http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000023
(Elucidation) A role b is a realizable entity such that b exists because there is some single bearer that is in some special physical, social, or institutional set of circumstances in which this bearer does not have to be & b is not such that, if it ceases to exist, then the physical make-up of the bearer is thereby changed
Instances of http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000023 can have the following properties:
| PROPERTY | TYPE | DESCRIPTION | RANGE |
|---|
@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_0000023> a owl:Class ;
rdfs:label "role"@en ;
dc11:identifier "061-BFO" ;
rdfs:subClassOf <http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000017> ;
skos:altLabel "externally-grounded realizable entity"@en ;
skos:definition "(Elucidation) A role b is a realizable entity such that b exists because there is some single bearer that is in some special physical, social, or institutional set of circumstances in which this bearer does not have to be & b is not such that, if it ceases to exist, then the physical make-up of the bearer is thereby changed"@en ;
skos:example "The priest role; the student role; the role of subject in a clinical trial; the role of a stone in marking a property boundary; the role of a boundary to demarcate two neighbouring administrative territories; the role of a building in serving as a military target"@en .