Ontology Relations
Object properties of the OWL 2 ontology and provenance relations of the Interregnum Nullificans corpus — causal operators and evidentiary links connecting actors, instruments, failure modes, and escalation tracks. These are not labels. They are directional mechanisms, each grounded in a named act or omission on the record.
Lúba Neamhnithe — Nullification Territory
Force-directed provenance graph of the Interregnum Nullificans corpus — Interregnum Nullficans, 2006–2026.
Each node is an actor, instrument, failure mode, escalation track, or hypothesis drawn from the Tairiscint Mheinhardt.
Each edge is a directional relation defined in the register below.
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OWL Object Properties · Causal Operators
:ignores
AdministrativeProcess → Submission
Non-processing of a formally received submission. Not absence of receipt — failure to act despite acknowledgement. The initiating operator of the Nullification Loop. Each of the five Silence Veto events in the record (OEP 2006, Irish Aid 2009, five-department silence September 2024, JCEUA October 2025, McEntee February 2026) is an instance of this relation.
ignores ⊑ producesFailure NullificationLoop · Charter Arts. I–II · Re Haughey [1971] IR 217
:suppresses
Actor → CivicSignal
Attenuation of a civic signal such that it fails to propagate through institutional channels. Distinguished from ignores in that suppression involves active institutional management of the record — including deletion. The JCEUA's deletion of formally received correspondence in October 2025 is the most acute instance: not a failure to forward, but destruction of the forwarded record.
suppresses ⊑ documents DesignedForgetting · Art. 41 CFR (right of access to file) · Charter Art. VI
:producesFailure
Process → FailureMode
Links an administrative or governmental process to the failure mode it systematically generates. The Loop's diagnostic property: the same output — acknowledgement-without-determination — is produced across six Taoisigh, four governments, and multiple institutional restructurings. Personnel-independence is what distinguishes a failure mode from an individual lapse.
producesFailure ⊑ triggers Maladministration · O'Keeffe [1993] 1 IR 39 · Charter Arts. I–VI
:triggers
FailureMode → LegalCondition
A failure mode activates a legally cognisable condition: maladministration, breach of the duty to give reasons, irrationality, or a reviewable determination. The McEntee Foreclosure of 4 February 2026 is an instance: it converts the Loop's output into a named, dated, reviewable act — the handle by which Order 84 RSC is engaged.
triggers ⊑ enables judicial review · Order 84 RSC · Meadows [2010] 2 IR 701 · Charter Art. IX
:violates
Process → Right
Breach of a protected procedural or fundamental right arising from institutional conduct. Four Article 41 CFR guarantees are violated independently on the face of the record: impartial timely handling (nineteen years eliminates 'reasonable time' entirely); the right to be heard before any adverse measure (the Section 8(3) determination without hearing); the right of access to one's file (JCEUA deletion); and the obligation to give reasons (zero in nineteen years).
violates ⊑ grounds certiorari / mandamus · Art. 41 CFR · Art. 40.3 Bunreacht · Charter Arts. I, IV, VI, IX
:amplifies
Campaign → CivicSignal
A campaign node converts the evidentiary record into a public signal, distributing it across dissemination channels so that institutional silence can no longer serve as a record-management strategy. Amplification creates the public indexing that generates timestamped accountability — each GitHub repository in the corpus constitutes a permanent, CC0-licensed entry in the public record.
amplifies ⊑ creates TimestampedPublicRecord · Protected Disclosures Act 2014 · Charter Art. IX
Provenance Relations · Semantic Map Edges
:derivedFrom
Instrument · Submission · Collection → LegalInstrument · Record · Document
An instrument or submission is derived from a prior document — it draws its legal grounding, factual basis, or analytical content from that source. The Tairiscint Mheinhardt v10 is derived from the O.R. submission corpus, the Nullification Record, the McEntee Foreclosure, the Gunn Letter, the Memorandum to Government, and the operative case authorities O'Keeffe and Meadows — all simultaneously. Derivation is the provenance chain that makes each instrument's grounds independently verifiable.
derivedFrom ⊑ prov:wasDerivedFrom · establishes traceability · Charter Art. III (information fiduciary)
:used
Activity · EscalationTrack → Instrument · Record · LegalInstrument
An activity or escalation track uses a document as operative input — deploying it, relying on it, or building from it without the derivation chain that would make a new instrument. Where an escalation track uses the Tairiscint, the Tairiscint's own derivation chain is thereby incorporated by reference into that track's evidentiary base. The High Court track uses the McEntee Foreclosure as its certiorari target, the Gunn Letter as an independent target, and the Tairiscint as the operative instrument.
used ⊑ prov:used · activates operative instrument · Order 84 RSC
:attributedTo
Document · Submission · Instrument → Person · Minister
A document, submission, or instrument is attributed to the named person who authored, issued, or bears named responsibility for it. Attribution is legally operative: it is what converts an institutional act into a reviewable act by a named decision-maker, and it is what activates the misfeasance analysis under Hypothesis B of the Tairiscint. The Martin Ballyphehane commitment of 2009 is attributed to Minister Micheál Martin; the McEntee Foreclosure is attributed to Minister Helen McEntee; the Gunn Letter to Secretary General Gunn.
attributedTo ⊑ prov:wasAttributedTo · names the responsible actor · Hypothesis B · Meadows [2010]
:onBehalfOf
Person · Minister · Official → Department · Organisation
A named individual acts in the exercise of a public function on behalf of a department or institution. This relation is the constitutional link that makes ministerial and official acts attributable to the State: it is what converts a named act into collective executive responsibility under Article 28.4.1 Bunreacht na hÉireann. Where an official acts on behalf of a department, the department's statutory obligations flow back through that link to the individual. Seventeen and a half years of unperformed obligation are distributed across this relation.
onBehalfOf ⊑ prov:actedOnBehalfOf · activates Art. 28.4.1 · collective executive responsibility
:hasMember
Bundle · Collection → Instrument · Submission · Record · Hypothesis · EscalationTrack
The Interregnum Nullificans corpus is a bundle: a provenance-tracked collection of instruments, submissions, records, hypotheses, and escalation tracks. Each member of the bundle is independently verifiable; their collective membership constitutes the evidentiary whole from which the irrationality grounds, the mandamus grounds, and the damages claims are derived. The bundle relation is what makes the corpus legally coherent rather than merely voluminous.
hasMember ⊑ prov:hadMember · constitutes the corpus · Charter Art. III · Art. 40.3 Bunreacht
:generatedBy
Instrument · Letter · Memorandum → Activity
A document was generated by a named activity: a drafting act, a foreclosure act, a transmittal act. This is the relation that timestamps institutional conduct — it is what distinguishes a document as the output of a discrete, datable act rather than as an ambient record. The McEntee Foreclosure was generated by the McEntee Foreclosure Activity of 4 February 2026; the Gunn Letter by the Gunn Letter Activity of 24 February 2026. Both activities are reviewable under Order 84 RSC within the 12-month window.
generatedBy ⊑ prov:wasGeneratedBy · timestamps the act · Order 84 RSC 12-month window · O'Keeffe [1993]
:associatedWith
Activity · FailureSpan · GovFailure → Person · Organisation · Record
An activity, failure span, or governance failure is associated with a named actor or record without the directional attribution that :attributedTo carries. Used where the association is documented but the specific causal role requires further determination — the primary context for Hypothesis B analysis. The Martin Foreknowledge Span (2009–2026) is associated with Minister Micheál Martin across four offices; the Nullification Record is associated with the Irish Government, DFA, and DETE.
associatedWith ⊑ prov:wasAssociatedWith · contextualises Hypothesis B · misfeasance threshold question
:noDetermination
NullDetermination → NullificationRecord
The unique negative relation in the ontology: the relation whose instance is an absence. The Null Determination of 2006–2025 is the determination that was legally required but never generated. Its non-existence is the central provenance fact of the corpus. Under Charter Article IV (deemed acceptance doctrine), the absence of a determination within the defined period — with no lawful account of inapplicability — creates a rebuttable presumption that the submission is accepted for the purpose of establishing a reviewable duty to evaluate. Silence is not a neutral state. It is a legally charged non-act.
noDetermination ⊑ constitutes SilenceVeto · Heaney [1994] 3 IR 593 · Charter Art. IV · Art. 41 CFR · Meadows [2010]
Interpretation · The Full Causal Chain
The OWL object properties encode the primary causal chain of the Nullification Loop:
:ignores
→
:producesFailure
→
:triggers
→
:violates
The provenance relations encode the evidentiary structure that makes the causal chain legally operable:
:attributedTo
names the responsible actor ·
:onBehalfOf
binds the actor to the institution ·
:generatedBy
timestamps the act ·
:derivedFrom
establishes the instrument's grounds ·
:used
activates the remedy track ·
:informedBy
sequences the acts ·
:associatedWith
contextualises the foreknowledge span ·
:hasMember
constitutes the corpus ·
:noDetermination
is the absence at the centre of the record
The suppression and amplification operators complete the loop:
:suppresses
is what the institution does to the civic signal ·
:amplifies
is what the campaign does to place the record beyond institutional reach.
Together, the fourteen relations cover every directional mechanism in the
Lúba Neamhnithe graph above: from the first submission in May 2006, through the five documented Silence Veto events, to the three active remedy tracks — High Court, European Ombudsman, and CJEU — and the Presidency Paradox opening on 1 July 2026.
The petitioner throughout this record is
Brøek Meinhardt.
The instrument through which the duty to reason will be compelled is the
Tairiscint Mheinhardt.