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Slot: represents_relationship

true if this class represents a relationship rather than an entity

URI: linkml:represents_relationship Alias: represents_relationship

Applicable Classes

Name Description Modifies Slot
ClassDefinition an element whose instances are complex objects that may have slot-value assig... no

Properties

Type and Range

Property Value
Range Boolean
Domain ClassDefinition
Domain Of ClassDefinition

Cardinality and Requirements

Property Value
### Slot Characteristics
Property Value
Inherited Yes

Aliases

  • is_reified

Comments

  • in the context of Entity-Relationship (ER) modeling, this is used to state that a class models a relationship between entities, and should be drawn with a diamond
  • in the context of RDF, this should be used when instances of the class are rdf:Statements
  • in the context of property graphs, this should be used when a class is used to represent an edge that connects nodes

See Also

Identifier and Mapping Information

Administrative Metadata

Status: testing

Schema Source

Mappings

Mapping Type Mapped Value
self linkml:represents_relationship
native linkml:represents_relationship

LinkML Source

name: represents_relationship
description: true if this class represents a relationship rather than an entity
comments:
- in the context of Entity-Relationship (ER) modeling, this is used to state that
  a class models a relationship between entities, and should be drawn with a diamond
- in the context of RDF, this should be used when instances of the class are `rdf:Statement`s
- in the context of property graphs, this should be used when a class is used to represent
  an edge that connects nodes
from_schema: https://w3id.org/linkml/meta
see_also:
- rdf:Statement
- https://patterns.dataincubator.org/book/qualified-relation.html
aliases:
- is_reified
status: testing
rank: 1000
domain: class_definition
inherited: true
alias: represents_relationship
domain_of:
- class_definition
range: boolean