Help:Property constraints portal/Inverse

inverse constraint (Q21510855) specifies that a property has an inverse property, and values for the property should have a statement with the inverse property pointing back to the original item.

For example, mother (P25) has the inverse property child (P40): if the statement Jesus (Q302)mother (P25)Mary (Q345) exists, then the inverse statement Mary (Q345)child (P40)Jesus (Q302) should also exist.

If no constraint scope (P4680) is specified, this constraint is only checked on the main value of a statement. This is also the only currently supported scope.

Possible actions

There are several possible ways to address a violation of this constraint:

• The most likely case is that the inverse statement should be added to the other item, where it is missing. As there may be many such cases, a frequent approach is to do this by bot.
• It’s possible that the current item should not have the statement at all, and that the statement should be removed.
• It’s possible that the item is a rare, but legitimate exception to the constraint, and nothing should be done.

Parameters

This constraint has one mandatory parameter:

property (P2306)

Contains the inverse property. Must contain exactly one property (no value Help or unknown value Help is not permitted).

Example

Example setting for mother (P25).

property constraint	inverse constraint edit property child 0 references add reference
		add value

Template

When the constraint is set to the property, the following template is automatically displayed in the property talk page. The template is created by Module:Constraints using Template:Constraint, invoked from Template:Property documentation. Translations are defined at Module:i18n/constraints.

Inverse property of “child (P40)”:
if [item A] has this property (mother (P25)) linked to [item B],
then [item B] should also have property “child (P40)” linked to [item A]. (Help)

Exceptions are possible as rare values may exist. Exceptions can be specified using exception to constraint (P2303).
List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P25#inverse, SPARQL

Lists

Lists of properties which are set inverse constraint.

• Category:Properties with inverse constraints
• SPARQL query - click the execute button at the linked page to see the query result.