relationship parent

The parent in a reified parent-child relationship.

Structure

Property shape: object property; gmeow:ParentChildRelationship -> gmeow:Person; functional Sub-property of: gmeow:observedFeature

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:relationshipParent from gmeow:ParentChildRelationship to gmeow:Person when the relationship itself belongs in the native GMEOW graph.

Example Snippets

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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/> .

# --- The two parentages coexist — neither erases the other (P9). A child has a
#     biological father AND an adoptive mother, each a distinct reified relation;
#     the flat gmeow:hasParent edges above are the simple, kind-blind view.
ex:biological a gmeow:BiologicalParentChild ;
    gmeow:relationshipParent ex:birthFather ;
    gmeow:relationshipChild  ex:alex .

Common Companion Terms

gmeow:observedFeature, gmeow:ParentChildRelationship, gmeow:Person