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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. Village A subcollection of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjnZ5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">City</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rv33BppwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Village</a> consists of a small cluster of buildings located in a rural area. Most of the buildings are typically residents' houses; others might include shops, schools, churches, and the like. Many residents of a village typically work in the surrounding coutryside (say as farmers). Since <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rv33BppwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Village</a> is a subcollection of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjnZ5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">City</a> (q.v.), an instance must in some way be self-governed. village settlements settlement villages hamlets hamlet Village http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Village http://www.w3.org/2006/03/wn/wn20/instances/synset-village-noun-2 Israeli settlement IsraeliSettlement The collection of all Israeli settlements in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, which <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViP55wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Israel</a> established and has held since the end of the <font color="#ff0000">#$Arab-IsraeliWar-1967</font>. <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViP55wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Israel</a> formally withdrew its settlements from the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvocNGJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">GazaStrip</a> and ended its military occupation of Gaza on September 12, 2005. leper colony The collection of all leper colonies -- villages when lepers were once forced (and in some places still are) forced to live out lives. LeperColony (CollectionIntersectionFn (TheSet CoastalRegion Village)) member of { coastal region, village } VillageOfAlAujaIraq Al-Ouja 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 city <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjnZ5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">City</a> is a specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjl2pwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">GeopoliticalEntity</a> whose territory is an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjK7JwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">UrbanArea</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjnZ5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">City</a> is a local organization of a human settlement which has its own government. This includes cities, towns, suburbs, villages, hamlets, and townships, as long as they have their own governments. A city government is usually mostly autonomous from the governments of its surrounding regions, rather than being a sub-organization of them. City Village A subcollection of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjnZ5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">City</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rv33BppwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Village</a> consists of a small cluster of buildings located in a rural area. Most of the buildings are typically residents' houses; others might include shops, schools, churches, and the like. Many residents of a village typically work in the surrounding coutryside (say as farmers). Since <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rv33BppwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Village</a> is a subcollection of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjnZ5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">City</a> (q.v.), an instance must in some way be self-governed. village 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 Village A subcollection of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjnZ5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">City</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rv33BppwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Village</a> consists of a small cluster of buildings located in a rural area. Most of the buildings are typically residents' houses; others might include shops, schools, churches, and the like. Many residents of a village typically work in the surrounding coutryside (say as farmers). Since <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rv33BppwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Village</a> is a subcollection of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjnZ5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">City</a> (q.v.), an instance must in some way be self-governed. village NonNaturalThing The collection of non-natural individuals. This collection is hard to precisely define but, roughly, something is an instance of this collection just in case it is one of the following: 1) <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjaApwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Individual</a> acts that are intentionally performed by <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVinb5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">IntelligentAgent</a>s, or 2) <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjaApwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Individual</a>s that in some significant sense &quot;could only have been the result&quot; of the intentional activities of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVinb5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">IntelligentAgent</a>s (or groups thereof). Positive examples in the first category include <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwP1F75wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CesareanBirth</a>s, negative examples include eating. Positive examples in the second category include instances of industrial pollution and tire tracks. Negative examples include human vomit and human (bare) footprints. unnatural thing Village A subcollection of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjnZ5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">City</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rv33BppwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Village</a> consists of a small cluster of buildings located in a rural area. Most of the buildings are typically residents' houses; others might include shops, schools, churches, and the like. Many residents of a village typically work in the surrounding coutryside (say as farmers). Since <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rv33BppwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Village</a> is a subcollection of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjnZ5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">City</a> (q.v.), an instance must in some way be self-governed. village 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 GeopoliticalEntityTypeByNonOverlappingJurisdiction non-overlapping geopolitical entity A collection of collections. Instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rPJJhlM0SQdeDhsNnnhQekw" class="cyc_term">GeopoliticalEntityTypeByNonOverlappingJurisdiction</a> are subcollections of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjl2pwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">GeopoliticalEntity</a> members of which have jurisdictions that do not overlap.