understands

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

Third level of the knowledge spectrum: the agent comprehends the subject and can reason with and apply it, beyond reciting facts. Entails gmeow:knowsAbout (and transitively gmeow:isAwareOf); entailed by gmeow:hasMastered.

Structure

Property shape: object property; gmeow:Agent -> gmeow:Entity Sub-property of: gmeow:knowsAbout

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:understands from gmeow:Agent to gmeow:Entity 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.

Knowledge Spectrum

• Source: slices/core/cognition/examples/knowledge-spectrum.ttl
• Examples catalog: open in catalog#example-slices-core-cognition-examples-knowledge-spectrum

ex:ada a gmeow:Person ;
    gmeow:hasMastered  wd:Q28865 ;   # Python — entails understands ⊑ knowsAbout ⊑ isAwareOf
    gmeow:understands  wd:Q217413 ;  # category theory
    gmeow:knowsAbout   wd:Q189436 ;  # bioinformatics
    gmeow:isAwareOf    wd:Q192995 .  # quantum computing — bare awareness only

Common Companion Terms

gmeow:knowsAbout, gmeow:Agent, gmeow:Entity

Usage Advice

Use when

• Use when the agent comprehends a subject and can reason with and apply it, beyond merely reciting facts about it.

Avoid when

• Avoid when only descriptive familiarity holds (use gmeow:knowsAbout), when expert command holds (use gmeow:hasMastered), and avoid reading comprehension as competency — gmeow:hasSkill is the orthogonal 'can do' axis.

How to use

• Assert gmeow:understands from the agent to the subject; it entails the two shallower levels and is entailed by gmeow:hasMastered, so a single assertion materialises the whole tail.

Examples

• ex:lillith gmeow:understands ex:descriptionLogic.