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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. A subset of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/Animal" class="cyc_term">Animal</a>, the collection of all animals which have a mind and are capable of conscious thought, or at least are best treated as such if you have to deal with them. Mx4rvVilIJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA sentient animal SentientAnimal sentient animals 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/en/Batman" class="cyc_term">Batman</a>. In their general conception, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/Superhero" class="cyc_term">Superhero</a>es are conceived of as <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/Vigilante" class="cyc_term">Vigilante</a> crime-fighters superhero The collection of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/SentientAnimal" class="cyc_term">SentientAnimal</a>s mentally focussed on a particular task. mentally concentrating MentallyConcentrating Fairy fairy A <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/Fairy" class="cyc_term">Fairy</a> is a small imaginary creature with magic powers, which looks like a very small person. elf The mythical race of slender, magical beings described in such works as <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/LordOfTheRings_Trilogy" class="cyc_term">LordOfTheRings_Trilogy</a>, and employed as characters in <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/DungeonsAndDragons" class="cyc_term">DungeonsAndDragons</a> the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/RolePlayingGame" class="cyc_term">RolePlayingGame</a>. Elf Teletubby Teletubby-FictionalCharacter sphinx EgyptianSphinx A mythical beast of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/AncientEgypt" class="cyc_term">AncientEgypt</a>, symbolizing the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/Pharaoh_HeadOfState" class="cyc_term">Pharaoh_HeadOfState</a> as an incarnation of the sun god Ra. An <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/EgyptianSphinx" class="cyc_term">EgyptianSphinx</a> has the head of a man, ram, or <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/Hawk" class="cyc_term">Hawk</a> and the body of a lion. Cf. <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/GreatSphinxOfGiza" class="cyc_term">GreatSphinxOfGiza</a> for the famous statue. The collection of all banshees. The <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/Banshee" class="cyc_term">Banshee</a> is a supernatural being in Irish and other Celtic folklore whose mournful 'keening,' or wailing screaming or lamentation, at night was believed to foretell the death of a member of the family of the person who heard the spirit. The word 'banshee' is a phonetic spelling of the Irish 'bean sidhe'. banshee Banshee Gnome-Mythical Imaginary creatures. Typically very small, old, male, bearded, wearing pointy hats. gnome The collection of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/SentientAnimal" class="cyc_term">SentientAnimal</a>s able to function using all their mental capacities. AbleMinded able minded animal merman A mythological being which lives in the sea and has the upper body of a man and the lower parts of a fish. The female counterpart is the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/Mermaid" class="cyc_term">Mermaid</a>. Merman Intoxicated intoxicated animal The collection of all intoxicated animals. A type of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/SentientAnimal" class="cyc_term">SentientAnimal</a>. The collection <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/Intoxicated" class="cyc_term">Intoxicated</a> is an <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/AnimalTypeByMentalState" class="cyc_term">AnimalTypeByMentalState</a> and an <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/AnimalTypeByPhysiologicalFeature" class="cyc_term">AnimalTypeByPhysiologicalFeature</a>. Mermaid mermaid A mythological being which lives in the sea and has the upper body of a woman and the lower parts of a fish. The male counterpart is the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/Merman" class="cyc_term">Merman</a>. Vertebrate An instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/BiologicalTaxon" class="cyc_term">BiologicalTaxon</a> within the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/BiologicalPhylum" class="cyc_term">BiologicalPhylum</a> <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/ChordataPhylum" class="cyc_term">ChordataPhylum</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/Vertebrate" class="cyc_term">Vertebrate</a> is an animal that has a backbone or spine made of bony or cartilaginous vertebrae, which may be separate or fused. Notable specializations of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/Vertebrate" class="cyc_term">Vertebrate</a> include <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/Mammal" class="cyc_term">Mammal</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/Reptile" class="cyc_term">Reptile</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/Bird" class="cyc_term">Bird</a>, and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/Fish" class="cyc_term">Fish</a>. vertebrate dwarf The mythical race of stocky, warrior-like beings described in such works as <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/LordOfTheRings_Trilogy" class="cyc_term">LordOfTheRings_Trilogy</a>, and employed as characters in <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/DungeonsAndDragons" class="cyc_term">DungeonsAndDragons</a> the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/RolePlayingGame" class="cyc_term">RolePlayingGame</a>. Dwarf-Mythical Frankenstein FrankensteinsMonster The creature of the protagonist in Mary Shelley's _Frankenstein_. KE clarifying collection type The collection of all instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/ClarifyingCollectionType" class="cyc_term">ClarifyingCollectionType</a> that are used by the #$KRAKEN application to resolve natural language ambiguities. KEClarifyingCollectionType A collection of collections. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/ExistingObjectType" class="cyc_term">ExistingObjectType</a> is a specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/PartiallyTangible" class="cyc_term">PartiallyTangible</a> (q.v.). Moreover, each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/ExistingObjectType" class="cyc_term">ExistingObjectType</a> is a collection that is temporally stuff-like (see <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/TemporalStuffType" class="cyc_term">TemporalStuffType</a>) but physically-spatially object-like (see <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/ObjectType" 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/en/properPhysicalDecompositions" class="cyc_term">properPhysicalDecompositions</a>). Consider the collection <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/BookCopy" class="cyc_term">BookCopy</a>. <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/BookCopy" class="cyc_term">BookCopy</a> is a specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/PartiallyTangible" class="cyc_term">PartiallyTangible</a>. Further, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/BookCopy" class="cyc_term">BookCopy</a> is temporally stuff-like: any one of the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/timeSlices" 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/en/BookCopy" 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/en/BookCopy" class="cyc_term">BookCopy</a> is an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/ExistingObjectType" class="cyc_term">ExistingObjectType</a>. See also <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/StuffType" class="cyc_term">StuffType</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/ExistingStuffType" class="cyc_term">ExistingStuffType</a>. type of object ExistingObjectType A subset of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/Animal" class="cyc_term">Animal</a>, the collection of all animals which have a mind and are capable of conscious thought, or at least are best treated as such if you have to deal with them. SentientAnimal sentient animal A subset of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/Animal" class="cyc_term">Animal</a>, the collection of all animals which have a mind and are capable of conscious thought, or at least are best treated as such if you have to deal with them. SentientAnimal sentient animal BT <code>(<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/broaderTerm" 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/en/broaderTerm" 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/en/broaderTerm" class="cyc_term">broaderTerm</a> relation actually is. broaderTerm A subset of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/Animal" class="cyc_term">Animal</a>, the collection of all animals which have a mind and are capable of conscious thought, or at least are best treated as such if you have to deal with them. SentientAnimal sentient animal animal Animal An instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/BiologicalKingdom" class="cyc_term">BiologicalKingdom</a>, and a specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/Organism_Whole" class="cyc_term">Organism_Whole</a>. Instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/Animal" class="cyc_term">Animal</a> are typically motile, living, whole organisms; they are instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/Heterotroph" class="cyc_term">Heterotroph</a> (q.v.), and thus incapable of performing instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/Photosynthesis_Generic" class="cyc_term">Photosynthesis_Generic</a>. Animal cells contain cholesterol and lack cell walls made of cellulose. sentient Sentient The collection of all sentient beings -- instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/IndividualAgent" class="cyc_term">IndividualAgent</a> that have sufficient mental capabilities that they are self-aware. AnimalsByMiscellaneousCriteria-Biology-Topic A <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/CycVocabularyTopic" class="cyc_term">CycVocabularyTopic</a> and a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/KBDependentCollection" class="cyc_term">KBDependentCollection</a>. animals by miscellaneous criteria biology topic prettyString (<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/prettyString" 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/en/prettyString" 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. Pretty String