Wikidata:Requests for comment/Inhabitant of a place as "instance of" or "subclass of"

An editor has requested the community to provide input on "Inhabitant of a place as "instance of" or "subclass of"" via the Requests for comment (RFC) process. This is the discussion page regarding the issue. If you have an opinion regarding this issue, feel free to comment below. Thank you!

I would like to solicit advice on whether to record inhabitant (Q22947) as an instance of or subclass of a demonym. I was using it as an instance of, as in this example:

Kenyans (Q60723796)

 instance of:  inhabitant
                  of   Kenya

However, one editor has deleted this on some items and commented that it should be a subclass:

Kenyans (Q60723796)

  subclass of:  inhabitant
                   of   Kenya

I'm having difficulty applying the concepts of "instance of" and "subclass of" to the value "inhabitant" when it is related to a demonym/national group. I'd appreciate some definitive answer about this! UWashPrincipalCataloger (talk) 20:55, 30 September 2020 (UTC)