temporal precision

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

The granularity to which an event's time is known — a gmeow:TemporalPrecision value (day / month / year / decade / circa). Makes the determinacy of a date explicit instead of pretending every date is to-the-day.

Structure

Property shape: object property; gmeow:Event -> gmeow:TemporalPrecision

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:temporalPrecision from gmeow:Event to gmeow:TemporalPrecision when the relationship itself belongs in the native GMEOW graph.

Common Companion Terms

gmeow:Event, gmeow:TemporalPrecision

Usage Advice

Use when

• Use to declare HOW PRECISELY an event's time is known — to the day, month, year, decade, or circa — making date determinacy explicit rather than pretending every date is to-the-day.

Avoid when

• Avoid treating it as the date itself (the bounds are gmeow:earliestStart / gmeow:latestEnd) or as epistemic gmeow:confidence; precision is the ontic granularity of the dating, an orthogonal facet (Principle 9).

How to use

• Point the gmeow:Event at one gmeow:TemporalPrecision value alongside its date bounds; consumers read it to render 'c. 1850' rather than a spurious to-the-second figure.

Examples

• ex:battle gmeow:temporalPrecision gmeow:precisionCirca.