Class: Role

A role is a realizable entity that describes behaviours, rights and obligations of an entity in some particular circumstance.

URI: sio:Role

Parents

• is_a: RealizableEntity - A realizable entity is an attribute that is exhibited under some condition and is realized in some process.

Children

• AbstractRole - An abstract role is a role whose basis lies in spatial/temporal or comparative relations.
• ProcessualRole - A processual role is a role that can only be realized in a process.
• SocialRole - A social role is a role that is ascribed to individuals in a community.

Referenced by Class

• Entity hasRole _0..1 Role

Attributes

Own

• isRoleOf _0..1
  • Description: is role of is a relation between a role and the entity that it is a property of.
  • Range: Entity

Inherited from RealizableEntity:

• 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
  • hasBasis _0..1

  • Description: has basis is a relation between a realizable entity and the quality that forms the basis for it.

  • Range: Quality