Knowledge Level

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

The graded epistemic depth of a knowledge-proficiency — an OPEN, ordered value vocabulary (knowledgeAware ≺ knowledgeKnowsAbout ≺ knowledgeUnderstands ≺ knowledgeMastered), the kernel GranularityLevel pattern. Ordinally parallels the flat knowledge spectrum (gmeow:isAwareOf … gmeow:hasMastered) but as reusable values on the reified relator. gmeow:deeperThan is transitive ON LEVELS ONLY; the boundaries are deliberately vague (only the order is asserted).

Structure

Subclass of: gufo:QualityValue

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:KnowledgeLevel as a specialized kind of gufo:QualityValue. 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.

Dunning Kruger

• Source: slices/core/cognition/examples/dunning-kruger.ttl
• Examples catalog: open in catalog#example-slices-core-cognition-examples-dunning-kruger

# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 Blackcat Informatics® Inc. <paudley@blackcatinformatics.ca>
# SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0
#
# Worked example: the Dunning–Kruger case, modelled as COEXISTING standpoint-indexed
# claims (Principle 9), never a global verdict. Sam self-assesses MASTERY of
# quantum computing; an external assessor rates the same knowledge merely as KNOWS-ABOUT.
# Two gmeow:KnowledgeProficiency relators over the same (agent, subject), at
# divergent gmeow:KnowledgeLevel values, each indexed by gmeow:accordingTo to a
# different vantage. GMEOW records the disagreement; it does not adjudicate it.
@prefix gmeow: <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/> .
@prefix ex:    <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/examples/cognition/> .
@prefix wd:    <http://www.wikidata.org/entity/> .

Usage Advice

Use when

• Use as the value vocabulary for the depth role of a gmeow:KnowledgeProficiency relator — the ordinal rung (aware ≺ knows-about ≺ understands ≺ mastered) read on the native gmeow:scaleKnowledgeDepth, the reified parallel of the flat spectrum.

Avoid when

• Avoid minting per-level subclasses (levels are individuals, the kernel GranularityLevel idiom) and avoid reading the order as crisp cutoffs; only the order is asserted, the boundaries are deliberately vague. Reach for the generic gmeow:ProficiencyLevel only when rating on a non-knowledge framework.

How to use

• Reference the four seeded gmeow:KnowledgeLevel individuals from gmeow:knowledgeProficiencyLevel, order them with gmeow:deeperThan, and read gmeow:pairsWith to tie each to its flat-spectrum sibling; extend with new individuals if a domain needs a finer rung.

Examples

• gmeow:knowledgeUnderstands a gmeow:KnowledgeLevel; gmeow:deeperThan gmeow:knowledgeKnowsAbout.