Historically motivated relation type

The source experiment, observation, anomaly, or problem materially motivated the development, revision, or acceptance of the target concept. Historical influence is not logical derivation; the edge detail states the documented role and avoids retrospective origin myths.

Directed semantics

Every direct mAtlas edge is an authored source → target assertion of this type.

Term code: historically-motivated
Source role: Historically motivated
Target role: Historically motivated by
Direct relations in this release: 49
Predecessor-level policy: incoming
Prerequisite traversal: incoming

Machine-readable record

/data/latest/relation-types/historically-motivated.json provides this definition and the IDs of every direct relation of this type.

A path may traverse an edge backwards for connectivity, but that never reverses the authored source-to-target assertion.