]> 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. New World native The instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjcrpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PersonTypeByEthnicity</a> representing the Native Americans sharing the cultures of the New World. EthnicGroupOfNewWorldNatives http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_peoples_of_the_Americas Native American New World natives Indian Indians Amerindians Amerindian Native Americans The instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjcrpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PersonTypeByEthnicity</a> representing the Native Americans sharing the cultures of North America. North American Indian EthnicGroupOfNorthAmericanNatives A sub-collection of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVj3A5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">EthnicGroupOfNewWorldNatives</a>. Each instance is a member of a North American Indian people speaking one of the Penutian languages. Penutian-EthnicGroupOfNewWorldNatives penutian The people who practice the heritage and customs of the MestizoIndians. Mestizo EthnicGroupOfMestizos iroquoi Iroquois-EthnicGroupOfNewWorldNatives A sub-collection of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVj3A5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">EthnicGroupOfNewWorldNatives</a>. Each instance is a member of the warlike North American Indian peoples formerly living in New York state; the Iroquois League were allies of the British during the American Revolution. The people who practice the heritage and customs of the Garifuna. The Garifuna are a cultural group that formed in the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvoEFu5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CaribbeanRegion</a> when some escaped and shipwrecked slaves mixed with native Caribs. At the end of the eighteenth century, the Garifuna were deported to an island near Honduras, from where they have spread to inhabit Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras. Garifuna EthnicGroupOfGarifuna The instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjcrpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PersonTypeByEthnicity</a> representing the Native Americans sharing the cultures of South America. South American Indian EthnicGroupOfSouthAmericanNatives 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 "legal persons", who are, however, included in the collection <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVinsZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">LegalAgent</a>. Person New World native The instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjcrpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PersonTypeByEthnicity</a> representing the Native Americans sharing the cultures of the New World. EthnicGroupOfNewWorldNatives New World native The instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjcrpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PersonTypeByEthnicity</a> representing the Native Americans sharing the cultures of the New World. EthnicGroupOfNewWorldNatives <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 New World native The instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjcrpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PersonTypeByEthnicity</a> representing the Native Americans sharing the cultures of the New World. EthnicGroupOfNewWorldNatives An instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4ret7qgOKgEdmAAAACs6hfSg" class="cyc_term">ConceptTypeByDomain</a>. Generally speaking, instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4r46fYpnaNEduAAAACs6hbjw" class="cyc_term">Analyst_PertinentConcept</a> are concepts and relations such as are used by intelligence analysts reasoning about threat situations. Specifically, all core concepts in this domain (see <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rgycE6OKgEdmAAAACs6hfSg" class="cyc_term">coreConceptOfDomain</a>) are either 1) <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViBApwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">BinaryPredicate</a>s referenced in AKB Fact Entry Templates, 2) <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViBAZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">TernaryPredicate</a>s referenced in AKB Fact Entry Templates, 3:)<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rHIBS0h_TEdaAAABQ2rksLw" class="cyc_term">FirstOrderCollection</a>s that are asserted to be <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvuItPZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">argIsa</a>s of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViBApwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">BinaryPredicate</a>s referenced in AKB Fact Entry Templates, 4) <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rHIBS0h_TEdaAAABQ2rksLw" class="cyc_term">FirstOrderCollection</a>s that are asserted to be <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvuItPZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">argIsa</a>s of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViBAZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">TernaryPredicate</a>s referenced in AKB Fact Entry Templates, 5) <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rHIBS0h_TEdaAAABQ2rksLw" class="cyc_term">FirstOrderCollection</a>s that are asserted to be <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvyTLHJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">argGenl</a>s of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViBAZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">TernaryPredicate</a>s referenced in AKB Fact Entry Templates, or 6) concepts or relations that are instances of instances of #$TKBInterfaceCollection. Analyst-PertinentConcept the intelligence analyst reasoning domain New World native The instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjcrpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PersonTypeByEthnicity</a> representing the Native Americans sharing the cultures of the New World. EthnicGroupOfNewWorldNatives New World native The instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjcrpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PersonTypeByEthnicity</a> representing the Native Americans sharing the cultures of the New World. EthnicGroupOfNewWorldNatives New World native The instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjcrpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PersonTypeByEthnicity</a> representing the Native Americans sharing the cultures of the New World. EthnicGroupOfNewWorldNatives 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 A collection of collections and a specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwPzQbJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PersonTypeByCulture</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjcrpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PersonTypeByEthnicity</a> is a collection of people who participate in a common <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwQCPUJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">HumanCulture</a> defined on the basis of ethnic origin. Instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjcrpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PersonTypeByEthnicity</a> include <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjv0JwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">EthnicGroupOfVietnamese</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVitPZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">EthnicGroupOfNativeAmericansOfTheUS</a>, and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjzEpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">EthnicGroupOfHutu</a>. PersonTypeByEthnicity ethnic group human A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViV15wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">HomoGenus</a> and an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjK65wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">BiologicalSpecies</a>: this is the species to which modern humans belong, though strictly speaking (and not entirely uncontroversially amongst paleontologists) they comprise only a subset of it (namely "homo sapiens sapiens"). The species also contains Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon sub-species (both now extinct). Given the evidence of sophisticated tool-use, burial practices etc. even amongst the latter two sub-species, this collection is a specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViAkpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Person</a>. See also <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rveQoDZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">HumanBody</a>. HomoSapiens