according to

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

The standpoint / frame within which the annotated statement is asserted true — according to whom. DISTINCT from gmeow:wasAttributedTo (which source RECORDED the claim) and gmeow:confidence (how sure we are); a claim may carry all three with no inferential bridge among them. Its value is a gmeow:Agent (a polity, community, or organization IRI) or a gmeow:Standpoint individual (a frame that needs its own identity). When a statement is promoted to a reified gmeow:Observation, gmeow:accordingTo becomes the gmeow:vantage of the relator (vantage ⊑ accordingTo — documented, not axiomatised, because accordingTo is an AnnotationProperty and vantage is an ObjectProperty). Standpoint-TIME — when the frame held this position — rides gmeow:validFrom / gmeow:validUntil on the same statement in the light case, or a reified gmeow:StandpointTenure when the adoption / withdrawal is itself the fact of interest. The range is intentionally open. An unindexed statement is held according to gmeow:universalStandpoint (the uncontested global facts).

Structure

Property shape: annotation property

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:accordingTo when the definition matches the source fact. Prefer a narrower GMEOW term when one exists, and keep projection concerns in the mapping layer.

Example Snippets

These snippets are generated from canonical slice examples and trimmed to the Turtle blocks where this term appears.

Dunning Kruger

• Source: slices/core/cognition/examples/dunning-kruger.ttl
• Examples catalog: open in catalog#example-slices-core-cognition-examples-dunning-kruger

# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 Blackcat Informatics® Inc. <paudley@blackcatinformatics.ca>
# SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0
#
# Worked example: the Dunning–Kruger case, modelled as COEXISTING standpoint-indexed
# claims (Principle 9), never a global verdict. Sam self-assesses MASTERY of
# quantum computing; an external assessor rates the same knowledge merely as KNOWS-ABOUT.
# Two gmeow:KnowledgeProficiency relators over the same (agent, subject), at
# divergent gmeow:KnowledgeLevel values, each indexed by gmeow:accordingTo to a
# different vantage. GMEOW records the disagreement; it does not adjudicate it.
@prefix gmeow: <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/> .
@prefix ex:    <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/examples/cognition/> .
@prefix wd:    <http://www.wikidata.org/entity/> .

# --- Self-attributed: Sam, by Sam's own lights, has MASTERED quantum computing.
ex:samQuantumSelf a gmeow:KnowledgeProficiency ;
    gmeow:knowledgeProficiencyAgent   ex:sam ;
    gmeow:knowledgeProficiencySubject wd:Q192995 ;         # quantum computing
    gmeow:knowledgeProficiencyLevel   gmeow:knowledgeMastered ;
    gmeow:knowledgeProficiencyScale   gmeow:scaleKnowledgeDepth ;
    gmeow:accordingTo                 ex:sam .             # self-attributed vantage

Conceptual Change

• Source: slices/core/concepts/examples/conceptual-change.ttl
• Examples catalog: open in catalog#example-slices-core-concepts-examples-conceptual-change

@prefix gmeow: <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/> .
@prefix ex:    <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/examples/concepts/conceptual-change/> .
@prefix rdfs:  <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:   <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix skos:  <http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#> .



ex:plutoCategorizationTextbook a gmeow:ConceptCategorization ;
    rdfs:label "Pluto categorized as a planet in school textbooks"@en ;
    gmeow:vantage ex:schoolTextbook ;
    gmeow:observedFeature ex:pluto ;
    gmeow:observationResult ex:planet ;
    gmeow:observationMethod gmeow:methodExpertJudgement ;
    gmeow:typicality "0.85"^^xsd:decimal ;
    gmeow:claimModality gmeow:probable ;
    gmeow:accordingTo ex:schoolTextbook .

Common Companion Terms

gmeow:Standpoint, gmeow:StandpointTenure, gmeow:displayable, gmeow:standpointModality, gmeow:validFrom, gmeow:validUntil, gmeow:assertedAt, gmeow:confidence, gmeow:recordedNoLaterThan, gmeow:wasAttributedTo

Cross-Cutting Concerns

standpoints, statement metadata

External Equivalences

Equivalent or closely aligned targets: prov, wd

Linkages

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

Term Equivalences