Biological Parent-Child

• CURIE: gmeow:BiologicalParentChild
• IRI: https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/BiologicalParentChild
• Category: class
• Defined by: gmeow:slices/genealogy
• Box roles: TBox role (What is this?)

A parent-child relationship by biological descent.

Structure

Subclass of: gmeow:ParentChildRelationship

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:BiologicalParentChild as a specialized kind of gmeow:ParentChildRelationship. Add statement metadata or a standpoint when the assertion needs provenance, confidence, or vantage.

Example Snippets

These snippets are generated from canonical slice examples and trimmed to the Turtle blocks where this term appears.

Biological And Adoptive

• Source: slices/extensions/genealogy/examples/biological-and-adoptive.ttl
• Examples catalog: open in catalog#example-slices-extensions-genealogy-examples-biological-and-adoptive

# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 Blackcat Informatics® Inc. <paudley@blackcatinformatics.ca>
# SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0
#
# Worked example: parent-child is not one relation (Principle 9). Most schemas have
# a single "parent" field; GMEOW reifies the KIND of parentage, so a child's
# BIOLOGICAL and ADOPTIVE parents COEXIST rather than overwrite. A
# gmeow:BiologicalParentChild and a gmeow:AdoptiveParentChild (siblings of
# Foster/Step) each bind a gmeow:relationshipParent to a gmeow:relationshipChild.
# Flat gmeow:hasParent / gmeow:hasFather remain available as the simple view; the
# reified relations carry the distinction the flat edges can't.
@prefix gmeow: <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/> .
@prefix ex:    <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/examples/genealogy/> .

# --- The two parentages coexist — neither erases the other (P9). A child has a
#     biological father AND an adoptive mother, each a distinct reified relation;
#     the flat gmeow:hasParent edges above are the simple, kind-blind view.
ex:biological a gmeow:BiologicalParentChild ;
    gmeow:relationshipParent ex:birthFather ;
    gmeow:relationshipChild  ex:alex .

Common Companion Terms

gmeow:ParentChildRelationship

External Equivalences

Equivalent or closely aligned targets: gx

Linkages

Generated from the canonical mapping DSL. SSSOM files are the generated public interchange form for term equivalences.

Term Equivalences