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Class: Edge

Description: A generic edge in a KGX-formatted knowledge graph, representing a directed relationship between a subject node and an object node qualified by a predicate. This class serves as the structural superclass for `association` in Biolink, providing the minimal KGX-compliant contract (subject, predicate, object, and associated metadata) that any biolink relationship participating in a knowledge graph must satisfy.
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name: Edge
description: A generic edge in a KGX-formatted knowledge graph, representing a directed
  relationship between a subject node and an object node qualified by a predicate.
  This class serves as the structural superclass for `association` in Biolink, providing
  the minimal KGX-compliant contract (subject, predicate, object, and associated metadata)
  that any biolink relationship participating in a knowledge graph must satisfy.
from_schema: https://w3id.org/biolink/vocab/