]> 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. Town A subcollection of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjnZ5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">City</a> whose instances have populations larger than those of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rv33BppwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Village</a>s (q.v.) but smaller than those typically referred to as "cities". township townships town towns

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town http://www.w3.org/2006/03/wn/wn20/instances/synset-town-noun-1 small town SmallTown The collection of small towns. "Small" here is defined relativistically, and in terms of population and geographical area. That is, a small town is an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvuXm9JwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Town</a> that has both a low population relative to most towns and a small area relative to most towns. This conjunction is designed to prevent an unusually large town (one with a large population and area) from becoming, unintuitively, a small one due to a sudden plague outbreak that devistates the population, or due to an annexation or cecessation that results in a sudden drastic drop in size, with little drop in populaion. A <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rdpa1cLgqEdmAAAACs0x8nw" class="cyc_term">Boomtown</a> is a town currently enjoying a business and population boom. boomtown Boomtown (CollectionIntersectionFn (TheSet Abandoned-ExistentialStatus Town)) abandoned township A <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rk7-18rgqEdmAAAACs0x8nw" class="cyc_term">CowTown</a> is a town whose economy currently thrives on ranching and cattle. cow town CowTown city <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjnZ5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">City</a> is a specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjl2pwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">GeopoliticalEntity</a> whose territory is an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjK7JwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">UrbanArea</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjnZ5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">City</a> is a local organization of a human settlement which has its own government. This includes cities, towns, suburbs, villages, hamlets, and townships, as long as they have their own governments. A city government is usually mostly autonomous from the governments of its surrounding regions, rather than being a sub-organization of them. City 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 NonNaturalThing The collection of non-natural individuals. This collection is hard to precisely define but, roughly, something is an instance of this collection just in case it is one of the following: 1) <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjaApwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Individual</a> acts that are intentionally performed by <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVinb5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">IntelligentAgent</a>s, or 2) <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjaApwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Individual</a>s that in some significant sense "could only have been the result" of the intentional activities of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVinb5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">IntelligentAgent</a>s (or groups thereof). Positive examples in the first category include <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwP1F75wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CesareanBirth</a>s, negative examples include eating. Positive examples in the second category include instances of industrial pollution and tire tracks. Negative examples include human vomit and human (bare) footprints. unnatural thing GeopoliticalEntityTypeByNonOverlappingJurisdiction non-overlapping geopolitical entity A collection of collections. Instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rPJJhlM0SQdeDhsNnnhQekw" class="cyc_term">GeopoliticalEntityTypeByNonOverlappingJurisdiction</a> are subcollections of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjl2pwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">GeopoliticalEntity</a> members of which have jurisdictions that do not overlap. 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 Town A subcollection of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjnZ5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">City</a> whose instances have populations larger than those of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rv33BppwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Village</a>s (q.v.) but smaller than those typically referred to as "cities". township 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 Town A subcollection of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjnZ5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">City</a> whose instances have populations larger than those of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rv33BppwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Village</a>s (q.v.) but smaller than those typically referred to as "cities". township Town A subcollection of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjnZ5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">City</a> whose instances have populations larger than those of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rv33BppwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Village</a>s (q.v.) but smaller than those typically referred to as "cities". township