Physical Object

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

An entity that is a material thing occupying space and time — a device, instrument, vehicle, building, or natural body. Distinct from Agent (which acts and bears responsibility) and InformationObject (which carries information content). The sortal for pose-bearing, sensor-hosting, and spatially-located things that are not agents.

Structure

Subclass of: gmeow:Entity, gufo:Object

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:PhysicalObject as a specialized kind of gmeow:Entity, gufo:Object. 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.

Inscription Reading

• Source: slices/extensions/archaeological-evidence/examples/inscription-reading.ttl
• Examples catalog: open in catalog#example-slices-extensions-archaeological-evidence-examples-inscription-reading

ex:tablet a gmeow:PhysicalObject ;
    rdfs:label              "Clay tablet AO-3"@en ;
    gmeow:carrierType       gmeow:carrierTablet ;
    gmeow:carrierInscription ex:inscription .

Justification And Defeat

• Source: slices/core/epistemics/examples/justification-and-defeat.ttl
• Examples catalog: open in catalog#example-slices-core-epistemics-examples-justification-and-defeat

@prefix gmeow: <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/> .
@prefix ex:    <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/examples/epistemics/> .
@prefix rdfs:  <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:   <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .



# --- Evidence spans (clock-face readings) ------------------------------------
# The clock itself is the physical instrument; the reading is the EvidenceSpan
# that anchors the agent's justification.
ex:wallClock a gmeow:PhysicalObject ;
    rdfs:label "the working wall clock"@en .

ex:stoppedClock a gmeow:PhysicalObject ;
    rdfs:label "the stopped clock"@en .

Common Companion Terms

gmeow:Entity

Projects To

External Equivalences

Equivalent or closely aligned targets: crm, dcmitype

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 material thing that occupies space and time and is not itself an agent — a device, instrument, vehicle, building, sensor host, or natural body that bears a pose or a spatial location.

Avoid when

• Avoid for acting participants (Agent), for content carriers whose materiality is incidental (InformationObject), and for convention-sustained things (SocialObject); the three are disjoint with PhysicalObject by design.

How to use

• Type the artifact as PhysicalObject and hang pose, sensor, and spatial-location relations on it; keep agency and information roles on separate co-located entities rather than overloading the physical sortal.

Examples

• ex:rover a gmeow:PhysicalObject; gmeow:hasPose ex:roverPose.