GMEOW Standpoint Module

• IRI: https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/slices/standpoint
• Tier: core
• Group: core

What This Slice Covers

This slice owns 16 terms and contributes 11 mapping or projection rows. Use it when its terms match the native fact you want to preserve; use the linkage tables to see how those facts leave GMEOW for consumer vocabularies.

Dependencies

• gmeow:slices/kernel
• gmeow:slices/observations
• gmeow:slices/temporal

Consumers

• Every contested fact and every model disagreement (P9); the statement layer; the deception slice.

Local Map

Examples

Contested Authorship

• Source: slices/core/standpoint/examples/contested-authorship.ttl
• GMEOW terms: gmeow:CreativeWork, gmeow:Person, gmeow:Standpoint, gmeow:StandpointClaim, gmeow:claimModality, gmeow:methodComputationalModel, gmeow:methodExpertJudgement, gmeow:name, gmeow:observationMethod, gmeow:observationResult

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#
# Worked example: contested claims coexist, none privileged ( P9). Two
# scholars attribute the same play to different authors. Each attribution is a
# reified gmeow:StandpointClaim (a kind of Observation) carrying its own
# gmeow:vantage (whose standpoint), gmeow:observationResult (the claimed author),
# and gmeow:claimModality (HOW the standpoint holds it). A third standpoint does
# something flat models cannot express: it gmeow:refuted the Marlowe attribution
# — an explicit DENIAL, distinct from mere silence. There is no "preferred"
# author: the graph keeps every standpoint's stance side by side.
@prefix gmeow: <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/> .
@prefix ex:    <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/examples/standpoint/> .

ex:play a gmeow:CreativeWork ;
    gmeow:title "The Contested Tragedy"@en .

ex:marlowe a gmeow:Person ; gmeow:name "Christopher Marlowe"@en .
ex:shakespeare a gmeow:Person ; gmeow:name "William Shakespeare"@en .

# --- Standpoints: the scholarly positions from which each claim is held.
ex:revisionists a gmeow:Standpoint ; gmeow:sharpens gmeow:universalStandpoint .
ex:orthodoxy a gmeow:Standpoint ; gmeow:sharpens gmeow:universalStandpoint .
ex:forensicPanel a gmeow:Standpoint ; gmeow:sharpens gmeow:universalStandpoint .

# --- Claim 1: the revisionists hold (probably) that Marlowe wrote it.
ex:claimMarlowe a gmeow:StandpointClaim ;
    gmeow:vantage ex:revisionists ;
    gmeow:observedFeature ex:play ;
    gmeow:observationResult ex:marlowe ;
    gmeow:observationMethod gmeow:methodExpertJudgement ;
    gmeow:claimModality gmeow:probable .

# --- Claim 2: the orthodoxy holds (settled) that Shakespeare wrote it.
ex:claimShakespeare a gmeow:StandpointClaim ;
    gmeow:vantage ex:orthodoxy ;
    gmeow:observedFeature ex:play ;
    gmeow:observationResult ex:shakespeare ;
    gmeow:observationMethod gmeow:methodExpertJudgement ;
    gmeow:claimModality gmeow:unequivocal .

# --- Claim 3: a stylometric panel REFUTES the Marlowe attribution — settled
#     false, an explicit denial rather than silence. It coexists with claim 1.
ex:refuteMarlowe a gmeow:StandpointClaim ;
    gmeow:vantage ex:forensicPanel ;
    gmeow:observedFeature ex:play ;
    gmeow:observationResult ex:marlowe ;
    gmeow:observationMethod gmeow:methodComputationalModel ;
    gmeow:claimModality gmeow:refuted .

Terms

Classes

Properties

Individuals

Linkages

• Rows: 11
• Projection profiles: -
• External vocabularies: crminf, dul, iptc, prov, sosa, wd

Guide

Standpoint — alignment & projection reference

The alignment and projection companion to the standpoint doctrine. Everything here is authored once in mapping-dsl/ and generated by gmeow compile-mappings (Principle 4); nothing in mappings/, projections/, or queries/projections/ is hand-edited.

Terms

Term anchors

gmeow:Standpoint · gmeow:sharpens

A named perspective/frame within which claims are held true — a state's official position, a community's usage, an editorial point of view — minted only when the frame needs its own identity (often a bare gmeow:Agent suffices). Standpoints form a poset under sharpens (transitive, the standpoint ⊆ refinement relation), topped by universalStandpoint.

gmeow:StandpointModality · gmeow:claimModality

The belief value a standpoint assigns a proposition — the closed vocabulary spanning Standpoint-Logic □/◊ and the CRMinf values plus the Frankfurt bullshit modality (unequivocal, probable, conceivable, refuted, bullshit); absence reads as unequivocal. claimModality carries it on a StandpointClaim and flattens to standpointModality on an annotated statement.

gmeow:StandpointTenure · gmeow:tenureStandpoint · gmeow:tenurePosition · gmeow:standpointClaim

The reified, time-scoped fact that a standpoint held a position over an interval — recognition granted in 2008 and withdrawn in 2030 is an opened-then-closed tenure, never a deletion (Principle 10). tenureStandpoint is the holding standpoint, tenurePosition the standpoint-indexed claim it held, and standpointClaim (functional) the one observation the tenure generates — the tenure being the time-scoped fact, the claim its observation.

SSSOM alignments (mapping-dsl/equivalences/standpoint.ttl)

All by reference (Principle 5) — GMEOW never imports an external axiom. Compiled to mappings/gmeow-standpoint.sssom.tsv.

CRMinf parity. GMEOW is at least as expressive as the CIDOC-CRM Argumentation model: the reified statement is an I4 Proposition Set, a StandpointTenure is a temporal I2 Belief, the standpoint is the actor of an I1 Argumentation, and standpointModality spans J5 holds to be (true/probable/possible/false) — so a denial is first-class, not an absence. Carried by the generated CRMinf projection.

Formal grounding (set comment). gmeow:accordingTo is the axiom-level standpoint label of Standpoint Logic (Standpoint EL, IJCAI 2023; Standpoint-OWL 2, arXiv:2305.00559; Monodic-S5 over OWL 2 DL, KR 2025); modality = the □/◊ operators plus the CRMinf belief values; sharpens = the standpoint ⊆ relation; universalStandpoint = *. It also relates to CKR contexts, MVP-OWL multi-viewpoint classes, and ClaiMaker source-anchored claims (documented in the set comment).

The Wikidata refusal (set trailer). GMEOW keeps Wikidata references/qualifiers as relatedMatch targets but refuses wikibase:rank / wikibase:PreferredRank — a preferred rank re-creates the single winning slot the edit war is fought over (Principle 9). The refusal is recorded in the generated TSV, never emitted as a mapping.

Projections — every standpoint preserved, never a winner

The governing rule is no winner: GMEOW ships no projection that selects a single standpoint, because collapsing a contested fact to a chosen frame re-creates the single winning slot the facility abolishes (Principle 9). All five projections below preserve every standpoint. Two are lossless (Standpoint-OWL 2, CRMinf); the PROV-O, Web Annotation, and schema.org ones are perspective-preserving but lossy on the belief value (a documented drop, not a winner-pick — every standpoint still appears). (tests/test_standpoint.py asserts no frame-selecting executor exists.)

Standpoint-OWL 2 → queries/projections/standpoint-owl2.rq

Re-expresses every reified statement's accordingTo + standpointModality as the standpointLabel encoding consumed by the reference translator (cl-tud/standpoint-owl2 → HermiT): Box for settled (□), Diamond for possible/probable (◊), the standpoint IRI as the Standpoint name (* for the universal standpoint). The property IRI is …/gmeow#standpointLabel — the tool matches any property ending in #standpointLabel. Because this encoding labels an asserted axiom, a refuted (denied) claim cannot be represented here without asserting what the standpoint rejects, so denials are excluded from this projection and carried by the CRMinf one below. A standpoint-aware reasoner runs per-standpoint and cross-standpoint consistency over the full graph.

CRMinf (CIDOC-CRM Argumentation) → queries/projections/standpoint-crminf.rq

Re-expresses every reified statement as an I1 Argumentation (P14 carried out by the standpoint) that J2 concluded that an I2 Belief J4 that an I4 Proposition Set, which J5 holds to be a belief value derived from standpointModality — true / probable / possible / false. Because the belief value is explicit, a denial (refuted) is carried faithfully and the proposition is referred to (P67 refers to), never asserted as a fact. This is the projection that makes GMEOW's at-least-as-expressive-as-CRMinf claim concrete.

Web Annotation → queries/projections/standpoint-oa.rq

Re-expresses every reified statement as an oa:Annotation: oa:hasBody the (still-reified, never-asserted) quoted statement, oa:hasTarget its subject, dcterms:creator the standpoint, oa:motivatedBy oa:describing. Perspective- preserving (every standpoint becomes an annotation by its frame); lossy on the belief value and confidence, like the PROV-O projection.

schema.org Claim → queries/projections/standpoint-schema.rq

Re-expresses every non-denied reified statement as a schema:Claim whose schema:author is the standpoint and whose schema:text is the rendered proposition (never the asserted base triple). Per-standpoint claims coexist — there is no single schema:ClaimReview verdict, the false-credibility GMEOW refuses. A refuted (denied) claim is excluded (a schema:author would misread denial as authorship) and carried by the CRMinf projection. For the web / fact-check ecosystem.

PROV-O → queries/projections/standpoint-prov.rq

Re-expresses every reified statement as a prov:Entity (proposition kept reified, never asserted) prov:wasAttributedTo its standpoint agent, with a prov:qualifiedAttribution node naming the prov:agent. Every standpoint is retained and none is privileged. It is the provenance lens: perspective-preserving but lossy on the belief value (standpointModality) and confidence — those are carried by the CRMinf and Standpoint-OWL 2 projections. Lossy-drop note (in the generated header): belief value (modality) and confidence dropped; attribution preserved. This is loss without winner-picking — every standpoint still appears.

Verified by construction

• gmeow compile-mappings --check — no drift between mapping-dsl/ and the generated artifacts (the Standpoint-OWL 2 executor included).
• gmeow lint-alignment — alignment-direction soundness over the SSSOM rows.
• tests/test_standpoint.py — no frame-selecting executor exists; the Standpoint-OWL 2 projection emits tool-compatible Box/Diamond labels and preserves the base axioms.