description

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

A free-text note or description about an entity — the unstructured NOTE field (a biography, a remark, an annotation). Genuinely flat: unlike names, dates or roles, a note has no structure to reify. Distinct from skos:definition, which documents ontology TERMS rather than instances. Language-tag the literal where applicable; non-functional.

Structure

Property shape: datatype property; gmeow:Entity -> rdfs:Literal

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:description from gmeow:Entity to rdfs:Literal 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.

Agent Sortals

• Source: slices/core/entities/examples/agent-sortals.ttl
• Examples catalog: open in catalog#example-slices-core-entities-examples-agent-sortals

# --- Organization: the flat name/description tier. A structured web presence
#     (gmeow:hasWebPage → a WEMI gmeow:WebPage) is shown in the documents example;
#     here the flat tier carries it.
ex:blackcat a gmeow:Organization ;
    gmeow:name "Blackcat Informatics® Inc."@en ;
    gmeow:description "A small ontology and tooling consultancy."@en .

# --- People: gmeow:Person, the identity-supplying sortal everything else anchors
#     to. Flat names suffice for the example; a contested or multilingual name
#     would promote to the names slice's reified PersonName.
ex:mara a gmeow:Person ;
    gmeow:name "Mara Okafor"@en ;
    gmeow:description "Backend engineer; maintains the release pipeline."@en .

Lillith Dataset

• Source: slices/extensions/graphrag/examples/lillith-dataset.ttl
• Examples catalog: open in catalog#example-slices-extensions-graphrag-examples-lillith-dataset

ex:lillith-benchmark a gmeow:Dataset ;
    rdfs:label "Lillith GraphRAG benchmark"@en ;
    gmeow:title "Lillith GraphRAG benchmark"@en ;
    gmeow:description "A worked GraphRAG benchmark dataset: a content-addressed corpus, its chunking, embeddings, vector index, retrieval events, and model-extracted entity/relationship descriptions — every artifact attributed and confidence-weighted, published as a research object."@en ;
    gmeow:hasPart ex:corpus-lillith ;
    gmeow:hasLicense ex:lillith-license ;
    gmeow:wasAttributedTo ex:blackcat ;
    gmeow:datePublished "2026-06-12T00:00:00Z"^^xsd:dateTime ;
    gmeow:sourceLocation "https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/examples/graphrag/lillith-benchmark" .

Common Companion Terms

gmeow:Entity

Projects To

External Equivalences

Equivalent or closely aligned targets: dcterms, schema, vcard

Linkages

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

Term Equivalences

Projection Coverage

Usage Advice

Use when

• Use for an unstructured free-text note about an instance — a biography, remark, or annotation that genuinely has no structure to reify.

Avoid when

• Avoid for content that does have structure to model (names, dates, roles, contributions — use the dedicated relators) and for documenting an ontology TERM (use skos:definition); a description is an instance-level note, not a term definition.

How to use

• Attach one or more language-tagged literals; it is non-functional, so notes in several languages or from several sources coexist. Reach for a relator instead the moment the note carries facts that other constructs already model.

Examples

• ex:lillith gmeow:description "Open-source contributor and maintainer."@en.