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Survey of Knowledge Base Content Introduction Fundamental Expression Types Top Level Collections Time and Dates Spatial Properties and Relations Event Types Information More Content Areas

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Roles and ActorSlots “Moe clobbered Curly with the British scepter.”

Roles and ActorSlots “Moe clobbered Curly with the British scepter.” Relations between an event and its participants We have over 200 role and ActorSlot predicates

Roles and ActorSlots “Moe clobbered Curly with the British scepter.” This is about a  particular clobbering event, not clobberings in general.

Roles in events and subevents A product of one subevent of the Krebs Process is the input to another. Hence, different “ActorSlot” predicates.

Summary Cyc has a large variety of predicates for representing roles preformed in events and the actors who perform them Events are represented by relating actors to the event The product of one sub-event in the input to another