GMEOW — Global Metadata and Entity Ontology for the Web
GMEOW is an ontology engine for machine and human minds that treats every mental act as an attributed, revisable claim rather than a stored truth — a place to record not just what an agent (or a person) believes, but who held it, from what vantage, with what confidence, on what evidence, by which kind of reasoning, in what state of awareness, and whether it has since been defeated. Its flagship use is grounded agent memory — store, recall, revise — that can tell a recalled fact from a confabulated one and surfaces disagreement as coexisting standpoints rather than overwriting the loser. Truth is never a bit on a triple: belief, knowledge, inference, calibration, and reality-monitoring are all first-class, vantage-indexed claims, revision is suppression rather than deletion, and a full model of mind — endurant states and occurrent processes over content typed by direction of fit — gives every faculty both a human and a machine face. Every fact is authored once across GMEOW's self-contained slices, generated outward as lossy projections (OWL, SHACL, JSON-LD, schema.org, citation and deposit forms) and maximally linked to 85 external vocabularies and authority identifiers, so a GMEOW graph is a first-class node in the linked-data and persistent-identifier web.
- Version:
0.1.0 - Namespace: https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/
- Terms: 643 classes, 1479 properties, 2200 individuals, 1 datatypes
- Slices: 48 core, 24 extension
Start Here
- Getting Started for the five-minute adoption path.
- Learning Paths for curated adoption journeys.
- Recipes for task-first modelling walkthroughs.
- Examples for canonical slice-local Turtle examples.
- Adoption Targets for schema.org, PROV-O, Wikidata, and other projection surfaces.
- Bibliography for the generated bibliography from the canonical citation ledger.
- Cross-cutting concerns for reusable ideas.
- Slices for modular guide pages and dependency maps.
- Linkages for SSSOM alignments and projection coverage.
- Reference for classes, properties, individuals, and datatypes.
- RDF 1.2 statement layer for reifiers and statement metadata.
Profiles
- Core profile: https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow
- Full profile: https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/full
Slices
GMEOW is organized as 72 documented ontology slices. Start with the slice index when you need module boundaries, dependency order, or guide prose.
Reference
The generated reference is grouped by classes, properties, individuals, and datatypes.
Distribution
The same documentation is bundled inside gmeow.gts and can be exported offline with gmeow export-docs --directory docs-out.
Static Indexes
search-index.jsonprovides a deterministic machine-readable index for local tooling.llms-docs.txtprovides a compact plain-text overview for search, agents, and offline review.