than combustion within the engine cylinder." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of Hippomobile this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does the registry's originating authority confirm Lenoir's named Hippomobile rather than horse-drawn transport generally?", "Which contemporary sources establish the vehicle's date, configuration and relationship to other Lenoir road experiments?", "What fuel and onboard preparation system were actually used in each documented configuration, and why do later accounts disagree?", "What primary evidence settles wheel arrangement, transmission, steering, stopping mechanisms and reported journey measurements?", "Does any original vehicle material survive, and which displayed examples are reconstructions with documented substitutions?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 14, "questions": 30 } }