Route

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

A traversable path through a graph of connected entities — a named, typed sequence of linked nodes with a defined start and end. Models transport lines, network paths, citation chains, social paths, and dependency chains. The actual path geometry, ordering, and cost are computed by the solver layer (Principle 12), not asserted as triples.

Structure

Subclass of: gmeow:Entity

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:Route as a specialized kind of gmeow:Entity. 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.

Transit Route

• Source: slices/extensions/connectivity/examples/transit-route.ttl
• Examples catalog: open in catalog#example-slices-extensions-connectivity-examples-transit-route

# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 Blackcat Informatics® Inc. <paudley@blackcatinformatics.ca>
# SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0
#
# Worked example: connectivity is one graph machinery for every domain. A
# gmeow:Route runs from gmeow:routeStart through gmeow:routeVia stops to
# gmeow:routeEnd, tagged with a gmeow:routeKind — and that kind is an open
# vocabulary spanning transit, walking, flight, citation, dependency and social
# routes. So the SAME Route/Connection model describes a subway line, a paper's
# citation chain, and a package's dependency path. A gmeow:Connection is the
# single edge (source → target) the routes are built from.
@prefix gmeow: <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/> .
@prefix ex:    <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/examples/connectivity/> .

# --- A transit route: Central → Midtown → Airport.
ex:airportLine a gmeow:Route ;
    gmeow:routeKind  gmeow:routeKindTransit ;
    gmeow:routeStart ex:central ;
    gmeow:routeVia   ex:midtown ;
    gmeow:routeEnd   ex:airport .

Common Companion Terms

gmeow:Entity

Projects To

External Equivalences

Equivalent or closely aligned targets: gtfs, schema

Linkages

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

Term Equivalences

Projection Coverage