has contact point

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

Relates an agent to a means of contacting it.

Structure

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

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:hasContactPoint from gmeow:Agent to gmeow:ContactPoint 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.

Contact Points

• Source: slices/core/contacts/examples/contact-points.ttl
• Examples catalog: open in catalog#example-slices-core-contacts-examples-contact-points

# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 Blackcat Informatics® Inc. <paudley@blackcatinformatics.ca>
# SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0
#
# Worked example: contact details are flat-first, reified on demand ( P4).
# A bare gmeow:email / gmeow:telephone on the agent covers the common case. When
# a contact point carries a TYPE (work vs personal), a PROVIDER, structured parts
# or a postal frame, it is promoted to a reified gmeow:ContactPoint reached via
# gmeow:hasContactPoint. A gmeow:PostalAddress is expressed in an explicit postal/
# administrative REFERENCE FRAME (P11): its street/locality/region components are
# coordinate values along that frame's axes — the as-written surface form, kept
# distinct from the resolved geographic Place (gmeow:addressPlace).
@prefix gmeow: <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/> .
@prefix ex:    <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/examples/contacts/> .

ex:dana a gmeow:Person ;
    gmeow:name      "Dana Reyes"@en ;
    gmeow:email     "dana@example.org" ;        # flat shortcut — the common case
    gmeow:telephone "+1-555-0142" ;             # flat shortcut
    gmeow:hasContactPoint ex:workEmail , ex:homeAddress .

Common Companion Terms

gmeow:Agent, gmeow:ContactPoint

Projects To

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

Projection Coverage

Usage Advice

Use when

• Use to attach a first-class contact point (email, telephone, postal address) to the agent that owns it, when the channel carries its own role, provider, structure, or tenure.

Avoid when

• Avoid it when a bare string suffices (use gmeow:email or gmeow:telephone) and avoid using it for ownership of an online account (that is the accounts slice).

How to use

• Link the agent to each gmeow:ContactPoint; the sensitivity on the contact point governs whether the projection layer emits it for a given consumer.

Examples

• ex:lillith gmeow:hasContactPoint ex:lillithEmail.

Use For Consumers

• gmeow:consumerAgentMemory
• gmeow:consumerInternalArchive

Avoid For Consumers

• gmeow:consumerWikidata
• gmeow:consumerWikipedia