Mind / Conscious Being / Agent

Local identifier: xwkont:concept:mind-conscious-being-agent Slug: mind-conscious-being-agent Editorial status: reviewed Created: 2026-07-06 Modified: 2026-07-06

Scope Note

This draft keeps the bearer-level entity layer for agentive or conscious beings and explicitly off-ramps the two main false positives from the raw inventory:

• GUM's mental-state terms (Believe, Cognition, Know, Perception, Think, Wanting, MentalActive, MentalInactive, Disliking, Fearing, Liking, ReactionAndEmotion, Striving) are modeled as mental processes / reactions, not as bearer classes. They belong with process.md / event.md, not here.
• GUM's Female and Male are pronominalization refinements under Person, not core mind/agent classes. Person is kept as a peripheral conscious-being subtype, but gender-marking subclasses are not central to the concept.
• YAMATO's mind is a semi-abstract category in the figure, not a continuant or object. It is retained as a source-side label for audit purposes, but it is not a core bearer-class correspondence.

The surviving standalone scope is therefore narrower than the raw inventory suggested: conscious-being / agent as an entity class, not mental processing, not socially conferred role, and not object-level body/organism treatment.

Labels, Alternate Labels, and Source Terminology

Role	Label or term	Source	Language	Notes
XwkOnt working label	Mind / Conscious Being / Agent	XwkOnt	en	Working label for the bearer-level conscious/agentive class family.
Source term	Agentive Physical Object / Social Agent	DOLCE	en	Agentivity is split across the object layer, not reified as a separate mind class.
Source term	AutonomousAgent / SentientAgent / CognitiveAgent / ArtificialIntelligenceAgent	SUMO	en	SUMO's primary agentive bearer family.
Source term	weak agent	YAMATO	en	Object-side agentive subtype.
Source term	mind	YAMATO	en	Semi-abstract in YAMATO; kept only as an excluded/off-ramp label.
Source term	ConsciousBeing / Person	GUM	en	Person is a conscious-being subtype; Female / Male refine Person for pronominalization.
Source term	Female / Male	GUM	en	Peripheral personhood/pronominalization subclasses, not core scope.
Source term	(no dedicated class found in core source material checked today)	BFO	en	No separate mind/agent entity class found in the core BFO artifact checked for this pass.
Source term	(no dedicated class found in the fetched 2021 paper / fallback notes)	UFO	en	The extracted UFO material did not surface a dedicated mind/agent entity class.
Source term	(no dedicated class found in the base module checked today)	GFO	en	No dedicated mind/agent entity class found in the base GFO module checked for this pass.
Source term	(no dedicated class found in the fetched TUpper files)	TUpper	en	No dedicated mind/agent entity class found in the fetched TUpper artifacts.

Source Definitions and Contextual Notes

Source	Term or identifier	Dimension	Claim type	Definition, quotation, or paraphrase	Reference	Locator	Notes
DOLCE	Agentive Physical Object / Non-agentive Physical Object	technical	paraphrase	DOLCE distinguishes physical objects to which intentions, beliefs, and desires are ascribed from those that are not. The same passage also treats a person as an agentive physical object constituted by an organism.	xwkont:ref:dolce-wonderweb-d18	D18, section 3.4.2	This is the cleanest DOLCE-side agentivity split, but it still lives in the object layer, so it is adjacent to object.md rather than a separate role/process concept.
DOLCE	Social Agent / Agentive Social Object	technical	paraphrase	The later D18 discussion also distinguishes a social-agent layer, including legal persons and contractants, from non-agentive social objects.	xwkont:ref:dolce-wonderweb-d18	D18, agentive/non-agentive social-object discussion	Useful as an agentive-bearing analog, but not a mind class.
SUMO	AutonomousAgent / SentientAgent / CognitiveAgent / ArtificialIntelligenceAgent	technical	paraphrase	SUMO makes AutonomousAgent the superclass for entities that can act on their own and cause change ("Something or someone that can act on its own and produce changes in the world"), then refines it into sentient, cognitive, and AI-agent subtypes. Confirmed (subclass AutonomousAgent Object) directly in Merge.kif -- SUMO places this at the object layer, the same pattern found in DOLCE and YAMATO.	xwkont:ref:sumo-niles-pease-2001	Merge.kif, agent hierarchy around AutonomousAgent (verified directly against the current ontologyportal/sumo Merge.kif, 2026-07-06)	The strongest direct agentive-bearer family in the candidate set.
YAMATO	weak agent / mind	technical	paraphrase	The figure-based top-level taxonomy places weak agent under the object/functional branch, while mind sits under semi-abstract. The surrounding prose treats mind as non-continuant and the object/continuant side as mutually dependent with process.	xwkont:ref:yamato-mizoguchi-2010	Fig. 2, plus Section 2.2	weak agent stays in scope; mind is retained only as an excluded label because it is not an entity-class bearer term in YAMATO.
GUM	ConsciousBeing	technical	paraphrase	GUM defines ConsciousBeing as an active entity capable of producing information that may count as consciousness, with Person as a conscious-being subtype.	xwkont:ref:gum-owl	GUM-31.owl, class ConsciousBeing	This is the primary GUM-side entity-class anchor for the concept.
GUM	Person	technical	paraphrase	Person is a conscious being that is pronominalized by she / he rather than it.	xwkont:ref:gum-owl	GUM-31.owl, class Person	Included as a conscious-being refinement, but it is peripheral to the core agent/conscious-being scope.
GUM	Female / Male	technical	paraphrase	Female and Male are subclasses of Person with a pronominalization purpose, not core bearer classes.	xwkont:ref:gum-owl	GUM-31.owl, classes Female and Male	Kept as a disposition note only; not central to the crosswalk.
GUM	Believe / Cognition / Know / Perception / Think / Wanting / MentalActive / MentalInactive / Disliking / Fearing / Liking / ReactionAndEmotion / Striving	technical	paraphrase	These are explicitly mental-process or mental-reaction classes in GUM: cognition, perception, belief, desire, fear, liking, striving, and related categories.	xwkont:ref:gum-owl	GUM-31.owl, mental-process hierarchy	Excluded from this crosswalk and routed to process.md / event.md.
BFO	(no dedicated class found)	technical	non-equivalence	No agent/mind/conscious-being term of any kind was found in bfo-core.ttl (direct grep against the fetched file, 2026-07-06).	xwkont:ref:bfo-2020	bfo-core.ttl (BFO-ontology/BFO-2020 repository)	This is a scoped absence, not a claim that BFO lacks agentive participation or role-bearing.
UFO	(no dedicated class found; Person used only as a worked example)	technical	non-equivalence	The 2021 paper does not introduce a dedicated Agent/Mind/ConsciousBeing class -- confirmed by a full-text search of the paper (re-fetched and re-extracted directly, 2026-07-06), which finds "agent" only inside an unrelated bibliography title (Laurier et al.'s "resource-event-agent ontology"). Person does appear repeatedly as ObjectKind(Person) in the paper's own worked OntoUML examples (Teacher/Student, Jogger, Walker, Spouse sections), but this repository's own established precedent for this same source treats worked-example instantiations as distinct from formally introduced core-theory classes (cf. process.md's "Jogging Process" finding) -- so this is recorded as absence-with-a-caveat, not a positive correspondence.	xwkont:ref:ufo-2021	Guizzardi et al. 2021, full text (re-fetched from inf.ufes.br/~gguizzardi, since the DOI mirror 403s)	Keep separate from role and process/event claims already covered elsewhere.
GFO	(no reified Agent/Person/Mind class; stratum-level material exists)	technical	non-equivalence	No owl:Class named Agent, Person, or Mind was found in modules/gfo-base.owl, but the module is not silent on the topic: it declares Mental_stratum (subclass of Stratum, "we divide the psychological/mental stratum into the layer of awareness and the layer of personality"), Awareness_level, Personality_level, and Social_stratum ("Agents are the bearers of the social roles that humans play"). This is a conceptual acknowledgment of mind/agent without a corresponding bearer-class declaration in this module.	xwkont:ref:gfo	modules/gfo-base.owl classes Mental_stratum, Awareness_level, Personality_level, Social_stratum (direct fetch and grep, 2026-07-06)	Later modules (only a situation module exists alongside base in the Onto-Med/GFO repository as of this pass) might refine this further; not fetched here since it is out of this candidate's declared scope. The stratum material itself is directly relevant to the separate "Ontological Level / Stratum" 0.3.0 candidate.
TUpper	(no dedicated class found)	technical	non-equivalence	No agent/mind/conscious-being term found in the fetched tupper.all.owl or tupper.clif (direct grep, 2026-07-06, excluding the MinDim false-positive substring match on "mind").	xwkont:ref:tupper-colore	tupper.all.owl, tupper.clif (fetched directly from gruninger/colore)	Agent-like usage in action predicates is not a bearer class.

Source Ontology Correspondences

Correspondence ID	Source ontology	Source term	Source identifier or IRI	Source version	Reference	Inclusion rationale
xwkont:correspondence:mind-conscious-being-agent:001	SUMO	AutonomousAgent	AutonomousAgent	current Merge.kif	xwkont:ref:sumo-niles-pease-2001	Direct agentive bearer class; the clearest SUMO anchor.
xwkont:correspondence:mind-conscious-being-agent:002	GUM	ConsciousBeing	http://www.ontospace.uni-bremen.de/ontology/stable/GUM-3.owl#ConsciousBeing	GUM 3.1	xwkont:ref:gum-owl	Direct conscious-being bearer class.
xwkont:correspondence:mind-conscious-being-agent:003	GUM	Person	http://www.ontospace.uni-bremen.de/ontology/stable/GUM-3.owl#Person	GUM 3.1	xwkont:ref:gum-owl	Conscious-being subtype; kept as a peripheral refinement.
xwkont:correspondence:mind-conscious-being-agent:004	YAMATO	weak agent	not applicable	2010 report	xwkont:ref:yamato-mizoguchi-2010	Direct object-side agentive label from the figure taxonomy.
xwkont:correspondence:mind-conscious-being-agent:005	DOLCE	Agentive Physical Object	not applicable	WonderWeb D18	xwkont:ref:dolce-wonderweb-d18	Agentivity is explicitly modeled, but at the physical-object layer rather than as a separate mind class.
xwkont:correspondence:mind-conscious-being-agent:006	BFO	(no dedicated class found)	none	BFO 2020	xwkont:ref:bfo-2020	Scoped absence, directly verified against bfo-core.ttl.
xwkont:correspondence:mind-conscious-being-agent:007	UFO	(no dedicated class found; Person used only as a worked example)	none	UFO 2021	xwkont:ref:ufo-2021	Scoped absence in the paper's core theory; Person appears only as a worked ObjectKind example, not a formally introduced class -- see Source Definitions notes.
xwkont:correspondence:mind-conscious-being-agent:008	GFO	(no reified Agent/Person/Mind class)	none	GFO base module	xwkont:ref:gfo	Scoped absence of a bearer class, though Mental_stratum/Social_stratum discuss agents conceptually -- see Source Definitions notes.
xwkont:correspondence:mind-conscious-being-agent:009	TUpper	(no dedicated class found)	none	TUpper fetched files	xwkont:ref:tupper-colore	Scoped absence, directly verified against tupper.all.owl and tupper.clif.

Semantic Comparison Notes

Note ID	Dimension	Claim type	Note	Supporting references	Confidence
note-001	technical	editorial observation	The candidate is genuinely distinct from object.md, role.md, process.md, and event.md only after it is narrowed to the bearer-level agent/conscious-being layer. The raw inventory was too broad: GUM mental classes are process/event material, and YAMATO mind is semi-abstract rather than a bearer class.	xwkont:ref:gum-owl, xwkont:ref:yamato-mizoguchi-2010, object.md, role.md, process.md, event.md	high
note-002	technical	editorial observation	SUMO, GUM, YAMATO, and DOLCE all support some version of agentive or conscious-bearing entities, but they do so with different ontological commitments: object-level agentivity in DOLCE, explicit agent subclasses in SUMO, object-side weak agent in YAMATO, and conscious-being/personhood classes in GUM.	xwkont:ref:sumo-niles-pease-2001, xwkont:ref:gum-owl, xwkont:ref:yamato-mizoguchi-2010, xwkont:ref:dolce-wonderweb-d18	high
note-003	technical	editorial observation	GUM's Female and Male are not central concepts here. They are pronominalization subclasses of Person, so they belong in the draft as a disposition note, not as peer correspondences to the main entity class.	xwkont:ref:gum-owl	high
note-004	technical	editorial observation	YAMATO mind is the key off-ramp: it is real source material, but it is semi-abstract, not an object/continuant-like bearer. If a future crosswalk wants to chase mind specifically, it should probably sit with abstract/semi-abstract or content, not here.	xwkont:ref:yamato-mizoguchi-2010	high
note-005	technical	editorial observation	GUM's mental-state terms are the opposite of this concept: the source itself describes them as mental processes or reactions, which makes them process/event material rather than bearer classes.	xwkont:ref:gum-owl	high

Mapping Assertions or Candidate Relations

Per ADR-0009, each mapping records a predicate_id (SSSOM/SKOS predicate, or none for XwkOnt-only categories) and a mapping_justification (SEMAPV term, e.g. semapv:ManualMappingCuration) in addition to the free-text rationale.

Mapping ID	Subject	Relation category	Object	predicate_id	mapping_justification	Status	Confidence	Rationale	Provenance
xwkont:mapping:mind-conscious-being-agent:001	SUMO:AutonomousAgent	close-match	xwkont-core:MindConsciousBeingAgent	skos:closeMatch	semapv:ManualMappingCuration	candidate	medium-high	AutonomousAgent is SUMO's direct, explicitly-defined bearer class for "something or someone that can act on its own and produce changes in the world," refined into sentient/cognitive/AI-agent subtypes. Confirmed (subclass AutonomousAgent Object) in Merge.kif -- SUMO models this at the object layer, same pattern as DOLCE and YAMATO.	xwkont:ref:sumo-niles-pease-2001
xwkont:mapping:mind-conscious-being-agent:002	GUM:ConsciousBeing	close-match	xwkont-core:MindConsciousBeingAgent	skos:closeMatch	semapv:ManualMappingCuration	candidate	medium-high	GUM's own comment defines ConsciousBeing as "an active entity capable of producing information that may be ascribed consciousness; e.g. a person" -- the clearest direct anchor for this candidate among all eight sources, verified verbatim against the fetched GUM-31.owl.txt.	xwkont:ref:gum-owl
xwkont:mapping:mind-conscious-being-agent:003	YAMATO:weak agent	overlap	xwkont-core:MindConsciousBeingAgent	none	semapv:ManualMappingCuration	candidate	medium	Confirmed directly from Fig. 2's diagram (not extractable as text -- verified by rendering the page as an image): weak agent is a direct child of continuant > object, alongside morphological whole, sibling to the functional branch (living organism, artifact). It is a real object-side agentive label, but the paper's own body text never elaborates it beyond the figure, so overlap rather than close-match.	xwkont:ref:yamato-mizoguchi-2010
xwkont:mapping:mind-conscious-being-agent:004	DOLCE:Agentive Physical Object / Social Agent	overlap	xwkont-core:MindConsciousBeingAgent	none	semapv:ManualMappingCuration	candidate	medium	D18 section 3.4.2 confirmed verbatim: "a special place have those to which we ascribe intentions, beliefs, and desires. These are called Agentive" (physical layer), plus a separate Social Agent layer including legal persons and contractants (Table 1: "a (legal) person, a contractant"). Agentivity is explicitly modeled but split across the object/social-object layers rather than reified as one bearer class, so overlap rather than close-match.	xwkont:ref:dolce-wonderweb-d18
xwkont:mapping:mind-conscious-being-agent:005	GUM:Person	related	xwkont-core:MindConsciousBeingAgent	skos:relatedMatch	semapv:ManualMappingCuration	candidate	high	Confirmed verbatim: "A type of conscious being pronominalizeable by she, he, etc. rather than by it." A genuine conscious-being subtype, but peripheral to the core scope, not a peer anchor.	xwkont:ref:gum-owl
xwkont:mapping:mind-conscious-being-agent:006	GUM:Female / Male	explicit-non-equivalence	xwkont-core:MindConsciousBeingAgent	none	semapv:ManualMappingCuration	candidate	high	Confirmed verbatim: both are subclasses of Person defined only "for, e.g., pronominalization purposes." Pronominalization refinements, not core bearer-class content -- equivalence should not be asserted at the concept level.	xwkont:ref:gum-owl
xwkont:mapping:mind-conscious-being-agent:007	GUM:Believe / Cognition / Know / Perception / Think / Wanting / MentalActive / MentalInactive / Disliking / Fearing / Liking / ReactionAndEmotion / Striving	explicit-non-equivalence	xwkont-core:MindConsciousBeingAgent	none	semapv:ManualMappingCuration	candidate	high	Confirmed verbatim for every term: each is commented as a "mental process" or "mental reaction" (e.g. Think: "The mental process of thinking"; ReactionAndEmotion: "An inactive mental process..."), all descending from Internal (a process branch), not from any bearer/entity class. These belong with process.md/event.md, not here.	xwkont:ref:gum-owl
xwkont:mapping:mind-conscious-being-agent:008	YAMATO:mind	explicit-non-equivalence	xwkont-core:MindConsciousBeingAgent	none	semapv:ManualMappingCuration	candidate	high	Confirmed directly from Fig. 2's diagram: mind is a direct child of semi-abstract (sibling to content and representation), not of continuant/object. YAMATO's own text defines semi-abstract things as needing "only time to exist" -- the opposite ontological commitment from a bearer/agent class.	xwkont:ref:yamato-mizoguchi-2010
xwkont:mapping:mind-conscious-being-agent:009	xwkont-core:MindConsciousBeingAgent	unknown	BFO	none	semapv:ManualMappingCuration	candidate	low	No agent/mind/conscious-being term of any kind found in bfo-core.ttl (direct grep against the fetched file, 2026-07-06).	xwkont:ref:bfo-2020
xwkont:mapping:mind-conscious-being-agent:010	xwkont-core:MindConsciousBeingAgent	unknown	UFO	none	semapv:ManualMappingCuration	candidate	low	The 2021 paper does not introduce a dedicated Agent/Mind/ConsciousBeing class -- confirmed by a full-text search of the freshly re-extracted paper, which finds "agent" only inside an unrelated bibliography title. Person does appear repeatedly as ObjectKind(Person) in the paper's own worked OntoUML examples (Teacher/Student, Jogger, Walker, Spouse), but per this repository's established precedent for this same source (process.md's "Jogging Process" finding), a worked example instantiation is not the same as a formally introduced core-theory class -- so this stays unknown rather than becoming a positive correspondence.	xwkont:ref:ufo-2021
xwkont:mapping:mind-conscious-being-agent:011	xwkont-core:MindConsciousBeingAgent	unknown	GFO	none	semapv:ManualMappingCuration	candidate	low	No reified Agent/Person/Mind class found in modules/gfo-base.owl, but the module is not silent on the topic: it declares Mental_stratum, Awareness_level, Personality_level, and Social_stratum classes, and Social_stratum's own definition states "Agents are the bearers of the social roles that humans play" -- a conceptual acknowledgment of agents without a corresponding bearer-class declaration in this module. Kept at unknown rather than a blank absence because the distinction matters: this material is directly relevant to the separate "Ontological Level / Stratum" candidate later in the 0.3.0 batch.	xwkont:ref:gfo
xwkont:mapping:mind-conscious-being-agent:012	xwkont-core:MindConsciousBeingAgent	unknown	TUpper	none	semapv:ManualMappingCuration	candidate	low	No agent/mind/conscious-being term found in the fetched tupper.all.owl or tupper.clif (direct grep, excluding the MinDim false-positive substring match on "mind").	xwkont:ref:tupper-colore

Uncertainty, Non-Equivalence, and Open Questions

Item ID	Type	Description	Impact	Follow-up
uncertainty-001	open-question	Whether DOLCE's social-agent layer should be treated as a first-class part of this crosswalk or left as object-adjacent detail needs a reviewer decision.	Affects how broad the DOLCE side should be.	Decide whether the crosswalk wants physical-agentivity only, or physical plus social agentivity.
uncertainty-002	open-question	UFO, GFO, TUpper, and BFO did not surface a dedicated mind/agent bearer class in the material checked for this draft.	Keeps those rows at absence rather than forcing a false positive.	Revisit only if a broader source sweep pulls in more specialized modules or later literature.
uncertainty-003	non-equivalence	YAMATO mind is intentionally kept out of the core correspondence set because it is semi-abstract, not a bearer class.	This is the main scope correction that keeps the draft honest.	Leave mind for an abstract/semi-abstract candidate, not this one.
uncertainty-004	open-question	GFO's base module discusses Mental_stratum/Awareness_level/Personality_level/Social_stratum and explicitly names "Agents" as bearers of social roles in prose, but reifies none of these as an Agent/Person entity class. Independently found during this review pass (2026-07-06); the draft's original claim was a blank absence that missed this material.	Kept mind-conscious-being-agent:011's mapping at unknown rather than a stronger category, since no class exists to map to; the stratum/level material itself is more relevant to the later "Ontological Level / Stratum" 0.3.0 candidate.	When that later candidate is drafted, check GFO's Stratum/Level hierarchy directly rather than starting from zero.
uncertainty-005	non-equivalence	UFO's 2021 paper repeatedly uses ObjectKind(Person) as a worked OntoUML example (Teacher/Student, Jogger, Walker, Spouse), but never formally introduces Person, Agent, or Mind as a core UFO category the way it does for Object, Quantity, Relator, etc. Independently found during this review pass (2026-07-06); resolved using this repository's own established precedent for the same source (process.md's "Jogging Process" finding: worked examples are not core theory).	Kept mind-conscious-being-agent:010 at unknown rather than treating Person as a positive UFO correspondence.	None needed unless a later UFO-adjacent source (e.g. gUFO, UFO-S/UFO-A extensions) formally reifies Person/Agent as a core class.

Provenance and References

• xwkont:ref:bfo-2020 — Basic Formal Ontology (BFO) 2020 — verified directly against bfo-core.ttl (BFO-ontology/BFO-2020 repository, 21838-2/owl/bfo-core.ttl) -- no agent/mind/conscious-being term of any kind found, 2026-07-06
• xwkont:ref:dolce-wonderweb-d18 — WonderWeb Deliverable D18: Ontology Library — verified directly against the D18 PDF (fetched and pdftotext-extracted), section 3.4.2 (Agentive/Non-agentive physical objects) and the agentive/non-agentive social-object discussion, plus Table 1's leaf-category examples (Social Agent: "a (legal) person, a contractant"), 2026-07-06
• xwkont:ref:ufo-2021 — UFO: Unified Foundational Ontology — verified directly against the paper (re-fetched from inf.ufes.br/~gguizzardi since the DOI mirror 403s, pdftotext-extracted) -- confirmed no dedicated Agent/Mind/ConsciousBeing class; Person appears only as a worked ObjectKind(Person) example (Teacher/Student, Jogger, Walker, Spouse sections), not a formally introduced core-theory class, 2026-07-06
• xwkont:ref:sumo-niles-pease-2001 — Towards a Standard Upper Ontology — verified directly against the current ontologyportal/sumo Merge.kif -- confirmed AutonomousAgent/SentientAgent/CognitiveAgent/ArtificialIntelligenceAgent definitions verbatim and (subclass AutonomousAgent Object), 2026-07-06
• xwkont:ref:gfo — General Formal Ontology — verified directly against modules/gfo-base.owl (Onto-Med/GFO repository) -- no reified Agent/Person/Mind class found, but Mental_stratum, Awareness_level, Personality_level, and Social_stratum classes confirmed, including Social_stratum's own definition naming "Agents" as bearers of social roles, 2026-07-06
• xwkont:ref:yamato-mizoguchi-2010 — YAMATO: Yet Another More Advanced Top-level Ontology — verified directly against the PDF (fetched and rendered as page images, since Fig. 2's labels are not present in the extractable text layer) -- confirmed weak agent as a direct child of continuant > object and mind as a direct child of semi-abstract in Fig. 2's diagram, 2026-07-06
• xwkont:ref:tupper-colore — TUpper COLORE formalization — verified directly against tupper.all.owl and tupper.clif (fetched from gruninger/colore) -- no agent/mind/conscious-being term found, 2026-07-06
• xwkont:ref:gum-owl — GUM: The Generalized Upper Model — verified directly against GUM-31.owl.txt (fetched via the Wayback Machine snapshot per the reference record) -- confirmed ConsciousBeing, Person, Female, Male comments verbatim, and confirmed every cited mental-state/reaction term (Believe, Cognition, Know, Perception, Think, Wanting, MentalActive, MentalInactive, Disliking, Fearing, Liking, ReactionAndEmotion, Striving) is commented as a mental process/reaction descending from Internal, 2026-07-06

Review History

Review ID	Date	Outcome	Notes
xwkont:review:mind-conscious-being-agent:2026-07-06:01	2026-07-06	Passed — advanced draft → reviewed	Content originally drafted by Codex (external run, GPT-5.4-Mini, Extra-High reasoning) per the standing Codex-delegation process, after an earlier attempt found the codex CLI unavailable in-session, so this pass ran Codex externally and handed the draft back for review. The scope-overlap check against object.md, role.md, process.md, and event.md correctly found a genuinely distinct bearer-level agent/conscious-being layer, but only after off-ramping GUM's mental-process cluster (to process.md/event.md) and YAMATO's mind (semi-abstract, not a bearer class). Every direct quotation independently re-verified against primary sources (bfo-core.ttl, the D18 PDF, Merge.kif, the YAMATO PDF rendered as page images since Fig. 2's labels are not in the extractable text layer, GUM-31.owl.txt, the re-fetched UFO 2021 paper, modules/gfo-base.owl, tupper.all.owl/tupper.clif) rather than trusting the draft as-is. Two substantive gaps found and fixed during this review: (1) UFO's absence claim was too flat -- the paper repeatedly uses ObjectKind(Person) as a worked OntoUML example, which per this repository's own established precedent for the same source (process.md's "Jogging Process" finding) is an example instantiation, not a formally introduced core-theory class, so the absence claim survives but is now recorded with that nuance; (2) GFO's absence claim missed real, relevant material -- the base module declares Mental_stratum, Awareness_level, Personality_level, and Social_stratum classes, with Social_stratum's own definition naming "Agents" as bearers of social roles, which is directly relevant to the separate "Ontological Level / Stratum" 0.3.0 candidate. Also authored the "Mapping Assertions or Candidate Relations" section from scratch, since the Codex draft omitted it entirely.

Future Work

• Decide whether DOLCE should keep both physical and social agentivity in this crosswalk, or whether the social-agent layer wants its own narrower follow-up.
• If a later pass decides to split mind out as a separate candidate, anchor it to the semi-abstract / abstract-concrete family instead of this bearer-level agent draft.
• If the reviewer wants a tighter conceptual boundary, fold Person back into ConsciousBeing and keep Female / Male as excluded refinements only.