claim modality

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

The modality (unequivocal, probable, conceivable, refuted, bullshit) assigned to a StandpointClaim. Semantically equivalent to observationResult for StandpointClaims, but not declared rdfs:subPropertyOf because StandpointModality (a gufo:QualityValue / abstract individual) is disjoint from gmeow:Entity (a gufo:Endurant) in the DL profile. When a StandpointClaim is flattened to an annotated statement, claimModality becomes standpointModality.

Structure

Property shape: object property; gmeow:StandpointClaim -> gmeow:StandpointModality; functional

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:claimModality from gmeow:StandpointClaim to gmeow:StandpointModality 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.

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/> .

# --- Claim 1: the revisionists hold (probably) that Marlowe wrote it.
ex:claimMarlowe a gmeow:StandpointClaim ;
    gmeow:vantage ex:revisionists ;
    gmeow:observedFeature ex:play ;
    gmeow:observationResult ex:marlowe ;
    gmeow:observationMethod gmeow:methodExpertJudgement ;
    gmeow:claimModality gmeow:probable .

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:StandpointClaim, gmeow:StandpointModality

External Equivalences

Equivalent or closely aligned targets: crminf, sosa

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 assign the belief value a gmeow:StandpointClaim carries — the reified-relator counterpart of gmeow:standpointModality, used when a claim is a first-class observation rather than an annotated statement.

Avoid when

• Avoid for the produced value of a non-standpoint observation (use gmeow:observationResult) and avoid asserting two modalities — it is functional; a refuted value denies the claim from this frame, never marks it globally false (Principle 9).

How to use

• Point the StandpointClaim at one gmeow:StandpointModality individual; when the claim is flattened to an annotated statement, this becomes gmeow:standpointModality, and an absent value reads as unequivocal.

Examples

• ex:recognitionClaim gmeow:claimModality gmeow:unequivocal.