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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. ambulation Ambulation A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwI00TJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Locomotion_SolidSurface</a>: the collection of all locomotion events on solid surfaces in which an <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViwMZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Animal</a> moves by lifting its feet, moving them through the air, and setting them down in a new location. Includes walking (cf. <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rv6dWNJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Walking_Generic</a>), <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjkGpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Running</a>, skipping, trotting, etc. will ambulate ambulated has ambulated have ambulated had ambulated ambulates ambulating will have ambulated ambulate Walking http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walking Jaywalking A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvdTMOpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Ambulation</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rNxXZrF29QdmXa7u9gKY-CA" class="cyc_term">Jaywalking</a> is an event in which an agent crosses a street in an illegal or reckless fashion. jaywalking human ambulation (SubcollectionOfWithRelationToTypeFn Ambulation doneBy HomoSapiens) descending stairs An instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVitN5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">TemporalStuffType</a> and a specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvdTMOpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Ambulation</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwN7aIpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">DescendingEvent</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rMRRuYKUDQdiJ87o97JK-fw" class="cyc_term">DescendingStairs</a> is an event in which an agent walks down part or all of a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjkx5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Stairway</a>. See also <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rL8bKHKUDQdiTk66rw4YbAA" class="cyc_term">AscendingStairs</a>. DescendingStairs Running run The collection of instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjmjJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">LocomotionProcess_Animal</a> in which an <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViwMZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Animal</a> agent travels on foot using rapid voluntary movements of its legs; similar to walking, only faster. walk Walking-Generic A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvdTMOpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Ambulation</a>: the collection of all instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvqY3x5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">LocomotionProcess</a> in which the locomotor (usually but not necessarily an animal) always has at least one foot in contact with the surface. <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rv6dWNJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Walking_Generic</a> is therefore disjoint with <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjkGpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Running</a>. Notable specializations of this collection include <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjXfZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">AnimalWalkingProcess</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVi0gpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">WalkingOnTwoLegs</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViTiZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">WalkingOnFourLegs</a>. the union of { ascending stairs, descending stairs } (CollectionUnionFn (TheSet AscendingStairs DescendingStairs)) AscendingStairs ascending stairs An instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVitN5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">TemporalStuffType</a> and a specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvdTMOpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Ambulation</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwUX5YZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">AscendingEvent</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rL8bKHKUDQdiTk66rw4YbAA" class="cyc_term">AscendingStairs</a> is an event in which an agent climbs part or all of a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjkx5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Stairway</a>. See also <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rMRRuYKUDQdiJ87o97JK-fw" class="cyc_term">DescendingStairs</a>. ambulation A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwI00TJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Locomotion_SolidSurface</a>: the collection of all locomotion events on solid surfaces in which an <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViwMZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Animal</a> moves by lifting its feet, moving them through the air, and setting them down in a new location. Includes walking (cf. <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rv6dWNJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Walking_Generic</a>), <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjkGpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Running</a>, skipping, trotting, etc. Ambulation This is the collection of all <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViHMZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">LegMovement</a> events in which all legs are moved. MovingAllLegs moving all legs IterativeSituationType type of iterative scripted event This is the collection of all specializations of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvYjIS5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Situation</a> which contain an iterated sub-situation types. 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 type of temporally stuff-like thing TemporalStuffType A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVir35wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">StuffType</a> (q.v.) whose instances are all and only those collections that are temporally stuff-like. A collection <code><b>COL</b></code> is temporally stuff-like just in case every purely temporal part (see <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvWn4OZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">timeSlices</a>) of an instance of <code><b>COL</b></code> is itself an instance of <code><b>COL</b></code>, unless it is a temporal part of a temporal granule of <code><b>COL</b></code> (see <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjaJJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">granuleOfTemporalStuff</a>). <p/> More precisely, for a collection <code><b>COL</b></code> to be an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVitN5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">TemporalStuffType</a> it is both a necessary and sufficient condition that for any <code><b>OBJ1</b></code> and <code><b>OBJ2</b></code> (with <code><b>OBJ2</b></code> at or above <code><b>COL</b></code>'s temporal granularity level), if <code>(<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViBBJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">isa</a> <b>OBJ1</b> <b>COL</b>)</code> and <code>(<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvWn4OZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">timeSlices</a> <b>OBJ1</b> <b>OBJ2</b>)</code>, then <code>(<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViBBJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">isa</a> <b>OBJ2</b> <b>COL</b>)</code>. <p/> Consider <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVi0gpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">WalkingOnTwoLegs</a>. Take an arbitrary instance <code><b>WALK</b></code> of this collection (say Miss America 2000's victory walk down the runway and back); and then take an arbitrary time-slice <code><b>SUBWALK</b></code> of <code><b>WALK</b></code> that subsumes at least one instance of (the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjaJJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">granuleOfTemporalStuff</a> for <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVi0gpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">WalkingOnTwoLegs</a>) <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViYBpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">TakingAStep</a> (say her trip back from the end of the runway). <code><b>SUBWALK</b></code> is itself an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVi0gpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">WalkingOnTwoLegs</a>. So <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVi0gpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">WalkingOnTwoLegs</a> is an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVitN5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">TemporalStuffType</a>. See <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViq35wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">TemporalObjectType</a> for the disjoint notion of being temporally object-like. The collection of all locomotion events in which the locomotor moves along, and is supported by, a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjElJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SolidTangibleThing</a>. Includes walking, slithering, somersaulting, etc. locomotion on a solid surface Locomotion-SolidSurface 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 ambulation A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwI00TJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Locomotion_SolidSurface</a>: the collection of all locomotion events on solid surfaces in which an <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViwMZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Animal</a> moves by lifting its feet, moving them through the air, and setting them down in a new location. Includes walking (cf. <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rv6dWNJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Walking_Generic</a>), <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjkGpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Running</a>, skipping, trotting, etc. Ambulation ambulation A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwI00TJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Locomotion_SolidSurface</a>: the collection of all locomotion events on solid surfaces in which an <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViwMZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Animal</a> moves by lifting its feet, moving them through the air, and setting them down in a new location. Includes walking (cf. <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rv6dWNJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Walking_Generic</a>), <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjkGpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Running</a>, skipping, trotting, etc. Ambulation 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