]> 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. Partnership <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVipSZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Partnership</a> is a specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjVT5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Organization</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVipSZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Partnership</a> is an organization that has been formally organized as a partnership pursuant to partnership agreements. In the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVikKpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">UnitedStatesOfAmerica</a>, most instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVipSZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Partnership</a> are organized pursuant to specific statutes. <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvWauDJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">GeneralPartner</a>s of a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVipSZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Partnership</a> are jointly and severally liable for the debts and other liabilities of the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVipSZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Partnership</a>. The liability of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVvBgpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">LimitedPartner</a>s is limited in accordance with the governing partnership agreement. The <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwB7J8ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PartnershipPartner</a>s of an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVipSZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Partnership</a> may be individuals or entities. For example, an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvWdLapwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">LimitedPartnership</a> may have an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViSlZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">LegalCorporation</a> as its <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvWauDJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">GeneralPartner</a> and individuals as its <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVvBgpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">LimitedPartner</a>s. partnership partnerships partners partner Partnership http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partnership http://www.w3.org/2006/03/wn/wn20/instances/synset-partnership-noun-1 An organization which includes at least one partner with unlimited liability. The other partners, instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVvBgpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">LimitedPartner</a>, are liable only for the capital that they contributed to the organization. limited partnership LimitedPartnership medical group practice MedicalGroupPractice A business partnership among 2 or more physicians. Doctors in a group practice pool resources, share staff and equipment, just as any other business partnership. GeneralPartnership general partnership The collection of all <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVipSZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Partnership</a>s that have only <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvWauDJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">GeneralPartner</a>s and no <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVvBgpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">LimitedPartner</a>s. Each <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwB7J8ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PartnershipPartner</a> in a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvd7MPpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">GeneralPartnership</a> is jointly and severally liable for the debts and other liabilities of the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVipSZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Partnership</a>. Instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvWfgZZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">JointVentureOrganization</a> are often also instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvd7MPpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">GeneralPartnership</a>. (ManagingOrgOfRegionFn SanJuanPublicLands-Region) the managing organization for San Juan Public Lands LukAgip LukAgip This is a joint venture of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvwAnbpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">LukoilCorporation</a> (a Russian owned company) and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvuD0TpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Agip</a> (an Italian owned company). It holds a majority in the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwOv09pwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CIOC</a>, which is involved with oil and gas fields in the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjQE5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CaspianSea</a>, particularly the Karabakh fields in <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvfLfM5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Azerbaijan</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 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 Partnership <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVipSZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Partnership</a> is a specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjVT5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Organization</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVipSZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Partnership</a> is an organization that has been formally organized as a partnership pursuant to partnership agreements. In the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVikKpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">UnitedStatesOfAmerica</a>, most instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVipSZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Partnership</a> are organized pursuant to specific statutes. <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvWauDJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">GeneralPartner</a>s of a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVipSZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Partnership</a> are jointly and severally liable for the debts and other liabilities of the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVipSZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Partnership</a>. The liability of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVvBgpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">LimitedPartner</a>s is limited in accordance with the governing partnership agreement. The <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwB7J8ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PartnershipPartner</a>s of an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVipSZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Partnership</a> may be individuals or entities. For example, an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvWdLapwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">LimitedPartnership</a> may have an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViSlZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">LegalCorporation</a> as its <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvWauDJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">GeneralPartner</a> and individuals as its <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVvBgpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">LimitedPartner</a>s. partnership Partnership <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVipSZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Partnership</a> is a specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjVT5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Organization</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVipSZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Partnership</a> is an organization that has been formally organized as a partnership pursuant to partnership agreements. In the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVikKpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">UnitedStatesOfAmerica</a>, most instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVipSZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Partnership</a> are organized pursuant to specific statutes. <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvWauDJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">GeneralPartner</a>s of a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVipSZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Partnership</a> are jointly and severally liable for the debts and other liabilities of the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVipSZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Partnership</a>. The liability of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVvBgpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">LimitedPartner</a>s is limited in accordance with the governing partnership agreement. The <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwB7J8ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PartnershipPartner</a>s of an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVipSZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Partnership</a> may be individuals or entities. For example, an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvWdLapwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">LimitedPartnership</a> may have an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViSlZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">LegalCorporation</a> as its <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvWauDJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">GeneralPartner</a> and individuals as its <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVvBgpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">LimitedPartner</a>s. partnership Organization organization The collection of all organizations. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjVT5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Organization</a> is a group whose group-members are instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVinb5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">IntelligentAgent</a>. In each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjVT5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Organization</a>, certain relationships and obligations exist between the members of the organization, or between the organization and its members. Instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjVT5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Organization</a> include both informal and legally constituted organizations. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjVT5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Organization</a> can undertake projects, enter into agreements, own property, and do other tasks characteristic of agents; consequently, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjVT5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Organization</a> is a specialization of the collection <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViAB5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Agent_PartiallyTangible</a>. Notable specializations of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjVT5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Organization</a> include <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViKppwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">LegalGovernmentOrganization</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViS05wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CommercialOrganization</a>, and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjl2pwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">GeopoliticalEntity</a>. organisation that is not a political entity Organization-NonGeopoliticalEntity The collection of organizations that are not instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjl2pwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">GeopoliticalEntity</a>. This will include most of the instances of organization other than governments and countries. 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 organisation that is not a political entity (CollectionDifferenceFn Organization GeopoliticalEntity) OrganizationByEntityType A collection of collections. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvyrK25wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">OrganizationByEntityType</a> is a subcollection of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjVT5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Organization</a> whose instances are all the same type of legal entity. For example, the collections <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViSlZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">LegalCorporation</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVipSZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Partnership</a>, and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwH-3XJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Association</a> are all instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvyrK25wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">OrganizationByEntityType</a>. type of organization classified by entity organizations by legal form organization topic OrganizationsByLegalForm-Organization-Topic Partnership <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVipSZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Partnership</a> is a specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjVT5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Organization</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVipSZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Partnership</a> is an organization that has been formally organized as a partnership pursuant to partnership agreements. In the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVikKpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">UnitedStatesOfAmerica</a>, most instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVipSZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Partnership</a> are organized pursuant to specific statutes. <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvWauDJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">GeneralPartner</a>s of a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVipSZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Partnership</a> are jointly and severally liable for the debts and other liabilities of the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVipSZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Partnership</a>. The liability of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVvBgpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">LimitedPartner</a>s is limited in accordance with the governing partnership agreement. The <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwB7J8ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PartnershipPartner</a>s of an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVipSZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Partnership</a> may be individuals or entities. For example, an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvWdLapwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">LimitedPartnership</a> may have an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViSlZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">LegalCorporation</a> as its <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvWauDJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">GeneralPartner</a> and individuals as its <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVvBgpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">LimitedPartner</a>s. partnership agent non geographical Agent-NonGeographical A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvsaaeJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Agent_Generic</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4ro3lluGJHQdiVxrZReHS-jQ" class="cyc_term">EnduringThing_Localized</a> (qq.v.). <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rTamqeBNMEdqAAAACs4vPlg" class="cyc_term">Agent_NonGeographical</a> is the collection of all spatially-located agents that are not geographical (cf. <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwTccApwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">GeographicalAgent</a>). Specializations include <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4ryJtzbicMEdqAAAACs6hcqg" class="cyc_term">EmbodiedAgent</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViS05wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CommercialOrganization</a>, and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViSlZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">LegalCorporation</a>. 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