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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. female BLOs having or being female sex organs or secondary female sexual characteristics and performing female sexual functions, such as receiving pollen or bearing young. Female females Female http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female http://www.w3.org/2006/03/wn/wn20/instances/synset-female-adjective-1 soldier who is a female (SubcollectionOfWithRelationToFn Soldier isa Female) employee who is a female (SubcollectionOfWithRelationToFn Employee isa Female) female animal The collection of all female animals. A type of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViwMZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Animal</a>. <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViQ-ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">FemaleAnimal</a> is an <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwQWsg5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">AnimalTypeBySex</a>. FemaleAnimal female body part The collection of all <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViAHJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">AnimalBodyPart</a>s that are generally found only on female animals. Any collection representing a type of body part that is generally found only on female animals should have this collection as a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViBDpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">genls</a>. For example, all instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjV7ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Breast</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViojJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Uterus</a> are instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvw08XJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">AnimalBodyPart_Female</a>, and the collections <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjV7ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Breast</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViojJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Uterus</a> are subsets of it. See also <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwEnCzpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">AnimalBodyPart_Male</a>. AnimalBodyPart-Female (SubcollectionOfWithRelationToFn GermanPerson isa Female) German who is a female (SubcollectionOfWithRelationToFn IntelligentAgent isa Female) intelligent agent that is a female terrorist who is female (SubcollectionOfWithRelationToFn Terrorist hasBiologicalSex Female) female BLOs having or being female sex organs or secondary female sexual characteristics and performing female sexual functions, such as receiving pollen or bearing young. Female Pretty String (<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/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/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 wikipediaArticleName (<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rTv-jk9SPTXa991kk5mAvHg" class="cyc_term">wikipediaArticleName</a> THING NAME) means that in <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rtqXA6OC8QdiWC72DuLJdUw" class="cyc_term">Wikipedia_WebSite</a> THING is described by an article with the title NAME Wikipedia Article Name <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViA9JwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Thing</a> is the &quot;universal collection&quot;: the collection which, by definition, contains everything there is. Every thing in the Cyc ontology -- every <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjaApwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Individual</a> (of any kind), every <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvl2en5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Set_Mathematical</a>, and every <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViAzJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Collection</a> -- is an instance of (see <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViBBJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">isa</a>) <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViA9JwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Thing</a>. Similarly, every collection is a subcollection of (see <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViBDpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">genls</a>) <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViA9JwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Thing</a>. Trivially, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViA9JwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Thing</a> is both an instance of and a subcollection of itself, and is not a subcollection of any other collection. (Note that the above reference to &quot;every thing in the Cyc ontology&quot; is <i>not</i> meant to be limited to things actually <i>reified</i> in the Cyc system, but includes (e.g.) every instance -- reified or not, known or not -- of every collection recognized by Cyc.) Thing thing Wikipedia Article URL (<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rNv0nbm4TTjOp7yhmnzOyqg" class="cyc_term">wikipediaArticleURL</a> THING URL) means that in <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rtqXA6OC8QdiWC72DuLJdUw" class="cyc_term">Wikipedia_WebSite</a> THING is described by an article located at URL wikipediaArticleURL seeAlsoURI <code>(<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4riWVFR6HJSpaEaHrcWS3MSA" class="cyc_term">seeAlsoURI</a> <b>THING</b> <b>URI</b>)</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. See Also URI female BLOs having or being female sex organs or secondary female sexual characteristics and performing female sexual functions, such as receiving pollen or bearing young. Female (VersusFn BiologicalSex ObjectTypeByGender) Versus Fn sex object type by gender female BLOs having or being female sex organs or secondary female sexual characteristics and performing female sexual functions, such as receiving pollen or bearing young. Female clarifying collection type ClarifyingCollectionType A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViAzJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Collection</a>. Instances are collections that are usefully invoked for purposes of resolving ambiguity and confusion that arise from the use of non-perspicuous languages. Suppose a human or other intelligent agent uses a language, such as a natural language, that is rife with ambiguity, and uses a word WORD of that language whose intended reference is unclear: in the context WORD might refer to THING1 or to THING2, but not both. One strategy for resolving this ambiguity is to find properties of THING1 and THING2, say P1 and P2, that distinguish them from one another, and ask the speaker whether by &quot;WORD,&quot; s/he intended to refer to something with P1, or to something with P2. For example, the speaker might use the word &quot;bank,&quot; and in response one might ask whether a financial institution or a piece of shoreline was meant. Clearly, what values of P1 and P2 are chosen cannot be arbitrary; asking whether the speaker meant to refer to a multi-individual agent versus a non-agentive place is not as effective as asking the speaker to choose between the &quot;financial institution&quot; and &quot;shoreline&quot; interpretations described above. Instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4r_4bScKNtQdiVw7XtX-HN0Q" class="cyc_term">ClarifyingCollectionType</a> just are those collections -- such as the collection of financial institutions -- that might plausibly be invoked to resolve cases of ambiguity of the kind described here. In particular, suppose TYPE1 is an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4r_4bScKNtQdiVw7XtX-HN0Q" class="cyc_term">ClarifyingCollectionType</a> and TYPE2 is not, and THING is an instance of both TYPE1 and TYPE2. The fact that (<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViBBJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">isa</a> TYPE1 <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4r_4bScKNtQdiVw7XtX-HN0Q" class="cyc_term">ClarifyingCollectionType</a>) is a reason to prefer TYPE1 over TYPE2 when calculating possible clarifying properties for THING. AnimalBySex-Biology-Topic A <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rAmoSCGJbQdiSXZJvYiNhkQ" class="cyc_term">CycVocabularyTopic</a> and a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rtGXkHpNaEdqAAAACs0uFOQ" class="cyc_term">KBDependentCollection</a>. animal by sex biology topic Shared Notes A predicate-denoting constant that is an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvh8WVJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">DocumentationPredicate</a>. It is sometimes useful to include the same piece of text in the documentation of two or more constants or other <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvYRiPJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CycLIndexedTerm</a>s. Rather than actually duplicating text in the Knowledge Base, one can create a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwPubtJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SharedNote</a> (q.v.): a piece of text that is to serve as this shared documentation, and which is itself the comment (see <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViBCZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">comment</a>) on the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwPubtJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SharedNote</a>'s constant. (Thus the constants for shared-notes actually denote their own comments.) (<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwPub4pwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">sharedNotes</a> TERM NOTE) means that NOTE is a string of text (see <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rv65Pt5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">TextString</a>) serving as shared documentation partly about TERM. Since <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwPubtJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SharedNote</a>s are typically _shared_, there are likely to be one or more other indexed terms having NOTE as their shared-note as well. sharedNotes BiologicalSex sex The collection of all sexes a plant or animal might have. This is entirely determined by physiological characteristics, whether by the presence of particular reproductive organs or playing a certain role in sexual reproduction.