]> 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. NATO NATO The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was created in Washington on April 4, 1949 as an alliance for collective defence as defined in Article 51 of the United Nations Charter. Thus <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjhTpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">NATO</a> is a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjx75wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">MilitaryOrganization</a> of countries meant to collectively protect the member countries against <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rv8sQAZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">MilitaryAttack</a>. the North Atlantic Treaty Organization

NATO

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO http://www.w3.org/2006/03/wn/wn20/instances/synset-North_Atlantic_Treaty_Organization-noun-1 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 NATO NATO The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was created in Washington on April 4, 1949 as an alliance for collective defence as defined in Article 51 of the United Nations Charter. Thus <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjhTpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">NATO</a> is a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjx75wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">MilitaryOrganization</a> of countries meant to collectively protect the member countries against <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rv8sQAZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">MilitaryAttack</a>. The collection of all agreements between geopolitical agents where the parties to the agreement agree to work in concert with respect to some endeavor or set of issues. An international alliance may be formed for a comparatively specific purpose, like the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rv86w8pwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">DesertShieldCoalition</a>, or it may be formed with a wide range of goals in mind, like the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Also, alliances may be relatively brief or may be quite long-standing. Alliances are often established through some sort of formal treaty. Their participants are almost always instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjk55wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">IndependentCountry</a> acting as international agents. A situation where one or more of the participants is an international corporation like the Lippo Group or Saudi Aramco, or some other global economic entity like the International Monetary Fund, might conceivably be a borderline case. InternationalAlliance international alliance BT broaderTerm <code>(<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rZOAVeiYGEdqAAAACs2IMmw" class="cyc_term">broaderTerm</a> TERM1 TERM2)</code> means that <code>TERM2</code> is broader than <code>TERM1</code>, in an extremely general sense of "broader". For example, <code>TERM2</code> is, in the relevant sense, broader than <code>TERM1</code> if any of the following hold: <code>TERM2</code> is a collection that subsumes <code>TERM1</code>; <code>TERM2</code> is a collection that has <code>TERM1</code> as an instance; <code>TERM2</code> is a collection, instances of which have instances of the collection <code>TERM1</code> as parts; <code>TERM2</code> has <code>TERM1</code> as a part; This list of reasons for why <code>(<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rZOAVeiYGEdqAAAACs2IMmw" class="cyc_term">broaderTerm</a> TERM1 TERM2)</code> could hold is not exhaustive, but it should give a good indication of how general the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rZOAVeiYGEdqAAAACs2IMmw" class="cyc_term">broaderTerm</a> relation actually is. 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 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 NATO NATO The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was created in Washington on April 4, 1949 as an alliance for collective defence as defined in Article 51 of the United Nations Charter. Thus <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjhTpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">NATO</a> is a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjx75wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">MilitaryOrganization</a> of countries meant to collectively protect the member countries against <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rv8sQAZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">MilitaryAttack</a>. modern military organization A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjx75wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">MilitaryOrganization</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjxrpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ModernMilitaryOrganization</a> is a military organization of current (or recent) times that has modern equipment and methods. Instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjxrpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ModernMilitaryOrganization</a> generally make at least some use of high-tech military hardware. Specializations of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjxrpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ModernMilitaryOrganization</a> include <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwQwazJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">AirForce</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvyO94ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Navy</a>, and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rv26DAZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Army_BranchOfService</a>. ModernMilitaryOrganization This is an informal group comprised of, at the least, all of the countries in the world (see <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViIeZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Country</a>), and also some international organizations such as <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjlwJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">OPEC</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjhTpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">NATO</a>, and the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwLGwopwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">WorldTradeOrganization</a>. (Note that all countries being members of the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVitTpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">InternationalCommunity</a> is true only in the modern world, where countries have sufficient communication in order to form a community.) the international community InternationalCommunity