Organization

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

A structured group of agents — a company, institution, association, or governmental body — able to act as a single agent.

Structure

Subclass of: gmeow:Agent

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:Organization as a specialized kind of gmeow:Agent. 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

# --- Organization: the flat name/description tier. A structured web presence
#     (gmeow:hasWebPage → a WEMI gmeow:WebPage) is shown in the documents example;
#     here the flat tier carries it.
ex:blackcat a gmeow:Organization ;
    gmeow:name "Blackcat Informatics® Inc."@en ;
    gmeow:description "A small ontology and tooling consultancy."@en .

Spatial Bins

• Source: slices/extensions/aggregation/examples/spatial-bins.ttl
• Examples catalog: open in catalog#example-slices-extensions-aggregation-examples-spatial-bins

ex:censusBureau a gmeow:Organization ; gmeow:name "Regional Census Bureau"@en .
ex:metro        a gmeow:Place ; gmeow:name "Metro statistical area"@en .

Common Companion Terms

gmeow:Agent

Projects To

External Equivalences

Equivalent or closely aligned targets: foaf, org, schema, wd

Linkages

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

Term Equivalences

Projection Coverage

Usage Advice

Use when

• Use for a formally structured collective that acts as one agent — a company, institution, association, or governmental body — when its internal structure and capacity to bear responsibility matter.

Avoid when

• Avoid for an informal, structure-free collection of agents (use gmeow:Group instead) and for an individual human (use gmeow:Person); Organization is disjoint with Person and SoftwareAgent.

How to use

• Type the body as gmeow:Organization, name it through gmeow:hasOrganizationName / gmeow:OrganizationName (names module) rather than the flat gmeow:name literal, and model departments and membership through the part/whole spine (gmeow:subOrganizationOf) and role relators.

Examples

• ex:blackcat a gmeow:Organization; gmeow:hasOrganizationName ex:blackcatLegalName.