asks

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

An agent poses / holds a question as open — the base inquiry attitude and the cheap 80% surface. Range is intentionally OPEN: the object may be a gmeow:Question or a reified inquiry (the five-minute-gate shortcut, Principle 13). Non-functional — an agent holds many open questions at once. From whose vantage and over what period the question is held ride gmeow:accordingTo and gmeow:validFrom / gmeow:validUntil on the statement, or a reified gmeow:InquiryTenure.

Structure

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

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:asks from gmeow:Agent to ? 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#> .



# --- The agent and the open Wh-question.
ex:lillith a gmeow:Agent ;
    gmeow:asks ex:whereIsKey .   # the question is held OPEN by lillith

Common Companion Terms

gmeow:Agent

Usage Advice

Use when

• Use to record that an agent poses or holds a question as open — the base inquiry attitude and the cheap 80% surface; the natural store_question companion of the epistemics store_claim spine.

Avoid when

• Avoid reading it as a settled state — the question stays open until the agent gmeow:accepts / gmeow:knowsThat an answer-claim (the epistemics spine, never a new resolved term) — and never make it functional; an agent holds many open questions.

How to use

• Point the agent at a gmeow:Question or reified inquiry; carry the vantage and period on gmeow:accordingTo / gmeow:validFrom / gmeow:validUntil of the statement, promote to gmeow:InquiryTenure when the opening / closing is itself the fact, and mark resolution by an gmeow:accepts / gmeow:knowsThat over an gmeow:answers-claim.

Scope notes

• A question is OPEN for the agent until the agent gmeow:accepts / gmeow:knowsThat an gmeow:answers-claim for it; resolution REUSES the epistemics spine, so there is no new 'resolved' term (Principle 6). Reopening closes the prior accepted answer with gmeow:displayable false (Principle 10), never deletion.

Examples

• ex:lillith gmeow:asks ex:whereIsTheKey.