DesignativeInformationContentEntity
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A Designative Information Content Entity is an information content entity that designates, or points to, some particular entity. Names and identifiers are designators: their job is to pick out an individual rather than to describe or prescribe it.
Examples
- a proper name
- a catalogue code
- a call sign
Where it sits in the suite
Designative 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.