]> 2008/06/10 OpenCyc Knowledge Base Copyright© 2001-2008 Cycorp, Inc., http://www.cyc.com/, Austin, TX, USA This file contains an OWL representation of information contained in the OpenCyc Knowledge Base. The content of this OWL file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license whose text can be found at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode. The content of this OWL file, including the OpenCyc content it represents, constitutes the "Work" referred to in the Creative Commons license. 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. U.S. congressional district The collection of all US congressional districts. An election for the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rIBWeonXbQdeHEdLekSK2AA" class="cyc_term">USHouseOfRepresentatives</a> is open to registered residents of a congressional district, and not to those resident outside its borders. A congressperon from a district represents all the residents of that district. FederalCongressionalDistrict U.S. congressional districts http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives (TerritoryFn SouthDakota-State) South Dakota (TerritoryFn Vermont-State) Vermont (TerritoryFn Alaska-State) Alaska Wyoming (TerritoryFn Wyoming-State) Montana (TerritoryFn Montana-State) Delaware (TerritoryFn Delaware-State) North Dakota (TerritoryFn NorthDakota-State) A collection of collections, and a specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjk05wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">RegionType</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjlE5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SpatiallyDisjointRegionType</a> is a collection of geographical regions, where each of the regions in the collection is spatially disjoint with the other regions in the collection. For example, the collection <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViKmJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">State_UnitedStates</a> is an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjlE5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SpatiallyDisjointRegionType</a>, since the territories of U.S. states do not overlap. Other instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjlE5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SpatiallyDisjointRegionType</a> include <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVj3zpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CanadianProvince</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjk55wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">IndependentCountry</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjnZ5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">City</a>, and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4r7UPPpMkuEdmAAAACs6hRjg" class="cyc_term">Colony_GeopoliticalEntity</a>. A non-example is <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjKJ5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">EcologicalRegion</a>, since ecological regions can overlap. region type whose instances are non-overlapping region types SpatiallyDisjointRegionType 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 U.S. congressional district The collection of all US congressional districts. An election for the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rIBWeonXbQdeHEdLekSK2AA" class="cyc_term">USHouseOfRepresentatives</a> is open to registered residents of a congressional district, and not to those resident outside its borders. A congressperon from a district represents all the residents of that district. FederalCongressionalDistrict U.S. congressional district The collection of all US congressional districts. An election for the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rIBWeonXbQdeHEdLekSK2AA" class="cyc_term">USHouseOfRepresentatives</a> is open to registered residents of a congressional district, and not to those resident outside its borders. A congressperon from a district represents all the residents of that district. FederalCongressionalDistrict A collection of collections, a specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4ru-8ymLHtEdmAAAACs6hO_g" class="cyc_term">ArtifactualFeatureType</a>. Instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwNIHSJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ResidentialTerrainFeatureType</a> are collections of constructed sites amenable for human beings to reside at. Also included are collections of structures of significant importance, whether functional or physical, that are found in such sites. type of residential terrain feature ResidentialTerrainFeatureType U.S. congressional district The collection of all US congressional districts. An election for the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rIBWeonXbQdeHEdLekSK2AA" class="cyc_term">USHouseOfRepresentatives</a> is open to registered residents of a congressional district, and not to those resident outside its borders. A congressperon from a district represents all the residents of that district. FederalCongressionalDistrict U.S. congressional district The collection of all US congressional districts. An election for the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rIBWeonXbQdeHEdLekSK2AA" class="cyc_term">USHouseOfRepresentatives</a> is open to registered residents of a congressional district, and not to those resident outside its borders. A congressperon from a district represents all the residents of that district. FederalCongressionalDistrict CongressionalDistrict congressional district The collection of all US or state congressional districts. An election for the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rIBWeonXbQdeHEdLekSK2AA" class="cyc_term">USHouseOfRepresentatives</a> or lower house of the state legislature is open to registered residents of a congressional district, and not to those resident outside its borders. A congressperon from a district represents all the residents of that district.