Multiple properties for persons

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I’d like to be able to “tag” groups of people, but am running into a conflict with their gender property. Is there a way to tag groups of people for reference later?

Something like:

The Library is a room.

Kevin is a man in the Library.
Susie is a woman in the Library.
Henry is a man in the Library.

An investigator is a kind of person. Kevin is an investigator. Susie is an investigator.

So, later I’d be able to say if the noun is not an investigator, do this thing.

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You can do it but not with a kind. Since man and woman are distinct kinds, you can’t make a kind that’s a subclass of either.

You can say this, though:

A person can be an investigator.

Kevin is a man. Kevin is an investigator.

[or even, although it reads clunky:]

Kevin is an investigator man.

(This defines a property. What you were defining before was a kind. Not the same situation.)

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Awesome. Thank you!