Entity

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

Anything in the GMEOW universe of discourse that persists in time and can bear properties: an agent, a document, a contact point, and so on.

Structure

Subclass of: gufo:Endurant

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:Entity as a specialized kind of gufo:Endurant. 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.

Conceptual Change

• Source: slices/core/concepts/examples/conceptual-change.ttl
• Examples catalog: open in catalog#example-slices-core-concepts-examples-conceptual-change

@prefix gmeow: <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/> .
@prefix ex:    <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/examples/concepts/conceptual-change/> .
@prefix rdfs:  <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:   <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix skos:  <http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#> .



# --- The entity being categorized -------------------------------------------------
ex:pluto a gmeow:Entity ;
    rdfs:label "Pluto"@en .

Open Question And Resolution

• Source: slices/core/inquiry/examples/open-question-and-resolution.ttl
• Examples catalog: open in catalog#example-slices-core-inquiry-examples-open-question-and-resolution

@prefix gmeow: <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/> .
@prefix ex:    <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/examples/inquiry/> .
@prefix rdfs:  <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .



ex:hookLocation a gmeow:Entity ;
    rdfs:label "the hook by the door"@en .

External Equivalences

Equivalent or closely aligned targets: prov

Linkages

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

Term Equivalences

Usage Advice

Use when

• Use as the universal domain when a property, facet, or claim must attach to anything that persists and can bear properties — the anchor for the domain-free facets (granularity, determinacy, sensitivity, consumer eligibility) that are defined Entity-wide.

Avoid when

• Avoid typing an instance as a bare gmeow:Entity when a more specific sortal applies; reserve the unqualified type for genuinely category-neutral resources, and never use it for occurrents (those are gufo:Event, not endurants).

How to use

• Type each instance with its most specific sortal (Agent, InformationObject, PhysicalObject, SocialObject) and let it inherit Entity; attach the universal facets here because they range over the whole sortal spine.

Examples

• ex:thing a gmeow:Entity; gmeow:hasSensitivity gmeow:sensitivityPublic; gmeow:hasGranularity ex:cityLevel.