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Basic Formal Ontology (BFO) - Slim

The BFO Slim provides the essential foundational framework for the Naas Ontology. This is a focused subset of BFO 2020 containing only the core classes needed for AI agent and system modeling.

BFO 7 Buckets Framework​

BFO organizes reality using the mnemonic: "What and who are the materials, how-they-are their qualities, why they can do something are realizable, how-it-happens is the process, when and where give time and space, and how-we-know is the information."

  • Continuant - Entities that persist through time
  • Occurrent - Entities that happen in time (includes spatial & temporal regions)
  • Relations - Fundamental connections between entities

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