]> 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. election Election An instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViq35wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">TemporalObjectType</a> and a specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rT4MKVI4vQdiAA-1AaWTmew" class="cyc_term">Vote_CollectiveDecision</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViAGpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Competition</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwQrmEZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Election</a> is an event in which members of an <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjVT5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Organization</a> cast votes to determine who, out of a group of candidates, will hold some position in that organization. Important specializations of this collection include <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwQrnQ5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ElectionForOffice</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4r3waPhntLQdeYr9niRiKIZw" class="cyc_term">PrimaryElection</a>. has elected will elect elect electing had elected elections have elected elects elected will have elected

Election

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Election http://www.w3.org/2006/03/wn/wn20/instances/synset-election-noun-2 http://www.w3.org/2006/03/wn/wn20/instances/synset-vote-noun-2 StateElection state election The collection of all <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwQrmEZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Election</a>s in which the polity holding the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwQrmEZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Election</a> is a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjnqJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">State_Geopolitical</a>. election for an office An event in which many people state their choices for the person to take a particular office. ElectionForOffice PrimaryElection The collection of all elections managed by a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjl2pwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">GeopoliticalEntity</a> in which people vote for who a specific <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVj82pwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PoliticalParty</a>'s candidate should be in an upcoming general election. primary election The collection of all <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwQrmEZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Election</a>s in which the polity holding the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwQrmEZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Election</a> is a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4r06ySZMcYEdmAAAACs6hRjg" class="cyc_term">Municipality</a>. local election LocalElection national election NationalElection The collection of all <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwQrmEZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Election</a>s in which the polity holding the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwQrmEZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Election</a> is a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViIeZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Country</a>. Re-election The collection of all re-elections. A type of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwQrmEZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Election</a>. re-election A sub-collection of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwQrmEZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Election</a>. Each instance is the selection of a new member (usually by a vote of the existing membership). co option CoOption-Election election Election An instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViq35wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">TemporalObjectType</a> and a specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rT4MKVI4vQdiAA-1AaWTmew" class="cyc_term">Vote_CollectiveDecision</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViAGpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Competition</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwQrmEZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Election</a> is an event in which members of an <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjVT5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Organization</a> cast votes to determine who, out of a group of candidates, will hold some position in that organization. Important specializations of this collection include <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwQrnQ5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ElectionForOffice</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4r3waPhntLQdeYr9niRiKIZw" class="cyc_term">PrimaryElection</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 election Election An instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViq35wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">TemporalObjectType</a> and a specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rT4MKVI4vQdiAA-1AaWTmew" class="cyc_term">Vote_CollectiveDecision</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViAGpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Competition</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwQrmEZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Election</a> is an event in which members of an <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjVT5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Organization</a> cast votes to determine who, out of a group of candidates, will hold some position in that organization. Important specializations of this collection include <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwQrnQ5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ElectionForOffice</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4r3waPhntLQdeYr9niRiKIZw" class="cyc_term">PrimaryElection</a>. A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvyEmy5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ConflictEvent</a>. An instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViAGpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Competition</a> is a conflict event that typically involves one or more agents who are each striving to attain a certain goal uniquely or to outdo the other competitors with respect to some game or task. Examples include arm wrestling contests, football games, fighting for prey, competitive courting, racing events, and spelling bees. Note that it is possible for the competitors in a competition to be unaware that a competition has been going on until after it is over (e.g. the first year a "Best Restaurant in Town" award is given out in a particular city). See also <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVi3D5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">competingAgents</a>. Competition competition 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> THING URI)</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 The collection of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViG3JwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SelectingSomething</a> events in which the thing chosen is a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViAkpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Person</a> to fill a position at some <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjVT5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Organization</a> (e.g., the event of selecting someone to be the new VP of Marketing for IBM.) selection for position PositionSelection election Election An instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViq35wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">TemporalObjectType</a> and a specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rT4MKVI4vQdiAA-1AaWTmew" class="cyc_term">Vote_CollectiveDecision</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViAGpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Competition</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwQrmEZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Election</a> is an event in which members of an <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjVT5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Organization</a> cast votes to determine who, out of a group of candidates, will hold some position in that organization. Important specializations of this collection include <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwQrnQ5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ElectionForOffice</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4r3waPhntLQdeYr9niRiKIZw" class="cyc_term">PrimaryElection</a>. An instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViq35wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">TemporalObjectType</a> and a specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViQRJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Deciding_Collectively</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rT4MKVI4vQdiAA-1AaWTmew" class="cyc_term">Vote_CollectiveDecision</a> is an event in which many members of some <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjVT5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Organization</a> (e.g. a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViIeZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Country</a>) cast their votes to decide something--e.g., who should be the next president of the organization or whether a certain policy should be enacted. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rT4MKVI4vQdiAA-1AaWTmew" class="cyc_term">Vote_CollectiveDecision</a> has many instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwQrnTpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Voting</a> as proper subevents. Two important specializations of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rT4MKVI4vQdiAA-1AaWTmew" class="cyc_term">Vote_CollectiveDecision</a> are <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwQrmEZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Election</a> and #$BallotInitiative. vote Vote-CollectiveDecision TemporalObjectType temporal object type A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVirnZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ObjectType</a> (q.v.) whose instances are all and only those collections that are temporally object-like. A collection <code>COL</code> is temporally object-like just in case it generally holds that any proper purely temporal parts (see <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvWn4OZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">timeSlices</a>) of an instance of <code>COL</code> is not itself an instance of <code>COL</code>. More precisely, a collection <code>COL</code> is an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViq35wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">TemporalObjectType</a> just in case it satisfies the following: For any distinct <code>OBJ1</code> and <code>OBJ2</code>, if <code>(<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViBBJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">isa</a> OBJ1 COL)</code> and <code>(<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvWn4OZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">timeSlices</a> OBJ1 OBJ2)</code>, then not <code>(<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViBBJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">isa</a> OBJ2 COL)</code>. For example, none of the proper time-slices of a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjyV5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CalendarYear</a> is itself a calendar year. Likewise for <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViYBpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">TakingAStep</a>. So <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjyV5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CalendarYear</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViYBpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">TakingAStep</a> are both instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViq35wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">TemporalObjectType</a>. Conversely, a proper time-slice of a given <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVisWZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Date</a> might itself be a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVisWZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Date</a> (e.g. an hour has minutes and seconds as time-slices); so <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVisWZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Date</a> is not a temporal-object-type. See <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVitN5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">TemporalStuffType</a> for the disjoint notion of being temporally stuff-like. 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 A collection of individual events. An event is an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvxwV15wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Event_Organized</a> if it is planned and directed by some instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViAkpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Person</a> or <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjVT5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Organization</a>. Elements of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjH1pwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">MusicalPerformance</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvWPSj5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Trial</a>, and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwQri25wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Bombing</a> would all be instances. Elements of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwQBYpZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Earthquake</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVi3c5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Breathing</a> would not. Event-Organized organized event