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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. Religion The collection of all religions or equivalent sets of beliefs that answer the `big questions' about creation, existence, etc. Some elements of this are: <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjOHZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">AnimistReligion</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjnvpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Catholicism</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjmnZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Buddhism</a>, etc. religion religious belief faith religions faiths religious beliefs Religion http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion http://www.w3.org/2006/03/wn/wn20/instances/synset-religion-noun-1 http://www.w3.org/2006/03/wn/wn20/instances/synset-religion-noun-2 The collection of all instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVkCHZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Religion</a> in which the divine (ultimate reality) is conceived in impersonal, non-agentive terms NonTheisticReligion non-theistic religion theistic religion The collection of all instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVkCHZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Religion</a> in which the divine (ultimate reality) is conceived as one or more intelligent agents TheisticReligion Paganism-Religion paganism-religion A sub-collection of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVkCHZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Religion</a>. Each instance is one of various religions other than Christianity or Judaism or Islam. The collection of all instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVkCHZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Religion</a> which are variations of a more general religion which adherents of the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwJGH5JwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ReligiousDenomination</a> regard as their <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVkCHZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Religion</a>. ReligiousDenomination religious denomination LocalTraditionalReligion The collection of all local traditional religions. A type of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVkCHZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Religion</a>. <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViFIZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">LocalTraditionalReligion</a> is a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVkFiJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">BeliefSystemType</a>. local traditional religion Buddhism The religion which was founded by the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rveeai5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Buddha</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rv1G895wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SiddharthaGautama</a>, in the 5th century BC in India. Buddhism (InstanceNamedFn-Ternary "Sulfism" Religion "8738529a-17b1-41d9-8568-cd689a4a82f0") Sulfism A religion originating in Persia around 1400 B.C. It was adapted from an earlier <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjTQJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PolytheisticReligion</a> by Zoroaster (or Zarathushtra). During its tenure as a widespread religion, it had two deities: Ahura Mazda and Angra Mainyu (or Ahriman). Surviving communities practitioners consider <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwSSgxpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Zoroastrianism</a> to be a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVkCXpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">MonotheisticReligion</a>. Zoroastrianism Zoroastrianism Religion The collection of all religions or equivalent sets of beliefs that answer the `big questions' about creation, existence, etc. Some elements of this are: <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjOHZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">AnimistReligion</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjnvpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Catholicism</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjmnZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Buddhism</a>, etc. religion The collection of all instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4r_4bScKNtQdiVw7XtX-HN0Q" class="cyc_term">ClarifyingCollectionType</a> that are used by the <font color="#ff0000">#$KRAKEN</font> application to resolve natural language ambiguities. KE clarifying collection type KEClarifyingCollectionType 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 Religion The collection of all religions or equivalent sets of beliefs that answer the `big questions' about creation, existence, etc. Some elements of this are: <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjOHZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">AnimistReligion</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjnvpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Catholicism</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjmnZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Buddhism</a>, etc. religion 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 The collection of all the kinds of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVi9R5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">BeliefSystem</a>s -- religious, philosophical, political, ethical, cultural, and scientific. Some elements of this collection include <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVkCHZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Religion</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjXOZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PhilosophyBeliefs</a>, etc. The most general member of this set is <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVi9R5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">BeliefSystem</a>s (qv). type of belief system BeliefSystemType The collection of all religions or equivalent sets of beliefs that answer the `big questions' about creation, existence, etc. Some instances of this are: <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjOHZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">AnimistReligion</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjnvpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Catholicism</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjmnZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Buddhism</a>, etc. system of religious beliefs ReligiousBeliefs education-social-topic A <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rAmoSCGJbQdiSXZJvYiNhkQ" class="cyc_term">CycVocabularyTopic</a> and a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rtGXkHpNaEdqAAAACs0uFOQ" class="cyc_term">KBDependentCollection</a>. Education-Social-Topic Religion The collection of all religions or equivalent sets of beliefs that answer the `big questions' about creation, existence, etc. Some elements of this are: <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjOHZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">AnimistReligion</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjnvpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Catholicism</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjmnZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Buddhism</a>, etc. religion 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