Documentation on AgeGroup(SUMO): A GroupOfPeople whose members all have the same age or have and age which is inside a certain age interval (example, persons between 18 and 25 years)
Documentation on County(MILO): A GeopoliticalArea that is a subdivision of a StateOrProvince. Aside from City, this is the smallest geopolitical subdivision,and it is known by various names in various counties, e.g. parrish, commune, etc.
Documentation on AstronomicalBody(SUMO): The class of all astronomical objects of significant size. It includes objects like planets, stars, asteroids, nebulae, galaxies, and constellations. Note that the planet Earth is an AstronomicalBody, but every Region of Earth is a GeographicArea.
Documentation on Woman(SUMO): The class of female Humans.
Documentation on Archipelago(NEWS): A Collection of many islands in a large body of water.
Documentation on Cemetery(MILO): A LandArea which is used for burying the dead.
Documentation on WaterArea(SUMO): A body which is made up predominantly of water,e.g. rivers, lakes, oceans, etc.
Documentation on FinancialInstrument(SUMO): A document having monetary value or recording a monetary transaction). Examples of FinancialInstrument are for instance Stock options of companies.
Documentation on BeliefGroup(SUMO): A GroupOfPeople whose members share a beliefor set of beliefs.
Documentation on Continent(SUMO): One of the six largest land masses on earth,viz. Africa, America, Antarctica, Europe, Asia, and Oceania.
Documentation on Agent(SUMO): Something or someone that can act on its own and produce changes in the world.
Documentation on SportTeam(MILO): An Organization whose members habitually play a sport together, either as an occupation or as a leisure activity.
Documentation on Artifact(SUMO): An Object that is the product of a making Process.
“something that happens and is subject to news coverage" (according to IPTC EventsML 1.0 Business Requirements Specification, draft 4).
Documentation on GeopoliticalArea(SUMO): Any GeographicArea which is associated with some sort of political structure. This class includes lands, cities, districts of cities, counties, etc. Note that the identity of a GeopoliticalArea may remain constant after a change in borders.
Documentation on Forest(MILO): Forest is the class of large LandAreas that are covered by trees and associated undergrowth, either growing wild or managed for the purpose of timber production.
Documentation on SportsLeague(MILO): An Organization whose members are sports teams and whose purpose is to set up games between its members.
Documentation on Man(SUMO): The class of male Humans.
Documentation on Airport(MILO): Airport is the subclass of Transitways for Airplanes
Documentation on Organization(SUMO): An Organization is a corporate or similar institution.The members of an Organization typically have a common purpose or function. Note that this class also covers divisions, departments, etc. of organizations. For example, both the ShellCorporation and the accounting department at Shell would both be instances of Organization. Note too that the existence of an Organization is dependent on the existence of at least one member (since Organization is a subclass of Collection). Accordingly, in cases of purely legal organizations, a fictitious member should be assumed.
Documentation on Object(SUMO): Corresponds roughly to the class of ordinary objects. Examples include normal physical objects, geographical regions, and locations of Processes, the complement of Objects in the Physical class. In a 4D ontology, an Object is something whose spatiotemporal extent is thought of as dividing into spatial parts roughly parallel to the time-axis.
Documentation on GovernmentOrganization(SUMO): GovernmentOrganization is the class of official Organizations that are concerned with the governmentof a GeopoliticalArea at some level. They may be a suborganization of a Government.
Documentation on Government(SUMO): The ruling body of a GeopoliticalArea.
Documentation on Certificate(SUMO): A text that confers a right or obligation on the holder of the Certificate. Note that the right or obligation need not be a legal one, as in the case of an academic diploma that grants certain privileges in the professional world.
Documentation on Attribute(SUMO): Qualities which we cannot or choose not to reify into subclasses of Object. The classes inspired by Topic Types which describe NewsItem properties, as Priority, are typically included as subclasses of Attribute.
Documentation on Country(SUMO=Nation): The broadest GeopoliticalArea, i.e. countries or nations are GeopoliticalAreas that are not part of any other overarching and comprehensive governance structure (excepting commonwealths and other sorts of loose international organizations).
Documentation on Drug(WordNet): A substance that is used as a medicine or narcotic
Documentation on Human(SUMO): Modern man, the only remaining species of the Homogenus.
Documentation on Lake(WordNet): A body of water surrounded by land.
Documentation on EthnicGroup(SUMO): A GroupOfPeople whose members originate from the same GeographicArea or share the same Language and/or cultural practices.
Documentation on Function(SUMO=SocialRole): The Class of all Attributes that specify the position or status of an Agent within an Organization or other Group. In NITF v3.2 the element "function" can be used to annotate roles in the item's content. In the IPTC NewsCodes the Topic Type "Job" is defined with a similar purpose.
Documentation on Predicate(SUMO): A Predicate is a sentence-forming Relation. Each tuple in the Relation is a finite, ordered sequence of objects. This class has been added to allow the definition of n-ary predicates like occupiesPosition which can not be directly represented as RDF(S) properties.
Documentation on City(SUMO): A LandArea of relatively small size, inhabited by a community of people, and having some sort of political structure. Note that this class includes both large cities and small settlements like towns, villages, hamlets, etc.
Documentation on ReligiousOrganization(SUMO): An Organization whose members share a set of religious beliefs.
Documentation on PoliticalOrganization(SUMO): An Organization that is a suborganization of a Government, or an Organization that is attempting to bring about some sortof political change.
Documentation on Bridge(MILO): Bridge is the subclass of Transitways that are artifacts used for crossing water or air-filled gaps that could not be transited over a natural surface.
Documentation on CurrencyMeasure(SUMO): Includes all standard measures of monetary value, including US Dollar, US Cent, Lire, Yen, Euro, etc. In IPTC NewsCodes there exist a Topic Type "Currency" used for currency unit representation. In NITF v3.2 there exists the element "money" for similar purposes.
Documentation on NewsItem(NEWS): The instances of this class are concrete news pieces or items generated by news agencies. This includes textual and multimedia news items.
Documentation on TerroritsOrganization(NEWS): An Organization whose members are radicals who employ terror as a political weapon.
Documentation on LandArea(SUMO): An area which is predominantly solid ground, a mountain, a desert, etc. Note that a LandArea may contain some relatively small WaterAreas. For example, Australia is a LandArea even though it contains various rivers and lakes.
Documentation on UnitOfMeasure(SUMO): A standard of measurement for some dimension. For example, the meter is a UnitOfMeasure for the dimension of length, as is the inch. There is no intrinsic property of a UnitOfMeasure that makes it primitive or fundamental; rather, a system of units defines a set of orthogonal dimensions and assigns units for each.
Documentation on Island(SUMO): A LandArea that is completely surrounded by a WaterArea.
Documentation on Address(MILO): An Attribute that indicates an address where an Agent can regularly be contacted. In NITF v3.2 the element "postaddr" can be used to annotate addresses in the item's content, for instance, inside a "p" element.
Documentation on Physical(SUMO): An entity that has a location in space-time. Note that locations are themselves understood to have a location in space-time.
Documentation on ContentBearingObject(SUMO): Any Object that expresses content. This content may be a proposition, e.g. when the ContentBearingObject is a sentence or text, or it may be a representation of an abstract or physical object, as with an icon (like a flag). NewsItems are content bearing objects, and as a result, the NewsItem class is defined as a subclass of ContentBearingObject.
Documentation on Product (WordNet): Commodities offered for sale. This class has been added to allow the annotation of Named Entities representing commercial products as pieces of hardware or software. In the NewsItems these products are usually identified by their commercial trademark as "Windows XP". In the IPTC NewsCodes there exist a Topic Type called "Product" defined with a similar purpose.
Documentation on Agreement(WordNet): The written statement of a exchange of promises. A contract as defined by WordNet "a binding agreement between two or more persons especially one enforceable by law" can be seen as a subclass of agreement.
Documentation on Building(SUMO): The Class of Artifacts which are intended to house Humans and their activities. This class has been added to allow the annotation of Named Entities representing known buildings as "White House" which appear frequently in news items.
Documentation on CountryNationals(NEWS): A GroupOfPeople whose members are those who are nationals of a certain country.
Documentation on Transitway(SUMO): Transitway includes land, air, and sea regions, which act as paths for transit purposes. Iit includes both natural and artificial transitways. Examples of Transitway include roadways, railways, etc.
Documentation on Park(MILO): A LandArea which is intended to be used for recreation and/or exercise.Note that a Park can be either publicly or privately owned.
Documentation on GroupOfPeople(SUMO): Any Group whose members are exclusively Humans. The instances of this class are used for annotation of groups of interest for a certain news item. Examples of GroupOfPeople include age groups, religious groups, etc.
Documentation on Region(SUMO): A topographic location. Regions encompass surfaces of Objects, imaginary places, and GeographicAreas. Note that a Region is the only kind of Object which can be located at itself. Note too that some regions, e.g. archipelagos, have parts which are not connected with one another. Regions and locations are very interesting entities for the journalism world as reflects the fact that IPTC NewsCodes include several Topic Types related with this issue like for example: Location, City, Country, CountryArea, Sublocation or WorldArea. Also NITF v3.2 includes elements like city, country, location or region which are also related with this issue.
Documentation on LegalDocument(NEWS): A document whose contents are related to jurisprudence.
Documentation on Canal(MILO): Canal is the subclass of Transitways that are Artifacts constructed for the passage of Ships.
Documentation on Book(SUMO): A text that has pages and is bound. Books are typically identified by an ISBN number.
Documentation on NonProfitOrganization(MILO): Any Organization whose purpose is something other than making a profit.
Documentation on Roadway(SUMO): Roadway is the subclass of Transitway whose instances are areas intended for surface travel by self-powered, wheeled vehicles, excluding those that travel on tracks. Roadways have been at least minimally improved to enable the passage of vehicles. Roadways include dirt and gravelled roads, and express ways.
A type of event that can occur in news items belonging to one or several categories.
Documentation on Patent(SUMO): A Certificate that expresses the content of an invention that has been accorded legal protection by a governemental entity.
Documentation on FamilyGroup(SUMO): A GroupOfPeople whose members bear familyRelations to one another.
Documentation on Corporation(SUMO): An Organization that has a special legal status that allows a group of persons to act as a commercial agent and that insulates the owners (shareholders) from many liabilities that might result from the corporation's operation.
Documentation on River(MILO): River is the class of large streams of fresh water flowingthrough land into a lake, ocean, or other body of water.
Documentation on CityDistrict(MILO): Any geopolitical subdivision of a City.
Documentation on Railway(MILO): Railway is the subclass of Transitways that have rails along which trains may travel. A railway consists of the rail bed, sleepers, tracks, electric rails, switches,sensors, lights, crossing grades, and any other integral machinery or parts of a section of railway.
Documentation on Language(SUMO): A system of signs for expressing thought. The system can be either natural or artificial, i.e. something that emerges gradually as a cultural artifact or something that is intentionally created by a person or group of people.
Documentation on Tunnel(MILO): Tunnel is a subclass of Transitways that consist of a lengthwise enclosed Hole that allows for transit underground, as through mountains, below a body of water, or beneath a city.
A pattern (one or several properties) that can be used to identify a news event type
Documentation on BandOrOrchestra(MILO): An organization whose members create and/or play music together.
Documentation on Process(SUMO): Intuitively, the class of things that happen and have temporal parts or stages. Examples include extended events like a football match or a race, actions like pursuing and reading, and biological processes. The formal definition is: anything that lasts for a time but is not an Object. Note that a Process may have participants 'inside' it which are Objects, such as the players in a football match. In a 4D ontology, a Process is something whose spatiotemporal extent is thought of as dividing into temporal stages roughly perpendicular to the time-axis. In NITF v3.2 the element "event" can be used in the item's content to annotate this kind entity. In ITPC NewsCodes there exist the Topic Type "Event" with similar purpose.
Documentation on Gulf(MILO): Gulf is the class of extensions of a Sea or Ocean that reach into a land mass or are partially enclosed by a LandArea.
Documentation on MotionPicture(SUMO): A ContentBearingObject which depicts motion (and whichmay have an audio or text component as well). This Class covers films, videos, etc.
Documentation on FunctionPredicate(NEWS): Used to decompose into triplas the SUMO's ternary predicate occupiesPosition(person, org, position)
Documentation on Substance(SUMO): An Object in which every part is similar to every other in every relevant respect. More precisely, something is a Substance when it has only arbitrary pieces as parts - any parts have properties which are similar to those of the whole. Note that a Substance may nonetheless have physical properties that vary. For example, the temperature, chemical constitution, density, etc. may change from one part to another.
Documentation on MusicalComposition(NEWS): This class has been added to allow the annotation of named entities representing music pieces or compositions.
Documentation on Ocean(MILO): Ocean is the class containing the oceans that are the major subdivisions of the WorldOcean. According to the International Hydrographic Association, there are five oceans: the AtlanticOcean, PacificOcean,IndianOcean, SouthernOcean, and ArcticOcean. Note: The largest oceans, the Atlantic and Pacific, are subdivided into Northern and Southern regions, but those regions are not separate Oceans.
Documentation on Sea(MILO): Sea is the class of smaller subdivisions of the WorldOcean, typically partially surrounded by land.
Documentation on Abstract(SUMO): Properties or qualities as distinguished from any particular embodiment of the properties/qualities in a physical medium. Instances of Abstract can be said to exist in the same sense as mathematical objects such as sets and relations, but they cannot exist at a particular place and time without some physical encoding or embodiment.
Documentation on OrganizationOfNations(MILO): OrganizationOfNations is the class of Organizations whose members are Nations (countries).
Documentation on Collection(SUMO): Collections have members like classes, but, unlike classes, they have a position in space-time and members can be added and subtracted without thereby changing the identity of the Collection. Some examples are toolkits, football teams, and flocksof sheep.
Documentation on GeographicArea(SUMO): A geographic location, generally having definite boundaries. Note that this differs from its immediate superclass Region in that a GeographicArea is a three-dimensional Region of the Earth. Accordingly, all astronomical objects other than Earth and all one-dimensional and two-dimensional Regions are not classed under GeographicArea.
Documentation on Entity(SUMO): The universal class of individuals.This is the root node of the ontology.
Documentation on StateOrProvince(SUMO): Administrative subdivisions of a country that are broader than any other political subdivisions that may exist. This class includes the states of the United States, as well as the provinces of Canada and European countries.
Documentation on Group(SUMO): A Collection of Agents, e.g. a flockof sheep, a herd of goats, or the local Boy Scout troop.
Documentation on is_government_of: Relates an instance of GovernmentOrganization with an instance of GeopoliticalArea, stating that the organization in the domain takes part in the goverment process of the area in the domain.
This property defines the type of a news event.
Documentation on has_instrument: Relates an instance of Process with an instance of Object, stating that the Object in the range has been used as a tool or device in the event described by the Process.
Specifies a SPO (subject, predicate, object), by means of an RDF Statement, that is relevant for the news event.
Documentation on has_geopolitical_subdivision: Relates two instances of GeopoliticalArea, the one in the range being a subdivision of the one in the domain. For instance, the "Comunidad de Madrid" spanish state is a geopolitial subdivision of Spain.
Documentation on has_human: The instance in the range, a Human, occupies a position within an organization. The rest of the components of the relation are defined by the other properties of the instance of FunctionPredicate in the domain.
Documentation on has_agent: This property relates an instance of Process with an instance of Agent, stating that the Agent in the range has taken part in the event described by the Process in the domain.
Documentation on has_organization: The instance in the range is an Organization within a certain person occupies a position. The rest of the components of the relation are defined by the other properties of the instance of FunctionPredicate in the domain.
This property identifies an instance that is relevant for the specified news event.
Documentation on has_function: The instance in the range, a Function, represents the role of a certain person within an organization. The rest of the components of the relation are defined by the other properties of the instance of FunctionPredicate in the domain.
One of the patterns that can be used to identify the type of an event
Documentation on lives_at: Relates an instance of Human with an instance of GeographicArea where the Human has his residence.
An instance that should occur in an event of the event type linked to the specified pattern. An example could be the instnace "King" of class Content:Function in an event type "King murder".
Documentation on is_member_of: Relates an instance of Object with the instance of Collection where the Object is included. For instance an employee of one Corporation can be said to be a member of such Corporation.
Documentation on is_official_language_of: Relates an instance of Language with the GeopoliticalArea where such Language is declared to be an official language.
Documentation on is_city_of: Relates an instance of City with the Country where the city is located.
Documentation on works_at: This property relates an instance of Human with an instance of Organization, stating that the Human works at the Organization. If the Function that the Human has into the Organization is known, it could be more interesting to define a new instance of FunctionPredicate relating the Human with the Function and the Organization.
The act of adquiring a company. Usually this is done by a person, a goup of persons or another company.
Documentation on has_instance_occurrence: Relates an instance of NewsItem with an Entity, stating that the Entity is somewhat mentioned at the NewsItem contents.
Documentation on manufactured_by: Relates and instance of Artifact with an instance of Corporation, stating that the Corporation in the range produces or manufactures the Artifact in the domain.
Documentation on capital_city: Relates an instance of Country with an instance of City, stating taht the City in the range is the capital of the Country in the domain.
Documentation on is_citizen_of: Relates an instance of Human with a instance of Country. States that the Human is officially declared to be a citizen (a.k.a national) of such Country.
Documentation on has_successor: Relates an instance of FunctionPredicate with an instance of Human, stating that the Human in the range is the successor of the Human in the property has_human of the FunctionPredicate in the domain. (Replacement in the same position at the same organization.)
Relation that holds between an Agent and an Object when the Agent has ownership of the Object
One of the properties that will be matched against SPO (subject, predicate, object) of news items
The preferred lexical label for a resource, in a given language.
A statement or formal explanation of a resource that identifies it unambiguosly.
An alternative lexical label for a resource
Documentation on has_geographic_subregion: Relates two instances of GeographicArea stating that the area in the range is a geogrphic subregion of the area in the domain. For instance Europe has as geographic subregion the Tirol region.
Documentation on has_suborganization: Relates two instances of Organization stating that the one in the range is a suborganization of the one in the domain. For instance, the commercial department of Shell is a suborganization of the Shell Corporation.
Documentation on spouse: Relates two instances of Human stating that these persons are married to one another.
Documentation on family_relation: Relates two instances of Human. Brotherhood, parenthood, sisterhood, spouse and other family relations are covered under this property.
Specifies time information about when the event occurred.
Documentation on year_of_birth: This property relates a instance of Human with a literal integer value representing the year when the person in the domain has been born.