Entity

• CURIE: gmeow:Entity
• IRI: https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/Entity
• Category: class
• Defined by: gmeow:slices/kernel

Anything in the GMEOW universe of discourse that persists in time and can bear properties: an agent, a document, a contact point, and so on.

Structure

Subclass of: gufo:Endurant

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:Entity as a specialized kind of gufo:Endurant. Add statement metadata or a standpoint when the assertion needs provenance, confidence, or vantage.

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

Usage Advice

Use when

• Use as the universal domain when a property, facet, or claim must attach to anything that persists and can bear properties — the anchor for the domain-free facets (granularity, determinacy, sensitivity, consumer eligibility) that are defined Entity-wide.

Avoid when

• Avoid typing an instance as a bare gmeow:Entity when a more specific sortal applies; reserve the unqualified type for genuinely category-neutral resources, and never use it for occurrents (those are gufo:Event, not endurants).

How to use

• Type each instance with its most specific sortal (Agent, InformationObject, PhysicalObject, SocialObject) and let it inherit Entity; attach the universal facets here because they range over the whole sortal spine.

Examples

• ex:thing a gmeow:Entity; gmeow:hasSensitivity gmeow:sensitivityPublic; gmeow:hasGranularity ex:cityLevel.