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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. musical score MusicalText The collection of all (abstract) text representing a piece of music or a part of such. A written <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvkNufpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">InformationBearingThing</a> instantiating a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViDo5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">MusicalText</a> [<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rv_NP-JwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">MusicalTextCopy</a>] can be read by a musician as instructions as to how to perform some <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjOJpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Music</a>. sheet music musical scores music http://www.w3.org/2006/03/wn/wn20/instances/synset-sheet_music-noun-1 written music The collection of all abstract <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViDo5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">MusicalText</a> which specifies the score for a piece of music. MusicalScore The collection of all instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViDo5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">MusicalText</a> that are written in <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvy8W1pwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">TablatureNotation</a>. <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvy8W1pwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">TablatureNotation</a> is a notation used to describe how a sequence of musical notes is to be played on a stringed instrument. TablatureText-StringedInstruments tablature 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 type of stuff A collection of collections. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVir35wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">StuffType</a> is a collection that is stuff-like in at least one respect. A collection <code><b>COL</b></code> is stuff-like just in case there is some sense of 'part' according to which every part of an instance of <code><b>COL</b></code> is itself an instance of <code><b>COL</b></code>. More precisely, for a collection to be an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVir35wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">StuffType</a> it is sufficient that there be some spec-pred <code><b>PARTPRED</b></code> of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVj7bpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">parts</a> (that is, some predicate <code><b>PARTPRED</b></code> for which<code> (<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVtJUZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">genlPreds</a> <b>PARTPRED</b> <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVj7bpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">parts</a>)</code> holds), such that if <code>(<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViBBJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">isa</a> <b>OBJECT1</b> <b>COL</b>)</code> and <code>(<b>PARTPRED</b> <b>OBJECT1</b> <b>OBJECT2</b>)</code>, then <code>(<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViBBJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">isa</a> <b>OBJECT2</b> <b>COL</b>)</code>. Here are two examples. Consider <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVi3c5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Breathing</a>. Take an instance of that, say a ten minute long period in which a person is breathing. Imagine some two minute snippet of that, one of its <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvWn4OZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">timeSlices</a> (a spec-pred of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVj7bpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">parts</a>). That, too, is an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVi3c5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Breathing</a>. So <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVi3c5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Breathing</a> is a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVir35wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">StuffType</a>, since all <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvWn4OZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">timeSlices</a> of an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVi3c5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Breathing</a> are also instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVi3c5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Breathing</a>. <p/> Consider <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjAHZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Water</a>. Take any instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjAHZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Water</a> -- say the water in the Pacific Ocean. Now take any portion of that water -- say a handful of it that a person scoops up near Honolulu, one of its <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVkGOJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">physicalPortions</a> (a spec-pred of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVj7bpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">parts</a>). That handful is itself an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjAHZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Water</a>. Hence <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjAHZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Water</a> is a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVir35wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">StuffType</a>, in virtue of the fact that all <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVkGOJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">physicalPortions</a> of all instances <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjAHZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Water</a> are themselves instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjAHZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Water</a>. <p/> Other examples are: <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvf9sZJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">AspatialInformationStore</a>, which is stuff-like with respect <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjCQJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">containsInformation</a>; <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvWEA25wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CharacterString</a>, which is stuff-like with respect to <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwLSD2ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">subCharacterStrings</a>; and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvtUAU5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">List</a>, which is stuff-like with respect to <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwQxEhZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">subLists</a>. These examples are somewhat exceptional -- most <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVir35wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">StuffType</a>s are like the examples of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVi3c5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Breathing</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjAHZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Water</a>. See <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVirnZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ObjectType</a>, for the contrasting (but not disjoint) notion of being object-like. StuffType 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 TextString text A subcollection of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvWEA25wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CharacterString</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rv65Pt5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">TextString</a> is a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvWEA25wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CharacterString</a> that constitutes a meaningful unit (with respect to some actual language or other <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVj0P5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CommunicationConvention</a>), such as words, phrases, sentences, multi-sentence constructions, or symbols that contribute to the meaning of phrases or sentences (including syncategormatic objects such as punctuation symbols). Formal languages may define multi-symbol constructs that have meaning but are not considered words -- these, too are instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rv65Pt5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">TextString</a>. For example, this sequence of characters: <pre> er#q2 </pre> is a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvWEA25wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CharacterString</a> but <i>not</i> (as far as I know) a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rv65Pt5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">TextString</a>. Conversely, the sentence you are now reading is a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rv65Pt5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">TextString</a>, as is the text of this entire comment. <p/> Note that, as with all <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvWEA25wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CharacterString</a>s, a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rv65Pt5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">TextString</a> is a sequence of abstract symbols, not a tangible instantiation of it (cf. <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwCKd45wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CharacterStringToken</a>). musical score MusicalText The collection of all (abstract) text representing a piece of music or a part of such. A written <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvkNufpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">InformationBearingThing</a> instantiating a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViDo5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">MusicalText</a> [<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rv_NP-JwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">MusicalTextCopy</a>] can be read by a musician as instructions as to how to perform some <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjOJpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Music</a>. musical score MusicalText The collection of all (abstract) text representing a piece of music or a part of such. A written <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvkNufpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">InformationBearingThing</a> instantiating a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViDo5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">MusicalText</a> [<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rv_NP-JwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">MusicalTextCopy</a>] can be read by a musician as instructions as to how to perform some <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjOJpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Music</a>.