Sensory Environment

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

Ambient perceivable conditions at a specific location and time — the ensemble of physical properties that can be measured by instruments or perceived by observers. A SensoryEnvironment is reified as a first-class entity (not merely a property bag) so that measurements and perceptions about it can carry provenance, confidence, temporal scope, and standpoint indexing. Measured conditions are expressed as CoordinateMatrix values in measurement reference frames; perceived conditions are standpoint-indexed values in MentalReferenceFrames (Principle 9: co-equal facets, no privileged representation).

Structure

Subclass of: gmeow:Entity, gufo:Object

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:SensoryEnvironment 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.

Measured Vs Perceived

• Source: slices/extensions/sensory-environment/examples/measured-vs-perceived.ttl
• Examples catalog: open in catalog#example-slices-extensions-sensory-environment-examples-measured-vs-perceived

# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 Blackcat Informatics® Inc. <paudley@blackcatinformatics.ca>
# SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0
#
# Worked example: measured ≠ perceived (, P11/P12). A gmeow:SensoryEnvironment
# at a location and instant carries TWO kinds of condition that GMEOW refuses to
# conflate: a gmeow:hasMeasuredCondition (a gmeow:CoordinateMatrix — instrument
# data, every value in an explicit reference frame) and a gmeow:hasPerceivedCondition
# (a gmeow:SensoryPerception — how an observer experienced it, per
# gmeow:perceptionModality). "23.5 °C on the grid" and "it felt warm" are
# different claims about the same room: one objective and framed, one subjective.
@prefix gmeow: <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/> .
@prefix ex:    <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/examples/sensory-environment/> .
@prefix rdfs:  <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:   <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

# --- The environment: same room and instant, two kinds of condition.
ex:env a gmeow:SensoryEnvironment ;
    gmeow:environmentAtLocation  ex:room ;
    gmeow:environmentAtInstant   ex:noon ;
    gmeow:sensoryModality        gmeow:sensoryModalityThermal ;
    gmeow:hasMeasuredCondition   ex:thermalGrid ;
    gmeow:hasPerceivedCondition  ex:feltWarm .

Common Companion Terms

gmeow:Entity

External Equivalences

Equivalent or closely aligned targets: sosa

Linkages

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

Term Equivalences