Is it possible to invoke a symbolic link (not a shortcut) from command line?

Consider I have a program, some-program.exe, and I want to create a link for it. I can do so using the mklink command:

mklink some-link some-program.exe

This creates the link as expected, and I can double-click on it in Explorer to launch the program. However, it does not seem possible to launch it via command line:

'some-link' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

Am I missing something, or is it just not possible to invoke a symlink from command line?

I know I can create a shortcut instead (although not sure how to from command line), and I can invoke that shortcut from the command line with some-link.lnk, however I’m specifically trying to use symbolic links.