Reification

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  From Reification and Truthmaking Patterns

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  • Such process of making hidden entities explicit is called reification.
    • Note that the new entities do not originate from a generic decision to expand the domain, but rather from a transformation of a language construct (typically, a predicate) into a domain element (a “first class citizen”).

• Don’t Like RDF Reification? Making Statements about Statements Using Singleton Property

Issues

• "RDF reification has attracted a lot of criticism in the past, essentially by being a crude tool immediately damaging the transparency of the model and its usability on the query level."

Examples

• Statements about Statements about Anne Bonny by @niklas-lidstrom

References

• Modelling Data with Hypergraphs

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Backlinks

• Linked Data and Time Modeling Researcher Life Lines by Events
• Semantics in the Real World Part I Why the Triple Needs to Be a Quint or a Sext