has epistemic status

http://w3id.org/opino/hasEpistemicStatus

as defined in OPINO - OPinions and INterpretations Ontology

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Title
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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Released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0).
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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
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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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has epistemic status
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IRI: http://w3id.org/opino/hasEpistemicStatus

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A relation from a Predication, or from a Predicative Content, to the epistemic status of its source toward the claim or claims. It is functional. It specialises dul:hasRegion. It describes commitment only; polarity, degree of belief and uncertainty are expressed with hasPolarity, hasConfidence and hasCertainty. On a Predication it also classifies the Predication as an Assertion, a Belief, a Hypothesis or a Conjecture. Stated on a Predicative Content, the value is the default for every member that does not state its own; OWL cannot express a default that a member may override, so it is resolved in queries (see the competency questions) and not by the reasoner.
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has Characteristics
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has regionop
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Predicationc
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Epistemic Statusc
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http://w3id.org/opino/
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has epistemic status
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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:hasEpistemicStatus a owl:FunctionalProperty,
            owl:ObjectProperty ;
        rdfs:label "has epistemic status"@en ;
        rdfs:comment "A relation from a Predication, or from a Predicative Content, to the epistemic status of its source toward the claim or claims. It is functional. It specialises dul:hasRegion. It describes commitment only; polarity, degree of belief and uncertainty are expressed with hasPolarity, hasConfidence and hasCertainty. On a Predication it also classifies the Predication as an Assertion, a Belief, a Hypothesis or a Conjecture. Stated on a Predicative Content, the value is the default for every member that does not state its own; OWL cannot express a default that a member may override, so it is resolved in queries (see the competency questions) and not by the reasoner."@en ;
        rdfs:domain _:n05e38e3e681e41e3bf5572b0d4808b50b44 ;
        rdfs:isDefinedBy "http://w3id.org/opino/"^^xsd:anyURI ;
        rdfs:range ns1:EpistemicStatus ;
        rdfs:subPropertyOf <http://www.ontologydesignpatterns.org/ont/dul/DUL.owl#hasRegion> .

    _:n05e38e3e681e41e3bf5572b0d4808b50b44 a owl:Class ;
        owl:unionOf _:n05e38e3e681e41e3bf5572b0d4808b50b45 .

    _:n05e38e3e681e41e3bf5572b0d4808b50b45 rdf:first ns1:Predication ;
        rdf:rest _:n05e38e3e681e41e3bf5572b0d4808b50b46 .

    _:n05e38e3e681e41e3bf5572b0d4808b50b46 rdf:first ns1:PredicativeContent ;
        rdf:rest () .
}


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        ],
        "http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#comment": [
          {
            "@language": "en",
            "@value": "A relation from a Predication, or from a Predicative Content, to the epistemic status of its source toward the claim or claims. It is functional. It specialises dul:hasRegion. It describes commitment only; polarity, degree of belief and uncertainty are expressed with hasPolarity, hasConfidence and hasCertainty. On a Predication it also classifies the Predication as an Assertion, a Belief, a Hypothesis or a Conjecture. Stated on a Predicative Content, the value is the default for every member that does not state its own; OWL cannot express a default that a member may override, so it is resolved in queries (see the competency questions) and not by the reasoner."
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              }
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  }
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_:n05e38e3e681e41e3bf5572b0d4808b50b46 <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/> .
_:n05e38e3e681e41e3bf5572b0d4808b50b45 <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#rest> _:n05e38e3e681e41e3bf5572b0d4808b50b46 <http://w3id.org/opino/> .
<http://w3id.org/opino/hasEpistemicStatus> <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/hasEpistemicStatus> <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#type> <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#FunctionalProperty> <http://w3id.org/opino/> .
<http://w3id.org/opino/hasEpistemicStatus> <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#subPropertyOf> <http://www.ontologydesignpatterns.org/ont/dul/DUL.owl#hasRegion> <http://w3id.org/opino/> .
<http://w3id.org/opino/hasEpistemicStatus> <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label> "has epistemic status"@en <http://w3id.org/opino/> .
<http://w3id.org/opino/hasEpistemicStatus> <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#domain> _:n05e38e3e681e41e3bf5572b0d4808b50b44 <http://w3id.org/opino/> .
_:n05e38e3e681e41e3bf5572b0d4808b50b46 <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#first> <http://w3id.org/opino/PredicativeContent> <http://w3id.org/opino/> .
_:n05e38e3e681e41e3bf5572b0d4808b50b44 <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#unionOf> _:n05e38e3e681e41e3bf5572b0d4808b50b45 <http://w3id.org/opino/> .
<http://w3id.org/opino/hasEpistemicStatus> <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#type> <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#ObjectProperty> <http://w3id.org/opino/> .
_:n05e38e3e681e41e3bf5572b0d4808b50b45 <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#first> <http://w3id.org/opino/Predication> <http://w3id.org/opino/> .
_:n05e38e3e681e41e3bf5572b0d4808b50b44 <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/hasEpistemicStatus> <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#range> <http://w3id.org/opino/EpistemicStatus> <http://w3id.org/opino/> .
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