]> 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. BranchOfUSGovernment branch of U.S. Government The collection of branches of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rTo_pVPbDEdyAAAACs6hRXg" class="cyc_term">BranchOfUSGovernment</a>. There are exactly three instances of this collection: <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwQBac5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">USLegislativeBranch</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwQBalJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">USJudicialBranch</a>, and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwQBaWJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">USExecutiveBranch</a>. branches of U.S. Government This constant denotes the legislative (lawmaking, policy-formulating) branch or <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVi_v5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">subOrganizations</a> (q.v.) of the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwQBeUJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">UnitedStatesFederalGovernment</a>. This includes the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwP1W2JwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">USCongress</a> (House, Senate, and their joint committees), its staff, and certain subordinate agencies. the Legislative Branch of the U.S. Government USLegislativeBranch USJudicialBranch the Judicial Branch of the U.S. Government This constant denotes the U.S. Federal court system considered as a whole. This is the entire judicial sub-organization of the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwQBeUJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">UnitedStatesFederalGovernment</a>, the system within which cases are adjudicated and laws are decided by Federal judges. NOT included are military courts-martial and tribunals, non-court administrative review boards, and Native American tribal courts. the Executive Branch of the U.S. Government USExecutiveBranch This constant denotes the executive (law-enforcing, policy-enforcing) branch or <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVi_v5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">subOrganizations</a> of the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwQBeUJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">UnitedStatesFederalGovernment</a>. It includes the U.S. military forces, Federal Departments and independent Agencies, and the President and White House staff. A collection of government organizations. An instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwQBa15wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">USFederalGovernmentOrganization</a> is an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViKppwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">LegalGovernmentOrganization</a> which is part of the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwQBeUJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">UnitedStatesFederalGovernment</a>. This collection includes the US military, Federal courts, US Congress, US territorial governments, Federal departments and independent agencies, and the city of Washington DC. It does _not_ include US states, interstate compacts, and cities (other than Washington DC). USFederalGovernmentOrganization US federal government organization A type-level collection, the collection of all types of organizations. Each instance is a collection of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjVT5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Organization</a>s whose instances share some common feature that is important enough to warrant reifying the collection as a 'type'. OrganizationType organization type BranchOfUSGovernment branch of U.S. Government The collection of branches of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rTo_pVPbDEdyAAAACs6hRXg" class="cyc_term">BranchOfUSGovernment</a>. There are exactly three instances of this collection: <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwQBac5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">USLegislativeBranch</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwQBalJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">USJudicialBranch</a>, and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwQBaWJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">USExecutiveBranch</a>. 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 BranchOfUSGovernment branch of U.S. Government The collection of branches of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rTo_pVPbDEdyAAAACs6hRXg" class="cyc_term">BranchOfUSGovernment</a>. There are exactly three instances of this collection: <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwQBac5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">USLegislativeBranch</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwQBalJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">USJudicialBranch</a>, and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwQBaWJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">USExecutiveBranch</a>. NonAbducibleCollection The collection <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4roVp5xVzKEdiLrQAH6RYvVA" class="cyc_term">NonAbducibleCollection</a> is a sub-collection of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjl_ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SetOrCollection</a>. Abductive inferences sometimes involve hypothesizing the existence of entities as part of the explanation of some assertion or set of assertions. Cyc will not hypothesize the existence of instances of the collections that are instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4roVp5xVzKEdiLrQAH6RYvVA" class="cyc_term">NonAbducibleCollection</a>. Roughly, abductive inferences consume conceptual / theoretical knowledge rather than produce it. So, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rHQdVmB_TEdaAAABQ2rksLw" class="cyc_term">SecondOrderCollection</a> is an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4roVp5xVzKEdiLrQAH6RYvVA" class="cyc_term">NonAbducibleCollection</a> because Cyc should be employing existing theoretical knowledge about instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rHQdVmB_TEdaAAABQ2rksLw" class="cyc_term">SecondOrderCollection</a> rather than hypothesizing new instances. non abducible collection