Content Origin

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

The reality-monitoring source of a piece of content — where it came from in the agent's mental economy: perceived from the world, retrieved from memory, held as belief, generated by imagining, entertained as a supposition, or synthesised by a generative process. A closed-but-open value vocabulary (individuals, never subclasses): gmeow:originPerceived, gmeow:originRemembered, gmeow:originBelieved, gmeow:originImagined, gmeow:originSupposed, gmeow:originGenerated. Implements the source-monitoring framework (Marcia Johnson, by reference): the discrimination an agent (or an auditor) makes between a recalled fact and a confabulated or machine-generated one. New origins are minted as individuals, never as subclasses (Principle 9: no overtyping).

Structure

Subclass of: gufo:QualityValue

Practical Pattern

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

Usage Advice

Use when

• Use as the value vocabulary for the reality-monitoring source of content — the closed set of origins (perceived, remembered, believed, imagined, supposed, generated) a claim or content declares through gmeow:contentOrigin so agent memory can tell a recalled fact from a confabulated or LLM-generated one.

Avoid when

• Avoid subclassing it to add an origin — the vocabulary is closed and its members are individuals — and avoid conflating it with veridicality (whether the content is true, a gmeow:ClaimVeridicality) or with authorship (who held it, gmeow:accordingTo); origin is the source axis only.

How to use

• Reference the seeded ContentOrigin individuals from content via gmeow:contentOrigin, attaching as many as genuinely apply (it is non-functional and vantage-indexed); extend with new individuals rather than subclasses if a finer source distinction is needed.

Scope notes

• Source-monitoring (reality-monitoring), NOT veridicality and NOT attribution: gmeow:ContentOrigin records WHERE content came from (perceived / remembered / generated …), distinct from gmeow:ClaimVeridicality (deception slice — true / untrue / licensed-false, by reference) which records WHETHER it is true, and from authorship/provenance (who said it) on gmeow:accordingTo. The three axes co-apply: a claim may be gmeow:originGenerated, gmeow:veridicalityUntrue, and attributed to one standpoint, each carried separately.

Examples

• gmeow:originRemembered a gmeow:ContentOrigin.