Browse the Common Core Ontologies
Every class, relation and data property in the released suite, grouped by the part of the domain it covers. 55 terms are listed here, each with an elucidation, its position under Basic Formal Ontology and links to the terms it connects to.
Information Content Entities
Entities that are about something: descriptions, directives, designators, measurements and their kinds.
Acts & Processes
Processes brought about by agents, the manufacturing and measuring acts, and processes of change and rest.
Qualities & Attributes
Physically grounded qualities such as force, pressure, temperature, hardness and spatial extent.
Material Entities & Artifacts
Designed artifacts, the functions they bear, and the portions of material they are made of.
Agents & Organizations
The bearers of the agent role in acts, including persons, organisations and governments.
Units & Reference
Measurement units and the reference systems that make values interpretable.
Relations
Object properties that connect the classes of the suite into a coherent graph.
Data Properties
Properties relating entities to literal values such as decimals.