has goal

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

Flat shortcut: the agent holds this goal, commitment grade unspecified. The 80% case (Principle 4); promote to a Desire / Intention / Commitment when the grade matters, and to an IntentionTenure when adoption or revision over time is itself the fact of interest. Whether avowed by the agent or attributed by an observer rides gmeow:accordingTo on the statement.

Structure

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

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:hasGoal from gmeow:Agent to gmeow:Goal 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.

Goal And Intention

Source: slices/core/teleology/examples/goal-and-intention.ttl
Examples catalog: open in catalog#example-slices-core-teleology-examples-goal-and-intention

# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 Blackcat Informatics® Inc. <paudley@blackcatinformatics.ca>
# SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0
#
# Worked example: goals, intentions, and commitments. GMEOW separates the
# intentional moments gUFO keeps distinct: a gmeow:Goal is the SocialObject an
# agent aims at (gmeow:hasGoal); a gmeow:Intention is an intentional MODE borne by
# an agent that aims at that goal (gmeow:intentionGoal) and MOTIVATES concrete
# action (gmeow:motivates → an Event); a gmeow:Commitment is a relator binding a
# committed agent to a beneficiary. The desire-to / intend-to / commit-to layers
# are not collapsed — each is its own first-class moment.
@prefix gmeow: <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/> .
@prefix ex:    <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/examples/teleology/> .
@prefix rdfs:  <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:   <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

ex:dana a gmeow:Person ;
    gmeow:name    "Dana Reyes"@en ;
    gmeow:hasGoal ex:degreeGoal .

Grounded Claim

Source: slices/core/ai/examples/grounded-claim.ttl
Examples catalog: open in catalog#example-slices-core-ai-examples-grounded-claim

# --- The model, its card, and the invocation (the provenance anchor).
ex:assistant a gmeow:SoftwareAgent ;
    rdfs:label "facilities assistant model"@en ;
    # Teleology: the agent's goal, asserted like any attributed claim.
    gmeow:hasGoal ex:goal-answer-faithfully .

Common Companion Terms

gmeow:Agent, gmeow:Goal

Usage Advice

Use when

Use for the 80% case (Principle 4): an agent holds a goal and neither the commitment grade nor its tenure over time needs to be first-class — the flat half of the gmeow:hasGoal ↔ gmeow:IntentionTenure pair.

Avoid when

Avoid when the commitment grade matters (promote to gmeow:Desire / gmeow:Intention / gmeow:Commitment) or when adoption and revision over time is itself the fact (promote to gmeow:IntentionTenure); attribution vs avowal rides gmeow:accordingTo, not a separate property.

How to use

Assert the flat statement from gmeow:Agent to gmeow:Goal; carry a simple validity window on the statement with gmeow:validFrom / gmeow:validUntil, and reify to a mode or an IntentionTenure only when grade, tenure, or standpoint must become first-class.

Examples

ex:lillith gmeow:hasGoal ex:reachOrbit.