Epistemic Status

http://w3id.org/opino/EpistemicStatus

as defined in OPINO - OPinions and INterpretations Ontology

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Title
OPINO - OPinions and INterpretations Ontology
Description
OPINO is a DOLCE+DnS Ultralite-based ontology design pattern for representing scholarly opinions and interpretations in cultural heritage knowledge graphs. An Opinion is an information object that expresses a Predicative Content, a collection of Predications (reified claims). Each Predication is a situation with a subject, a predicate and an object, read through a claim-type Description and, where relevant, holding at a time. Epistemic status, confidence and certainty attach to each Predication, so the claims of an Opinion are qualified individually, or to the Predicative Content as a default for its members; the subclasses Assertion, Belief, Hypothesis and Conjecture classify Predications by status, and Reference marks a claim reported from another source. Argumentative relations (supports, evidences, conflicts with, negates, concludes that) link Predications, and hasAuthor shortcuts the provenance path from an Opinion to its author. Informed by the DOLCE epistemic layer (Masolo et al.) and the MITE observation ontology (Sanfilippo et al.), and aligned with HiCO, PROV-O, RDF reification and CRMinf. Developed within the INFINITY project (Horizon Europe, grant agreement no. 101233051). Competency questions with SPARQL queries and a worked example are in the documentation linked from dcterms:source.
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Andrea Schimmenti
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Released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0).
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Alternative Title
OPINO
Bibliographic Citation
Schimmenti, A. (2026). OPINO - OPinions and INterpretations Ontology, version 0.2.0. Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna. http://w3id.org/opino/0.2.0
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Date Created
2026-04-30
Date Issued
2026-10-21
Date Modified
2026-10-24
history note
Successor of the working draft PINO (Propositional Interpretation of situatioNs Ontology, v0.1.0, 2026-04-30). Versioning restarted at 0.2.0 for the first public release.
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opino
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http://w3id.org/opino/
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cultural heritage
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Epistemic Status
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IRI: http://w3id.org/opino/EpistemicStatus

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A region of the degrees of commitment that a source can hold toward a claim. It is a dul:Region, following the DUL pattern in which qualities of entities take values in a value space. Its values are the named individuals assertionValue, beliefValue, hypothesisValue and conjectureValue, and further values can be added by extension. It is attached to a Predication or a Predicative Content with hasEpistemicStatus. It is not a degree of belief (see hasConfidence) and not a source of doubt (see hasCertainty); the three are kept apart because a source may, for example, assert a claim with low confidence. The values are not ordered by the ontology.
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individuals with this type
Conjecture valueni,
Hypothesis valueni,
Assertion valueni,
Belief valueni
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http://w3id.org/opino/
is in range of
has epistemic statusop
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Epistemic Status
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@prefix ns1: <http://w3id.org/opino/> .
@prefix owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

ns1: {
    ns1:EpistemicStatus a owl:Class ;
        rdfs:label "Epistemic Status"@en ;
        rdfs:comment "A region of the degrees of commitment that a source can hold toward a claim. It is a dul:Region, following the DUL pattern in which qualities of entities take values in a value space. Its values are the named individuals assertionValue, beliefValue, hypothesisValue and conjectureValue, and further values can be added by extension. It is attached to a Predication or a Predicative Content with hasEpistemicStatus. It is not a degree of belief (see hasConfidence) and not a source of doubt (see hasCertainty); the three are kept apart because a source may, for example, assert a claim with low confidence. The values are not ordered by the ontology."@en ;
        rdfs:isDefinedBy "http://w3id.org/opino/"^^xsd:anyURI ;
        rdfs:subClassOf <http://www.ontologydesignpatterns.org/ont/dul/DUL.owl#Region> .
}


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            "@language": "en",
            "@value": "A region of the degrees of commitment that a source can hold toward a claim. It is a dul:Region, following the DUL pattern in which qualities of entities take values in a value space. Its values are the named individuals assertionValue, beliefValue, hypothesisValue and conjectureValue, and further values can be added by extension. It is attached to a Predication or a Predicative Content with hasEpistemicStatus. It is not a degree of belief (see hasConfidence) and not a source of doubt (see hasCertainty); the three are kept apart because a source may, for example, assert a claim with low confidence. The values are not ordered by the ontology."
          }
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          }
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          }
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          }
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  }
]
<http://w3id.org/opino/EpistemicStatus> <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#type> <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#Class> <http://w3id.org/opino/> .
<http://w3id.org/opino/EpistemicStatus> <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#subClassOf> <http://www.ontologydesignpatterns.org/ont/dul/DUL.owl#Region> <http://w3id.org/opino/> .
<http://w3id.org/opino/EpistemicStatus> <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#comment> "A region of the degrees of commitment that a source can hold toward a claim. It is a dul:Region, following the DUL pattern in which qualities of entities take values in a value space. Its values are the named individuals assertionValue, beliefValue, hypothesisValue and conjectureValue, and further values can be added by extension. It is attached to a Predication or a Predicative Content with hasEpistemicStatus. It is not a degree of belief (see hasConfidence) and not a source of doubt (see hasCertainty); the three are kept apart because a source may, for example, assert a claim with low confidence. The values are not ordered by the ontology."@en <http://w3id.org/opino/> .
<http://w3id.org/opino/EpistemicStatus> <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#isDefinedBy> "http://w3id.org/opino/"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#anyURI> <http://w3id.org/opino/> .
<http://w3id.org/opino/EpistemicStatus> <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label> "Epistemic Status"@en <http://w3id.org/opino/> .
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