]> 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. cyc vocabulary top level topic CycVocabularyTopLevelTopic Mx4r2SZdtGMBQdiOl-Ui2UGs_g An instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/CollectionType" class="cyc_term">CollectionType</a> and a specialization of CycVocabularyTopic. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/CycVocabularyTopLevelTopic" class="cyc_term">CycVocabularyTopLevelTopic</a> is an entry point (e.g. a topic you would see displayed first in a user interface) into the Cyc Vocabulary hierarchy of topics. Any of these top-level topics may have more general topics above them in the topic hierarchy (c.f. <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/superTopics" class="cyc_term">superTopics</a>), but those more general topics will not serve as entry points unless they are asserted to be instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/CycVocabularyTopLevelTopic" class="cyc_term">CycVocabularyTopLevelTopic</a>.) Spatial-Topic A <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/CycVocabularyTopLevelTopic" class="cyc_term">CycVocabularyTopLevelTopic</a> and a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/KBDependentCollection" class="cyc_term">KBDependentCollection</a>. spatial-topic Artifacts-Topic A <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/CycVocabularyTopLevelTopic" class="cyc_term">CycVocabularyTopLevelTopic</a> and a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/KBDependentCollection" class="cyc_term">KBDependentCollection</a>. artifacts-topic A <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/CycVocabularyTopLevelTopic" class="cyc_term">CycVocabularyTopLevelTopic</a> and a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/KBDependentCollection" class="cyc_term">KBDependentCollection</a>. ApplicationSpecific-Topic application specific topic human activities topic HumanActivities-Topic A <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/CycVocabularyTopLevelTopic" class="cyc_term">CycVocabularyTopLevelTopic</a> and a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/KBDependentCollection" class="cyc_term">KBDependentCollection</a>. Agents-Topic An instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/Topic" class="cyc_term">Topic</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/Agents_Topic" class="cyc_term">Agents_Topic</a> is a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/Thing" class="cyc_term">Thing</a> which (in some significant sense) has to do with the topic of agents. agents-topic A <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/CycVocabularyTopLevelTopic" class="cyc_term">CycVocabularyTopLevelTopic</a> and a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/KBDependentCollection" class="cyc_term">KBDependentCollection</a>. human beings topic HumanBeings-Topic events and scripts topic EventsAndScripts-Topic organization-topic Organization-Topic A <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/CycVocabularyTopLevelTopic" class="cyc_term">CycVocabularyTopLevelTopic</a> and a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/KBDependentCollection" class="cyc_term">KBDependentCollection</a>. cyc metaphysics topic A <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/CycVocabularyTopLevelTopic" class="cyc_term">CycVocabularyTopLevelTopic</a> and a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/KBDependentCollection" class="cyc_term">KBDependentCollection</a>. CycMetaphysics-Topic A <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/CycVocabularyTopLevelTopic" class="cyc_term">CycVocabularyTopLevelTopic</a> and a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/KBDependentCollection" class="cyc_term">KBDependentCollection</a>. NaturalWorld-Topic natural world topic A <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/CycVocabularyTopLevelTopic" class="cyc_term">CycVocabularyTopLevelTopic</a> and a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/KBDependentCollection" class="cyc_term">KBDependentCollection</a>. Time-Topic time-topic SpecializedKnowledge-Topic specialized knowledge topic A <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/CycVocabularyTopLevelTopic" class="cyc_term">CycVocabularyTopLevelTopic</a> and a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/KBDependentCollection" class="cyc_term">KBDependentCollection</a>. physical stuff and objects topic PhysicalStuffAndObjects-Topic CollectionType A collection of collections of collections. <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/CollectionType" class="cyc_term">CollectionType</a> is the collection of all (and only) types of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/Collection" class="cyc_term">Collection</a>s. More precisely, a thing COLLTYPE is an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/CollectionType" class="cyc_term">CollectionType</a> if and only if COLLTYPE is a non-empty collection all of whose instances are collections. Example: <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/PersonTypeByCulture" class="cyc_term">PersonTypeByCulture</a>, each of whose instances is the collection of all persons who participate in some particular human culture, is an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/CollectionType" class="cyc_term">CollectionType</a>. Important specializations of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/CollectionType" class="cyc_term">CollectionType</a> include <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/DisjointCollectionType" class="cyc_term">DisjointCollectionType</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/SiblingDisjointCollectionType" class="cyc_term">SiblingDisjointCollectionType</a>, and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/CollectionTypeType" class="cyc_term">CollectionTypeType</a>. type of collection cyc vocabulary top level topic CycVocabularyTopLevelTopic An instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/CollectionType" class="cyc_term">CollectionType</a> and a specialization of CycVocabularyTopic. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/CycVocabularyTopLevelTopic" class="cyc_term">CycVocabularyTopLevelTopic</a> is an entry point (e.g. a topic you would see displayed first in a user interface) into the Cyc Vocabulary hierarchy of topics. Any of these top-level topics may have more general topics above them in the topic hierarchy (c.f. <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/superTopics" class="cyc_term">superTopics</a>), but those more general topics will not serve as entry points unless they are asserted to be instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/CycVocabularyTopLevelTopic" class="cyc_term">CycVocabularyTopLevelTopic</a>.) cyc vocabulary topic An instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/FacetingCollectionType" class="cyc_term">FacetingCollectionType</a> and a specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/Topic" class="cyc_term">Topic</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/CycVocabularyTopic" class="cyc_term">CycVocabularyTopic</a> is a collection of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/Thing" class="cyc_term">Thing</a>s falling under a topic for which some Cyc Vocabulary exists. <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/Topic" class="cyc_term">Topic</a> is neither a strict [<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/facets_Strict" class="cyc_term">facets_Strict</a>] nor a covering [<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/facets_Covering" class="cyc_term">facets_Covering</a>] faceting of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/Thing" class="cyc_term">Thing</a>: many <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/Thing" class="cyc_term">Thing</a>s may be instances of no <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/Topic" class="cyc_term">Topic</a>, or of multiple <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/Topic" class="cyc_term">Topic</a>s. CycVocabularyTopic cyc vocabulary top level topic CycVocabularyTopLevelTopic An instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/CollectionType" class="cyc_term">CollectionType</a> and a specialization of CycVocabularyTopic. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/CycVocabularyTopLevelTopic" class="cyc_term">CycVocabularyTopLevelTopic</a> is an entry point (e.g. a topic you would see displayed first in a user interface) into the Cyc Vocabulary hierarchy of topics. Any of these top-level topics may have more general topics above them in the topic hierarchy (c.f. <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/superTopics" class="cyc_term">superTopics</a>), but those more general topics will not serve as entry points unless they are asserted to be instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/CycVocabularyTopLevelTopic" class="cyc_term">CycVocabularyTopLevelTopic</a>.) cyc vocabulary top level topic CycVocabularyTopLevelTopic An instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/CollectionType" class="cyc_term">CollectionType</a> and a specialization of CycVocabularyTopic. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/CycVocabularyTopLevelTopic" class="cyc_term">CycVocabularyTopLevelTopic</a> is an entry point (e.g. a topic you would see displayed first in a user interface) into the Cyc Vocabulary hierarchy of topics. Any of these top-level topics may have more general topics above them in the topic hierarchy (c.f. <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/superTopics" class="cyc_term">superTopics</a>), but those more general topics will not serve as entry points unless they are asserted to be instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/CycVocabularyTopLevelTopic" class="cyc_term">CycVocabularyTopLevelTopic</a>.)