]> 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. News A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViAqJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PropositionalInformationThing</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjb0ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">News</a> consists of some factual information about recent events in the world (or <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjNiZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">geographicalSubRegions</a> thereof). News is commonly embodied in newspapers and communicated through radio and television news broadcasts. Note that <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjb0ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">News</a> does not include as instances any instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwEdlDZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">NewsArticle</a> (q.v.). Rather, an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjb0ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">News</a> might be the content of a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwEdlDZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">NewsArticle</a>, and could be the content of distinct <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwEdlDZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">NewsArticle</a>s news

News

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News http://www.w3.org/2006/03/wn/wn20/instances/synset-news-noun-4 The collection of all headlines. A type of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjb0ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">News</a>. headline Headline (NewsFn WeatherEvent) news about weather (NewsFn SportsEvent) sports news weather news WeatherNews A collection of abstract (intangible) informational items; a specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjb0ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">News</a>. A <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwUVRv5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">WeatherNews</a> consists of information about recent, current or future <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVi2eZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">WeatherEvent</a>s. Typically disseminated via TV or radio broadcasts, the internet, or newspapers. news about the NBA (NewsFn NationalBasketballAssociation) ObjectType type of object The collection of all collections that are "object-like" in at least one respect. A collection <code>COL</code> is object-like just in case there is some sense of 'part' according to which any (or nearly any) given proper part of an instance of <code>COL</code> is not itself an instance of <code>COL</code>; when this happens <code>COL</code> is said to be object-like with respect to that sense of 'part'. More precisely, for a collection <code>COL</code> to be an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVirnZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ObjectType</a> it is sufficient that there be some specialization <code>PARTPRED</code> of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwgfukKs8QdePzLB9nLNpTw" class="cyc_term">properParts</a> such that, for any <code>OBJ1</code> and <code>OBJ2</code>, if <code>(<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViBBJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">isa</a> OBJ1 COL)</code> and <code>(PARTPRED OBJ1 OBJ2)</code> both hold, then <code>(<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViBBJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">isa</a> OBJ2 COL)</code> does not hold. (Also sufficient for <code>COL</code>'s being an object-type is that there be some specialization <code>INVPARTPRED</code> of the inverse of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwgfukKs8QdePzLB9nLNpTw" class="cyc_term">properParts</a> (see <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvWHsNJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">genlInverse</a>) such that <code>(INVPARTPRED OBJ2 OBJ1)</code>, with everything else remaining the same as above.) Note that neither of the above sufficient conditions for <code>COL</code>'s being an object-type is strictly necessary: some exceptions are allowed. Thus as long as either one of the above conditionals holds in nearly all cases, <code>COL</code> should be considered an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVirnZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ObjectType</a>. Here are two examples. Consider <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViVwZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Automobile</a>. Take an instance of that, say my car. Now consider one of the proper <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVj5FpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">physicalParts</a> of my car, say the steering wheel. The steering wheel is not an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViVwZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Automobile</a>. And the same would be true for any proper physical part of any car. So <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViVwZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Automobile</a> is an <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVirnZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ObjectType</a>. Consider <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjyV5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CalendarYear</a>. No proper <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvWn4OZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">timeSlices</a> of a year is itself a year. So <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjyV5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CalendarYear</a> is an <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVirnZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ObjectType</a>. See <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVir35wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">StuffType</a> for the contrasting (though not disjoint) notion of being stuff-like. News news A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViAqJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PropositionalInformationThing</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjb0ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">News</a> consists of some factual information about recent events in the world (or <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjNiZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">geographicalSubRegions</a> thereof). News is commonly embodied in newspapers and communicated through radio and television news broadcasts. Note that <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjb0ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">News</a> does not include as instances any instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwEdlDZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">NewsArticle</a> (q.v.). Rather, an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjb0ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">News</a> might be the content of a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwEdlDZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">NewsArticle</a>, and could be the content of distinct <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwEdlDZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">NewsArticle</a>s 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> THING URI)</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 News news A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViAqJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PropositionalInformationThing</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjb0ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">News</a> consists of some factual information about recent events in the world (or <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjNiZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">geographicalSubRegions</a> thereof). News is commonly embodied in newspapers and communicated through radio and television news broadcasts. Note that <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjb0ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">News</a> does not include as instances any instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwEdlDZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">NewsArticle</a> (q.v.). Rather, an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjb0ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">News</a> might be the content of a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwEdlDZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">NewsArticle</a>, and could be the content of distinct <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwEdlDZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">NewsArticle</a>s information-content A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvf9sZJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">AspatialInformationStore</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvrXnQpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Information_Content</a> is an abstract object that can be the content, or meaning, of some token in some language. A pair of tokens of linguistic objects mean the same thing just in case each has the same content as the other. Instance of this collection can be used to represent the content of an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwClAZJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ConceptualWork</a>. Information-Content Required Arg 1 Pred requiredArg1Pred A <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwNZi3JwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">MetaPredicate</a> for stating that every instance of a given collection is related to some thing or things by a given predicate. <code>(<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvdUGBpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">requiredArg1Pred</a> COL PRED)</code> means that for every instance <code>INST</code> of <code>COL</code>, there exists some sequence <code>ARGS</code> such that <code>(PRED INST . ARGS)</code> holds. For example, (<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvdUGBpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">requiredArg1Pred</a> <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjVT5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Organization</a> <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViz-5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">hasMembers</a>) means that every organization has at least one member. See also <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvvftiJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">requiredArg2Pred</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rtSyCMo5bQdiKvbFrqtRipw" class="cyc_term">requiredArg3Pred</a>. InformationAndCWs-Topic information and CWs topic News news A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViAqJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PropositionalInformationThing</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjb0ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">News</a> consists of some factual information about recent events in the world (or <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjNiZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">geographicalSubRegions</a> thereof). News is commonly embodied in newspapers and communicated through radio and television news broadcasts. Note that <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjb0ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">News</a> does not include as instances any instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwEdlDZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">NewsArticle</a> (q.v.). Rather, an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjb0ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">News</a> might be the content of a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwEdlDZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">NewsArticle</a>, and could be the content of distinct <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwEdlDZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">NewsArticle</a>s AspatialInformationStore information A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4r6-GNDEkIQdeTPvxS8JnCLA" class="cyc_term">AspatialThing</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjj45wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">IntangibleIndividual</a>, and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvu__KJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">InformationStore</a>. <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvf9sZJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">AspatialInformationStore</a> is the collection of all information stores that have no spatial location. Specializations of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvf9sZJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">AspatialInformationStore</a> include <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwClAZJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ConceptualWork</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViA1ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Microtheory</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwQGTzJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">AbstractInformationStructure</a>, and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVi3N5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">FieldOfStudy</a>. Although no instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvf9sZJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">AspatialInformationStore</a> has a spatial location, some instances can have multiple spatio-temporal "embodiments". For example, an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViAqJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PropositionalInformationThing</a> may be the content of several concrete documents, such as several instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwJaXepwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">BookCopy</a> (see <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvtEvQZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">containsInfoPropositional_IBT</a>); and several distinct events, such as spoken utterances, may have a certain unique <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViA7JwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Proposition</a> as their content (see <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjCQJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">containsInformation</a>). <code>(<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4r9VF4oFbvEdqAAAACs71DGQ" class="cyc_term">newsSubject</a> NEWS SUBJECT)</code> means that <code>SUBJECT</code> is a subject of <code>NEWS</code>, an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjb0ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">News</a>. <code>SUBJECT</code> will either be a situation, or a constituent (<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvzSt55wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">situationConstituents</a>) of a situation that is also a subject of <code>NEWS</code>. news subject newsSubject TimeDependentCollection A collection of collections. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwIE23ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">TimeDependentCollection</a> is a collection whose membership changes over time. For example, (<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwPzX35wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">LiquidFn</a> <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjAHZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Water</a>) is a time dependent collection. A given portion of water might be an instance of (<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwPzX35wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">LiquidFn</a> <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjAHZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Water</a>) in the summer, and an instance of the disjoint collection (<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwPzX0JwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SolidFn</a> <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjAHZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Water</a>) in the winter. In contrast, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVieEpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Integer</a> is a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvzndCZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">TimeIndependentCollection</a> (q.v.) because the collection of integers does not change its membership over time. time dependent collection 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