Honorific

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

A title or form of address (Mr, Mx, Dr, -san, Sri, Sayyid, …). A value, not a subclass. Each carries a gmeow:honorificPosition (prefix/suffix) and, where applicable, a gmeow:honorificClass.

Structure

Subclass of: gufo:QualityValue

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:Honorific 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 open value vocabulary for a title or form of address (Mr, Mx, Dr, -san, Sri, Sayyid, …) — referenced from gmeow:honorific on a person, or extended with a new individual for a non-Western or gender-neutral title not yet seeded.

Avoid when

• Avoid inferring an honorific from, or asserting one to imply, gender identity, gender expression, or sex assigned at birth — honorifics are a sex/gender-independent form of address; and avoid minting a subclass per title (titles are individuals).

How to use

• Attach a seeded Honorific to a person with gmeow:honorific; mint a new one as an individual with gmeow:honorificPosition (prefix/suffix) and, where applicable, gmeow:honorificClass, rather than a subclass.

Examples

• ex:person gmeow:honorific gmeow:honorificMx.