Social Object

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

An entity that exists by virtue of social convention, collective acceptance, or sustained narrative practice — a myth, an urban legend, an agreement, a standpoint, or a socially-constituted institution. Distinct from PhysicalObject (material) and overlapping with InformationObject (a myth is both social and informational). No disjointness with InformationObject is asserted so that socially-sustained narratives may carry information content without identity clash.

Structure

Subclass of: gmeow:Entity, gufo:Object

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:SocialObject 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.

Trust Collapse

• Source: slices/extensions/risk/examples/trust-collapse.ttl
• Examples catalog: open in catalog#example-slices-extensions-risk-examples-trust-collapse

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



# The hazard at the source, and the norm-shaped barrier on the first link.
ex:duoBond a gmeow:SocialObject ; rdfs:label "the bonded partnership"@en .
ex:betrayalHazard a gmeow:Hazard ;
    rdfs:label "betrayal exposure"@en ;
    gmeow:hazardBearer ex:duoBond ;
    gmeow:manifestedAsType ex:etBetrayal ;
    gmeow:hazardSeverity gmeow:severityCatastrophic .

Common Companion Terms

gmeow:Entity

Usage Advice

Use when

• Use for a thing whose existence depends on collective acceptance or sustained narrative practice — a myth, urban legend, agreement, standpoint, or socially-constituted institution.

Avoid when

• Avoid for material things (PhysicalObject) and for acting participants (Agent); do not assert disjointness with InformationObject — a myth is legitimately both social and informational.

How to use

• Type the construct as SocialObject, and where it also carries content co-type it InformationObject; record the perspectival nature of the claim through the standpoint and statement layers rather than asserting it as a global fact.

Examples

• ex:foundingMyth a gmeow:SocialObject, gmeow:InformationObject.