Name Purpose

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

The purpose/kind of a whole appellation (legal, birth, chosen, professional, deadname, …). A value, not a PersonName subclass; a person may simultaneously bear several co-equal names of different purposes.

Structure

Subclass of: gufo:QualityValue

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:NamePurpose 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 the intrinsic kind of a whole appellation — referenced from an appellation via gmeow:namePurpose to mark it legal, birth, chosen, professional, endonym, exonym, deadname, and so on.

Avoid when

• Avoid minting a PersonName subclass per purpose (purposes are individuals, and a name may carry several at once) and avoid using purpose to rank names — endonym and exonym are co-equal, not preferred-vs-alternate.

How to use

• Reference one or more seeded NamePurpose individuals from gmeow:namePurpose on an appellation; extend with a new individual rather than a subclass, and pair a deadname purpose with gmeow:displayable false for suppression.

Examples

• ex:name gmeow:namePurpose gmeow:namePurposeChosen, gmeow:namePurposeLegal.