]> 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. The collection of all billboards, which are large outdoor signs used primarily for advertising. A type of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rv-u2wZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">StationarySign</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4r2qnI0HS9EdaAAACgyZzFrg" class="cyc_term">Outdoors_ExposedToWeather</a>, and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwQr8bJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Advertisement_Commercial_IBT</a>. The collection <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViflJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Billboard</a> is an <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rejmDbrF_QdeIENT1qpbYzQ" class="cyc_term">ArtifactTypeByGenericCategory</a> and a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rpPHhAOB1EdqAAAACs6hRXg" class="cyc_term">SpatiallyDisjointObjectType</a>. Billboard billboard billboards http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_%28advertising%29 stationary sign StationarySign The collection of all signs [<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVi2opwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SignTheDisplay</a>] without moving parts. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVi2opwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SignTheDisplay</a> is an object typically posted where people can see it so that they can obtain information from it. Instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rv-u2wZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">StationarySign</a> do not have flashing lights, moving images, or physically moving parts. <code>(<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rZOAVeiYGEdqAAAACs2IMmw" class="cyc_term">broaderTerm</a> TERM1 TERM2)</code> means that <code>TERM2</code> is broader than <code>TERM1</code>, in an extremely general sense of "broader". For example, <code>TERM2</code> is, in the relevant sense, broader than <code>TERM1</code> if any of the following hold: <code>TERM2</code> is a collection that subsumes <code>TERM1</code>; <code>TERM2</code> is a collection that has <code>TERM1</code> as an instance; <code>TERM2</code> is a collection, instances of which have instances of the collection <code>TERM1</code> as parts; <code>TERM2</code> has <code>TERM1</code> as a part; This list of reasons for why <code>(<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rZOAVeiYGEdqAAAACs2IMmw" class="cyc_term">broaderTerm</a> TERM1 TERM2)</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 A collection of collections. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvWXYgJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ExistingObjectType</a> is a specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVj27ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PartiallyTangible</a> (q.v.). Moreover, each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvWXYgJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ExistingObjectType</a> is a collection that is temporally stuff-like (see <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVitN5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">TemporalStuffType</a>) but physically-spatially object-like (see <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVirnZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ObjectType</a>) -- i.e. object-like with respect to some physical-spatial part-whole predicate (e.g. some specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4r8a2smPXcQdiEoJhcx65EiQ" class="cyc_term">properPhysicalDecompositions</a>). Consider the collection <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwJaXepwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">BookCopy</a>. <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwJaXepwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">BookCopy</a> is a specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVj27ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PartiallyTangible</a>. Further, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwJaXepwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">BookCopy</a> is temporally stuff-like: any one of the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvWn4OZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">timeSlices</a> of a given copy <code>COPY</code> of (say) "Moby Dick" is still a copy of "Moby Dick". (Most collections of tangible objects are temporally stuff-like in this way.) But <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwJaXepwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">BookCopy</a> is spatially object-like: if we take a scalpel and slice <code>COPY</code> into ten pieces, each piece is not a copy of "Moby Dick". So <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwJaXepwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">BookCopy</a> is an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvWXYgJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ExistingObjectType</a>. See also <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVir35wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">StuffType</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVny6pwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ExistingStuffType</a>. ExistingObjectType type of object Advertisement-Commercial-IBT IBTs issued by businesses to let potential customers know what products they want to sell, buy, rent, lease, or trade. See also <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwP2CJJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Advertisement_PCW</a>. commercial advertisement open-air Outdoors-ExposedToWeather The collection of instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwS68M5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SpatialThing_Localized</a> that are outside under the sky, exposed to weather, not immersed in water, not in space, and not underground. The collection of all billboards, which are large outdoor signs used primarily for advertising. A type of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rv-u2wZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">StationarySign</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4r2qnI0HS9EdaAAACgyZzFrg" class="cyc_term">Outdoors_ExposedToWeather</a>, and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwQr8bJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Advertisement_Commercial_IBT</a>. The collection <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViflJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Billboard</a> is an <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rejmDbrF_QdeIENT1qpbYzQ" class="cyc_term">ArtifactTypeByGenericCategory</a> and a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rpPHhAOB1EdqAAAACs6hRXg" class="cyc_term">SpatiallyDisjointObjectType</a>. Billboard billboard The collection of all billboards, which are large outdoor signs used primarily for advertising. A type of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rv-u2wZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">StationarySign</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4r2qnI0HS9EdaAAACgyZzFrg" class="cyc_term">Outdoors_ExposedToWeather</a>, and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwQr8bJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Advertisement_Commercial_IBT</a>. The collection <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViflJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Billboard</a> is an <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rejmDbrF_QdeIENT1qpbYzQ" class="cyc_term">ArtifactTypeByGenericCategory</a> and a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rpPHhAOB1EdqAAAACs6hRXg" class="cyc_term">SpatiallyDisjointObjectType</a>. Billboard billboard <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjGR5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">FixedStructure</a> is a specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVidpZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ConstructionArtifact</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjGR5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">FixedStructure</a> is a human-constructed, freestanding object that exists in a fixed location. Examples include buildings, pyramids, the Great Wall of China, dams, bridges, elevated roadways, and canals. Such structures may have parts which are also instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjGR5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">FixedStructure</a> (e.g. bridge pilings) and parts which are not freestanding (e.g. the span of a bridge, or a room in a building). fixed freestanding structure FixedStructure 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 The collection of all billboards, which are large outdoor signs used primarily for advertising. A type of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rv-u2wZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">StationarySign</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4r2qnI0HS9EdaAAACgyZzFrg" class="cyc_term">Outdoors_ExposedToWeather</a>, and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwQr8bJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Advertisement_Commercial_IBT</a>. The collection <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViflJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Billboard</a> is an <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rejmDbrF_QdeIENT1qpbYzQ" class="cyc_term">ArtifactTypeByGenericCategory</a> and a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rpPHhAOB1EdqAAAACs6hRXg" class="cyc_term">SpatiallyDisjointObjectType</a>. Billboard billboard kind of artifact not distinguished by brand or model An instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rHQdVmB_TEdaAAABQ2rksLw" class="cyc_term">SecondOrderCollection</a> and a specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwO3H5pwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ArtifactType</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rejmDbrF_QdeIENT1qpbYzQ" class="cyc_term">ArtifactTypeByGenericCategory</a> is a collection of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVkH_ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Artifact</a>s grouped together according to some feature(s) other than brand or model. ArtifactTypeByGenericCategory The collection of all billboards, which are large outdoor signs used primarily for advertising. A type of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rv-u2wZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">StationarySign</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4r2qnI0HS9EdaAAACgyZzFrg" class="cyc_term">Outdoors_ExposedToWeather</a>, and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwQr8bJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Advertisement_Commercial_IBT</a>. The collection <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViflJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Billboard</a> is an <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rejmDbrF_QdeIENT1qpbYzQ" class="cyc_term">ArtifactTypeByGenericCategory</a> and a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rpPHhAOB1EdqAAAACs6hRXg" class="cyc_term">SpatiallyDisjointObjectType</a>. Billboard billboard A collection of collections and a specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVirnZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ObjectType</a> (q.v.). Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rpPHhAOB1EdqAAAACs6hRXg" class="cyc_term">SpatiallyDisjointObjectType</a> is a collection C of spatial things (see <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjpUZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SpatialThing</a>), where each of the spatial things in C is spatially disjoint with the other spatial things in C. For example, the collection <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjaoJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Dog</a> is an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rpPHhAOB1EdqAAAACs6hRXg" class="cyc_term">SpatiallyDisjointObjectType</a>, since dogs do not spatially overlap. Even pregnant dogs do not spatially overlap the pups they bear; rather, pregnant dogs contain their unborn pups. Other instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rpPHhAOB1EdqAAAACs6hRXg" class="cyc_term">SpatiallyDisjointObjectType</a> include <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwVGrQ5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">LatitudeLine</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvW4n1pwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CompactDisc_Audio</a>, and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwR7UWZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PlanetaryBody</a>. An important specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rpPHhAOB1EdqAAAACs6hRXg" class="cyc_term">SpatiallyDisjointObjectType</a> is <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjlE5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SpatiallyDisjointRegionType</a> (a collection of specializations of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViACZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">GeographicalRegion</a>, such as <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/Mx4rwT-n15wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">TrueContinent</a>). spatially disjoint object type SpatiallyDisjointObjectType The collection of all billboards, which are large outdoor signs used primarily for advertising. A type of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rv-u2wZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">StationarySign</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4r2qnI0HS9EdaAAACgyZzFrg" class="cyc_term">Outdoors_ExposedToWeather</a>, and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwQr8bJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Advertisement_Commercial_IBT</a>. The collection <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViflJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Billboard</a> is an <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rejmDbrF_QdeIENT1qpbYzQ" class="cyc_term">ArtifactTypeByGenericCategory</a> and a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rpPHhAOB1EdqAAAACs6hRXg" class="cyc_term">SpatiallyDisjointObjectType</a>. Billboard billboard