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KBpedia Relations, Part II: An Event-Action Model
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content: Events are a Quasi-Entity and Cross All of Peirce's Universal Categories Most knowledge graphs have an orientation to things and concepts, what might be called the nouns of the knowledge space. Entities and concepts have certainly occupied my own attention in my work on the UMBEL and KBpedia ontologies over the past decade. In Part I of this series, I discussed how knowledge graphs, or ontologies, needed to move beyond simple representations of things to embrace how those things actually interact in the world, which is the understanding of context. What I discuss in this part is how one might see actions and events in a way that has logic and coherency. What I discuss in this part is an event-action model. As we all know, knowledge statements or assertions are propositions that combine a subject with a predicate. Those predicates might describe the nature or character of the subject or might relate the subject to other objects or situations. For covering this aspect we need to pay close attention to the verbs or relations that connect these things. How we model or represent these things is one of the critical design choices in a knowledge graph. But these choices go beyond simply using RDF or OWL properties (or whatever predicate basis your modeling language may provide). Modeling relations and predicates needs to capture a worldview of how things are connected, preferably based on some coherent, underlying rationale. Similar to how we categorize the things and entities in our world, we also need to make ontological choices (in the classic sense of the Greek ontos, or the nature of being) as to what a predicate is and how predicates may be classified and organized. As I noted in Part I, much less is discussed about this topic in the literature. Some Things Just Take Time Information and information theory have been my passion my entire professional career. In that period, two questions stand out as the most perplexing to me, each of which took some years to resolve …
encoded: Events are a Quasi-Entity and Cross All of Peirce’s Universal Categories Most knowledge graphs have an orientation to things and concepts, what might be called the nouns of the knowledge space. Entities and concepts have certainly occupied my own attention in my work on the UMBEL and KBpedia ontologies over the past decade. In Part I of this series, I discussed how knowledge graphs, or ontologies, needed to move beyond simple representations of things to embrace how those things actually interact in the world, which is the understanding of context. What I discuss in this part is how one might see actions and events in a way that has logic and coherency. What I discuss in this part is an event-action model. As we all know, knowledge statements or assertions are propositions that combine a subject with a predicate. Those predicates might describe the nature or character of the subject or might relate the subject to other objects or situations. For covering this aspect we need to pay close attention to the verbs or relations that connect these things. How we model or represent these things is one of the critical design choices in a knowledge graph. But these choices go beyond simply using RDF or OWL properties (or whatever predicate basis your modeling language may provide). Modeling relations and predicates needs to capture a worldview of how things are connected, preferably based on some coherent, underlying rationale. Similar to how we categorize the things and entities in our world, we also need to make ontological choices (in the classic sense of the Greek ontos, or the nature of being) as to what a predicate is and how predicates may be classified and organized. As I noted in Part I, much less is discussed about this topic in the literature. Some Things Just Take Time Information and information theory have been my passion my entire professional career. In that period, two questions stand out as the most perplexing to me, each of which took some years to resolve …
topic: Charles Sanders Peirce
topic: KBpedia
topic: KBpedia Relations
topic: Knowledge-based Artificial Intelligence
topic: Ontologies
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links to: knowledge-graph
links to: UMBEL
links to: KBpedia
links to: Part I
links to: KR
links to: KBAI
links to: Cognonto
links to: Charles Sanders Peirce
links to: [1]
links to: categories of being
links to: [2]
links to: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
links to: [3]
links to: tychism
links to: [4]
links to: [5]
links to: [6]
links to: synechism
links to: [7]
links to: semiosis
links to: reduction thesis
links to: token-type distinction
links to: [8]
links to: series on KBpedia relations
links to: universal categories
links to: The Irreducible Truth of Threes
links to: electronic edition
links to: A Foundational Mindset: Firstness, Secondness, Thirdness
links to: Categorical Foundation of Quantum Mechanics and String Theory
links to: Threes All the Way Down to Typologies

Mike Bergman
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Mike Bergman
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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
label: Events