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DescriptiveInformationContentEntity

Class
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A Descriptive Information Content Entity is an information content entity that describes some entity as it is, was, or is predicted to be. Unlike a directive, it makes no claim about how things ought to be; it records or asserts a state of affairs.

Examples

  • a status report
  • a measurement result
  • an inventory record

Where it sits in the suite

Descriptive Information Content Entity is defined in the Common Core Ontologies, a mid-level suite that specialises the top-level categories of Basic Formal Ontology. It is released as part of the maintained, logically consistent CCO release and is reused across the connected ontology modules.

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