]> 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. hoax Hoax A hoax, in this sense, is a situation which is brought about by an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rveCe75wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Deceiving</a> or an attempt to perform such an act. A situation which is a hoax always contains or embodies misleading evidence. The creating of this evidence is either a performance of or an attempt to perform an act of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rveCe75wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Deceiving</a>. shams sham hoaxes Hoax http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoax hoax Hoax A hoax, in this sense, is a situation which is brought about by an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rveCe75wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Deceiving</a> or an attempt to perform such an act. A situation which is a hoax always contains or embodies misleading evidence. The creating of this evidence is either a performance of or an attempt to perform an act of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rveCe75wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Deceiving</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 hoax Hoax A hoax, in this sense, is a situation which is brought about by an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rveCe75wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Deceiving</a> or an attempt to perform such an act. A situation which is a hoax always contains or embodies misleading evidence. The creating of this evidence is either a performance of or an attempt to perform an act of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rveCe75wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Deceiving</a>. first-order collection FirstOrderCollection An instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvtppU5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CollectionType</a>, and a specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rNooX_CChEdaAAABQ2rksLw" class="cyc_term">FixedOrderCollection</a>. <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rHIBS0h_TEdaAAABQ2rksLw" class="cyc_term">FirstOrderCollection</a> is the collection of all specializations of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjaApwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Individual</a> (q.v.) Notable specializations of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rHIBS0h_TEdaAAABQ2rksLw" class="cyc_term">FirstOrderCollection</a> include <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViq35wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">TemporalObjectType</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVny6pwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ExistingStuffType</a>, and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvWXYgJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ExistingObjectType</a>. 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 hoax Hoax A hoax, in this sense, is a situation which is brought about by an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rveCe75wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Deceiving</a> or an attempt to perform such an act. A situation which is a hoax always contains or embodies misleading evidence. The creating of this evidence is either a performance of or an attempt to perform an act of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rveCe75wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Deceiving</a>. Situation A specialization of both <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjj45wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">IntangibleIndividual</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViAxJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">TemporalThing</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvYjIS5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Situation</a> is a state or event consisting of one or more objects having certain properties or bearing certain relations to each other. Notable specializations of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvYjIS5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Situation</a> are <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViADZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Event</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvh5TfJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">StaticSituation</a>; it is disjoint with <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVi255wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SomethingExisting</a>. situation