Common Core Ontologies

Agent

Class
https://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.

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