Class: KnowledgeConcept

name: KnowledgeConcept
description: An abstract concept that arises from the distillation of experience.
  It is similar to a category but, rather than being a simple tag, it has rich structure.
comments:
- "Some knowledge is about specific instances that already exist in the knowledge\
  \ graph. We may have knowledge that Judge Jones is more lenient on repeat offenders\
  \ in the morning; we may know that the earliest killing frost in Fort Collins is\
  \ the last week of September.\r\n\r\nThese fit the broader definition of knowledge,\
  \ the distillation of experience. But they do not require any new instances. Judge\
  \ Jones and Fort Collins already exist and have a place in our knowledge graph.\r\
  \n\r\nBut some knowledge requires that we synthesize new instances in order to have\
  \ a place to consolidate the knowledge. A disease isn't a tangible thing, like a\
  \ person or a building. A disease is a prediction that a person's health will decline\
  \ in a predictable way (without treatment and with treatment). The number of diseases\
  \ continues to grow as we collectively learn more and more granular distinctions.\
  \ Lung cancer used to be a single disease, but now we have dozens of fine-grained\
  \ distinctions; e.g., non-lymphoma small cell fusiform is different from alveolar\
  \ adenocarcinoma because we now know the prognosis and treatment are different.\r\
  \n\r\nThis superclass is meant as a place for subclasses that will have the instances\
  \ that represent the foci of the knowledge we have acquired. Note the distinction\
  \ between a particular portion of, say, gold, which instantiates gist:PhysicalSubstance,\
  \ and the concept of gold, which instantiates gist:KnowledgeConcept.\r\n\r\nIn some\
  \ ontologies what we are calling knowledge concepts are defined as classes; e.g.,\
  \ non-lymphoma small cell fusiform and alveolar adenocarcinoma would be two classes\
  \ rather than two instances. But using a class makes it harder to connect the concept\
  \ to other instances in a knowledge graph, and furthermore such classes would lack\
  \ instances."
examples:
- value: Most domains will define a few subclasses, such as gene, protein, chemical,
    disease, subject matter, industry, method.
in_subset:
- gist_core
from_schema: https://w3id.org/lmodel/gist
aliases:
- Knowledge Concept
is_a: IntellectualProperty
class_uri: gist_upstream:KnowledgeConcept

name: KnowledgeConcept
description: An abstract concept that arises from the distillation of experience.
  It is similar to a category but, rather than being a simple tag, it has rich structure.
comments:
- "Some knowledge is about specific instances that already exist in the knowledge\
  \ graph. We may have knowledge that Judge Jones is more lenient on repeat offenders\
  \ in the morning; we may know that the earliest killing frost in Fort Collins is\
  \ the last week of September.\r\n\r\nThese fit the broader definition of knowledge,\
  \ the distillation of experience. But they do not require any new instances. Judge\
  \ Jones and Fort Collins already exist and have a place in our knowledge graph.\r\
  \n\r\nBut some knowledge requires that we synthesize new instances in order to have\
  \ a place to consolidate the knowledge. A disease isn't a tangible thing, like a\
  \ person or a building. A disease is a prediction that a person's health will decline\
  \ in a predictable way (without treatment and with treatment). The number of diseases\
  \ continues to grow as we collectively learn more and more granular distinctions.\
  \ Lung cancer used to be a single disease, but now we have dozens of fine-grained\
  \ distinctions; e.g., non-lymphoma small cell fusiform is different from alveolar\
  \ adenocarcinoma because we now know the prognosis and treatment are different.\r\
  \n\r\nThis superclass is meant as a place for subclasses that will have the instances\
  \ that represent the foci of the knowledge we have acquired. Note the distinction\
  \ between a particular portion of, say, gold, which instantiates gist:PhysicalSubstance,\
  \ and the concept of gold, which instantiates gist:KnowledgeConcept.\r\n\r\nIn some\
  \ ontologies what we are calling knowledge concepts are defined as classes; e.g.,\
  \ non-lymphoma small cell fusiform and alveolar adenocarcinoma would be two classes\
  \ rather than two instances. But using a class makes it harder to connect the concept\
  \ to other instances in a knowledge graph, and furthermore such classes would lack\
  \ instances."
examples:
- value: Most domains will define a few subclasses, such as gene, protein, chemical,
    disease, subject matter, industry, method.
in_subset:
- gist_core
from_schema: https://w3id.org/lmodel/gist
aliases:
- Knowledge Concept
is_a: IntellectualProperty
attributes:
  name:
    name: name
    description: Relates an individual to (one of) its name(s).
    in_subset:
    - gist_core
    from_schema: https://w3id.org/lmodel/gist
    aliases:
    - name
    rank: 1000
    slot_uri: gist_upstream:name
    alias: name
    owner: KnowledgeConcept
    domain_of:
    - GistThing
    range: string
  description:
    name: description
    description: A statement about someone or something's attributes or characteristics.
    comments:
    - This property is used to describe instance data which is not part of the ontology.
      A definition and a description have different semantics. Use skos:definition
      for a statement of the meaning of a thing and gist:description to describe a
      thing's attributes, characteristics, or features.
    examples:
    - value: A person does not have a definition, but might be described as being
        six feet tall with brown hair and blue eyes; an ontology class or taxonomy
        term has a definition.
    - value: '''The Empire State Building is a 102-story Art Deco skyscraper in midtown
        Manhattan in New York City. It was designed by Shreve, Lamb & Harmon and built
        from 1930 to 1931.'''
    in_subset:
    - gist_core
    from_schema: https://w3id.org/lmodel/gist
    aliases:
    - description
    rank: 1000
    slot_uri: gist_upstream:description
    alias: description
    owner: KnowledgeConcept
    domain_of:
    - GistThing
    range: string
class_uri: gist_upstream:KnowledgeConcept