Time-Scoped Relation

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

A reified relationship that holds only over a particular time interval — the base for residence, tenure, and membership-over-time situations.

Structure

Subclass of: gufo:Situation

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:TimeScopedRelation as a specialized kind of gufo:Situation. Add statement metadata or a standpoint when the assertion needs provenance, confidence, or vantage.

Usage Advice

Use when

• Use as the base when a relationship is true only across a bounded span and that span, its role-fillers, or its provenance must be queryable as a thing — residence, employment tenure, membership, address validity.

Avoid when

• Avoid for a relationship that holds timelessly, and for the light case where a single statement just needs validity bounds — there annotate the triple with gmeow:validFrom/gmeow:validUntil rather than reifying a situation.

How to use

• Subclass it for the specific tenure, link the scope with gmeow:duringInterval to a gmeow:TimeInterval, and hang the role-fillers (who, where, what) on the situation as its own properties.

Examples

• ex:lillithAtAcme a gmeow:TimeScopedRelation; gmeow:duringInterval ex:tenureInterval.