Help:Relation

A relation refers to the machine-processable description of the relationship between two objects.

In Semantic MediaWiki, it's a property of datatype Page that relates one article to another; datatype Page is the default type of a property. A relation is annotated by adding a property to an existing MediaWiki link, using the syntax property name::link target. A relation always describes a directed relationship between the article with the annotation, and the article that is the target of a link.

Help:Editing explains properties and annotation in more detail.