Agent
Classhttps://www.ontologyrepository.com/CommonCoreOntologies/Agent
An Agent is a material entity that is capable of playing the agent role in an act, that is, of bringing a process about through its own activity. Persons and organisations are the paradigmatic agents.
Examples
- a person
- an organisation
- a government body
Where it sits in the suite
Agent 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.