prolog family tree locating cousins

Question

The Cousin Explainer

Write a program that when given a person of reference and a degree the program can tell me all of the nth degree cousins that person has. I've started by writing my facts: male/1 female/1 and child/2 these are populated with the names of my family members. I then began writing rules for cousins I figured id write a different rule for every degree so only up to the third cousins. The problems I'm having are as follows.

1. firstCousin_of(X,Y):-child(X,Z1),child(Y,Z2),child(Z1,Z),child(Z2,Z). I have this to find a first cousin but the 2nd cousin is more complicated which makes me think there has gotta be a way to do this recursively.
2. I need the rule, all_cousins(Person, Degree, ListOfCousins), which after figuring out all of the nth degree cousins edits a list of all cousins to only include those specific nth degree cousins. I'm used to imperative languages and all i can think about with this is how do I even convey to the rule which people to remove from the list from one rule to another.
3. lastly I have a rule, all_cousinsRemoved(Person, Degree, removed(Number, Direction), ListOfCousins) that I don't even know where to start with but ill need the all_cousins rule for this one because it does the same thing but also only includes cousins in the edited lists w=that were removed nth times either up or down.

Answer 1

The best solutions is make a several rules that call other rules, here an example

male(dicky).
male(randy).
male(mike).
male(don).
male(elmer).
female(anne).
female(rosie).
female(esther).
female(mildred).
female(greatgramma).
male(blair).
male(god).
female(god).

parent(don,randy).
parent(don,mike).
parent(don,anne).
parent(rosie,randy).
parent(rosie,mike).
parent(rosie,anne).
parent(elmer,don).
parent(mildred,don).
parent(esther,rosie).
parent(esther,dicky).
parent(greatgramma,esther).
parent(randy,blair).

male(mel).
male(teo).
parent(melsr,mel).
parent(melsr,teo).

american(anne).
american(X) :-  ancestor(X,anne).
american(X) :- ancestor(anne,X).
relation(X,Y) :- ancestor(A,X), ancestor(A,Y).

father(X,Y) :- male(X),parent(X,Y).
father(god, _) :- male(god).
mother(X,Y) :- female(X),parent(X,Y).
son(X,Y) :- male(X),parent(Y,X).
daughter(X,Y) :- female(X),parent(Y,X).
grandfather(X,Y) :- male(X),parent(X,Somebody),parent(Somebody,Y).
aunt(X,Y) :- female(X),sister(X,Mom),mother(Mom,Y).
aunt(X,Y) :- female(X),sister(X,Dad),father(Dad,Y).
sister(X,Y) :- female(X),parent(Par,X),parent(Par,Y), X \= Y.
uncle(X,Y) :- brother(X,Par),parent(Par,Y).
cousin(X,Y) :- uncle(Unc , X),father(Unc,Y).
ancestor(X,Y) :- parent(X,Y).
ancestor(X,Y) :- parent(X,Somebody),ancestor(Somebody,Y).
brother(X,Y) :-  male(X),parent(Somebody,X),parent(Somebody,Y), X \= Y.

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