Sexual Orientation Value

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

A pattern of sexual attraction — a VALUE pointed at by gmeow:sexualOrientationValue, never a subclass. Open: an orientation not seeded here is a fresh individual with rdfs:label.

Structure

Subclass of: gufo:QualityValue

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:SexualOrientationValue 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 sexual-attraction patterns — reference a seed (heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, pansexual, asexual, demisexual, queer, questioning) or mint a fresh individual for the long tail, each lossily aligned to GSSO/Homosaurus/Wikidata.

Avoid when

• Avoid minting per-value subclasses or forcing the set into a closed enum (it is an open individual vocabulary), and avoid co-typing a sexual value as a romantic one — the two value spaces are kept disjoint under split-attraction.

How to use

• Reference a seeded individual from gmeow:sexualOrientationValue, or mint a fresh gmeow:SexualOrientationValue with an rdfs:label and an SSSOM alignment row when the orientation is not seeded; never promote a value to a subclass.

Examples

• gmeow:orientPansexual a gmeow:SexualOrientationValue; rdfs:label "pansexual"@en.