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CycL

CycL in computer science and artificial intelligence, is an ontology language used by Douglas Lenat's Cyc artificial intelligence project. Ramanathan V. Guha was instrumental in designing early versions of the language. A close CycL variant exists named MELD.

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CycL

Nodes21
Edges20
Triples9
Avg. degree1.9
Density0.095238
Components1

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CycL

Top relations

related to Basic ideas · 5
CycL → Grouping, Microtheories, Naming, Stating, The
related to Specialization and generalization · 4
CycL → Facts, For, Predicates, The

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Important terminology

constants language collection one cyc concepts example knowledge used specialization microtheories truth instance microtheory base generalization also start functions convention

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
CycLrelated to Basic ideasThe0.60section
CycLrelated to Basic ideasNaming0.60section
CycLrelated to Basic ideasGrouping0.60section
CycLrelated to Basic ideasStating0.60section
CycLrelated to Basic ideasMicrotheories0.60section
CycLrelated to Specialization and generalizationThe0.60section
CycLrelated to Specialization and generalizationFacts0.60section
CycLrelated to Specialization and generalizationPredicates0.60section
CycLrelated to Specialization and generalizationFor0.60section

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