Note

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

A piece of content in a personal or collective knowledge graph — an annotation body, a Zettelkasten card, a comment, or a standalone thought. Grounded as an information object whose authorship is mediated by Participation / wasAttributedTo, whose temporal scope is carried by the four clocks, and whose standpoint is indexed by accordingTo. Reuses isAbout and hasTag / Tagging for topic and tagging; does not mint parallel properties.

Structure

Subclass of: gmeow:InformationObject

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:Note as a specialized kind of gmeow:InformationObject. 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.

Annotations And Notes

• Source: slices/extensions/notes/examples/annotations-and-notes.ttl
• Examples catalog: open in catalog#example-slices-extensions-notes-examples-annotations-and-notes

# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 Blackcat Informatics® Inc. <paudley@blackcatinformatics.ca>
# SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0
#
# Worked example: notes and annotations. A gmeow:Note is a first-class
# information object — authored, timestamped, and linked to other notes by
# gmeow:hasWikilink and to entities by gmeow:mentions (the Zettelkasten / linked-
# note pattern). A gmeow:Highlight is the W3C-Web-Annotation shape for pure
# highlighting: a gmeow:annotationTarget, a precise gmeow:annotationTargetSpan
# (a text-quote Selector), and a gmeow:annotationMotivation — but NO body (a
# highlight just marks a span; for an annotation that says something, a body-
# bearing gmeow:Annotation subclass is used). A gmeow:Comment is a Note that
# threads under a parent.
@prefix gmeow: <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/> .
@prefix ex:    <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/examples/notes/> .
@prefix xsd:   <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

# --- A linked note: authored, mentions an entity, wikilinks to another note.
ex:note1 a gmeow:Note ;
    gmeow:noteAuthor    ex:dana ;
    gmeow:noteContent   "Transformers replaced RNNs for most NLP tasks by 2020." ;
    gmeow:noteCreatedAt "2026-06-10T08:00:00Z"^^xsd:dateTime ;
    gmeow:hasWikilink   ex:note2 ;
    gmeow:mentions      ex:paper .

Common Companion Terms

gmeow:InformationObject, gmeow:hasWikilink

Projects To

External Equivalences

Equivalent or closely aligned targets: as, schema

Linkages

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

Term Equivalences

Projection Coverage