Write its name inside it. The name of a relationship should be a present-tense verb. EG Supervisor manages supervisee . Check your relationships and entity types by trying to read them this way. If they don t make sense then change them.
Individual relationships join together two or more individual entities.
EG Jane Doe manages Fred Smith. . All relationships are bi-directional. Use relationship names that model real world relationships, not system processes. Has , Assigns , Logs , Generates , Processes , Stores and so on are bad relationship names if they refer to internal system processes. Relationships can have attributes.