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Mappings between OpenCyc terms and Wikipedia article names provided by Olena Medelyan and Catherine Legg, University of Waikato, NZ under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license. 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. Cleaning Mx4rvVjJ3pwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA A collection of events and a specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/RemovingSomething" class="cyc_term">RemovingSomething</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/TakingCareOfSomething" class="cyc_term">TakingCareOfSomething</a>. In each <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/Cleaning" class="cyc_term">Cleaning</a> event, dirt (or some other unwanted substance) is removed from the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/objectOfStateChange" class="cyc_term">objectOfStateChange</a> of that event. If a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/Cleaning" class="cyc_term">Cleaning</a> event is successful, then the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/Dirtiness" class="cyc_term">Dirtiness</a> level of the object will have been lowered. A notable specialization of this collection is <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/Scrubbing" class="cyc_term">Scrubbing</a>. cleaning cleansed sanitations had sanitized had cleansed sanitizes clean cleared had cleaned will sanitize sanitize clear will have cleansed will have cleared had cleared cleanses clearing has sanitized will clear sanitized will cleanse will have cleaned has cleaned have cleared clears sanitation has cleansed will clean cleans has cleared have cleansed will have sanitized have sanitized have cleaned cleansing cleanse cleaned sanitizing Cleanliness http://www.w3.org/2006/03/wn/wn20/instances/synset-clean-verb-8 http://www.w3.org/2006/03/wn/wn20/instances/synset-clean-verb-1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleanliness disinfection process DisinfectingProcess <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/DisinfectingProcess" class="cyc_term">DisinfectingProcess</a> is a collection of events on which a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/DisinfectantSubstance" class="cyc_term">DisinfectantSubstance</a> is used to clean something by killing pathogenic <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/Microorganism" class="cyc_term">Microorganism</a>s. A collection of events. Each <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/CleaningAnObject" class="cyc_term">CleaningAnObject</a> event is a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/Cleaning" class="cyc_term">Cleaning</a> event in which some particular object is cleaned. cleaning an object CleaningAnObject Not only for houses! The collection of events in which the whole or part of the interior of a building is cleaned. BuildingCleaningChore housework A collection of events. In each <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/TeethCleaning" class="cyc_term">TeethCleaning</a> event, an animal's teeth are cleaned. In order to distinguish, e.g., professional teeth cleaning by a dental technician from daily personal care, different microtheories are used. Consider just the frequencies of performing this action: in the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/HumanActivitiesMt" class="cyc_term">HumanActivitiesMt</a>, where a person brushes their own teeth as a subevent of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/DailyPersonalCleaning" class="cyc_term">DailyPersonalCleaning</a>, this occurs once or twice per day. In the #$ProviderOfServicePerspectiveMt, that is from the dental hygienist's point of view, it occurs about ten times per day. In the #$RecipientOfServicePerspectiveMt, that is from the point of view of someone going to get their teeth cleaned at a dentist's office, it happens a couple times per year. TeethCleaning teeth cleaning Scrubbing scrubbing Cleaning by vigorously rubbing, usually with a sponge or a brush. daily personal cleaning DailyPersonalCleaning A collection of events. Each <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/DailyPersonalCleaning" class="cyc_term">DailyPersonalCleaning</a> encompasses the standard cleaning and grooming activities that an animal engages in over the course of a day. Such a `daily routine' is almost sure to include many brief grooming and cleaning actions, such as licking one's paws, combing one's hair, washing one's hands, shaving, bathing, etc., and those are sub-events of that <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/DailyPersonalCleaning" class="cyc_term">DailyPersonalCleaning</a> event. For example, a human's <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/DailyPersonalCleaning" class="cyc_term">DailyPersonalCleaning</a> might have a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/TeethCleaning" class="cyc_term">TeethCleaning</a> as one of its sub-events, along with a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/TakingABath" class="cyc_term">TakingABath</a>, two instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/CombingHair" class="cyc_term">CombingHair</a>, etc. Note: Those specialized kinds of events, like <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/CombingHair" class="cyc_term">CombingHair</a>, are NOT subsets of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/DailyPersonalCleaning" class="cyc_term">DailyPersonalCleaning</a>, since it would be abnormal for someone to JUST comb their hair each day (and do absolutely no other daily cleaning activity whatsoever). Note: In the context <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/HumanActivitiesMt" class="cyc_term">HumanActivitiesMt</a> --- where all the performers of actions are, by default, human beings --- <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/DailyPersonalCleaning" class="cyc_term">DailyPersonalCleaning</a> designates human grooming activities only. In that microtheory, dog-grooming performed by human beings does not constitute <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/DailyPersonalCleaning" class="cyc_term">DailyPersonalCleaning</a>, even if it happens on a daily basis for some pampered poodle, as it is not PERSONAL (i.e, self-) cleaning. polishing PolishingSomething A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/Rubbing" class="cyc_term">Rubbing</a>. In each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/PolishingSomething" class="cyc_term">PolishingSomething</a>, a surface of an object is made smooth and glossy by rubbing that surface. A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/Cleaning" class="cyc_term">Cleaning</a>. In each <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/Washing" class="cyc_term">Washing</a> event, some <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/Water" class="cyc_term">Water</a> is being employed in the cleaning. Typically there will be some surfactant such as soap (cf. <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/Soap_Personal" class="cyc_term">Soap_Personal</a>) dissolved in the water. If only water (i.e., no soap) is used in a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/Washing" class="cyc_term">Washing</a>, then the event also belongs to the more specialized <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/Rinsing" class="cyc_term">Rinsing</a>. Other notable specializations include <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/Bathing" class="cyc_term">Bathing</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/PersonalWashing" class="cyc_term">PersonalWashing</a>. <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/Scrubbing" class="cyc_term">Scrubbing</a> is not a specialization of this collection, since such events may occur without any water being involved. washing Washing ChangeOfState-Topic change of state topic seeAlsoURI See Also URI <code>(<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/seeAlsoURI" class="cyc_term">seeAlsoURI</a> THING URI)</code> means that a description of the resource identified by URI is likely to contain information pertinent to THING. This predicate is roughly equivalent to rdfs:seeAlso. Cleaning cleaning A collection of events and a specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/RemovingSomething" class="cyc_term">RemovingSomething</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/TakingCareOfSomething" class="cyc_term">TakingCareOfSomething</a>. In each <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/Cleaning" class="cyc_term">Cleaning</a> event, dirt (or some other unwanted substance) is removed from the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/objectOfStateChange" class="cyc_term">objectOfStateChange</a> of that event. If a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/Cleaning" class="cyc_term">Cleaning</a> event is successful, then the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/Dirtiness" class="cyc_term">Dirtiness</a> level of the object will have been lowered. A notable specialization of this collection is <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/Scrubbing" class="cyc_term">Scrubbing</a>. prettyString Pretty String (<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/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/2009/04/07/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. Cleaning cleaning A collection of events and a specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/RemovingSomething" class="cyc_term">RemovingSomething</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/TakingCareOfSomething" class="cyc_term">TakingCareOfSomething</a>. In each <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/Cleaning" class="cyc_term">Cleaning</a> event, dirt (or some other unwanted substance) is removed from the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/objectOfStateChange" class="cyc_term">objectOfStateChange</a> of that event. If a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/Cleaning" class="cyc_term">Cleaning</a> event is successful, then the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/Dirtiness" class="cyc_term">Dirtiness</a> level of the object will have been lowered. A notable specialization of this collection is <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/Scrubbing" class="cyc_term">Scrubbing</a>. ProcessType type of temporally stuff-like thing that is also a type of durative event A <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/SecondOrderCollection" class="cyc_term">SecondOrderCollection</a>. <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/ProcessType" class="cyc_term">ProcessType</a> is the collection intersection of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/TemporalStuffType" class="cyc_term">TemporalStuffType</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/DurativeEventType" class="cyc_term">DurativeEventType</a>; that is, a thing is an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/ProcessType" class="cyc_term">ProcessType</a> if and only if it is an instance of both <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/TemporalStuffType" class="cyc_term">TemporalStuffType</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/DurativeEventType" class="cyc_term">DurativeEventType</a>. Instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/ProcessType" class="cyc_term">ProcessType</a> can be constructed from instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/AccomplishmentType" class="cyc_term">AccomplishmentType</a> using <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/ProcessFn" class="cyc_term">ProcessFn</a> (q.v.). taking care of TakingCareOfSomething A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/HumanActivity" class="cyc_term">HumanActivity</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/TakingCareOfSomething" class="cyc_term">TakingCareOfSomething</a> is a purposeful action in which an agent acts to maintain, preserve, or promote the health or good condition of someone or something (the thing taken care of is related to the action via the predicate <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/objectTakenCareOf" class="cyc_term">objectTakenCareOf</a> (q.v.)). Notable specializations of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/TakingCareOfSomething" class="cyc_term">TakingCareOfSomething</a> include <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/Exercising" class="cyc_term">Exercising</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/MedicalTreatmentEvent" class="cyc_term">MedicalTreatmentEvent</a>, and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/TeethCleaning" class="cyc_term">TeethCleaning</a>. removing RemovingSomething A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/PurposefulAction" class="cyc_term">PurposefulAction</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/RemovingSomething" class="cyc_term">RemovingSomething</a> is an event in which an agent deliberately removes one object from another object. The removed object is related to the instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/RemovingSomething" class="cyc_term">RemovingSomething</a> via the predicate <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/objectRemoved" class="cyc_term">objectRemoved</a>, while the object to which it belonged prior to its removal is related via the predicate <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/objectRemaining" class="cyc_term">objectRemaining</a>. In different types of removals, either the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/objectRemoved" class="cyc_term">objectRemoved</a> or the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/objectRemaining" class="cyc_term">objectRemaining</a> may be destroyed, or both may survive. Specializations of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/RemovingSomething" class="cyc_term">RemovingSomething</a> include <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/Ablation" class="cyc_term">Ablation</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/RemovingSomething_Translational" class="cyc_term">RemovingSomething_Translational</a>, and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/CuttingOffAPiece" class="cyc_term">CuttingOffAPiece</a>. The difference between this collection and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/SeparationEvent" class="cyc_term">SeparationEvent</a> is that instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/RemovingSomething" class="cyc_term">RemovingSomething</a> are purposeful actions, while instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/SeparationEvent" class="cyc_term">SeparationEvent</a> need not be purposeful. (<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/wikipediaArticleName" class="cyc_term">wikipediaArticleName</a> THING NAME) means that in <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/Wikipedia_WebSite" class="cyc_term">Wikipedia_WebSite</a> THING is described by an article with the title NAME wikipediaArticleName Wikipedia Article Name Cleaning cleaning A collection of events and a specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/RemovingSomething" class="cyc_term">RemovingSomething</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/TakingCareOfSomething" class="cyc_term">TakingCareOfSomething</a>. In each <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/Cleaning" class="cyc_term">Cleaning</a> event, dirt (or some other unwanted substance) is removed from the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/objectOfStateChange" class="cyc_term">objectOfStateChange</a> of that event. If a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/Cleaning" class="cyc_term">Cleaning</a> event is successful, then the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/Dirtiness" class="cyc_term">Dirtiness</a> level of the object will have been lowered. A notable specialization of this collection is <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/Scrubbing" class="cyc_term">Scrubbing</a>. Cleaning cleaning A collection of events and a specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/RemovingSomething" class="cyc_term">RemovingSomething</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/TakingCareOfSomething" class="cyc_term">TakingCareOfSomething</a>. In each <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/Cleaning" class="cyc_term">Cleaning</a> event, dirt (or some other unwanted substance) is removed from the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/objectOfStateChange" class="cyc_term">objectOfStateChange</a> of that event. If a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/Cleaning" class="cyc_term">Cleaning</a> event is successful, then the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/Dirtiness" class="cyc_term">Dirtiness</a> level of the object will have been lowered. A notable specialization of this collection is <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/Scrubbing" class="cyc_term">Scrubbing</a>. ImprovementEvent The collection of actions in which something is improved by being changed. The improvement is from the point of view of the performer. improvement type of cumulative event CumulativeEventType A collection of collections. Each instance of an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/CumulativeEventType" class="cyc_term">CumulativeEventType</a> is an event. Moreover, each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/CumulativeEventType" class="cyc_term">CumulativeEventType</a> is a collection with the following property of 'cumulativity': if PROCESS-COL is an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/CumulativeEventType" class="cyc_term">CumulativeEventType</a>, and PROCESS-1 and PROCESS-2 are instances of PROCESS-COL, then the minimal event containing PROCESS-1 and PROCESS-2 (that is, (#$EventSumFn PROCESS-1 PROCESS-2)) is also an instance of PROCESS-COL. wikipediaArticleURL (<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/wikipediaArticleURL" class="cyc_term">wikipediaArticleURL</a> THING URL) means that in <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2009/04/07/concept/en/Wikipedia_WebSite" class="cyc_term">Wikipedia_WebSite</a> THING is described by an article located at URL Wikipedia Article URL