measurement determinacy

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

The ontic determinacy model of a temporal measurement — crisp, vague, fuzzy, probabilistic, or disputed. Bridges to gmeow:hasDeterminacy (rdfs:subPropertyOf) so generic consumers can query determinacy uniformly across all domains.

Structure

Property shape: object property; gmeow:TemporalMeasurement -> gmeow:Determinacy Sub-property of: gmeow:hasDeterminacy

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:measurementDeterminacy from gmeow:TemporalMeasurement to gmeow:Determinacy when the relationship itself belongs in the native GMEOW graph.

Common Companion Terms

gmeow:hasDeterminacy, gmeow:TemporalMeasurement, gmeow:Determinacy

Usage Advice

Use when

• Use to declare the ontic determinacy model of a dating result — a radiocarbon date is probabilistic, a stratigraphic boundary often vague — queryable through the gmeow:hasDeterminacy bridge.

Avoid when

• Avoid conflating it with the numeric error bar (gmeow:measurementUncertainty) or with epistemic confidence; determinacy is the nature of the value, an axis orthogonal to how large the uncertainty is (P9).

How to use

• Reference one gmeow:Determinacy individual; the rdfs:subPropertyOf gmeow:hasDeterminacy bridge exposes it to generic determinacy queries, while the solver layer does the fuzzy/probabilistic math (P12).

Examples

• ex:charcoalDate gmeow:measurementDeterminacy gmeow:determinacyProbabilistic.