RE: What is the rationale for "*:x rdf:type owl:NamedIndividual" ?

Hello,

This declaration has no special meaning: owl:NamedIndividual is not assigned any special meaning in the vocabulary of OWL 2. The
vocabulary element is used only to denote that 8:x is declared.

Note that writing *:x rdf:type olw:Thing would be ambiguous. You get the same triple by serializing this axiom:

ClassAssertion( owl:Thing *:x )

To distinguish the two, we need a new vocabulary element to tag declarations of named individuals.

Regards,

	Boris

> -----Original Message-----
> From: public-owl-wg-request@w3.org [mailto:public-owl-wg-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Alan Ruttenberg
> Sent: 11 November 2008 08:16
> To: W3C OWL Working Group
> Subject: What is the rationale for "*:x rdf:type owl:NamedIndividual" ?
> 
> 
> Why is this needed?
> 
> BTW, Does this mean that owl:NamedIndividual is a subclass of owl:Thing?
> 
> -Alan