knows about

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

Second level of the knowledge spectrum: the agent knows facts about the subject and can describe it — familiarity, not yet working comprehension. The exactMatch anchor for schema:knowsAbout. Entails gmeow:isAwareOf; entailed by gmeow:understands, gmeow:hasMastered and gmeow:hasSkill.

Structure

Property shape: object property; gmeow:Agent -> gmeow:Entity Sub-property of: gmeow:isAwareOf

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:knowsAbout from gmeow:Agent to gmeow:Entity 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.

Knowledge Spectrum

• Source: slices/core/cognition/examples/knowledge-spectrum.ttl
• Examples catalog: open in catalog#example-slices-core-cognition-examples-knowledge-spectrum

ex:ada a gmeow:Person ;
    gmeow:hasMastered  wd:Q28865 ;   # Python — entails understands ⊑ knowsAbout ⊑ isAwareOf
    gmeow:understands  wd:Q217413 ;  # category theory
    gmeow:knowsAbout   wd:Q189436 ;  # bioinformatics
    gmeow:isAwareOf    wd:Q192995 .  # quantum computing — bare awareness only

# The subjects are first-class entities identified by their wikidata QID; the
# spectrum says nothing about them beyond that ex:ada stands toward each at the
# stated depth. A reasoner materialises, e.g., ex:ada gmeow:knowsAbout wd:Q28865
# from the hasMastered assertion via the subproperty chain.

Common Companion Terms

gmeow:isAwareOf, gmeow:Agent, gmeow:Entity

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

Usage Advice

Use when

• Use when the agent knows facts about a subject and can describe it — familiarity beyond mere awareness — and as the schema:knowsAbout export anchor.

Avoid when

• Avoid when the agent genuinely comprehends and can apply the subject (use gmeow:understands) and avoid conflating descriptive familiarity with the 'can do' competence axis (gmeow:hasSkill).

How to use

• Assert gmeow:knowsAbout from the agent to the subject; it entails gmeow:isAwareOf automatically, and is itself entailed when a deeper level or a skill is asserted.

Examples

• ex:lillith gmeow:knowsAbout ex:rdfSemantics.