Standpoint

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

A named perspective / frame within which claims are held true — a state's official position, a community's usage, an editorial or historiographic point of view. Minted only when the frame needs its own identity and labels; often a bare gmeow:Agent (a polity, an organization) suffices as the value of gmeow:accordingTo instead. Standpoints form a poset under gmeow:sharpens, topped by gmeow:universalStandpoint.

Structure

Subclass of: gmeow:Entity

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:Standpoint 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.

Contested Authorship

• Source: slices/core/standpoint/examples/contested-authorship.ttl
• Examples catalog: open in catalog#example-slices-core-standpoint-examples-contested-authorship

# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 Blackcat Informatics® Inc. <paudley@blackcatinformatics.ca>
# SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0
#
# Worked example: contested claims coexist, none privileged ( P9). Two
# scholars attribute the same play to different authors. Each attribution is a
# reified gmeow:StandpointClaim (a kind of Observation) carrying its own
# gmeow:vantage (whose standpoint), gmeow:observationResult (the claimed author),
# and gmeow:claimModality (HOW the standpoint holds it). A third standpoint does
# something flat models cannot express: it gmeow:refuted the Marlowe attribution
# — an explicit DENIAL, distinct from mere silence. There is no "preferred"
# author: the graph keeps every standpoint's stance side by side.
@prefix gmeow: <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/> .
@prefix ex:    <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/examples/standpoint/> .

# --- Standpoints: the scholarly positions from which each claim is held.
ex:revisionists a gmeow:Standpoint ; gmeow:sharpens gmeow:universalStandpoint .
ex:orthodoxy a gmeow:Standpoint ; gmeow:sharpens gmeow:universalStandpoint .
ex:forensicPanel a gmeow:Standpoint ; gmeow:sharpens gmeow:universalStandpoint .

Grounded Claim

• Source: slices/core/ai/examples/grounded-claim.ttl
• Examples catalog: open in catalog#example-slices-core-ai-examples-grounded-claim

# The GROUNDED claim: generated by the invocation, attributed to the model,
# pinned to the exact evidentiary bytes. ALSO remembered (MemoryItem role).
ex:claim-close-2200 a gmeow:StandpointClaim, gmeow:MemoryItem ;
    gmeow:vantage ex:assistant ;
    gmeow:observedFeature ex:stmt-2200 ;
    gmeow:observationMethod gmeow:methodLlmExtraction ;
    gmeow:claimModality gmeow:probable ;
    gmeow:wasGeneratedBy ex:invocation-19 ;
    gmeow:wasAttributedTo ex:assistant ;
    gmeow:groundedIn ex:span-close-2200 ;
    gmeow:memoryOf ex:assistant ;
    gmeow:memoryKind gmeow:memoryKindSemantic .

# The UNGROUNDED claim: no groundedIn span — the flagged hallucination,
# retained, never deleted (P10).
ex:claim-close-2300 a gmeow:StandpointClaim ;
    gmeow:vantage ex:assistant ;
    gmeow:observedFeature ex:stmt-2300 ;
    gmeow:observationMethod gmeow:methodLlmExtraction ;
    gmeow:claimModality gmeow:probable ;
    gmeow:wasGeneratedBy ex:invocation-19 ;
    gmeow:wasAttributedTo ex:assistant .

Common Companion Terms

gmeow:Entity, gmeow:StandpointTenure, gmeow:accordingTo, gmeow:displayable, gmeow:standpointModality, gmeow:validFrom, gmeow:validUntil

Cross-Cutting Concerns

standpoints

External Equivalences

Equivalent or closely aligned targets: dul, iptc, prov

Linkages

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

Term Equivalences

Usage Advice

Use when

• Use to mint a named frame as a first-class vantage — when a state's official position, a community's usage, or an editorial point of view needs its own identity, labels, or place in the gmeow:sharpens poset to be the value of gmeow:accordingTo or gmeow:vantage.

Avoid when

• Avoid minting one when a bare gmeow:Agent (a polity, an organization) already suffices as the gmeow:accordingTo value, and never treat one standpoint as the primary or preferred frame — competing standpoints coexist as co-equal vantages, none privileged (Principle 9).

How to use

• Mint the Standpoint, order it under gmeow:sharpens (every standpoint sharpens gmeow:universalStandpoint), and reference it from a statement via gmeow:accordingTo or from a reified gmeow:Observation via gmeow:vantage; an unindexed statement is held according to gmeow:universalStandpoint by default.

Examples

• ex:ottomanView a gmeow:Standpoint; gmeow:sharpens gmeow:universalStandpoint.