]> 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. Superman Superman The boy-scout-like superhero created by Siegel and Schuster for Action Comics in 1938. Also known as the 'man of steel'. <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvmkYYpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Superman</a>'s alterego is Clark Kent, a bumbling reporter for the Daily Planet newspaper. Superman fights crime in Metropolis, a thinly veiled fictional counterpart of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVivC5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CityOfNewYorkNY</a>. Kal-el http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superman superhero Superhero The class of fictitious people who perform superhuman feats of strength, bravery or daring. Often such heroes possess special, non-human powers, such as x-ray vision or powers of unassisted flight. In some cases no such superpowers are necessary, as in the case of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvlbjDJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Batman</a>. In their general conception, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvcyOaZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Superhero</a>es are conceived of as <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvtwAoZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Vigilante</a> crime-fighters extraterrestrial person Each instance of this collection is a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViAkpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Person</a> belonging to a species which did not arise on <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVkL_pwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PlanetEarth</a> (e.g. the fictional character E.T.). ExtraterrestrialPerson FictionalCharacter This is the collection of instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwQwwBZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">FictionalThing</a> which are also instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViAB5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Agent_PartiallyTangible</a>. Thus <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwHKvgpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">FictionalCharacter</a> excludes such instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwQwwBZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">FictionalThing</a> as Golden Mountains, which are instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwQwwBZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">FictionalThing</a>, but are not instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViAB5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Agent_PartiallyTangible</a>. fictitious character Superman Superman The boy-scout-like superhero created by Siegel and Schuster for Action Comics in 1938. Also known as the 'man of steel'. <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvmkYYpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Superman</a>'s alterego is Clark Kent, a bumbling reporter for the Daily Planet newspaper. Superman fights crime in Metropolis, a thinly veiled fictional counterpart of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVivC5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CityOfNewYorkNY</a>. Superman Superman The boy-scout-like superhero created by Siegel and Schuster for Action Comics in 1938. Also known as the 'man of steel'. <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvmkYYpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Superman</a>'s alterego is Clark Kent, a bumbling reporter for the Daily Planet newspaper. Superman fights crime in Metropolis, a thinly veiled fictional counterpart of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVivC5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CityOfNewYorkNY</a>. Superman Superman The boy-scout-like superhero created by Siegel and Schuster for Action Comics in 1938. Also known as the 'man of steel'. <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvmkYYpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Superman</a>'s alterego is Clark Kent, a bumbling reporter for the Daily Planet newspaper. Superman fights crime in Metropolis, a thinly veiled fictional counterpart of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVivC5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CityOfNewYorkNY</a>. male <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVim7ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">BiologicalLivingObject</a>s having male sex organs and performing male sexual functions, such as fertilizing ova. Male 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 Orphan orphan An attribute possessed by anyone who, as a child, lost both parents.