]> 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. RepresentativeDemocracy A system of government which has some kind of elected legislative body. representative democracy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representative_democracy representative democracies ParliamentaryDemocracy parliamentary democracy A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rmR0ddG2kEdaAAACgyZzFrg" class="cyc_term">DemocraticGeopoliticalEntity</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4raK9PDm24EdaAAACgyZzFrg" class="cyc_term">ParliamentaryGovernment</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rDRTzfm24EdaAAACgyZzFrg" class="cyc_term">ParliamentaryDemocracy</a> is a country with a democratically elected parliament. UnitedStatesOfAmerica The United States of America, a large <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjk55wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">IndependentCountry</a> located mostly in the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVj4gpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ContinentOfNorthAmerica</a> south and west of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVimZ5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Canada</a> and north of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVkAiZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Mexico</a> (but also having a state on the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwEFGhpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">HawaiianIslands</a>). It was founded in 1776 by emigrants from Europe and their descendants. As with all instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjk55wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">IndependentCountry</a>, this is the USA as a country qua political and historical entity (and also qua geographical entity in &quot;dualist&quot; microtheories). the United States Taiwan, a country which claims to be the government of all of China. <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVijQZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">China_PeoplesRepublic</a> also makes this claim. The government of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVigv5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Taiwan_RepublicOfChina</a> <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rv1aZ05wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">controls</a> Taiwan Province on the island of Formosa (cf. <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwJQd-pwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Formosa_Island</a>) off the southeast coast of China in the far western <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjgu5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PacificOcean</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVkKRZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">QuemoyIsland</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViih5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">MatsuIsland</a> of Fujian Province a few kilometers off the coast, and Pratas Island in the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjWxJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SouthChinaSea</a>. It claims several disputed islands in the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjWxJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SouthChinaSea</a>. The territory controlled by <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVigv5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Taiwan_RepublicOfChina</a> is between the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVj6aJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">EastChinaSea</a> and the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjWxJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SouthChinaSea</a>. De facto, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVigv5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Taiwan_RepublicOfChina</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVijQZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">China_PeoplesRepublic</a> are two separate independent countries each with its own territory, while de jure there is a single <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjk55wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">IndependentCountry</a> of China, but two governments with separate regions of control. Taiwan-RepublicOfChina Taiwan GeopoliticalEntityBySystemOfGovernment form of government A <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvprlOZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">FacetingCollectionType</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rQBu64G2gEdaAAACgyZzFrg" class="cyc_term">GeopoliticalEntityBySystemOfGovernment</a> is a collection of instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjl2pwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">GeopoliticalEntity</a> with the same (type of) system of government. Examples include <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rc17uPG2kEdaAAACgyZzFrg" class="cyc_term">ConstitutionalRepublic</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4r9q9Azm2vEdaAAACgyZzFrg" class="cyc_term">Monarchy</a>, and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4r9LVeTm2uEdaAAACgyZzFrg" class="cyc_term">MilitaryDictatorship</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 DemocraticGeopoliticalEntity democratic government The collection of all democratic governments. A type of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rsPZRUpb8QdmRTb5o3GV83Q" class="cyc_term">GovernmentRelatedEntity</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjl2pwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">GeopoliticalEntity</a>. RepresentativeDemocracy A system of government which has some kind of elected legislative body. representative democracy RepresentativeDemocracy A system of government which has some kind of elected legislative body. representative democracy RepresentativeDemocracy A system of government which has some kind of elected legislative body. representative democracy RepresentativeDemocracy A system of government which has some kind of elected legislative body. representative democracy