sub-organization of

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

Relates an organization to a larger organization it is part of — a department or division within a company, a team within a department. Transitive (a team is part of the company through its division). A specialization of the universal gmeow:partOf spine. A department is thus a first-class gmeow:Organization, and a gmeow:Membership may target it directly. The 'department' field is the sub-organization a person's membership is in.

Structure

Property shape: object property; gmeow:Organization -> gmeow:Organization Sub-property of: gmeow:partOf

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:subOrganizationOf from gmeow:Organization to gmeow:Organization 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.

Post And Membership

• Source: slices/core/organization/examples/post-and-membership.ttl
• Examples catalog: open in catalog#example-slices-core-organization-examples-post-and-membership

ex:engineering a gmeow:Organization ;
    gmeow:name "Engineering Division"@en ;
    gmeow:organizationType gmeow:organizationTypeCompany ;
    gmeow:subOrganizationOf ex:acme .

Agent Sortals

• Source: slices/core/entities/examples/agent-sortals.ttl
• Examples catalog: open in catalog#example-slices-core-entities-examples-agent-sortals

# --- Group: a collection of agents treated as a unit WITHOUT the formal
#     structure of an organization. Sub-organization decomposition would instead
#     use gmeow:subOrganizationOf in the organization slice.
ex:platformTeam a gmeow:Group ;
    gmeow:name "Platform team"@en ;
    gmeow:description "An informal cross-functional working group, not a legal sub-organization."@en .

Common Companion Terms

gmeow:partOf, gmeow:Organization

Projects To

External Equivalences

Equivalent or closely aligned targets: org, 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 to nest one organization inside a larger one — a department in a company, a team in a department — so the organizational part/whole hierarchy and membership propagation hold.

Avoid when

• Avoid the generic gmeow:partOf for organizational nesting (assert this and let gmeow:partOf follow) and avoid it for non-organizational containment (gmeow:containedInLocation for places); contested succession claims coexist via gmeow:accordingTo (Principle 9).

How to use

• Assert gmeow:subOrganizationOf from the sub-organization to its parent and let transitivity build the hierarchy; target a department directly with gmeow:membershipOrganization so the gmeow:memberOf property chain infers parent membership.

Examples

• ex:acmeFinance gmeow:subOrganizationOf ex:acme.