Re: blank predicates

How about reification:

[] a rdf:Statement ;
    rdf:subject <#Alice> ;
    rdf:object <#Bob> .

On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 11:05 AM Melvin Carvalho
<melvincarvalho@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sat, 28 Mar 2020 at 10:53, Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org> wrote:
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>> there are an infinite number of boring relationships that hold between any arbitrary pair of objects; your best bet might be to name one for your application rather than attempt to use generalized (predicateless) rdf
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> So maybe simply <> ?
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> #Alice <> #Bob .
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>> Dan
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>> On Sat, 28 Mar 2020 at 08:57, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> I am working on a information mapping system (aka mind maps)
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>>> And I want to have two nodes related to each other
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>>> #Alice R #Bob
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>>> In the general sense, the type of relationship (predicate) R is not really known at the time of creation.  My software currently does not allow the labeling of edges is the reason (but hopefully in future it will)
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>>> I need a way to relate Alice to Bob but I dont have a URI for a predicate.
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>>> Is there something that can operate as a "blank predicate"?
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>>> Or some existing relations that simply says that two entities or linked / related, without yet knowing how they are related?

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