Entity Relationship Change Model

The Entity Change model is one that I am working on for text generation. Entities are anything that would be a noun. Relationships, while still a noun, define the graph between the entities. Changes are applied to entities and relationships. All three are stored as key-value pairs. The end structure is highly functional. I believe that at some point, higher level objects will be need, perhaps narration or 'text shaders' but I'm trying to get something basic working now.

Entity Types

• Living
  • Self-Aware
  • Animal
• Prop
  • Clothing
  • Vehicle
• Location

The entities will form a graph with relationships forming the links.

Relationships

• Object
• Subject
• Attributes

For now, relationships all an object and a subject. All entities have an object and subject link. A relationship can also be a subject.

Relationship Types

• Social
• Possession
• Positional
• Emotional

Change

A change is the set of attributes that change (and what they change to) and a duration over which the change happens. The duration can be instant. Perhaps it should have a cause too?

Currently this is takes a single target. Eventually it needs to take a second (actor, subject) and finally it needs to able to link to a prepositional phrase. This is for ternary verbs like 'gave' - Jack gave Jill the ball - which can be converted to a binary verb with a preposition Jack gave the ball to Jill.