Re: intransitive predicates

Giles Hogben wrote:

> How does RDF deal with intransitive predicates like:

I assume that with 'intransitive' you mean unary?

> "John Smith smokes"

It doesn't. The modeler will have to come up with a representation of
the above statement in binary predicates. A possibility would be
introducing the class of Smokers:

JohnSmith rdf:type Smoker.

Jeen
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