Class: Entity

Every thing is an entity.

URI: sio:Entity

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Children

  • Attribute - An attribute is a characteristic of some entity.
  • Object - An object is an entity that is wholly identifiable at any instant of time during which it exists.
  • Process - A process is an entity that is identifiable only through the unfolding of time, has temporal parts, and unless otherwise specified/predicted, cannot be identified from any instant of time in which it exists.

Referenced by Class

Attributes

Own

  • hasCreator 0..1
    • Description: has creator is a relation between an entity and that which created it.
    • Range: Entity
  • hasAttribute 0..1

    • Description: has attribute is a relation that associates a entity with an attribute where an attribute is an intrinsic characteristic such as a quality, capability, disposition, function, or is an externally derived attribute determined from some descriptor (e.g. a quantity, position, label/identifier) either directly or indirectly through generalization of entities of the same type.

    • Range: Entity

    • satisfies 0..1
    • Description: satisfies is a relation between an entity and the specification or objective that it conforms to.

    • Range: Description

    • isRelatedTo 0..1
    • Description: A is related to B iff there is some relation between A and B.
    • Range: Entity