]> 2009/04/07 OpenCyc Knowledge Base Copyright© 2001-2009 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. 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. prayer Prayer The collection of all prayers. A type of #$Request and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjeRZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Ritual</a>. prayers

Prayer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prayer blessing Blessing 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 prayer Prayer The collection of all prayers. A type of #$Request and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjeRZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Ritual</a>. Wikipedia Article URL (<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rNv0nbm4TTjOp7yhmnzOyqg" class="cyc_term">wikipediaArticleURL</a> THING URL) means that in <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rtqXA6OC8QdiWC72DuLJdUw" class="cyc_term">Wikipedia_WebSite</a> THING is described by an article located at URL wikipediaArticleURL prayer Prayer The collection of all prayers. A type of #$Request and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjeRZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Ritual</a>. prayer Prayer The collection of all prayers. A type of #$Request and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjeRZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Ritual</a>. A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViOtpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">GeneralizedTransfer</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVifB5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">InformationTransferEvent</a> is an event in which information is transferred from a source (<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvV5PA5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">informationOrigin</a>) to one or more destinations (<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVipxZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">informationDestination</a>), where the source and the various destinations are either intelligent agents or <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvkNufpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">InformationBearingThing</a>s (IBTs). Examples include reading a book (transfer of information from the book to the reader), saying something to someone (transfer of information from the speaker to the listener), machine translation (transfer of information from an encoded IBT in the source language to an encoded IBT in the target language), OCR scanning (transfer of information from a visual information source to another IBT in a different format), carving initials in a tree (transfer of information from an agent to an IBT), and making a speech (transfer of information from an agent to other agents). See also the specialization <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvucXhJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">InformationTransferPhysicalEvent</a>. information transfer InformationTransferEvent 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 rite A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvkKMU5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CulturalActivity</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViPO5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SocialOccurrence</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjeRZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Ritual</a> is a highly stylized or formalized action (or series of actions) performed by a person or group of persons. Instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjeRZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Ritual</a> are usually performed with some solemnity. Notable specializations of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjeRZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Ritual</a> include <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjq_JwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Ceremony</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVj9YJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Funeral</a>, and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjMDZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Parade</a>. Ritual