GMEOW Core Module

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

What This Slice Covers

This slice owns 84 terms and contributes 78 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.

Consumers

• Every slice: the gUFO-grounded kernel (Entity, Agent, InformationObject, base relations).

Local Map

Examples

Sensitivity And Disclosure

• Source: slices/core/kernel/examples/sensitivity-and-disclosure.ttl
• GMEOW terms: gmeow:InformationObject, gmeow:consumerInternalArchive, gmeow:consumerPublicSite, gmeow:determinacyCrisp, gmeow:eligibleForConsumer, gmeow:hasDeterminacy, gmeow:hasDisclosurePolicy, gmeow:hasPart, gmeow:hasSensitivity, gmeow:partOf

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#
# Worked example: the kernel disclosure machinery (Principles 10 and 12). Any entity can
# declare HOW SENSITIVE it is (gmeow:hasSensitivity), the POLICY governing its
# release (gmeow:hasDisclosurePolicy), and WHICH CONSUMERS are eligible to receive
# it (gmeow:eligibleForConsumer → a ProjectionContext). This is the projection/
# disclosure boundary: a confidential record is never deleted, only withheld from
# the wrong consumer (P10 suppression, P12 solver/presentation split). Part-whole
# mereology (gmeow:partOf / gmeow:hasPart) and gmeow:hasDeterminacy (how crisp the
# value is) are the other kernel primitives every slice reuses.
@prefix gmeow: <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/> .
@prefix ex:    <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/examples/kernel/> .
@prefix rdfs:  <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .

# --- A dossier composed of records (part-whole).
ex:dossier a gmeow:InformationObject ;
    rdfs:label    "Personnel dossier — Dana Reyes"@en ;
    gmeow:hasPart ex:salaryRecord , ex:bioNote .

# --- A confidential record: sensitive, internal-only, eligible only for the
#     internal archive — withheld from public consumers, not deleted.
ex:salaryRecord a gmeow:InformationObject ;
    rdfs:label                "Compensation record"@en ;
    gmeow:partOf              ex:dossier ;
    gmeow:hasSensitivity      gmeow:sensitivityConfidential ;
    gmeow:hasDisclosurePolicy gmeow:policyInternalOnly ;
    gmeow:eligibleForConsumer gmeow:consumerInternalArchive ;
    gmeow:hasDeterminacy      gmeow:determinacyCrisp .

# --- A public-safe record in the same dossier: same container, different
#     disclosure — eligibility is per-record, not per-dossier.
ex:bioNote a gmeow:InformationObject ;
    rdfs:label                "Public bio note"@en ;
    gmeow:partOf              ex:dossier ;
    gmeow:hasSensitivity      gmeow:sensitivityPublic ;
    gmeow:hasDisclosurePolicy gmeow:policyPublicSafe ;
    gmeow:eligibleForConsumer gmeow:consumerPublicSite ;
    gmeow:hasDeterminacy      gmeow:determinacyCrisp .

Terms

Classes

Properties

Individuals

Datatypes

Linkages

• Rows: 78
• Projection profiles: crmarchaeo, dcat, dcterms, geosparql, oai_dc, schema-org, vcard
• External vocabularies: bfo, crm, crmarc, dc, dcat, dcmitype, dcterms, dpv, foaf, geo, gufo, ladm, odrl, om, prov, qudt, rdf, schema, skos, sosa, vcard, wd

Guide

Kernel — the gUFO-grounded core and the universal axes

Slice: https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/slices/kernel · tier: core The foundation every slice stands on: the sortal spine, the part/whole and link spines, and the domain-free facet axes.

Every GMEOW class subclasses a gUFO foundational category, and the kernel supplies the top of that spine plus everything that must exist before any domain slice can be honest: universal mereology and connectivity, the domain-free epistemic facets (Principle 9), the withhold-or-coarsen disclosure mechanism (Principle 10), and the compliance-by-construction annotations that turn Constitution principles into generated lints. Kernel properties omit domains and ranges where breadth is the point; heavy computation — reachability, geomasking, k-anonymity — is solver work (Principle 12).

The sortal spine and the universal relations

gmeow:Entity · gmeow:Agent · gmeow:InformationObject

Entity is the universe of discourse: anything persisting in time that can bear properties (gufo:Endurant) — what makes the domain-free facets below attachable anywhere. Agent acts, bears responsibility, and enters agreements. InformationObject carries content — the shared parent of the document, software, account, and tag layers.

gmeow:PhysicalObject · gmeow:SocialObject

The material sortal (disjoint with Agent and InformationObject) and the convention-sustained one (myths, agreements, standpoints). SocialObject is deliberately not disjoint with InformationObject: a myth is both, and asserting false disjointness would turn benign overlap into inconsistency (Principle 9).

gmeow:partOf · gmeow:hasPart · gmeow:connectsTo

The universal transitive part/whole spine and the traversable-link spine (connectivity spine). Domain properties (geographic containment, sub-organizations, spatial links, kinship, citation edges) keep their exact meanings and specialize these so generic consumers can ask for parthood or connectivity without collapsing semantics. No domain/range is asserted; connectsTo is neither symmetric nor transitive, and reachability is solver work (P12). Unit linkage (gmeow:hasUnit, QUDT by reference — Principle 5) lives here too.

The domain-free epistemic axes

Four orthogonal, domain-free, non-functional facets may attach to any value, entity, claim, or carrier. None subsumes another; none bridges to confidence or standpoint modality (Principle 9). Together with those two statement-layer properties they form the six-way matrix every projection consults:

Aboutness is the mention/use distinction made first-class: a chunk defining a trust framework describes trust; a covenant demanding trust enacts it. Text about deception is not text that deceives. A carrier may describe one subject while enacting another, and vantages may disagree via the statement layer. Fiction is the licensed case where enactment co-occurs with non-assertion — see the deception module's veridicalityLicensedFalsehood (documented bridge; deliberately no axiom coupling, so enactment never entails assertion).

External alignment is near-empty by survey, not by omission (search trail from the parked wip-aboutness-349 branch, whose mapping set lands with the compiler-arc work): the one settled Wikidata anchor is Q2577553 (use–mention distinction, analytic philosophy) — a loose relatedMatch for the class, since the QID names the distinction, not a mode vocabulary. IAO's is about (IAO_0000136) is aboutness-as-reference (what a carrier is about), not aboutness-as-mode (what it does with it) — refused. schema.org, PROV-O, CIDOC-CRM, DOLCE+DnS, and Web Annotation carry no mention/use mode property; the seed individuals have no settled QIDs and stay unaligned rather than force weak matches (Principle 5).

gmeow:hasGranularity · gmeow:hasDeterminacy

The "no silent precision" axis and the ontic axis. gmeow:GranularityLevel values are an open, ordered vocabulary of individuals (never per-level subclasses), ordered by the transitive gmeow:coarserThan and skos:exactMatch-aligned to OWL-Time and ISO 19112. gmeow:Determinacy records whether a value is inherently crisp, vague, fuzzy, probabilistic, or disputed — held strictly apart from epistemic confidence. Both are NOT functional: in a merge competing claims coexist (Principle 9); fuzzy math is solver (P12).

gmeow:hasSensitivity · gmeow:hasAboutness

The privacy axis — an open, ordered gmeow:SensitivityLevel vocabulary (public ≺ internal ≺ confidential ≺ restricted ≺ sensitive personal) that drives disclosure control under a consent guard — and the rhetorical axis (gmeow:AboutnessMode: describes / enacts). hasAboutness is uniquely an owl:AnnotationProperty: aboutness is routinely asserted about statements, and the annotation form keeps the generated OWL downcast in OWL 2 DL (Principle 3); the subject the mode holds toward is carried by the surrounding construct, never inferred.

Disclosure control by projection (Principle 10)

gmeow:coarsenTo · gmeow:generalizesVia

Suppression (gmeow:displayable false → withhold) and generalization (coarsenTo → emit a coarser ancestor, e.g. the enclosing city instead of exact coordinates) are one mechanism: withhold or coarsen at projection time, never by deletion. Coarsening walks the property named by generalizesVia (default gmeow:partOf) up to the target granularity level; when both marks apply, withhold wins. Geomask math is solver-side (P12).

gmeow:eligibleForConsumer · gmeow:hasDisclosurePolicy

The who and what layers of disclosure control: the gmeow:ProjectionContext targets a fact may reach (internal archive, agent memory, Wikidata, public site, …) and its gmeow:DisclosurePolicy release posture. policyPublicOnlyWithIndependentSource resolves against the evidence module's sourceIndependence in the solver layer (P12). Both are domain-free and non-functional: competing claims coexist (Principle 9).

gmeow:coequalFacet · gmeow:requiresFrame · gmeow:coarsenGuarded

Compliance by construction: annotations with no logical semantics that declare which invariants the toolchain must generate. coequalFacet puts a property under the Principle 9 orthogonality lint (own range, no bridges between axes, never functional, jointly disjoint ranges). requiresFrame generates the Principle 11 frame-relativity SHACL shape, tunable via frameRequirementSeverity and frameCardinality. coarsenGuarded marks precision-bearing properties so the compiler injects coarsen guards into every generated projection (precision guard); gmeow:namingNote records the lint-visible justification for a legitimately primary-style value-vocabulary name.

Mental moments and the proficiency value vocab

gmeow:MentalMoment

The shared umbrella for an agent's intrinsic mental states — [gmeow:MentalMoment](../reference/classes/gmeow-MentalMoment.md) ⊑ [gufo:IntrinsicMode](../external/terms.md#gufo-intrinsicmode). A NAMED [gufo:Category](../external/terms.md#gufo-category) so a consumer can query every mental moment of an agent uniformly (the agent-memory flagship, Principle 15) rather than walking three unrelated branches. Its members live in their domain slices: cognition's gmeow:CognitiveState (knowing), epistemics' doxastic states (believing — planned), and teleology's gmeow:IntentionalMode (desiring/intending). Never instantiated directly.

gmeow:ProficiencyScale · gmeow:ProficiencyLevel · gmeow:ProficiencyModality

The domain-neutral value vocabulary for rating proficiency — relocated here from the expertise slice to break a latent expertise ↔ cognition dependency cycle (Principle 6/16): expertise, languages, and cognition all reuse these classes, so they belong in the kernel every consumer already depends on. The framework individuals (CEFR, Dreyfus, NIH, Bloom's, SOLO, …) stay in their domain slices and reference these classes by IRI; only the class home moved.

Documentation doctrine

gmeow:pairsWith · gmeow:useWhen · gmeow:howToUse · gmeow:guideBlob

Docs ship with the ontology in three tiers (Principle 4): term docs are canonical in the graph; narrative guides are canonical markdown whose ### gmeow:Term anchors resolve against the graph or the build fails, riding the GTS package as content-addressed blobs linked by guideBlob (trustworthy from the hash chain alone — Principle 7). pairsWith makes the flat-first/reify-on-demand pairing machine-usable: flat shortcut → reified relator (gmeow:hasTag ↔ gmeow:Tagging), rendered by gmeow describe from structure, never a logical bridge (Principle 12). Documentation literals are CommonMark typed gmeow:markdown; HTML/SGML subsets are rejected.

Advisory term metadata splits generic scope prose into machine-readable WHEN/HOW/WHERE facets. gmeow:useWhen and gmeow:avoidWhen are narrower skos:scopeNotes; gmeow:howToUse carries the short modeling recipe; gmeow:useForConsumer and gmeow:avoidForConsumer point to declared gmeow:ProjectionContext individuals so describe, generated docs, and projection tooling can say which consumers a construct is meant for without turning that advice into logical entailment.

The kernel depends on nothing and is depended on by every slice; whatever computation it names is solver work (Principle 12) — the kernel models the axes, tooling evaluates them.