Subclass of:

• aaao:ZE1 Institutional Fact

Scope note:

An instance of similarity status is the collective ascription of a similarity relationship between any two objects by a community. The substance of the similarity status is the communal recognition of the ascribed similarity relation between the two entities in question.

Instances of similarity status are recognizable through evidence of community members adopting the intentional stance and behaviour indicated by the kind of similarity believed to hold between the two referenced entities, as observable from direct witnesses, through the reports of competent observers or through evidence of a declarative act initiating this status.

Instances of similarity status may come to be through a formal process such as a declarative act (e.g., scholarship) or may have arisen through habit, fiat or be of unknown origin. Instances of similarity status may end either though a formal process (e.g., disproof or refutation), or may simply fade out, be eliminated by fiat or for unknown reasons.  

Examples:

• The similarity status of George (E21) and his dog Stilton (E20) 2021 - Present holds for the employees of Takin.Solutions (E74) (https://www.huffpost.com/entry/people-look-like-their-dogs-study_n_5838278) 
• The similarity status of Ed Sheehan's song "Thinking Out Loud" (E73) and Marvin Gaye's song "Let's Get It On" (E73) 2017 - 2023 holds for the heirs of Gaye’s co-writer Ed Townsend (E74) as "copyright infringement" (E55)
  (https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/may/04/ed-sheeran-verdict-not-liable-copyright-lawsuit-marvin-gaye)

In First Order Logic:

• ZE14(x) ⇒ ZE1(x)

Outgoing properties:

• aaao:ZP43 has similarity subject (is similarity subject of) → crm:E1 CRM Entity
• aaao:ZP44 ascribes similarity target (is similarity target ascribed by) → crm:E1 CRM Entity
• aaao:ZP45 ascribes similarity relation (is similarity relation ascribed by) → crm:E55 Type
• aaao:ZP46 ascribes similarity mode (is similarity mode ascribed by) → crm:E55 Type