General
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Ontologically Committed
Ontological -
Commitment Level
Low -
Subject
Natural Language -
Categorical
Yes
Vertical
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Parent-arity Type Instance
Unconstrained -
Boundedness Type Instance - Downward
Bounded -
Boundedness Type Instance - Fixed Finite Levels
Fixed -
Boundedness Type Instance - Number of Fixed Levels
2 -
Stratification Type Instance
Stratified -
Formal Generation - Whole Part - Fusion
No -
Formal Generation - Whole Part - Complement
No -
Formal Generation - Type Instance - Fusion
No -
Formal Generation - Super Sub Type - Fusion
No -
Formal Generation - Super Sub Type - Complement
No -
Relation Class-ness Type Instance
Second-class -
Relation Class-ness Super Sub Type
Second-class
Horizontal
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Universal
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Time
Eternalist -
Indexicals: Here And Now
Not-supported
F.37 WordNet
F.37.1 Overview
WordNet is a lexical database of semantic relations between words in more than 200 languages. WordNet links words into semantic relations including synonyms, hyponyms, and meronyms. The synonyms are grouped into synsets with short definitions and usage examples. WordNet can thus be seen as a combination and extension of a dictionary and thesaurus.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordNet
See also: https://wordnet.princeton.edu/, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_ontology#WordNet
F.37.2 Top-level
F.37.3 Key characteristics
A natural language ontology.
F.37.4 Relevant extracts
From: What is WordNet? (https://wordnet.princeton.edu/)
Extract 1 – Type-instance distinction
WordNet distinguishes among Types (common nouns) and Instances (specific persons, countries and geographic entities). Thus, armchair is a type of chair, Barack Obama is an instance of a president. Instances are always leaf (terminal) nodes in their hierarchies.
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