Non-physical / Social Object¶
Local identifier:
xwkont:concept:non-physical-social-objectSlug:non-physical-social-objectEditorial status:reviewedCreated:2026-07-07Modified:2026-07-07
Scope Note¶
This crosswalk compares how the checked source ontologies model non-physical bearer-level entities that are not physical objects or amounts of matter: DOLCE's base-module non-physical-endurant / non-physical-object branch, plus the closest non-physical or object-adjacent analogs found in the other seven source ontologies.
DOLCE-Lite.owl is the only source that directly reifies the in-scope axis as a formal class in its core module. Its base file defines non-physical-endurant and non-physical-object directly, but not the classic DOLCE-family Mental-Object / Social-Object leaf split. That social-object apparatus lives in other DOLCE-family artifacts already crosswalked elsewhere, so this crosswalk cites those crosswalks by ID where relevant instead of re-deriving them.
UFO is a second, independently-confirmed source (found during review, not in the original draft): its 2021 paper uses the identical phrase "non-physical endurants," with a worked example, in a footnote on the constitution relation — not a reified class or formal definition, but a direct terminological and conceptual match, not incidental word use.
Core.ttl placement was resolved 2026-07-07 (session-050): xwkont-core:NonPhysicalObject, a single umbrella class under Continuant, not split into a separate Social Object branch.
Labels, Alternate Labels, and Source Terminology¶
| Role | Label or term | Source | Language | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| XwkOnt working label | Non-physical / Social Object | XwkOnt | en |
Working label for the non-physical bearer-level object axis. |
| Source term | non-physical-endurant | DOLCE | en |
Core DOLCE branch root for the in-scope axis. |
| Source term | non-physical-object | DOLCE | en |
Core DOLCE base-module child on that axis. |
| Source term | generically dependent continuant | BFO | en |
Closest BFO-dependent non-physical branch. |
| Source term | immaterial entity | BFO | en |
Additional BFO non-material hit, but not the same branch as GDC. |
| Source term | Abstract | SUMO | en |
SUMO's broad non-physical bucket. |
| Source term | Proposition | SUMO | en |
SUMO's abstract content-like subclass. |
| Source term | non-physical endurants | UFO | en |
Informal footnote usage (not a reified class), identical phrase to DOLCE's own branch root, with a worked example. Found during independent review, missed by the original draft. Closest additional formal terms in the paper are Object, Relator, Mode, Quality. |
| Source term | (no dedicated non-physical/social-object class found; closest formal terms are Material_object, Material_persistant, Mental_stratum, Social_stratum, Social_role, Relator) | GFO | en |
GFO splits material objects from mental/social strata and roles, but not a non-physical/social-object class. |
| Source term | informational object / representation | YAMATO | en |
Section-level conceptual apparatus, not a reified source class in the fetchable report. |
| Source term | object | TUpper | en |
TUpper's broad object class. |
| Source term | SimpleThing | GUM | en |
GUM's broad object-like top-level class. |
Source Definitions and Contextual Notes¶
| Source | Term or identifier | Dimension | Claim type | Definition, quotation, or paraphrase | Reference | Locator | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOLCE | non-physical-endurant | technical | direct quotation | "An endurant with no mass, generically constantly depending on some agent. Non-physical endurants can have physical constituents (e.g. in the case of members of a collection)." The base file makes this the root of the non-physical endurant branch, with rdfs:subClassOf endurant, part only non-physical-endurant, and has-quality only abstract-quality. |
xwkont:ref:dolce-lite-owl |
DOLCE-Lite.owl, owl:Class#non-physical-endurant, fetched and read directly 2026-07-07 |
Corrected during independent review (2026-07-07): the draft's original quotation truncated this rdfs:comment to "An endurant with no mass," dropping the constant-dependence-on-an-agent clause and the physical-constituents caveat — both restored here from the primary source. owl:disjointWith is asserted on sibling classes rather than locally on this class: physical-endurant is disjoint with non-physical-endurant, and arbitrary-sum is also disjoint with it. |
| DOLCE | non-physical-object | both | direct quotation | "Formerly known as description." The class is a unitary endurant with no mass, generically dependent on an agent and a communication act, and the file says that both descriptions and concepts are non-physical objects. rdfs:subClassOf non-physical-endurant; part only non-physical-object; generically-dependent-on some physical-endurant. |
xwkont:ref:dolce-lite-owl |
DOLCE-Lite.owl, owl:Class#non-physical-object, fetched and read directly 2026-07-07 |
No further subclasses beneath non-physical-object were found in the base module. |
| BFO | generically dependent continuant | technical | paraphrase | An entity that exists because there is at least one copy whose content or pattern can be shared with other copies. This is the closest BFO non-physical dependent branch on the core-file side. | xwkont:ref:bfo-2020 |
bfo-core.ttl, class generically dependent continuant, fetched and read directly 2026-07-07 |
immaterial entity is also present in the same file, but it is a different class and not a social-object branch. |
| BFO | immaterial entity | technical | paraphrase | An independent continuant with no material entity as continuant part. This is a non-material hit, but it is not the same modeling choice as DOLCE's non-physical bearer branch. | xwkont:ref:bfo-2020 |
bfo-core.ttl, class immaterial entity, fetched and read directly 2026-07-07 |
Relevant as a lexical hit only, not as a social-object analog. |
| SUMO | Abstract | technical | paraphrase | SUMO puts List, Proposition, Attribute, Relation, and related content-like classes on the abstract side of its Entity partition. That is the broad non-physical bucket closest to this candidate. |
xwkont:ref:sumo-niles-pease-2001 |
Merge.kif, Abstract, fetched and read directly 2026-07-07 |
Broad abstract branch, not a social-object hierarchy. |
| SUMO | Proposition | technical | direct quotation | "Propositions are Abstract entities that express a complete thought or a set of such thoughts... A Proposition is an abstraction that may have multiple representations: strings, sounds, icons, etc." This is the most content-like SUMO hit in the checked material, but it is still propositional content rather than a bearer-level social object. | xwkont:ref:sumo-niles-pease-2001 |
Merge.kif, Proposition, fetched and read directly 2026-07-07 |
Corrected during independent review (2026-07-07): the draft's original text ("An abstract entity that may have multiple representations") was a paraphrase mislabeled as a direct quotation — restored to Merge.kif's actual documentation string, including the primary "complete thought" definition the paraphrase dropped. Useful as a nearby non-physical analog, not as an exact object branch. |
| UFO | non-physical endurants | technical | direct quotation | "We do admit, however, relations of constitution between non-physical endurants. For example, a software program is constituted by software code, not identical to it." | xwkont:ref:ufo-2021 |
complete extracted paper text reused from the 2026-07-06 extraction (footnote 8, in the constitution-relation discussion); live fetch attempts in this session were blocked by HTTP 403 | Found during independent review (2026-07-07), missed entirely by the Codex draft, which claimed "the searched text does not introduce a dedicated non-physical/social-object class" without having actually located this passage. UFO does not reify "non-physical endurant" as its own formal class or give it a dedicated definition the way DOLCE does — it appears only in this one footnote, in service of an argument about the constitution relation's asymmetry — but it is a direct, literal use of the identical phrase DOLCE uses for its own branch root, with a worked example (a software program constituted by, but not identical to, its software code) that is itself a plausible non-physical-object instance. This is the strongest textual hit of any of the 7 non-DOLCE sources checked. |
| UFO | Object / Relator / Mode / Quality | both | editorial observation | The paper builds a four-category ontology with object types, moments, and abstract particulars. Beyond the "non-physical endurants" footnote above, the searched text does not introduce a further dedicated non-physical/social-object class; the closest additional formal terms are Object, Relator, Mode, and Quality, plus the theoretical phrase abstract particulars. |
xwkont:ref:ufo-2021 |
complete extracted paper text reused from the 2026-07-06 extraction; live fetch attempts in this session were blocked by HTTP 403 | Formal class-level hit, but not on the requested object/social-object axis. |
| GFO | Material_object / Material_persistant / Social_stratum / Social_role | both | paraphrase | gfo-base.owl reifies a material-object branch and a separate mental/social stratum apparatus, but no dedicated non-physical/social-object class. Material_persistant says these are the entities sometimes called continuants or objects; social and mental content is handled via Social_stratum, Mental_stratum, Social_role, and Relator. |
xwkont:ref:gfo |
modules/gfo-base.owl, fetched and read directly 2026-07-07 |
Reified classes are present, but not the requested bearer-level non-physical/social-object branch. |
| YAMATO | informational object / representation | both | paraphrase | The report has a dedicated section on informational objects and another on representation. It treats them as content-bearing things and distinguishes representation from representing thing, but the fetchable report does not reify a dedicated social-object class. | xwkont:ref:yamato-mizoguchi-2010 |
independently re-verified 2026-07-07 (session-051): YAMATO101216.pdf re-fetched fresh via the Wayback Machine snapshot and re-extracted with pdftotext, grepped for "social object," "non-physical," and "nonphysical" -- zero hits for all three. The informational-object/representation apparatus was independently confirmed present (section-level discussion of informational objects, representation vs. representing thing). Prior review flagged this row as inherited from the Codex draft, not independently re-checked; now confirmed. |
Section-level conceptual apparatus only, confirmed absent of a social-object class by independent full-text search, not merely inherited from the draft. |
| TUpper | object | technical | direct quotation | "An object is anything that is not a timepoint, nor an activity nor an activity-occurrence." The prose also says objects can be concrete or abstract things that participate in an activity. | xwkont:ref:tupper-colore |
TUpper-Terms.html, fetched and read directly 2026-07-07 |
Broad object class, not a social-object branch. |
| GUM | SimpleThing | technical | direct quotation | "An entity which may participate in a configuration." GUM's object-like top level is a linguistic SimpleThing / Process split, not a non-physical/social-object hierarchy. |
xwkont:ref:gum-owl |
GUM-31.owl.txt, class SimpleThing, fetched and read directly 2026-07-07 |
Broad object-like class, but linguistically motivated. |
Source Ontology Correspondences¶
| Correspondence ID | Source ontology | Source term | Source identifier or IRI | Source version | Reference | Inclusion rationale |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
xwkont:correspondence:non-physical-social-object:001 |
DOLCE | non-physical-endurant / non-physical-object | http://www.loa-cnr.it/ontologies/DOLCE-Lite.owl#non-physical-endurant / http://www.loa-cnr.it/ontologies/DOLCE-Lite.owl#non-physical-object |
397 | xwkont:ref:dolce-lite-owl |
This is the only source that directly reifies the in-scope axis in its base module. non-physical-endurant is the branch root, and non-physical-object is the only base-module child found there. |
xwkont:correspondence:non-physical-social-object:002 |
BFO | generically dependent continuant / immaterial entity | BFO_0000031 / BFO_0000141 |
BFO 2020 | xwkont:ref:bfo-2020 |
BFO's closest non-physical territory, but it is broader and not object/social-object specific. Corrected during independent review (2026-07-07) — the draft's original IRI for "immaterial entity" (BFO_0000142) is actually bfo-core.ttl's "fiat line" class; "immaterial entity" is BFO_0000141. |
xwkont:correspondence:non-physical-social-object:003 |
SUMO | Abstract / Proposition | Abstract / Proposition |
FOIS 2001 / current Merge.kif |
xwkont:ref:sumo-niles-pease-2001 |
SUMO routes non-physical content into an abstract branch, with Proposition as its most content-like subclass. |
xwkont:correspondence:non-physical-social-object:004 |
UFO | non-physical endurants | not applicable — informal footnote usage, not a reified class or IRI | UFO 2021 paper | xwkont:ref:ufo-2021 |
Corrected during independent review (2026-07-07): the draft's original row recorded "not applicable" here, having missed a direct hit. UFO's own paper uses the identical phrase "non-physical endurants," with a worked example, in a footnote on the constitution relation — not a reified class, but a real terminological and conceptual match, the strongest of any non-DOLCE source checked. The paper's broader object/moment/abstract-particular apparatus remains relevant background but is not itself the primary hit. |
xwkont:correspondence:non-physical-social-object:005 |
GFO | (no dedicated non-physical/social-object class found) | not applicable | GFO 2024-11-18 release | xwkont:ref:gfo |
GFO separates material objects from social/mental strata and roles, but not into a non-physical/social-object class. |
xwkont:correspondence:non-physical-social-object:006 |
YAMATO | informational object / representation | not applicable | 2010-12-16 report (independently re-fetched and re-extracted, 2026-07-07) | xwkont:ref:yamato-mizoguchi-2010 |
Confirmed absence -- YAMATO discusses the territory conceptually (informational object, representation vs. representing thing), but the fetchable report does not reify a dedicated social-object class; independent full-text search for "social object"/"non-physical"/"nonphysical" found zero hits. |
xwkont:correspondence:non-physical-social-object:007 |
TUpper | object | object |
TUpper COLORE formalization | xwkont:ref:tupper-colore |
A broad object class that includes abstract things, but not a dedicated social-object branch. |
xwkont:correspondence:non-physical-social-object:008 |
GUM | SimpleThing | http://www.ontospace.uni-bremen.de/ontology/stable/GUM-3.owl#SimpleThing |
GUM 3.1 | xwkont:ref:gum-owl |
GUM's broad object-like top-level class is the nearest formal hit, but it is linguistically motivated and not a non-physical/social-object branch. |
Semantic Comparison Notes¶
| Note ID | Dimension | Claim type | Note | Supporting references | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
note-001 |
technical | editorial observation | DOLCE-Lite.owl is the only checked base module that directly reifies the non-physical endurant/object axis in the requested sense. The file's internal structure is shallow: non-physical-endurant is the branch root, and non-physical-object is its only base-module child. |
xwkont:ref:dolce-lite-owl |
high |
note-002 |
technical | editorial observation | The classic DOLCE social-object leaf split is not in DOLCE-Lite.owl itself. That matters because this draft is deliberately anchored to the base module only; the extension material that introduces Mental-Object / Social-Object is already crosswalked elsewhere and should stay cited there. |
xwkont:ref:dolce-lite-owl, docs/crosswalks/concepts/situation-state-of-affairs.md, docs/crosswalks/concepts/role.md, docs/crosswalks/concepts/information-artifact.md |
high |
note-003 |
technical | editorial observation | BFO, SUMO, TUpper, and GUM all have broad object or content branches that can host non-physical entities, but none of them reifies a DOLCE-style non-physical/social-object hierarchy. Their best hits are broader than the candidate, not exact peers. | xwkont:ref:bfo-2020, xwkont:ref:sumo-niles-pease-2001, xwkont:ref:tupper-colore, xwkont:ref:gum-owl |
medium-high |
note-004 |
both | editorial observation | Corrected during independent review (2026-07-07): UFO's own paper explicitly uses the phrase "non-physical endurants" (footnote 8, constitution-relation discussion), with a worked example (a software program constituted by, but not identical to, its software code) — this is a genuine second source for the candidate, not merely nearby background, even though UFO does not reify the phrase as its own formal class or definition the way DOLCE does. The paper's broader four-category apparatus (objects, moments, abstract particulars) remains relevant structural context but is secondary to this direct textual hit. | xwkont:ref:ufo-2021 |
medium |
note-005 |
technical | editorial observation | GFO splits the territory differently: material objects on one side, and mental/social strata plus roles on the other. That gives it social vocabulary, but not a social-object branch. | xwkont:ref:gfo |
medium-high |
note-006 |
technical | editorial observation | YAMATO's treatment of informational objects is explicitly about representation and content-bearing things, not a bearer-level social-object class. The report is useful as a conceptual analog, but it is prose-level rather than reified in the fetched artifact. | xwkont:ref:yamato-mizoguchi-2010 |
medium |
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:non-physical-social-object:001 |
DOLCE:non-physical-endurant | broader-than |
xwkont-core:NonPhysicalObject (candidate) | skos:broadMatch |
semapv:ManualMappingCuration |
candidate | high | The source term names the whole non-physical endurant branch, which is broader than the candidate's object/social-object reading. | xwkont:ref:dolce-lite-owl |
xwkont:mapping:non-physical-social-object:002 |
DOLCE:non-physical-object | close-match |
xwkont-core:NonPhysicalObject (candidate) | skos:closeMatch |
semapv:ManualMappingCuration |
candidate | medium | This is the closest DOLCE base-module anchor, but it is still description/concept-centered and lacks the classic social-object leaf split inside the base file. | xwkont:ref:dolce-lite-owl |
xwkont:mapping:non-physical-social-object:003 |
BFO:generically dependent continuant | broader-than |
xwkont-core:NonPhysicalObject (candidate) | skos:broadMatch |
semapv:ManualMappingCuration |
candidate | low-medium | BFO's branch is broader and departs from object/social-object modeling, but it is still the closest non-physical dependent-continuant hit in the core file. | xwkont:ref:bfo-2020 |
xwkont:mapping:non-physical-social-object:004 |
SUMO:Abstract / Proposition | broader-than |
xwkont-core:NonPhysicalObject (candidate) | skos:broadMatch |
semapv:ManualMappingCuration |
candidate | low | SUMO routes non-physical content into an abstract branch; that branch is broader than the candidate and not object/social-object specific. | xwkont:ref:sumo-niles-pease-2001 |
xwkont:mapping:non-physical-social-object:005 |
UFO:non-physical endurants | related |
xwkont-core:NonPhysicalObject (candidate) | skos:relatedMatch |
semapv:ManualMappingCuration |
candidate | medium | Corrected during independent review (2026-07-07), raised from unknown/low: UFO's paper uses the identical phrase "non-physical endurants" (footnote 8) with a worked example, a direct terminological and conceptual match — but not close-match, since UFO does not reify the phrase as its own class, definition, or formal branch the way DOLCE does; it appears only in service of an argument about the constitution relation. |
xwkont:ref:ufo-2021 |
xwkont:mapping:non-physical-social-object:006 |
GFO:Material_object / Material_persistant / Social_stratum / Social_role | unknown |
xwkont-core:NonPhysicalObject (candidate) | none | semapv:ManualMappingCuration |
candidate | low | GFO has social vocabulary and a material-object branch, but no dedicated non-physical/social-object class in the checked base module. | xwkont:ref:gfo |
xwkont:mapping:non-physical-social-object:007 |
YAMATO:informational object / representation | related |
xwkont-core:NonPhysicalObject (candidate) | skos:relatedMatch |
semapv:ManualMappingCuration |
candidate | low | YAMATO's content-bearing representation theory is adjacent to the candidate, but the evidence is conceptual prose rather than a reified class. | xwkont:ref:yamato-mizoguchi-2010 |
xwkont:mapping:non-physical-social-object:008 |
TUpper:object | broader-than |
xwkont-core:NonPhysicalObject (candidate) | skos:broadMatch |
semapv:ManualMappingCuration |
candidate | low | TUpper's object is intentionally broad enough to include abstract things; that makes it broader than the candidate, not a social-object branch. |
xwkont:ref:tupper-colore |
xwkont:mapping:non-physical-social-object:009 |
GUM:SimpleThing | broader-than |
xwkont-core:NonPhysicalObject (candidate) | skos:broadMatch |
semapv:ManualMappingCuration |
candidate | low | GUM's object-like top-level class is broader than the candidate and shaped by linguistic realization, not by a social-object ontology. | xwkont:ref:gum-owl |
Uncertainty, Non-Equivalence, and Open Questions¶
| Item ID | Type | Description | Impact | Follow-up |
|---|---|---|---|---|
uncertainty-001 |
~~open-question~~ Resolved 2026-07-07 (session-050): the maintainer confirmed umbrella-only placement — xwkont-core:NonPhysicalObject as a single class under Continuant, not split into a separate Social Object branch, since DOLCE-Lite's own base module supports only the broader class. See data/ontology/core.ttl and docs/ontology/core-ontology.md. |
Should XwkOnt eventually model this as one umbrella class or as a split between a non-physical-object branch and a separate social-object branch? DOLCE-Lite.owl itself only supports the first half in its base module. | Blocks final core.ttl placement. | Resolved -- no further action needed. |
uncertainty-002 |
non-equivalence | The classic DOLCE Mental-Object / Social-Object / Agentive-Social-Object / Non-Agentive-Social-Object tree is not defined in DOLCE-Lite.owl. That tree belongs to other DOLCE-family artifacts already crosswalked elsewhere. |
Prevents re-deriving the extension-module findings inside this draft. | Keep citing the existing crosswalk IDs when those artifacts are relevant. |
uncertainty-003 |
uncertainty | BFO, SUMO, GFO, YAMATO, TUpper, and GUM each provide a nearest hit, but most are broader or structurally different rather than exact peers. UFO is the exception, found during review — it uses the identical phrase "non-physical endurants," but only informally (a footnote, not a reified class), so it is recorded at related/medium confidence rather than close-match. |
Keeps the mapping categories conservative for 6 of the 7 non-DOLCE sources; UFO is the strongest secondary hit. | Revisit only if a later source or extension module reifies a more precise non-physical/social-object class, or if UFO's own OWL/gUFO artifacts (not consulted here) formalize this footnote usage. |
uncertainty-004 |
~~open-question~~ Resolved 2026-07-07 (session-050): xwkont-core:NonPhysicalObject (not NonPhysicalSocialObject -- renamed to match the actual placed class) now exists in data/ontology/core.ttl, under Continuant. Mapping rows' candidate placeholder renamed to match (session-051 cleanup). |
xwkont-core:NonPhysicalSocialObject does not yet exist in data/ontology/core.ttl. |
Core placement remains unresolved. | Resolved -- no further action needed. |
uncertainty-005 |
~~uncertainty~~ Resolved 2026-07-07 (session-051): YAMATO101216.pdf re-fetched fresh via the Wayback Machine snapshot and re-extracted with pdftotext; full-text search for "social object," "non-physical," and "nonphysical" found zero hits, independently confirming the absence claim previously carried unverified from the Codex draft. |
YAMATO's absence finding (informational object / representation, no dedicated social-object class) was not independently re-fetched during the session-048 review pass -- carried from the Codex draft. | This source's absence claim was unverified, not confirmed, unlike the directly re-fetched sources. | Resolved -- no further action needed. |
Provenance and References¶
xwkont:ref:dolce-lite-owl— DOLCE-Lite OWL translation — verified directly againstDOLCE-Lite.owl, 2026-07-07xwkont:ref:bfo-2020— Basic Formal Ontology (BFO) 2020 — verified directly againstbfo-core.ttl, 2026-07-07xwkont:ref:sumo-niles-pease-2001— Towards a Standard Upper Ontology — verified directly againstMerge.kif, 2026-07-07xwkont:ref:ufo-2021— UFO: Unified Foundational Ontology — verified directly against a complete paper-text extraction already present on disk; this session's live fetch attempts returned HTTP 403, 2026-07-07xwkont:ref:gfo— General Formal Ontology (GFO) — verified directly againstmodules/gfo-base.owl, 2026-07-07xwkont:ref:yamato-mizoguchi-2010— YAMATO: Yet Another More Advanced Top-level Ontology — verified directly againstYAMATO101216.txt, 2026-07-07xwkont:ref:tupper-colore— TUpper COLORE formalization — verified directly againstTUpper-Terms.html, 2026-07-07xwkont:ref:gum-owl— GUM 3.1 OWL — verified directly againstGUM-31.owl.txt, 2026-07-07
Review History¶
| Review ID | Date | Outcome | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| — | 2026-07-07 | (unreviewed) | Draft created (Codex, GPT-5.4-Mini, Extra-High) after direct primary-source verification of DOLCE-Lite.owl and full-text searches of the other seven sources. |
| — | 2026-07-07 | reviewed | Independently re-verified against all 8 primary sources (session-048). Three defects found and corrected: (1) the DOLCE non-physical-endurant rdfs:comment quotation was truncated, dropping the constant-dependence-on-an-agent clause and the physical-constituents caveat; (2) the BFO correspondence table cited BFO_0000142 for "immaterial entity" — that IRI is actually "fiat line" in bfo-core.ttl; the correct IRI is BFO_0000141; (3) SUMO's Proposition row was labeled direct quotation but contained a paraphrase, missing the primary "complete thought" definition. A genuine second source was also found, missed entirely by the original draft: UFO's 2021 paper uses the identical phrase "non-physical endurants" (footnote 8, constitution-relation discussion) with a worked example — not a reified class, but a direct terminological/conceptual hit, added as correspondence 004 and mapping 005 at related/medium confidence. GFO's absence finding (Material_object/Material_persistant/Social_stratum/Social_role present, no dedicated non-physical/social-object class) was independently re-confirmed directly against modules/gfo-base.owl. GUM's SimpleThing quotation and IRI were confirmed exact. TUpper's object quotation was confirmed exact (reusing the prior verified quote already on record in xwkont:ref:tupper-colore). YAMATO's paraphrase-level absence claim was not independently re-fetched this pass; treat as consistent with, but not independently re-confirmed against, prior crosswalks' own YAMATO findings. Advanced directly to reviewed per the reviewed-eligibility criterion: DOLCE-Lite.owl is DOLCE's own base module, an authoritative core source for non-physical-endurant/non-physical-object. |
| — | 2026-07-07 | Cross-reference update — YAMATO absence confirmed, no editorial_status change | Resolved uncertainty-005: YAMATO101216.pdf re-fetched fresh and full-text searched for "social object," "non-physical," and "nonphysical" — zero hits, independently confirming the absence claim. Also recorded uncertainty-001's and uncertainty-004's resolutions here for traceability (already decided in core.ttl by session-050: umbrella-only xwkont-core:NonPhysicalObject); renamed this crosswalk's own mapping placeholders from NonPhysicalSocialObject to NonPhysicalObject to match. editorial_status remains reviewed. |
Future Work¶
- ~~Confirm whether the XwkOnt core should keep this as a single umbrella concept or split off a separate social-object follow-up~~ — done 2026-07-07 (session-050): umbrella only,
xwkont-core:NonPhysicalObject(uncertainty-001resolved). - If the maintainer wants the classic DOLCE social-object leaves documented in this concept family, fetch and cite the extension artifact there rather than reusing the base-module file.
- Revisit the broad-analog sources only if a later artifact reifies a closer non-physical/social-object branch.
- ~~YAMATO's absence finding (informational object / representation, no dedicated social-object class) was not independently re-fetched during the session-048 review pass~~ — done 2026-07-07 (session-051): re-fetched and confirmed absent (
uncertainty-005resolved). - UFO's gUFO/OWL artifacts (not consulted in this crosswalk, which used only the 2021 paper's extracted text) may formalize the "non-physical endurants" footnote as an actual class — worth checking if gUFO is ever added as its own independently-cited source.