Romantic Orientation Value
- CURIE:
gmeow:RomanticOrientationValue - IRI: https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/RomanticOrientationValue
- Category: class
- Defined by:
gmeow:slices/sexuality - Box roles: TBox role (What is this?)
A pattern of romantic attraction — a VALUE pointed at by gmeow:romanticOrientationValue, never a subclass. Kept separate from sexual orientation (split-attraction). Open: a fresh individual with rdfs:label when none is seeded.
Structure
Subclass of: gufo:QualityValue
Practical Pattern
Use gmeow:RomanticOrientationValue 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 romantic-attraction patterns, kept deliberately separate from the sexual value space — reference a seed (heteroromantic, homoromantic, biromantic, panromantic, aromantic, demiromantic, queerromantic, questioning) or mint a fresh individual.
Avoid when
- Avoid minting per-value subclasses or a closed enum (it is an open individual vocabulary), and avoid co-typing a romantic value as a sexual one — the two value spaces are disjoint so asexual ≠ aromantic stays expressible.
How to use
- Reference a seeded individual from
gmeow:romanticOrientationValue, or mint a freshgmeow:RomanticOrientationValuewith an rdfs:label and an SSSOM alignment row when the orientation is not seeded; never promote a value to a subclass.
Examples
gmeow:romanticBiromanticagmeow:RomanticOrientationValue; rdfs:label "biromantic"@en.