supports notability

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

Whether this citation is asserted to support notability (encyclopedic significance) as distinct from factual verification. A citation may verify a fact (high evidential warrant) without supporting notability (e.g. a primary legal filing or a routine listing). Non-functional: competing notability assessments from different standpoints coexist (Principle 9).

Structure

Property shape: datatype property; gmeow:CitationAct -> xsd:boolean

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:supportsNotability from gmeow:CitationAct to xsd:boolean 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.

Notability Assessment

• Source: slices/core/evidence/examples/notability-assessment.ttl
• Examples catalog: open in catalog#example-slices-core-evidence-examples-notability-assessment

# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 Blackcat Informatics® Inc. <paudley@blackcatinformatics.ca>
# SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0
#
# Worked example: grading citations as evidence. The evidence slice hangs
# quality dimensions on a gmeow:CitationAct (from the citations slice): its
# gmeow:hasEvidenceClass, gmeow:sourceTier (primary/secondary/tertiary),
# gmeow:sourceIndependence and gmeow:coverageDepth together decide whether the
# citation gmeow:supportsNotability. The Wikipedia-notability discrimination falls
# straight out: independent + secondary + significant coverage SUPPORTS it; a
# routine self-originated passing mention does NOT — same predicate, graded.
@prefix gmeow: <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/> .
@prefix ex:    <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/examples/evidence/> .

# --- Strong evidence: an independent trade-press feature with depth → supports.
#     The subject (citingEntity, generic Entity) is supported by the cited work
#     (citedEntity, a CreativeWork): gmeow:intentSupports reads "the cited work
#     supports the citing entity", and the evidence dimensions grade that support.
ex:goodCite a gmeow:CitationAct ;
    gmeow:citingEntity       ex:subject ;
    gmeow:citedEntity        ex:feature ;
    gmeow:citationIntent     gmeow:intentSupports ;
    gmeow:hasEvidenceClass   gmeow:evidenceIndependentTradePress ;
    gmeow:sourceTier         gmeow:sourceTierSecondary ;
    gmeow:sourceIndependence gmeow:sourceIndependenceIndependent ;
    gmeow:coverageDepth      gmeow:coverageDepthSignificantCoverage ;
    gmeow:supportsNotability true .

Common Companion Terms

gmeow:CitationAct

Usage Advice

Use when

• Use to assert the standpoint judgement that a citation contributes to a subject's notability — encyclopedic significance — the summary flag the independence, tier, and coverage-depth axes feed into (Axis B).

Avoid when

• Avoid using it to claim a fact is true (notability is not verification — a strong-warrant primary filing may carry supportsNotability false) and avoid treating one assessment as final; competing standpoint judgements coexist, so it stays non-functional (Principle 9).

How to use

• Set the xsd:boolean on the gmeow:CitationAct alongside gmeow:sourceIndependence, gmeow:sourceTier, and gmeow:coverageDepth; the solver weighs the axes against a notability standard (cf. WP:GNG, P12) rather than relying on this flag alone.

Examples

• ex:citation gmeow:supportsNotability true.