has determinacy

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

Relates a value, entity, or claim to its ontic determinacy model — the explicit facet recording whether the value is crisp, vague, fuzzy, probabilistic, or disputed. Domain-free (universal, like hasGranularity). NOT functional: in a multi-source merge sources may state different determinacy models, and those claims coexist rather than force the reasoner to collapse distinct models. Distinct from gmeow:confidence (epistemic certainty) and from gmeow:determinacyModel (the frame-level default for a ReferenceFrame).

Structure

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

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:hasDeterminacy from ? to gmeow:Determinacy 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.

Sensitivity And Disclosure

Source: slices/core/kernel/examples/sensitivity-and-disclosure.ttl
Examples catalog: open in catalog#example-slices-core-kernel-examples-sensitivity-and-disclosure

# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 Blackcat Informatics® Inc. <paudley@blackcatinformatics.ca>
# SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0
#
# Worked example: the kernel disclosure machinery (Principles 10 and 12). Any entity can
# declare HOW SENSITIVE it is (gmeow:hasSensitivity), the POLICY governing its
# release (gmeow:hasDisclosurePolicy), and WHICH CONSUMERS are eligible to receive
# it (gmeow:eligibleForConsumer → a ProjectionContext). This is the projection/
# disclosure boundary: a confidential record is never deleted, only withheld from
# the wrong consumer (P10 suppression, P12 solver/presentation split). Part-whole
# mereology (gmeow:partOf / gmeow:hasPart) and gmeow:hasDeterminacy (how crisp the
# value is) are the other kernel primitives every slice reuses.
@prefix gmeow: <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/> .
@prefix ex:    <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/examples/kernel/> .
@prefix rdfs:  <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .

# --- A confidential record: sensitive, internal-only, eligible only for the
#     internal archive — withheld from public consumers, not deleted.
ex:salaryRecord a gmeow:InformationObject ;
    rdfs:label                "Compensation record"@en ;
    gmeow:partOf              ex:dossier ;
    gmeow:hasSensitivity      gmeow:sensitivityConfidential ;
    gmeow:hasDisclosurePolicy gmeow:policyInternalOnly ;
    gmeow:eligibleForConsumer gmeow:consumerInternalArchive ;
    gmeow:hasDeterminacy      gmeow:determinacyCrisp .

Score As Lossy Projection

Source: slices/extensions/music/examples/score-as-lossy-projection.ttl
Examples catalog: open in catalog#example-slices-extensions-music-examples-score-as-lossy-projection

# --- WORK: the abstract piece, determinate in what it fixes.
ex:nocturne a gmeow:MusicalWork ;
    rdfs:label          "Nocturne in E♭ (worked example)"@en ;
    gmeow:hasDeterminacy gmeow:determinacyCrisp .

Common Companion Terms

gmeow:Determinacy, gmeow:MeasuredValue, gmeow:Quantity, gmeow:ScalarQuantity, gmeow:hasGranularity, gmeow:hasReferenceFrame, gmeow:hasUnit

Cross-Cutting Concerns

frames and units

Usage Advice

Use when

Use to record that a value is inherently crisp, vague, fuzzy, probabilistic, or disputed — the ontic-indeterminacy facet, distinct from how confident any observer is.

Avoid when

Avoid using it for epistemic certainty (use gmeow:confidence) and avoid forcing one model in a merge — competing determinacy claims coexist, so never make it functional.

How to use

Point the value at a gmeow:Determinacy individual; leave the fuzzy/probabilistic arithmetic to the solver layer (P12) and carry observer-specific models on the statement layer when they differ.

Examples

ex:coastlineBoundary gmeow:hasDeterminacy gmeow:determinacyVague.