has skill

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

Relates an agent to a skill it possesses. Non-functional — an agent may have many skills. The leveled, scaled detail is carried by the reified gmeow:SkillProficiency. Sub-property of gmeow:knowsAbout (cognition slice): having a skill in a subject entails knowing about it — the can-do axis touches the knows axis at this one rung, but not at understanding or mastery (Principle 9, the axes stay orthogonal).

Structure

Property shape: object property; gmeow:Agent -> gmeow:Skill Sub-property of: gmeow:knowsAbout

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:hasSkill from gmeow:Agent to gmeow:Skill 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.

Skill Proficiency

• Source: slices/core/expertise/examples/skill-proficiency.ttl
• Examples catalog: open in catalog#example-slices-core-expertise-examples-skill-proficiency

# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 Blackcat Informatics® Inc. <paudley@blackcatinformatics.ca>
# SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0
#
# Worked example: skill, proficiency, and credentials. A flat gmeow:hasSkill
# says an agent HAS a skill; the reified gmeow:SkillProficiency says HOW WELL, and
# crucially on WHICH SCALE — a proficiency level is meaningless without the scale
# it is read against (P11 in spirit: a value carries its frame). A gmeow:Credential
# is a separate, independently-issued attestation OF a skill, by an issuer — having
# a credential and being proficient are distinct facts. ProficiencyLevel, scale,
# Skill and Occupation are open vocabularies, minted as needed.
@prefix gmeow: <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/> .
@prefix ex:    <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/examples/expertise/> .
@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:hasSkill       ex:python ;
    gmeow:hasOccupation  ex:engineer ;
    gmeow:holdsCredential ex:cert .

Common Companion Terms

gmeow:knowsAbout, gmeow:Agent, gmeow:Skill

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 as the flat 80% shortcut stating that an agent possesses a skill, when the level, scale, temporal scope, and standpoint do not need to be first-class.

Avoid when

• Avoid when the attained level or its scale matters (promote to gmeow:SkillProficiency, the paired reified form) and avoid reading it as a mastery or understanding claim — it touches gmeow:knowsAbout only at the can-do rung (Principle 9).

How to use

• Assert the flat triple agent → skill; when level, scale, interval, or a contested standpoint appears, mint a gmeow:SkillProficiency for the same (agent, skill) and let generic consumers still read gmeow:knowsAbout by inheritance.

Examples

• ex:alice gmeow:hasSkill ex:welding.