has parent

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

Relates a person to a parent (any kind: biological, adoptive, step, or foster). Non-functional: contested parentage claims from multiple sources coexist as standpoint-indexed statements (gmeow:accordingTo), never collapsing to a single winner (Principle 9).

Structure

Property shape: object property; gmeow:Person -> gmeow:Person Sub-property of: gmeow:connectsTo, gmeow:hasAncestor

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:hasParent from gmeow:Person to gmeow:Person 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.

Biological And Adoptive

• Source: slices/extensions/genealogy/examples/biological-and-adoptive.ttl
• Examples catalog: open in catalog#example-slices-extensions-genealogy-examples-biological-and-adoptive

# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 Blackcat Informatics® Inc. <paudley@blackcatinformatics.ca>
# SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0
#
# Worked example: parent-child is not one relation (Principle 9). Most schemas have
# a single "parent" field; GMEOW reifies the KIND of parentage, so a child's
# BIOLOGICAL and ADOPTIVE parents COEXIST rather than overwrite. A
# gmeow:BiologicalParentChild and a gmeow:AdoptiveParentChild (siblings of
# Foster/Step) each bind a gmeow:relationshipParent to a gmeow:relationshipChild.
# Flat gmeow:hasParent / gmeow:hasFather remain available as the simple view; the
# reified relations carry the distinction the flat edges can't.
@prefix gmeow: <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/> .
@prefix ex:    <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/examples/genealogy/> .

ex:alex     a gmeow:Person ; gmeow:name "Alex"@en ; gmeow:hasParent ex:birthFather , ex:adoptiveMother .
ex:birthFather    a gmeow:Person ; gmeow:name "Jordan (birth father)"@en .
ex:adoptiveMother a gmeow:Person ; gmeow:name "Priya (adoptive mother)"@en .

Common Companion Terms

gmeow:connectsTo, gmeow:hasAncestor, gmeow:Person

Projects To

External Equivalences

Equivalent or closely aligned targets: rel, schema, wdt

Linkages

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

Term Equivalences

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