]> 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. The hard-boiled <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvcyOaZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Superhero</a> created by Bob Kane for Detective Comics in 1939. Also known as the 'dark knight' or, more camply, the 'caped crusader'. Batman's alterego is Bruce Wayne, a spoiled socialite and Playboy. Batman fights crime in Gotham City, a thinly veiled fictional counterpart of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVivC5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CityOfNewYorkNY</a>. Batman Batman Batmans the Caped Crusader Batmen the Dark Knight Batman http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman MaleHuman male person The collection of all male instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rIcwFloGUQdeMlsOWYLFB2w" class="cyc_term">HomoSapiens</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 FamousHuman A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rIcwFloGUQdeMlsOWYLFB2w" class="cyc_term">HomoSapiens</a>. This is the collection of all human beings that are <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwPzZOJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Famous</a> (i.e. identifiable by a large number of other human beings). See also <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwKQB3pwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">HistoricHuman</a>. famous person 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 class of fictitious people who perform superhuman feats of strength, bravery or daring. Often such heroes possess special, non-human powers, such as x-ray vision or powers of unassisted flight. In some cases no such superpowers are necessary, as in the case of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvlbjDJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Batman</a>. In their general conception, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvcyOaZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Superhero</a>es are conceived of as <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvtwAoZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Vigilante</a> crime-fighters superhero Superhero The hard-boiled <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvcyOaZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Superhero</a> created by Bob Kane for Detective Comics in 1939. Also known as the 'dark knight' or, more camply, the 'caped crusader'. Batman's alterego is Bruce Wayne, a spoiled socialite and Playboy. Batman fights crime in Gotham City, a thinly veiled fictional counterpart of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVivC5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CityOfNewYorkNY</a>. Batman Batman The hard-boiled <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvcyOaZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Superhero</a> created by Bob Kane for Detective Comics in 1939. Also known as the 'dark knight' or, more camply, the 'caped crusader'. Batman's alterego is Bruce Wayne, a spoiled socialite and Playboy. Batman fights crime in Gotham City, a thinly veiled fictional counterpart of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVivC5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CityOfNewYorkNY</a>. Batman Batman <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvtwAoZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Vigilante</a>s are people who take law into their own hands, by seeking out, and often punishing, perceived wrong-doers without the full force of the law on their side. <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvtwAoZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Vigilante</a>s are often perceived as <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjIu5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Criminal</a>s in their own right. vigilante Vigilante FictionalCharacter fictitious character This is the collection of instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwQwwBZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">FictionalThing</a> which are also instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViAB5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Agent_PartiallyTangible</a>. Thus <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwHKvgpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">FictionalCharacter</a> excludes such instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwQwwBZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">FictionalThing</a> as Golden Mountains, which are instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwQwwBZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">FictionalThing</a>, but are not instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViAB5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Agent_PartiallyTangible</a>. A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViAkpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Person</a>, and an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvw00wJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">HumanTypeByLifeStageType</a>. Each instance of this collection is a person old enough to participate as an independent, mature member of society. In most modern Western contexts it is assumed that anyone over 18 is an adult. However, in many cultures, adulthood occurs when one reaches puberty. Adulthood is <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVin4pwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">contiguousAfter</a> (q.v.) childhood. Notable specializations of this collection include <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViyfpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">AdultMaleHuman</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVix8ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">AdultFemaleHuman</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVibu5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">MiddleAgedHuman</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjZtZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">OldHuman</a>. HumanAdult human adult 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