Use the Add Relationship Phrase and Role Pair pages to add a relationship phrase and role pair to an existing relationship type. Similarly, you also define a phrase and role pair when you create a new relationship type.

For the subject and object of the relationship phrase and role pair, you define:

• The type, for example Person or Organization

• The relationship phrase, either an existing one from another relationship type or a new user-defined phrase

• The singular and plural relationship role

What you define for the subject and object also determines the phrases, roles, and types for the reciprocal direction of the pair. For example, if you enter:

• Subject type: Organization

• Subject phrase: Employer Of

• Subject role: Employer and Employers

• Object type: Person

• Object phrase: Employee Of

• Object role: Employee and Employees,

then the relationship phrase and role pair is defined as shown in this table:

To add a relationship phrase and role pair to a relationship type:

1. View the relationship type that you want to add phrase and role pairs to. See: Viewing and Converting Relationship Types.

2. Click Add Relationship Phrase and Role Pair.

   Note: Adding a phrase and role pair is also part of the relationship type creation process. See: Creating Relationship Types.

3. Enter the subject type and subject relationship phrase.

   It does not matter which phrase is defined as the subject phrase, for example, Wife Of or Husband Of.

   For hierarchical relationship types, however, the defined subject is the parent, which ranks above the object, or child. For example, you would enter Employer Of and not Employee Of as the subject phrase to imply that the employer ranks above the employee. The employee, of course, is still the subject of the relationship when viewed from his or her perspective, for example, Joe as the employee of Oracle.

   Attention: You cannot reuse phrases that are already defined in the same relationship type with the same subject and object type combination. For example, if Parent and Child are already defined with subject and object type Person in the Family relationship type, you cannot create phrase pairs such as Parent and Son, or Mother and Child, in the Family relationship type with Person subject and object types.

4. Enter the singular and plural relationship roles that describe the subject.

   The roles can be a combination of the relationship type and phrase. For example, if the type is Oracle Employment and the phrase is Employee Of, the role can be Oracle Employee.

   This method of defining roles helps you keep roles unique and differentiate between roles of similar relationship types. For example, if you have another relationship type called Elcaro Employment, you would define Elcaro Employee as the role. You cannot have duplicate roles such as Employee for both relationship types.

5. Enter the corresponding information for the object.

6. Click Apply.

7. The confirmation takes you back to view the relationship type with your phrase and role pair added. See: Viewing and Converting Relationship Types.