Re: owl:sameAs links from OpenCyc to WordNet

Hi Dan,

> Certainly a useful concept to have name(s) for, ... but I think not 
> quite what is needed to link these specific datasets. The W3C wordnet 
> data is a collection of descriptions of linguistic concepts. The 
> OpenCyc things they're linked to are not linguistic entities, but the 
> real world things the words are associated with. So they're not 
> near-identical similar objects, but things that are generally from 
> disjoint classes. Paris the place, vs "Paris" the word (or the set of 
> synonymous words _for_ Paris...). I think this is a distinction worth 
> keeping reasonably explicit.

Sorry, I probably haven't been clear with my email (at least, Mike told 
me I was not ;))

I *was not suggesting* to use it, but probably more a subpropertyof 
seeAlso (even though, this is probably not the right one as a super 
property).


Why I did talk about umbel:isLike is to make people aware of its 
existence to try not over-using owl:sameAs where there is uncertainty in 
the linkage of instances of classes.

But I agree that this "umbel:isLike" property shouldn't be used in this 
case for the reason you described above.

And I do agree that these two instances belongs to disjoint classes (at 
least it was my interpretation of a wn:NounSynset and a 
opencyc:IndependantCountry).


Sorry for not having been clear in my first email.


Thanks,


Take care,


Fred