From 952b6129cd07962f21709b3e9324ad51a8fb53bf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andy Seaborne <andy@apache.org>
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2025 16:24:51 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] GH-284: Align TRIPLE and expression <<( )>>

---
 spec/index.html | 31 ++++++++++++++++---------------
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

diff --git a/spec/index.html b/spec/index.html
index 5a5887d9..c0203fa2 100644
--- a/spec/index.html
+++ b/spec/index.html
@@ -7824,24 +7824,25 @@ <h5>TRIPLE</h5>
                   <span class="operator">&lt;&lt;(</span> subj pred obj <span class="operator">)&gt;&gt;</span>
             </pre>
             <p>
-              If the 3-tuple (<code style="color:black">subj</code>, 
+              Create a <a data-cite="RDF12-CONCEPTS#dfn-triple-term">triple term</a> from
+              <a data-cite="RDF12-CONCEPTS#dfn-rdf-term">RDF terms</a>
+              <code style="color:black">subj</code>, 
               <code style="color:black">pred</code>, 
-              <code style="color:black">obj</code>)
-              is an <a data-cite="RDF12-CONCEPTS#dfn-rdf-triple">RDF triple</a>
-              (that is, <code style="color:black">subj</code> is an
-              <a data-cite="RDF12-CONCEPTS#dfn-iri">IRI</a> or
-              <a data-cite="RDF12-CONCEPTS#dfn-blank-node">blank node</a>;
-              <code style="color:black">pred</code> is an
-              <a data-cite="RDF12-CONCEPTS#dfn-iri">IRI</a>;
-              and <code style="color:black">obj</code> is an
-              <a data-cite="RDF12-CONCEPTS#dfn-iri">IRI</a>,
-              <a data-cite="RDF12-CONCEPTS#dfn-triple-term">triple term</a>,
-              <a data-cite="RDF12-CONCEPTS#dfn-blank-node">blank node</a> or
-              <a data-cite="RDF12-CONCEPTS#dfn-literal">literal</a>)
-              the function returns a triple term with these three elements.
+              and <code style="color:black">obj</code>,
+              where the predicate is
+              <a data-cite="RDF12-CONCEPTS#dfn-iri">IRI</a>.
               Otherwise, the function raises an error.
             </p>
-
+            <p class="note">
+              This allows triples to be 
+              <a data-cite="RDF12-CONCEPTS#dfn-symmetric-rdf-triple">symmetric RDF triples</a>
+              as corresponding to <a href="#sparqlTriplePatterns">SPARQL triple patterns</a>.
+              The graph result from a 
+              <a href="#constructGraph">CONSTRUCT</a> query form
+              allows <a data-cite="RDF12-CONCEPTS#dfn-rdf-triple">RDF triples</a>, and not
+              their germalization to
+              <a data-cite="RDF12-CONCEPTS#dfn-symmetric-rdf-triple">symmetric RDF triples</a>.
+            </p>
             <p>
               As a shorthand notation, the <code>TRIPLE</code> function 
               can also be written in the form of a

From b330f2eace38213393edb1c0784d68a4d4a0733d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andy Seaborne <andy@apache.org>
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2025 20:16:47 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] Update spec/index.html

Co-authored-by: Ruben Taelman <rubensworks@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 spec/index.html | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/spec/index.html b/spec/index.html
index c0203fa2..bfb129f1 100644
--- a/spec/index.html
+++ b/spec/index.html
@@ -7840,7 +7840,7 @@ <h5>TRIPLE</h5>
               The graph result from a 
               <a href="#constructGraph">CONSTRUCT</a> query form
               allows <a data-cite="RDF12-CONCEPTS#dfn-rdf-triple">RDF triples</a>, and not
-              their germalization to
+              their generalization to
               <a data-cite="RDF12-CONCEPTS#dfn-symmetric-rdf-triple">symmetric RDF triples</a>.
             </p>
             <p>

From 11780fa0cbe7ac88d8e4601576b449beadd3b62a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andy Seaborne <andy@apache.org>
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2025 20:20:23 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] CONSTRUCT omits symmetric-only triples

---
 spec/index.html | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/spec/index.html b/spec/index.html
index bfb129f1..26ab7ff8 100644
--- a/spec/index.html
+++ b/spec/index.html
@@ -7839,9 +7839,10 @@ <h5>TRIPLE</h5>
               as corresponding to <a href="#sparqlTriplePatterns">SPARQL triple patterns</a>.
               The graph result from a 
               <a href="#constructGraph">CONSTRUCT</a> query form
-              allows <a data-cite="RDF12-CONCEPTS#dfn-rdf-triple">RDF triples</a>, and not
-              their generalization to
-              <a data-cite="RDF12-CONCEPTS#dfn-symmetric-rdf-triple">symmetric RDF triples</a>.
+              allows <a data-cite="RDF12-CONCEPTS#dfn-rdf-triple">RDF triples</a>.
+              Any other 
+              <a data-cite="RDF12-CONCEPTS#dfn-symmetric-rdf-triple">symmetric RDF triples</a>
+              will be omitted from the result.
             </p>
             <p>
               As a shorthand notation, the <code>TRIPLE</code> function