Ontology

Relationship Semantics

The SUNNY M Lab Ontology uses a controlled set of relationship verbs to describe how roast and cup phenomena connect.

These relationships are interpretive and observational. They do not expose roast recipes, machine settings, roast curves, batch parameters, or operational control logic.

• conditional on A depends on B as an observational, interpretive, or validity condition. In strict cases, absence of B may invalidate A; in diagnostic cases, B defines the condition under which A can be correctly identified. This relation is stronger than simple correlation but should not be read as an operational recipe.
• supports condition for B provides an observational, interpretive, or validity condition that supports the correct identification of A. Inverse of conditionalOn.
• routes to A commonly guides the reader, observer, or diagnostic path toward B. This is an interpretive or navigational relation, not a machine-control instruction.
• tensions A and B create interpretive pressure against each other. This does not necessarily mean contradiction; it identifies where two concepts must be distinguished carefully.
• reinforces A increases the explanatory force or likelihood of correctly identifying B. Supportive, non-necessary: B can hold without A, but A strengthens the case for B.
• is reinforced by B's identification is strengthened by the presence of A. Inverse of reinforces.
• contrasts with A and B are distinct, mutually informative reference points. Presence of one aids discrimination of the other. Symmetric: contrast holds in both directions equally.
• boundary of A defines a limit condition of B: the point at which B stops holding or begins to lose diagnostic validity. A is not an exception to B; A is the data that delimits B's validity range.
• has boundary B has a defined limit expressed by A. Inverse of boundaryOf.
• failure mode of A is a recoverable failure state that B can collapse into when its conditions are not met. Critically: A is a mapped, named, reversible boundary state, not a discarded outcome. Identifying A locates the batch or observation on the recovery map.
• may fail into B, when its conditions are unmet, may collapse into the named recoverable state A. Inverse of failureModeOf. This edge is the core recoverability mechanism: failure is addressed and located, not discarded.
• derived from A is conceptually or observationally derived from B. B provides the interpretive source that makes A legible as a named phenomenon. This relation does not disclose operational method or roast-control procedure.
• source for B is the conceptual or observational source from which A is derived. Inverse of derivedFrom.
• protects against misreading Awareness of A prevents the observer from incorrectly judging B through conventional shortcuts, surface similarities, instrument artifacts, event-based assumptions, or incomplete temperature-stage observation.
• is protected by B's correct identification is safeguarded by awareness of A. Inverse of protectsAgainstMisreading.