- From: Sergey Melnik <melnik@db.stanford.edu>
- Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 12:31:23 -0800
- To: Seth Russell <seth@robustai.net>
- CC: RDF Interest Group <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
Seth Russell wrote: > ... > If we do it the way you prescribe above, then yes "A triple is unique". But > my stating now that [Bush wonThe Election] is certainly different from (not > identical to) the Electoral College stating [Bush wonThe Election]. Certainly > the context of utterance is what gives a triple its unique identity. I definitely agree with you on that. > I think I stand on firm ground when I say that. [Word&Object] So if a triple is to > represent a unique entity ("A triple is unique"), then we would need to > Skolemize the entire node, the nodes to which it arcs and the nodes that arc > to it. > > I disagree: a triple is not unique. A sufficiently smart application that crawls your Web site will not just record [Bush wonThe Election] The fact that this statement exists does not add anything to what we already know. Rather, the app will store something like that: [[Bush wonThe Election] isSignedBy <Seth's cryptographic signature>] or [<Seth's URL> contains [Bush wonThe Election]] For the above scenario, I don't see the need to Skolemize more than a single statement. Sergey
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