Class: Statement

An information entity expressing a declarative sentence that is either true or false.

URI: vaspec:Statement

Parents

• is_a: InformationEntity - An abstract (non-physical) entity that is about something.

Referenced by Class

Attributes

Own

• Statement➞statementType _0..*
  • Description: A more specific type of Statement about a genetic variation (e.g. a Variant Pathogenicity Statement, or Molecular Consequence Statement)
  • Range: Coding
• Statement➞subject _1..1
  • Description: The Entity about which the Statement is made.
  • Range: Entity
• Statement➞predicate _1..1
  • Description: The relationship asserted to hold between the subject and the object of the Statement.
  • Range: Coding
• Statement➞object _1..1
  • Description: An Entity, concept, or value that is related to the subject of a Statement via its predicate.
  • Range: Element
• Statement➞qualifier _0..*
  • Description: A value or concept that extends or refines the meaning of the claim expressed in the core subject - predicate - object 'triple' - e.g. by providing additional information/detail, or constraining the claim to apply in a particular context.
  • Range: Element
• Statement➞assertedProposition _0..1
  • Description: The possible fact (proposition) that the Statement puts forth as true.
  • Range: Proposition
• Statement➞negated _0..1
  • Description: A ga4ghBoolean flag set to 'true' if the statement expressed by the subject, predicate, object, and qualifier(s) is explicitly asserted to be false.
  • Range: Ga4ghBoolean
• Statement➞evidenceLevel _0..1
  • Description: A term indicating the overall strength of support for the Statement based on all evidence assessed.
  • Range: Coding
• Statement➞evidenceScore _0..1
  • Description: A quantitative score reflecting the overall strength of support for the Statement based on all evidence assessed.
  • Range: DataItem
• Statement➞hasEvidenceLine _0..*
  • Description: A discrete, independent argument relevant to the validity of the Proposition put forth as true in the Statement, that is based on the interpretation of one or more pieces of information as evidence.
  • Range: EvidenceLine
• Statement➞hasEvidence _0..*
  • Description: A piece of information that represents or contributes to an argument for or against the validity of a Statement.
  • Range: InformationEntity
• Statement➞hasEvidenceOfType _0..*
  • Description: A term describing a type of evidence used to support a Statement (e.g. 'sequence similarity evidence', 'in vitro assay evidence') - as opposed to instances of evidence information such as a specific data value, or prior assertions, etc.
  • Range: Coding
• Statement➞hasEvidenceFromSource _0..*
  • Description: An Information Entity (typically a publication, dataset, or database) that reports information interpreted as evidence to make the Statement.
  • Range: InformationEntity
• Statement➞subjectDescriptor _0..1
  • Description: A collection of additional metadata about the subject of the Statement's proposition, that cannot represented in its value object based representation, but may be useful for understanding and use of the subject entity (e.g. labels, xrefs, aliases, and other subjective/context specific information)
  • Range: Descriptor
• Statement➞objectDescriptor _0..1
  • Description: A collection of additional metadata about the object of the Statement's proposition, that cannot represented in its value object based representation, but may be useful for understanding and use of the subject entity (e.g. labels, xrefs, aliases, and other subjective/context specific information)
  • Range: Descriptor
• Statement➞qualifierDescriptor _0..*
  • Description: A collection of additional metadata about an entity/concept that qualifies the Statement's proposition. This additional metadata cannot represented in its value object based representation, but may be useful for understanding and use of the subject entity (e.g. labels, xrefs, aliases, and other subjective/context specific information)
  • Range: Descriptor

Inherited from InformationEntity:

• Element➞extensionElement _0..*
  • Description: A key-value data structure that allows definition of custom fields to capture information not directly supported by the VA specification.
  • Range: Extension
• Entity➞localId _1..1
  • Description: The 'logical' identifier of the entity in the system of record, e.g. a UUID. This 'id' is unique within a given system. The identified entity may have a different 'id' in a different system.
  • Range: Identifier
• Entity➞globalIdentifier _0..*
  • Description: A 'business' identifier or accession number for the entity, typically as provided by an external system or authority, that is globally unique and persists across implementing systems.
  • Range: Identifier
• Entity➞type _1..1
  • Description: The schema class that is instantiated by the data object. Must be the name of a class from the VA schema.
  • Range: Class
• Entity➞label _0..1
  • Description: A primary name for the Entity.
  • Range: Ga4ghString
• Entity➞alternativeLabel _0..*
  • Description: An alternative name for the Entity.
  • Range: Ga4ghString
• Entity➞description _0..1
  • Description: A free text description of the Entity.
  • Range: Ga4ghString
• Entity➞hasURL _0..*
  • Description: The URL/web address of a digital resource representing the entity, or providing information about it.
  • Range: Url
• Entity➞reference _0..*
  • Description: A document or other Information Entity that describes the Entity.
  • Range: InformationEntity
• Entity➞xref _0..*
  • Description: A cross-reference that links to database identifiers of an entity that represents the same or a closely related concept or knowledge as the Entity.
  • Range: Ga4ghString
• Entity➞thisRecordMeta _0..1
  • Description: A reusable structure that encapsulates provenance metadata that applies to this concrete record/encoding of information about the Entity.
  • Range: RecordMetadata
• Entity➞sourceRecordMeta _0..*
  • Description: A reusable structure that encapsulates provenance metadata that applies to an upstream data record about the Entity, from which content of the present record was derived.
  • Range: RecordMetadata
• InformationEntity➞isAbout _0..*
  • Description: An entity or concept in the world that the information entity describes/is about.
  • Range: Entity
• InformationEntity➞qualifiedContribution _0..*
  • Description: A specific contribution made by some Agent to the creation, modification, or validation of the information represented in the Information Entity.
  • Range: Contribution
• InformationEntity➞dateAuthored _0..1
  • Description: The date the information content expressed in this entity was generated.
  • Range: Ga4ghDateTime
• InformationEntity➞wasSpecifiedBy _0..*
  • Description: A plan specification that describes all or part of the process through which the information was generated.
  • Range: Method
• InformationEntity➞derivedFrom _0..*
  • Description: An information resource from which the Information Entity is derived, in whole or in part
  • Range: InformationEntity
• InformationEntity➞wasOutputOf _0..*
  • Description: An activity that generated the Entity.
  • Range: Activity
• InformationEntity➞hasPart _0..*
  • Description: Any part of the Information Entity (e.g. individual value or record from a larger data set, a section of a larger document)
  • Range: InformationEntity
• InformationEntity➞partOf _0..*
  • Description: A larger Information Entity of which the present Information Entity is a part.
  • Range: InformationEntity
• InformationEntity➞isReportedIn _0..*
  • Description: A document in which the information content carried by the Information Entity is expressed
  • Range: Document
• InformationEntity➞confidenceLevel _0..1
  • Description: A qualitative term describing of degree of confidence held by the creator of the information entity, that the information it represents is true (e.g. 'high confidence', 'likely true', 'low confidence').
  • Range: Coding
• InformationEntity➞confidenceScore _0..1
  • Description: A quantitative score reflecting the degree of confidence held by the creator of the information entity, that the information it represents is true.
  • Range: DataItem
• InformationEntity➞version _0..1
  • Description: The version of the Information Entity (to be used in cases where version is not reflected in the id or identifiers associated with the entity).
  • Range: Ga4ghString
• InformationEntity➞license _0..1
  • Description: The type of license that dictates legal permissions for how a resource (e.g. dataset, document, protocol) can be used - typically referenced by its URL.
  • Range: Ga4ghString

Other properties

Aliases:		Assertion; Claim
Comments:		In the VA model, each assertion of knowledge about a variant is captured in a self-contained Statement object. The semantics of what is asserted to be true is explicitly structured in terms of a subject, predicate, object, and qualifier(s). Organization of variant knowledge into discrete Statement objects allows clear and precise tracking of the evidence and provenance that supports each.
Exact Mappings:		SEPIO:0000174