$Id$ The Cyc Upper Ontology guid Permanent Global Unique ID for the associated concept -- which enables concept renaming. Users should not depend upon the DAML ID nor label as fixed for all time. a few days duration Duration of 2 to 10 days bd58f6ee-9c29-11b1-9dad-c379636f7270 a few decades duration Duration of 2 to 10 decades bd58af72-9c29-11b1-9dad-c379636f7270 a few hours duration Duration of 2 to 10 hours bd58fded-9c29-11b1-9dad-c379636f7270 a few minutes duration Duration of 2 to 10 minutes bd5899f0-9c29-11b1-9dad-c379636f7270 a few months duration A few months 2-10 bd59008b-9c29-11b1-9dad-c379636f7270 a few seconds duration Duration of 2 to 30 seconds bd589ecf-9c29-11b1-9dad-c379636f7270 a few weeks duration Duration of 2 to 10 weeks bd58ddfa-9c29-11b1-9dad-c379636f7270 a few years duration Duration of 2 to 10 years bd589ddb-9c29-11b1-9dad-c379636f7270 abandonments The collection of events in which some #$Agent deliberately gives up possession of something, without giving it to another. bd67b7de-9c29-11b1-9dad-c379636f7270 ablations A collection of events. In an #$Ablation, a (usually relatively thin) layer of material is removed from the surface of an object. bd58b6b3-9c29-11b1-9dad-c379636f7270 above ground levels A specialization of #$LevelOfAConstruction whose instances are at or above ground level. See also #$BasementLevelInAConstruction and #$BalconyLevelInAConstruction. bd588bb2-9c29-11b1-9dad-c379636f7270 abrading events A collection of events. In an #$AbradingSomething event, the surface of some object is gradually worn away by scraping or similar physical contact involving friction. Devices used in elements of #$AbradingSomething include files and sand paper; elements of #$AbradingSomething would include the event in which Howard Hughes sanded down the Spruce Goose for the last time, the event in which Lucy Ricardo filed her fingernails just before her singing debut at Rickie's club, etc. bd5899e7-9c29-11b1-9dad-c379636f7270 data A heterogeneous collection of abstract objects that pertain to information. Subsumes not only #$Proposition, but also the collections #$Sentence, #$CharacterString, #$AtomicSymbol-Abstract, #$Microtheory, #$PropositionalInformationThing, and #$ConceptualWork. Note that while all #$AbstractInformationalThings are abstract objects (this collection is disjoint with #$SpatialThing-Localized), most instances of this collection can have multiple concrete 'embodiments'. A single instance of #$Sentence can be written on several peices of paper (see #$instantiationOfAIS); a #$PropositionalInformationThing may be the content of several concrete documents, such as instances of #$BookCopy (see #$containsInfoPropositional-IBT); and several events, such as spoken utterances, may have a certain #$Proposition as their content (see #$containsInformation). Note that some instances of #$AbstractInformationalThing have temporal extent. Examples include all instances of #$Novel-CW and #$Movie-CW. Others specs are disjoint with #$TemporalThing. Examples include all instances of #$Character-Abstract and #$Proposition. bdff6c64-9c29-11b1-9dad-c379636f7270 programming languages The collection of languages invented for use by computers. This includes both command languages and others which one doesn't really `program' in. bd58c2ea-9c29-11b1-9dad-c379636f7270 abstract shape type A collection of collections. An instance SHAPE of #$ShapeType (q.v.) is also an instance of #$AbstractShapeType if and only if SHAPE is a spec of #$GeometricThing-Abstract. It is distinguished from #$GenericShapeType (q.v.), which is the collection of those collections that are instances of #$ShapeType, some of whose instances are abstract, and some of whose instances are localized. There is no '#$LocalizedShapeType'. The instances of #$AbstractShapeType are the acceptable second-arguments of the predicate #$shape. So, if you have have a spherical ball, BALL001, it is true that (#$shape BALL001 (#$AbstractFn #$SphereShape)), but false (in fact, undefined) that (#$shape BALL001 #$SphereShape). c0f46e32-9c29-11b1-9dad-c379636f7270 academics A collection of persons; a subset of #$Professional. Each element of #$AcademicProfessional is a person whose job is to educate and/or to perform research as an affiliate of an academic institution. This includes members of the teaching and/or research staff of schools, colleges, universities, and research institutes. bd589db6-9c29-11b1-9dad-c379636f7270 academic quarters Each instance of this collection is a #$TimeInterval defined by some educational institution: one quarter of their #$AcademicYear. Since the start dates, end dates, and duration may all vary depending on the institution, the year, etc., instances of this collection must unfortunately be time intervals like StanfordSpringQuarter1991. bd589441-9c29-11b1-9dad-c379636f7270 semesters Each instance of this collection is a #$TimeInterval defined by some educational institution: one half of their #$AcademicYear. Since the start dates, end dates and duration may vary depending on the institution and year, instances will be time intervals such as ``StanfordSpringSemester1990-91''. bd58ea30-9c29-11b1-9dad-c379636f7270 trimesters Each instance of this collection is a #$TimeInterval defined by some educational institution: one third of their #$AcademicYear. Since the start dates, end dates, and duration may all vary depending on the institution and year, instances of this collection must unfortunately be time intervals like UCLASpringTrimester1990-91. bd58ea73-9c29-11b1-9dad-c379636f7270 academic years Each instance of this collection is an annually recurring #$TimeInterval defined by an educational institution. Since the start dates, end dates, and duration may all vary depending on the institution, the year, etc., instances of this collection must unfortunately be time intervals like Stanford1989-90AcademicYear. bd58f188-9c29-11b1-9dad-c379636f7270 accelerations Acceleration is the change in speed of an object per unit time. It is a measurable physical quantity, measured in units such as MilesPerHourPerSecond. bd58dc89-9c29-11b1-9dad-c379636f7270 access numbers A collection of #$PhoneNumbers. Each element of #$AccessNumber is a string that a user with #$Internet connections uses to connect to his/her #$InternetServiceProvider. bf796ce3-9c29-11b1-9dad-c379636f7270 information-accessing events A collection of information transfer events. Each element of #$AccessingAnIBT is an action by which an agent accesses the content of some IBT (i.e., an element of #$InformationBearingThing). Examples include (getting information from) reading a newspaper, watching a film, listening to a musical performance, decoding an encrypted message, seeing a traffic police officer wave you on, or hearing your roommate ask you to take out the trash. Of course, communication conventions play a role here. In the #$NaiveInformationMt, Cyc simply assumes that an agent who accesses an IBT understands its content afterwards. In the #$InformationGMt, Cyc makes the more complicated inference that an agent who accesses an IBT understands its content afterwards only if the agent is able to get the encoded information using a convention familiar to that agent. See also #$CommunicationConvention, #$hasCommConvention, #$usesCommConventionForInfo. bd58d61f-9c29-11b1-9dad-c379636f7270