Connection

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

A reified traversable link between two entities, able to bear its own period, cost, weight, bandwidth, confidence, and standpoint. The flat shortcut is gmeow:connectsTo; promote to Connection when metadata matters.

Structure

Subclass of: gufo:Relator

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:Connection as a specialized kind of gufo:Relator. 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.

Transit Route

• Source: slices/extensions/connectivity/examples/transit-route.ttl
• Examples catalog: open in catalog#example-slices-extensions-connectivity-examples-transit-route

# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 Blackcat Informatics® Inc. <paudley@blackcatinformatics.ca>
# SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0
#
# Worked example: connectivity is one graph machinery for every domain. A
# gmeow:Route runs from gmeow:routeStart through gmeow:routeVia stops to
# gmeow:routeEnd, tagged with a gmeow:routeKind — and that kind is an open
# vocabulary spanning transit, walking, flight, citation, dependency and social
# routes. So the SAME Route/Connection model describes a subway line, a paper's
# citation chain, and a package's dependency path. A gmeow:Connection is the
# single edge (source → target) the routes are built from.
@prefix gmeow: <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/> .
@prefix ex:    <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/examples/connectivity/> .

# --- A single edge of the network: the Central→Midtown hop.
ex:hop a gmeow:Connection ;
    gmeow:connectionSource ex:central ;
    gmeow:connectionTarget ex:midtown .