Entity

Pattern

This class has been associated with the following pattern:

Pattern:Provenance Pattern

Description

An English description of the definition (what distinguishes this sense of the term?).

An Entity is a generic concept that may represent a physical, digital, or abstract kind of thing. For example, a data record or a physical piece of equipment may both be considered Entities.

An Entity has the following core properties: o wasDerivedFrom: the wasDerivedFrom property indicates that the Entity was derived from some other Entity. This may occur in cases of revisions (e.g. of documents), or in cases where one entity is used in the creation of another. For example, the results of some predictive model may be derived from some dataset). o wasAttributedTo: the wasAttributedTo property identifies the Agent(s) that is in some way responsible for the creation of the Entity. o wasGeneratedBy: the wasGeneratedBy property identifies the Activity(s) that produced or otherwise resulted in the existence of the Entity.

Required by Use Case(s)

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CDM References

What other classes or properties reference this term?

• ISO5087-1:Activity ‎ (← links)
• ISO5087-2:ControlledEntity ‎ (← links)
• Pattern:Provenance Pattern ‎ (← links)

Interface Specification References

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Status

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Annotations

Annotation	Value

Manchester Syntax Specification

Property	Restriction	Value
Prov:wasDerivedFrom	only	Entity
Prov:wasAttributedTo	only	Agent
Prov:wasGeneratedBy	only	5087-1:Activity

Supplementary Figures

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	Figure 1: A Provenance Ontology Main Classes and Core Properties
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