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Not necessarily. If your code is in English, and your category does not exist in English (like this Chinese word described here), then I do not see how to do better than this salad.

How would you have named this class?

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One option (not necessarily a better one) is to use standard notation for kin relationships that basically show how to traverse the tree starting from ego: https://www.kintip.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=art...

Family trees are not trees but graphs.

acyclic graphs, hopefully

See the German TV show Dark for in interesting take on what could happen if they somehow became cyclic.

Seconded! Quite bizzare it was, a fun bingeing session a few years back.

Well, family graphs including relationships by marriage and adoption are not in general acyclic.

I don’t see how it would help to dispose of “or”. It would just make it less readable.

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