Hypothesis

http://w3id.org/opino/Hypothesis

as defined in OPINO - OPinions and INterpretations Ontology

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OPINO - OPinions and INterpretations Ontology
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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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OPINO
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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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2026-04-30
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2026-10-24
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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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A Predication whose source holds the claim as the current best explanation, open to revision. It is a defined class (Predication and hasEpistemicStatus value hypothesisValue), classified by the reasoner and never asserted by hand, and it is disjoint from the other status classes and from Reference. Example: the attribution of a drawing to a workshop on the basis of a watermark.
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is disjoint with
Assertionc,
Beliefc,
Conjecturec,
Referencec
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http://w3id.org/opino/
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Predicationc
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has epistemic statusop
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Hypothesis valueni
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Hypothesis
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@prefix ns1: <http://w3id.org/opino/> .
@prefix owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#> .
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

ns1: {
    ns1:Hypothesis a owl:Class ;
        rdfs:label "Hypothesis"@en ;
        rdfs:comment "A Predication whose source holds the claim as the current best explanation, open to revision. It is a defined class (Predication and hasEpistemicStatus value hypothesisValue), classified by the reasoner and never asserted by hand, and it is disjoint from the other status classes and from Reference. Example: the attribution of a drawing to a workshop on the basis of a watermark."@en ;
        rdfs:isDefinedBy "http://w3id.org/opino/"^^xsd:anyURI ;
        rdfs:subClassOf ns1:Predication ;
        owl:equivalentClass _:n05e38e3e681e41e3bf5572b0d4808b50b37 .

    _:n05e38e3e681e41e3bf5572b0d4808b50b55 a owl:AllDisjointClasses ;
        owl:members _:n05e38e3e681e41e3bf5572b0d4808b50b56 .

    _:n05e38e3e681e41e3bf5572b0d4808b50b37 a owl:Class ;
        owl:intersectionOf _:n05e38e3e681e41e3bf5572b0d4808b50b39 .

    _:n05e38e3e681e41e3bf5572b0d4808b50b38 a owl:Restriction ;
        owl:hasValue ns1:hypothesisValue ;
        owl:onProperty ns1:hasEpistemicStatus .

    _:n05e38e3e681e41e3bf5572b0d4808b50b39 rdf:first ns1:Predication ;
        rdf:rest _:n05e38e3e681e41e3bf5572b0d4808b50b40 .

    _:n05e38e3e681e41e3bf5572b0d4808b50b40 rdf:first _:n05e38e3e681e41e3bf5572b0d4808b50b38 ;
        rdf:rest () .

    _:n05e38e3e681e41e3bf5572b0d4808b50b56 rdf:first ns1:Assertion ;
        rdf:rest _:n05e38e3e681e41e3bf5572b0d4808b50b57 .

    _:n05e38e3e681e41e3bf5572b0d4808b50b57 rdf:first ns1:Belief ;
        rdf:rest _:n05e38e3e681e41e3bf5572b0d4808b50b58 .

    _:n05e38e3e681e41e3bf5572b0d4808b50b58 rdf:first ns1:Hypothesis ;
        rdf:rest _:n05e38e3e681e41e3bf5572b0d4808b50b59 .

    _:n05e38e3e681e41e3bf5572b0d4808b50b59 rdf:first ns1:Conjecture ;
        rdf:rest _:n05e38e3e681e41e3bf5572b0d4808b50b60 .

    _:n05e38e3e681e41e3bf5572b0d4808b50b60 rdf:first ns1:Reference ;
        rdf:rest () .
}


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    "@graph": [
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        "@id": "_:n05e38e3e681e41e3bf5572b0d4808b50b55",
        "@type": [
          "http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#AllDisjointClasses"
        ],
        "http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#members": [
          {
            "@list": [
              {
                "@id": "http://w3id.org/opino/Assertion"
              },
              {
                "@id": "http://w3id.org/opino/Belief"
              },
              {
                "@id": "http://w3id.org/opino/Hypothesis"
              },
              {
                "@id": "http://w3id.org/opino/Conjecture"
              },
              {
                "@id": "http://w3id.org/opino/Reference"
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "@id": "http://w3id.org/opino/Hypothesis",
        "@type": [
          "http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#Class"
        ],
        "http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#comment": [
          {
            "@language": "en",
            "@value": "A Predication whose source holds the claim as the current best explanation, open to revision. It is a defined class (Predication and hasEpistemicStatus value hypothesisValue), classified by the reasoner and never asserted by hand, and it is disjoint from the other status classes and from Reference. Example: the attribution of a drawing to a workshop on the basis of a watermark."
          }
        ],
        "http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#isDefinedBy": [
          {
            "@type": "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#anyURI",
            "@value": "http://w3id.org/opino/"
          }
        ],
        "http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label": [
          {
            "@language": "en",
            "@value": "Hypothesis"
          }
        ],
        "http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#subClassOf": [
          {
            "@id": "http://w3id.org/opino/Predication"
          }
        ],
        "http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#equivalentClass": [
          {
            "@id": "_:n05e38e3e681e41e3bf5572b0d4808b50b37"
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "@id": "_:n05e38e3e681e41e3bf5572b0d4808b50b37",
        "@type": [
          "http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#Class"
        ],
        "http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#intersectionOf": [
          {
            "@list": [
              {
                "@id": "http://w3id.org/opino/Predication"
              },
              {
                "@id": "_:n05e38e3e681e41e3bf5572b0d4808b50b38"
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "@id": "_:n05e38e3e681e41e3bf5572b0d4808b50b38",
        "@type": [
          "http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#Restriction"
        ],
        "http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#hasValue": [
          {
            "@id": "http://w3id.org/opino/hypothesisValue"
          }
        ],
        "http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#onProperty": [
          {
            "@id": "http://w3id.org/opino/hasEpistemicStatus"
          }
        ]
      }
    ],
    "@id": "http://w3id.org/opino/"
  }
]
_:n05e38e3e681e41e3bf5572b0d4808b50b40 <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#rest> <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#nil> <http://w3id.org/opino/> .
_:n05e38e3e681e41e3bf5572b0d4808b50b38 <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#type> <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#Restriction> <http://w3id.org/opino/> .
<http://w3id.org/opino/Hypothesis> <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#isDefinedBy> "http://w3id.org/opino/"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#anyURI> <http://w3id.org/opino/> .
_:n05e38e3e681e41e3bf5572b0d4808b50b60 <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#first> <http://w3id.org/opino/Reference> <http://w3id.org/opino/> .
_:n05e38e3e681e41e3bf5572b0d4808b50b38 <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#onProperty> <http://w3id.org/opino/hasEpistemicStatus> <http://w3id.org/opino/> .
_:n05e38e3e681e41e3bf5572b0d4808b50b60 <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#rest> <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#nil> <http://w3id.org/opino/> .
<http://w3id.org/opino/Hypothesis> <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#comment> "A Predication whose source holds the claim as the current best explanation, open to revision. It is a defined class (Predication and hasEpistemicStatus value hypothesisValue), classified by the reasoner and never asserted by hand, and it is disjoint from the other status classes and from Reference. Example: the attribution of a drawing to a workshop on the basis of a watermark."@en <http://w3id.org/opino/> .
_:n05e38e3e681e41e3bf5572b0d4808b50b57 <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#rest> _:n05e38e3e681e41e3bf5572b0d4808b50b58 <http://w3id.org/opino/> .
<http://w3id.org/opino/Hypothesis> <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label> "Hypothesis"@en <http://w3id.org/opino/> .
_:n05e38e3e681e41e3bf5572b0d4808b50b56 <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#rest> _:n05e38e3e681e41e3bf5572b0d4808b50b57 <http://w3id.org/opino/> .
_:n05e38e3e681e41e3bf5572b0d4808b50b59 <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#rest> _:n05e38e3e681e41e3bf5572b0d4808b50b60 <http://w3id.org/opino/> .
_:n05e38e3e681e41e3bf5572b0d4808b50b39 <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#first> <http://w3id.org/opino/Predication> <http://w3id.org/opino/> .
<http://w3id.org/opino/Hypothesis> <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#subClassOf> <http://w3id.org/opino/Predication> <http://w3id.org/opino/> .
_:n05e38e3e681e41e3bf5572b0d4808b50b39 <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#rest> _:n05e38e3e681e41e3bf5572b0d4808b50b40 <http://w3id.org/opino/> .
_:n05e38e3e681e41e3bf5572b0d4808b50b59 <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#first> <http://w3id.org/opino/Conjecture> <http://w3id.org/opino/> .
_:n05e38e3e681e41e3bf5572b0d4808b50b57 <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#first> <http://w3id.org/opino/Belief> <http://w3id.org/opino/> .
_:n05e38e3e681e41e3bf5572b0d4808b50b56 <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#first> <http://w3id.org/opino/Assertion> <http://w3id.org/opino/> .
_:n05e38e3e681e41e3bf5572b0d4808b50b55 <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#members> _:n05e38e3e681e41e3bf5572b0d4808b50b56 <http://w3id.org/opino/> .
_:n05e38e3e681e41e3bf5572b0d4808b50b37 <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#intersectionOf> _:n05e38e3e681e41e3bf5572b0d4808b50b39 <http://w3id.org/opino/> .
<http://w3id.org/opino/Hypothesis> <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/Hypothesis> <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#equivalentClass> _:n05e38e3e681e41e3bf5572b0d4808b50b37 <http://w3id.org/opino/> .
_:n05e38e3e681e41e3bf5572b0d4808b50b38 <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#hasValue> <http://w3id.org/opino/hypothesisValue> <http://w3id.org/opino/> .
_:n05e38e3e681e41e3bf5572b0d4808b50b58 <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#first> <http://w3id.org/opino/Hypothesis> <http://w3id.org/opino/> .
_:n05e38e3e681e41e3bf5572b0d4808b50b58 <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#rest> _:n05e38e3e681e41e3bf5572b0d4808b50b59 <http://w3id.org/opino/> .
_:n05e38e3e681e41e3bf5572b0d4808b50b40 <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#first> _:n05e38e3e681e41e3bf5572b0d4808b50b38 <http://w3id.org/opino/> .
_:n05e38e3e681e41e3bf5572b0d4808b50b37 <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#type> <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#Class> <http://w3id.org/opino/> .
_:n05e38e3e681e41e3bf5572b0d4808b50b55 <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#type> <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#AllDisjointClasses> <http://w3id.org/opino/> .
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