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On the ontology of knowledge graphs

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Conceptual Structures: Applications, Implementation and Theory (ICCS 1995)

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Knowledge graphs are a special kind of conceptual graphs. They were developed independently from 1982 on and are special in that a very restricted set of types of relationships is used. In this paper the ontology of knowledge graphs and the philosophy behind its choice are discussed.

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  1. Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, 7500, AE Enschede, The Netherlands

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Gerard Ellis Robert Levinson William Rich John F. Sowa

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Hoede, C. (1995). On the ontology of knowledge graphs. In: Ellis, G., Levinson, R., Rich, W., Sowa, J.F. (eds) Conceptual Structures: Applications, Implementation and Theory. ICCS 1995. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 954. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-60161-9_46

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