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http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000002

URI

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000002

Label

continuant

Description

(Elucidation) A continuant is an entity that persists, endures, or continues to exist through time while maintaining its identity

Superclasses (1)

  • http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000001

    • Usage

    Instances of http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000002 can have the following properties:

    PROPERTYTYPEDESCRIPTIONRANGE
    From class http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000002
    http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000176 owl:ObjectProperty b continuant part of c =Def b and c are continuants & there is some time t such that b and c exist at t & b part of c at t http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000002
    http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000178 owl:ObjectProperty b has continuant part c =Def c continuant part of b http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000002
    From class http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000001
    http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000108 owl:ObjectProperty (Elucidation) exists at is a relation between a particular and some temporal region at which the particular exists http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000008
    From class owl:Thing
    dc1:contributor owl:AnnotationProperty owl:Thing
    dc1:identifier owl:AnnotationProperty owl:Thing
    dc1:license owl:AnnotationProperty owl:Thing
    dc:description owl:AnnotationProperty owl:Thing
    dc:license owl:AnnotationProperty owl:Thing
    dc:title owl:AnnotationProperty owl:Thing
    skos:altLabel owl:AnnotationProperty owl:Thing
    skos:definition owl:AnnotationProperty owl:Thing
    skos:example owl:AnnotationProperty owl:Thing
    skos:prefLabel owl:AnnotationProperty owl:Thing
    skos:scopeNote owl:AnnotationProperty owl:Thing

    Implementation

    @prefix dc11: <http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/> .
@prefix owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix skos: <http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#> .

<http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000002> a owl:Class ;
    rdfs:label "continuant"@en ;
    dc11:identifier "008-BFO" ;
    rdfs:subClassOf [ a owl:Restriction ;
            owl:allValuesFrom <http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000002> ;
            owl:onProperty <http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000176> ],
        <http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000001> ;
    owl:disjointWith <http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000003> ;
    skos:definition "(Elucidation) A continuant is an entity that persists, endures, or continues to exist through time while maintaining its identity"@en ;
    skos:example "A human being; a tennis ball; a cave; a region of space; someone's temperature"@en .