Group

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

A collection of agents treated as a unit without the formal structure of an organization.

Structure

Subclass of: gmeow:Entity, gufo:Collection

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:Group as a specialized kind of gmeow:Entity, gufo:Collection. 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.

Agent Sortals

• Source: slices/core/entities/examples/agent-sortals.ttl
• Examples catalog: open in catalog#example-slices-core-entities-examples-agent-sortals

# --- Group: a collection of agents treated as a unit WITHOUT the formal
#     structure of an organization. Sub-organization decomposition would instead
#     use gmeow:subOrganizationOf in the organization slice.
ex:platformTeam a gmeow:Group ;
    gmeow:name "Platform team"@en ;
    gmeow:description "An informal cross-functional working group, not a legal sub-organization."@en .

Goal And Intention

• Source: slices/core/teleology/examples/goal-and-intention.ttl
• Examples catalog: open in catalog#example-slices-core-teleology-examples-goal-and-intention

# --- The commitment: a relator binding the committed agent to a beneficiary,
#     aimed at the same goal — distinct from merely intending; a promise made TO
#     someone (a Commitment is an intentional moment, so it too aims at a goal).
#     The beneficiary must be an Agent — here the employer who sponsored the
#     degree (a gmeow:Group is a gufo:Collection, not an Agent).
ex:commitment a gmeow:Commitment ;
    gmeow:committedAgent        ex:dana ;
    gmeow:commitmentBeneficiary ex:employer ;
    gmeow:intentionGoal         ex:degreeGoal .

Common Companion Terms

gmeow:Entity

External Equivalences

Equivalent or closely aligned targets: foaf, wd

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 for an informal collection of agents treated as a unit but lacking organizational structure — a research team, an audience, a working set of contributors.

Avoid when

• Avoid for a formally constituted body that acts as one agent (use gmeow:Organization) and for a single agent; Group is deliberately NOT asserted disjoint with Organization, since a structured collective is arguably also a group.

How to use

• Type the collection as gmeow:Group (a gufo:Collection) and relate its agents through gmeow:hasMember / gmeow:memberOf; promote to gmeow:Organization only when formal structure and single-agent responsibility must be modelled.

Examples

• ex:researchTeam a gmeow:Group; gmeow:hasMember ex:lillith, ex:patrick.