diff --git a/syft/artifact/relationship.go b/syft/artifact/relationship.go
index 5292c7b04..fc381c712 100644
--- a/syft/artifact/relationship.go
+++ b/syft/artifact/relationship.go
@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
 package artifact
 
 const (
-	// OwnershipByFileOverlapRelationship indicates that the parent package owns the child package made evident by the set of provided files
+	// OwnershipByFileOverlapRelationship indicates that the parent package claims ownership of a child package since
+	// the parent metadata indicates overlap with a location that a cataloger found the child package by. This is
+	// by definition a package-to-package relationship and is created only after all package cataloging has been completed.
 	OwnershipByFileOverlapRelationship RelationshipType = "ownership-by-file-overlap"
 )