answers

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

Relates a candidate direct answer to the question it answers. The DOMAIN is left intentionally open: an answer is typically a gmeow:StandpointClaim or a gmeow:Proposition, but asserting a domain (or an owl:unionOf) would prematurely close the answer surface, so it stays open and is documented in prose. NOT functional, and VANTAGE-INDEXED (Principle 9): different standpoints answer the same question differently and the answers coexist — there is never one global answer; whose answer it is rides gmeow:accordingTo on the statement.

Structure

Property shape: object property; ? -> gmeow:Question

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:answers from ? to gmeow:Question when the relationship itself belongs in the native GMEOW graph.

Example Snippets

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

Open Question And Resolution

• Source: slices/core/inquiry/examples/open-question-and-resolution.ttl
• Examples catalog: open in catalog#example-slices-core-inquiry-examples-open-question-and-resolution

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



# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 Blackcat Informatics® Inc. <paudley@blackcatinformatics.ca>
# SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0
#
# Worked example — the open→resolved inquiry lifecycle, reusing the epistemics
# spine. An agent asks a Wh-question, holding it OPEN. One vantage answers it
# with a gmeow:StandpointClaim (a kind of Observation): the answer rides
# gmeow:observedFeature / gmeow:observationResult and gmeow:answers the question.
# The agent RESOLVES the question by accepting that answer-claim through the
# epistemics spine — gmeow:knowsThat (which ENTAILS gmeow:believes by the
# keystone). No truth bit anywhere, and no global "answered" flag: resolution
# REUSES the epistemics spine rather than minting a new resolved term (P6).

# --- One vantage's answer: a StandpointClaim that gmeow:answers the question.
#     The answer content rides the Observation spine (observedFeature = the
#     thing observed, observationResult = the located place); the claim is one
#     vantage-indexed answer among possibly many (P9), never THE answer.
ex:keyOnHook a gmeow:StandpointClaim ;
    gmeow:answers ex:whereIsKey ;
    gmeow:vantage ex:houseObserver ;
    gmeow:observedFeature ex:whereIsKey ;
    gmeow:observationResult ex:hookLocation ;
    gmeow:observationMethod gmeow:methodDirectObservation ;
    gmeow:claimModality gmeow:unequivocal .

Common Companion Terms

gmeow:Question

External Equivalences

Equivalent or closely aligned targets: schema

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 record that a claim or proposition is a direct answer to a question — one vantage's answer among possibly many — so an inquiry graph can carry competing answers that coexist (Principle 9).

Avoid when

• Avoid treating a single gmeow:answers edge as THE answer — answers are vantage-indexed and coexist, carry whose answer it is on gmeow:accordingTo — and avoid reading the edge as resolving the question; resolution is an agent gmeow:accepts / gmeow:knowsThat over the answer-claim (the epistemics spine).

How to use

• Point a candidate answer (a gmeow:StandpointClaim or gmeow:Proposition) at the gmeow:Question; for contested answers, attach gmeow:accordingTo on the statement and let several answers coexist, marking an agent's acceptance through gmeow:accepts / gmeow:knowsThat rather than picking a global winner.

Scope notes

• Answers are vantage-indexed (Principle 9): a question has no single global answer. Each gmeow:answers edge is one standpoint's direct answer, held according to a frame (gmeow:accordingTo) and resolved for an agent only when that agent gmeow:accepts / gmeow:knowsThat it — the epistemics spine, reused rather than re-minted.

Examples

• ex:keyIsOnHook gmeow:answers ex:whereIsTheKey.