was associated with

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

Relates an activity to an agent associated with carrying it out — e.g. the software agent that ran an import. (Activity→Agent; the counterpart of gmeow:wasAttributedTo, which ascribes an endurant Entity to an agent.)

Structure

Property shape: object property; gmeow:Activity -> gmeow:Agent

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:wasAssociatedWith from gmeow:Activity to gmeow:Agent 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.

Import Lineage

• Source: slices/core/provenance/examples/import-lineage.ttl
• Examples catalog: open in catalog#example-slices-core-provenance-examples-import-lineage

# --- The activity and the agent that performed it (the importer self-records).
ex:import a gmeow:ImportActivity ;
    gmeow:ingestedAt       "2026-06-14T09:30:00Z"^^xsd:dateTime ;
    gmeow:wasAssociatedWith ex:importer .

Common Companion Terms

gmeow:Activity, gmeow:Agent

Projects To

External Equivalences

Equivalent or closely aligned targets: prov

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 tie an activity to the agent that carried it out — the software agent that ran an import, the person who performed a transformation — the activity-side companion of gmeow:wasAttributedTo.

Avoid when

• Avoid for ascribing an enduring product to its author (use gmeow:wasAttributedTo on the gmeow:Entity) and for a role richer than bare association — promote to a participation relator when capacity or responsibility share matters.

How to use

• Relate the gmeow:Activity to its performing gmeow:Agent; record the activity's products through the inverse of gmeow:wasGeneratedBy and its time on the event, so performer, product, and timing stay separable.

Examples

• ex:import2026 gmeow:wasAssociatedWith ex:vcardImporter.