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span:ProcessualEntity

URI

http://www.ifomis.org/bfo/1.1/span#ProcessualEntity

Label

processual_entity

Description

Examples: the life of an organism, the process of meiosis, the course of a disease, the flight of a bird - Definition: An occurrent [span:Occurrent] that exists in time by occurring or happening, has temporal parts and always involves and depends on some entity.

Superclasses (2)

  • span:Occurrent
  • bfo:Entity

    • Usage

    Instances of span:ProcessualEntity can have the following properties:

    PROPERTYTYPEDESCRIPTIONRANGE
    From class owl:Thing
    dc:contributor owl:AnnotationProperty owl:Thing
    dc:creator owl:AnnotationProperty owl:Thing
    dc:format owl:AnnotationProperty owl:Thing
    dc:identifier owl:AnnotationProperty owl:Thing
    dc:language owl:AnnotationProperty owl:Thing
    dc:publisher owl:AnnotationProperty owl:Thing
    dc:rights owl:AnnotationProperty owl:Thing
    dc:source owl:AnnotationProperty owl:Thing
    dc:title owl:AnnotationProperty owl:Thing

    Implementation

    @prefix owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#> .
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix span: <http://www.ifomis.org/bfo/1.1/span#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

span:ProcessualEntity a owl:Class ;
    rdfs:label "processual_entity"^^xsd:string ;
    rdfs:comment "Definition: An occurrent [span:Occurrent] that exists in time by occurring or happening, has temporal parts and always involves and depends on some entity."^^xsd:string,
        "Examples: the life of an organism, the process of meiosis, the course of a disease, the flight of a bird"^^xsd:string ;
    rdfs:subClassOf span:Occurrent ;
    owl:disjointWith span:SpatiotemporalRegion,
        span:TemporalRegion ;
    owl:equivalentClass [ a owl:Class ;
            owl:unionOf ( span:FiatProcessPart span:Process span:ProcessAggregate span:ProcessBoundary span:ProcessualContext ) ] .