event type

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

The kind(s) of an event, drawn from the open gmeow:EventType value vocabulary. Non-functional: an occurrence may carry several types (a wedding that is also a religious rite), and competing standpoint-indexed type claims coexist rather than contradict.

Structure

Property shape: object property; gmeow:Event -> gmeow:EventType

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:eventType from gmeow:Event to gmeow:EventType 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.

Wedding

• Source: slices/core/events/examples/wedding.ttl
• Examples catalog: open in catalog#example-slices-core-events-examples-wedding

ex:wedding a gmeow:Event ;
    rdfs:label "the marriage of Alex and Sam"@en ;
    gmeow:eventType gmeow:eventTypeMarriage ;
    gmeow:eventTime "2026-06-20T15:00:00Z"^^xsd:dateTime ;
    gmeow:eventTemporalFrame gmeow:temporalFrameUTCGregorian ;
    gmeow:eventLocation ex:chapel ;
    # Flat participation for the witnesses ONLY — no role/period/evidence needed.
    # The principals and the officiant are instead reified below (with roles), so
    # they are deliberately NOT repeated here: flat and reified never overlap.
    gmeow:hasParticipant ex:witnessA , ex:witnessB .

Recurring Meeting

• Source: slices/core/calendar/examples/recurring-meeting.ttl
• Examples catalog: open in catalog#example-slices-core-calendar-examples-recurring-meeting

# --- The template event the schedule repeats.
ex:standup a gmeow:Event ;
    rdfs:label               "Weekly engineering standup"@en ;
    gmeow:eventType          ex:eventTypeTeamMeeting ;
    gmeow:eventTime          "2026-06-15T09:00:00-06:00"^^xsd:dateTime ;
    gmeow:eventTemporalFrame gmeow:temporalFrameUTCGregorian ;
    gmeow:eventTimeZone      ex:edmonton .

Common Companion Terms

gmeow:Event, gmeow:EventType

Projects To

External Equivalences

Equivalent or closely aligned targets: ical, schema, sem

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 to record what KIND of occurrence an event is, drawing one or more values from gmeow:EventType; assert several when one occurrence is genuinely several kinds at once (a wedding that is also a religious rite).

Avoid when

• Avoid encoding the kind as an rdf:type subclass instead (Principle 9), and avoid collapsing competing source type-claims — keep it non-functional so standpoint-indexed types coexist via gmeow:accordingTo rather than contradict.

How to use

• Point the gmeow:Event at one or more gmeow:EventType individuals; for a disputed kind, carry each claim on its own statement with gmeow:accordingTo and gmeow:confidence rather than choosing a primary.

Examples

• ex:wedding gmeow:eventType gmeow:eventTypeMarriage, gmeow:eventTypeBaptism.