Thanks to everyone for the suggestions. Ethan
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 7:43 PM, Simon Spero <sesunc...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 7:13 PM, Ethan Gruber <ewg4x...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Ancient geographic entities. Athens is in Attica. Sardis is in Lydia > (in > > Anatolia, for example). If these were modern geopolitical entities, I > > would use geonames. We're linking cities to Pleiades, but Pleiades does > > not maintain parent::child geographic relationships. > > > geoPoliticalSubdivision may work for you. You could assert this as a > subPropertyOf ObjectInverseOf(partOf), since BIG is a > holonym<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holonymy>of SMALL. Also, it is > probably a bad idea to use partOf if there is a more > specific sub-property that you can use that will better capture the > intended meaning - for example, components of a kit, or series in a fonds. > > http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvfGaTZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA > > "(geopoliticalSubdivision BIG SMALL) means that > the GeopoliticalEntity SMALL is a part of the > larger GeopoliticalEntity BIG. The territory (see the constant TerritoryFn) > of SMALL is a geographical sub-region (see the > predicate geographicalSubRegions) of the territory of BIG. The government > (see the constant GovernmentFn) of BIG usually has some sovereignty over > the government of SMALL." > > Simon >