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The terms of this license equally apply to, without limitation, renamings and other logically equivalent reformulations of the content of this OWL file (or portions thereof) in any natural or formal language, as well as to derivations of this content or inclusion of it in other ontologies. externalID A unique, language-neutral, variable-sized identifier for a concept that can be used to refer unambiguously to that concept across OWL exports or across Cyc inference engines. label A natural-language representation for a concept that is both human readable and readable by the Cyc inference engine. These terms are not guaranteed to refer to the same concept across time but are guaranteed to be consistent within a particular OWL export. Use 'cycAnnot:externalID' for unambiguously referring to a concept across OWL exports or across Cyc inference engines. The collection of instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjHlJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Comedian</a> who perform standup routines at nightclubs. standup comedian StandupComedian http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand-up_comedy standup comedians stand-up comedian stand-up comedians The collection of instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjHlJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Comedian</a> who perform standup routines at nightclubs. standup comedian StandupComedian person A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViknpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SocialBeing</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVilYpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">IndividualAgent</a>: the collection of all persons. Personhood is a vague, emotionally loaded yet extremely salient concept with respect to common-sense reasoning. Something is an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViAkpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Person</a> if it is an individual <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVinb5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">IntelligentAgent</a> with perceptual sensibility, capable of complex social relationships, and possessing a certain moral sophistication and an intrinsic moral value, or -- if it lacks certain of these characteristics -- is a member of a distinct type of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViknpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SocialBeing</a> (usually a species) which generally possesses such characteristics and is therefore acknowledged by other members of that type as a person within their social systems. Most currently known instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViAkpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Person</a> are instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rIcwFloGUQdeMlsOWYLFB2w" class="cyc_term">HomoSapiens</a> but there is no reason why all need be (consider <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvdRsSZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Hobbit</a>s in the fictional world of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVi8lZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">LordOfTheRings_Trilogy</a>). They need not even be instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVim7ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">BiologicalLivingObject</a> (consider the possibility of a person-like AI). Also note that <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViAkpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Person</a> excludes non-human &quot;legal persons&quot;, who are, however, included in the collection <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVinsZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">LegalAgent</a>. Person The collection of instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjHlJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Comedian</a> who perform standup routines at nightclubs. standup comedian StandupComedian Pretty String (<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwLSVCpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">prettyString</a> TERM STRING) means that STRING is the English word or expression (sequence of words) commonly used to refer to TERM. The predicate <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwLSVCpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">prettyString</a> is used by the code which generates CycL to English paraphrases, but its applicability is not restricted to this use. prettyString Comedian The collection of all comedians, who are persons who perform comedic entertainment as art. A type of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjjEJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Artist_Performer</a>. The collection <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjHlJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Comedian</a> is an <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvxw_ApwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">EntertainerTypeByActivity</a>, an <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4r47Ru3NpoQdeTed0_ATzdJQ" class="cyc_term">ArtistTypeByArtForm</a>, and an <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rcBeCItjbQdeDNJmB1g8x4g" class="cyc_term">Artist_PerformerTypeByPerformanceType</a>. comedian <code>(<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rZOAVeiYGEdqAAAACs2IMmw" class="cyc_term">broaderTerm</a> <b>TERM1</b> <b>TERM2</b>)</code> means that <code><b>TERM2</b></code> is <i>broader</i> than <code><b>TERM1</b></code>, in an extremely general sense of &quot;broader&quot;. For example, <code><b>TERM2</b></code> is, in the relevant sense, broader than <code><b>TERM1</b></code> if any of the following hold:<br><br> <code><b>TERM2</b></code> is a collection that subsumes <code><b>TERM1</b></code>; <br> <code><b>TERM2</b></code> is a collection that has <code><b>TERM1</b></code> as an instance; <br> <code><b>TERM2</b></code> is a collection, instances of which have instances of the collection <code><b>TERM1</b></code> as parts; <br> <code><b>TERM2</b></code> has <code><b>TERM1</b></code> as a part; <br><br> This list of reasons for why <code>(<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rZOAVeiYGEdqAAAACs2IMmw" class="cyc_term">broaderTerm</a> <b>TERM1</b> <b>TERM2</b>)</code> could hold is not exhaustive, but it should give a good indication of how general the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rZOAVeiYGEdqAAAACs2IMmw" class="cyc_term">broaderTerm</a> relation actually is. BT broaderTerm The collection of instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjHlJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Comedian</a> who perform standup routines at nightclubs. standup comedian StandupComedian The collection of instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjHlJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Comedian</a> who perform standup routines at nightclubs. standup comedian StandupComedian The professional person who performs on stage and is usually watched by an audience. The performer might be an actor, singer, musician, etc... StagePerformer stage performer type of entertainer EntertainerTypeByActivity <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvxw_ApwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">EntertainerTypeByActivity</a> is a collection of collections. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvxw_ApwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">EntertainerTypeByActivity</a> is a collection of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwQrkuJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Entertainer</a>s who perform the same kind of activity. For example, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rv1Snr5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Magician</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjaHZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Actor</a>, and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjqXpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">MusicalPerformer</a> are instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvxw_ApwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">EntertainerTypeByActivity</a>. This collection can be used to generate English questions to aid classification in a clarification dialogue. See <font color="#ff0000">#$NoteAboutHowFacetAssertionsAreUsed</font>. Since instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwQrkuJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Entertainer</a> can engage in more than one activity of this sort, the elements of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvxw_ApwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">EntertainerTypeByActivity</a> need not be disjoint.