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Record sub-property bridging as a mapping-layer mechanism - #1248

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Adds a sub-property option to Limitations To The Upsides, written for the consortium readers weighing the local-vs-global question: a mapping can declare native predicates rdfs:subPropertyOf ontology terms, making the ontology term the shared anchor a global property registry would otherwise provide. States the interaction with the as-built projection honestly — predicates are flat per-name (neo-prop:Name), so one declaration spans all same-named properties, and per-Schema anchoring needs Schema-scoped predicates (the open predicate-scope question in NativeRdfProjection.md). Keeps the entailment caveat as a runnable property path and points ontology-shape consumers at the ontology projection.

Considered, omitted: where wiki-level declaration triples live in the per-page named-graph sync; the property path also matching co-hosted ontology projections (#1053 setups); owl:equivalentProperty for the genuinely-identical case; entailment availability on stores beyond the shipped pair (ADR 19 names more).

AI-authored — Claude Code, Fable 5 (max); Claude-proposed addition approved by @JeroenDeDauw, then rewritten for ECHOLOT-stakeholder readability on his direction (two rounds); not yet human-reviewed; predicate-shape claims verified against docs/rdf/rdf-export.md and RdfNamespaces.php, text blind-judged and blind-reviewed.

JeroenDeDauw and others added 2 commits August 5, 2026 01:25
Adds the rdfs:subPropertyOf option to Limitations To The Upsides: the
projection can emit local property terms declared subPropertyOf ontology
terms, keeping local distinctions while ontology-term queries still find
them. Notes the entailment caveat: neither QLever nor Oxigraph does RDFS
reasoning, so on our own endpoints queries traverse the declaration with
a property path.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Corrects the mechanism's interaction with the as-built projection: predicates
are flat per-name (neo-prop:Name), so one declaration spans all same-named
properties; per-Schema anchoring needs Schema-scoped predicates, making the
mechanism an argument in NativeRdfProjection's open predicate-scope question.
Leads with what the ontology anchor buys, keeps the runnable property path,
and points ontology-shape consumers at the ontology projection.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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JeroenDeDauw commented Aug 5, 2026

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Sub-property Idea originally coming from @vrandezo, though not exactly as written here

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