The Ontology of Medically Related Social Entities
type: Ontology
creator: Amanda Hicks
version info: 2012-06-24
creator: Mathias Brochhausen
creator: Shariq Tariq
creator: Swetha Garimalla
comment: This ontology grew out of efforts to represent the reality underlying the demographic information required by the US federal government's "meaningful use" criteria for electronic medical records and a presentation by Dr. William Hogan at the Electronic Health Record of the Future conference in Buffalo, NY (http://ub2020.buffalo.edu/strategicstrengths/announcements/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/ehr-september-22.pdf)
creator: William Hogan
imports: ontology-metadata.owl
imports: http://www.ifomis.org/bfo/1.1

definition
type: AnnotationProperty

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alternative term

example of usage

inheres in
type: ObjectProperty
type: FunctionalProperty
alternative term: inheres_in
inverse of: is bearer of

is bearer of
type: ObjectProperty
alternative term: bearer of
alternative term: bearer_of

is aggregate of
type: ObjectProperty
alternative term: aggregate of
alternative term: aggregate_of
equivalent property: is-aggregate-of
sub property of: topObjectProperty

is-aggregate-of
type: ObjectProperty
IAO_0000231: BFO relation takes precedence.
comment: We anticipate BFO 2.0 including and defining this relation. When it does, we will obsolete this property and declare it equivalent to the BFO 2.0 relation.
deprecated: true

is member of organization
type: ObjectProperty
editor note: 2009/10/01 Alan Ruttenberg. Barry prefers generic is-member-of. Question of what the range should be. For now organization. Is organization a population? Would the same relation be used to record members of a population
definition editor: Person:Alan Ruttenberg
definition source: Person:Alan Ruttenberg
definition source: Person:Helen Parkinson
definition editor: Person:Helen Parkinson
definition: Relating a legal person to an organization in the case where the legal person has a role as member of the organization
IAO_0000111: is member of organization
range: organization
inverse of: has organization member
domain: omrse resource:arc4463b1

organization
type: Class
subclass of: MaterialEntity
definition source: GROUP: OBI
definition editor: PERSON: Alan Ruttenberg
definition editor: PERSON: Bjoern Peters
definition editor: PERSON: Philippe Rocca-Serra
definition editor: PERSON: Susanna Sansone
definition: An organization is a continuant entity which can play roles, has members, and has a set of organization rules. Members of organizations are either organizations themselves or individual people. Members can bear specific organization member roles that are determined in the organization rules. The organization rules also determine how decisions are made on behalf of the organization by the organization members.
editor note: BP: The definition summarizes long email discussions on the OBI developer, roles, biomaterial and denrie branches. It leaves open if an organization is a material entity or a dependent continuant, as no consensus was reached on that. The current placement as material is therefore temporary, in order to move forward with development. Here is the entire email summary, on which the definition is based: 1) there are organization_member_roles (president, treasurer, branch editor), with individual persons as bearers 2) there are organization_roles (employer, owner, vendor, patent holder) 3) an organization has a charter / rules / bylaws, which specify what roles there are, how they should be realized, and how to modify the charter/rules/bylaws themselves. It is debatable what the organization itself is (some kind of dependent continuant or an aggregate of people). This also determines who/what the bearer of organization_roles' are. My personal favorite is still to define organization as a kind of 'legal entity', but thinking it through leads to all kinds of questions that are clearly outside the scope of OBI. Interestingly enough, it does not seem to matter much where we place organization itself, as long as we can subclass it (University, Corporation, Government Agency, Hospital), instantiate it (Affymetrix, NCBI, NIH, ISO, W3C, University of Oklahoma), and have it play roles. This leads to my proposal: We define organization through the statements 1 - 3 above, but without an 'is a' statement for now. We can leave it in its current place in the is_a hierarchy (material entity) or move it up to 'continuant'. We leave further clarifications to BFO, and close this issue for now.
example of usage: PMID: 16353909.AAPS J. 2005 Sep 22;7(2):E274-80. Review. The joint food and agriculture organization of the United Nations/World Health Organization Expert Committee on Food Additives and its role in the evaluation of the safety of veterinary drug residues in foods.
IAO_0000111: organization
IAO_0000114: IAO_0000122

has organization member
type: ObjectProperty
domain: organization
range: omrse resource:arc4463b4

Homo sapiens
type: Class
subclass of: Homo
alternative term: human being
IAO_0000111: Homo sapiens
imported from: ncbitaxon.owl

is-component-of-aggregate
type: ObjectProperty
comment: At the instance level, this relation is the named inverse of is-aggregate-of. At the type level, however, not so. We expect BFO 2.0 to have this relation as well, and we will obsolete this property and declare it equivalent to BFO's version when BFO 2.0 comes out.

CRID
type: Class
subclass of: IAO_0000030
imported from: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/iao.owl
alternative term: Centrally Registered IDentifier
editor note: Alan, IAO call 20101124: potentially the CRID denotes the instance it was associated with during creation.
definition: An information content entity that consists of a CRID symbol and additional information about which CRID registry it belongs.
example of usage: Entries in a Column of which the header is "Pubmed ID"
editor note: Note, IAO call 20101124: URIs are not always CRID, as not centrally registered. We acknowledge that CRID is a subset of a larger identifier class, but this subset fulfills our current needs. OBI PURLs are CRID as they are registered with OCLC. UPCs (Universal Product Codes from AC Nielsen)are not CRID as they are not centrally registered.
definition source: Original proposal from Bjoern, discussions at IAO calls
definition editor: PERSON: Alan Ruttenberg
definition editor: PERSON: Bill Hogan
definition editor: PERSON: Bjoern Peters
definition editor: PERSON: Melanie Courtot
example of usage: PMID:12345
example of usage: The following URL: "http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19918065"
example of usage: The following sentence contains a CRID: "The article with Pubmed ID: 19918065".

Teleostomi
type: Class
subclass of: Gnathostomata
IAO_0000111: Teleostomi
imported from: ncbitaxon.owl

Gnathostomata
type: Class
subclass of: Vertebrata
IAO_0000111: Gnathostomata
imported from: ncbitaxon.owl

Euteleostomi
type: Class
subclass of: Teleostomi
IAO_0000111: Euteleostomi
imported from: ncbitaxon.owl

Homo/Pan/Gorilla group
type: Class
subclass of: Hominidae
IAO_0000111: Homo/Pan/Gorilla group
imported from: ncbitaxon.owl

Hominidae
type: Class
subclass of: Hominoidea
IAO_0000111: Hominidae
imported from: ncbitaxon.owl

Eukaryota
type: Class
subclass of: organism
imported from: ncbitaxon.owl

organism
type: Class
subclass of: Object
editor note: 10/21/09: This is a placeholder term, that should ideally be imported from the NCBI taxonomy, but the high level hierarchy there does not suit our needs (includes plasmids and 'other organisms')
editor note: 13-02-2009: OBI doesn't take position as to when an organism starts or ends being an organism - e.g. sperm, foetus. This issue is outside the scope of OBI.
definition editor: GROUP: OBI Biomaterial Branch
definition: A material entity that is an individual living system, such as animal, plant, bacteria or virus, that is capable of replicating or reproducing, growth and maintenance in the right environment. An organism may be unicellular or made up, like humans, of many billions of cells divided into specialized tissues and organs.
definition source: WEB: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organism
example of usage: animal
example of usage: fungus
IAO_0000111: organism
example of usage: plant
example of usage: virus
IAO_0000114: IAO_0000121

Euarchontoglires
type: Class
subclass of: Eutheria
IAO_0000111: Euarchontoglires
imported from: ncbitaxon.owl

Eutheria
type: Class
subclass of: Theria
IAO_0000111: Eutheria
imported from: ncbitaxon.owl

Simiiformes
type: Class
subclass of: Haplorrhini
IAO_0000111: Simiiformes
imported from: ncbitaxon.owl

Haplorrhini
type: Class
subclass of: Primates
IAO_0000111: Haplorrhini
imported from: ncbitaxon.owl

Hominoidea
type: Class
subclass of: Catarrhini
IAO_0000111: Hominoidea
imported from: ncbitaxon.owl

Catarrhini
type: Class
subclass of: Simiiformes
IAO_0000111: Catarrhini
imported from: ncbitaxon.owl

Tetrapoda
type: Class
subclass of: Sarcopterygii
IAO_0000111: Tetrapoda
imported from: ncbitaxon.owl

Sarcopterygii
type: Class
subclass of: Euteleostomi
IAO_0000111: Sarcopterygii
imported from: ncbitaxon.owl

Amniota
type: Class
subclass of: Tetrapoda
IAO_0000111: Amniota
imported from: ncbitaxon.owl

Theria
type: Class
subclass of: Mammalia
IAO_0000111: Theria
imported from: ncbitaxon.owl

Mammalia
type: Class
subclass of: Amniota
IAO_0000111: Mammalia
imported from: ncbitaxon.owl

Fungi/Metazoa group
type: Class
subclass of: Eukaryota
IAO_0000111: Fungi/Metazoa group
imported from: ncbitaxon.owl

Metazoa
type: Class
subclass of: Fungi/Metazoa group
IAO_0000111: Metazoa
imported from: ncbitaxon.owl

Bilateria
type: Class
subclass of: Eumetazoa
IAO_0000111: Bilateria
imported from: ncbitaxon.owl

Eumetazoa
type: Class
subclass of: Metazoa
IAO_0000111: Eumetazoa
imported from: ncbitaxon.owl

Coelomata
type: Class
subclass of: Bilateria
IAO_0000111: Coelomata
imported from: ncbitaxon.owl

Deuterostomia
type: Class
subclass of: Coelomata
IAO_0000111: Deuterostomia
imported from: ncbitaxon.owl

Primates
type: Class
subclass of: Euarchontoglires
IAO_0000111: Primates
imported from: ncbitaxon.owl

Chordata
type: Class
subclass of: Deuterostomia
IAO_0000111: Chordata
imported from: ncbitaxon.owl

Vertebrata
type: Class
subclass of: Craniata
IAO_0000111: Vertebrata
imported from: ncbitaxon.owl

Craniata
type: Class
subclass of: Chordata
IAO_0000111: Craniata
imported from: ncbitaxon.owl

Homo
type: Class
subclass of: Homo/Pan/Gorilla group
IAO_0000111: Homo
imported from: ncbitaxon.owl

social security number
type: Class
subclass of: CRID
creator: Cheng Chen(cxchen1@ualr.edu)
alternative term: SSN
definition: Social Security Number(SSN) is a Centrally Registered IDentifier that is a nine-digit number issued to U.S. citizens, permanent residents, and temporary (working) residents under section 205(c) of the Social Security Act, codified as 42 U.S.C. § 405(c). The number is issued to an individual by the Social Security Administration, an independent agency of the United States government. Its primary purpose is to track individuals for Social Security purposes.
definition source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Security_number

human social role
type: Class
equivalent class: omrse resource:arc4463b7
subclass of: organism social role
definition: A social role inhering in a human being.
definition editor: Mathias Brochhausen William R. Hogan

organism social role
type: Class
equivalent class: omrse resource:arc4463b21
subclass of: role in human social processes
definition: A role in human social processes that inheres in an organism.
comment: Defined class that we will ultimately move to an application ontology. We are leaving here for now until we determine which application ontology: it is likely going to be an ontology that does not currently (2012-06-05) exist. Ditto for its current descendants.
comment: Includes animals as well as humans. For example, pet, assistance animal, animal grown for food, work animal, domesticated animal, K-9, etc. Human roles include gender role, party to legal entities, health care provider roles like doctor, nurse, etc.
comment: Previous definition: A role in human social processes played by an organism.
definition editor: William R. Hogan Mathias Brochhausen

party to a legal entity
type: Class
subclass of: role in human social processes

role in human social processes
type: Class
subclass of: Role
definition: A role inhering in an entity realized by social interactions in human society.
definition editor: Mathias Brochhausen
comment: Previous definition: A role played by an entity in human social processes.

party to a legal proceeding
type: Class
subclass of: party to a legal entity

party to a legal agreement
type: Class
subclass of: party to a legal entity

party to a marriage contract
type: Class
subclass of: party to a legal agreement

party to a power of attorney
type: Class
subclass of: party to a legal entity

gender role
type: Class
subclass of: role in human social processes
definition: A human social role borne by a human being being realized in behaviour which is considered socially appropriate for individuals of a specific sex in the context of a specific culture.
definition editor: Mathias Brochhausen
definition source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_role

male gender role
type: Class
subclass of: gender role
definition: A gender role borne by a human being that is realized in behaviour which is considered socially appropriate for individuals of the male sex in the context of the culture in question.
definition editor: Mathias Brochhausen
alternative term: male gender

female gender role
type: Class
subclass of: gender role
definition: A gender role borne by a human being that is realized in behaviour which is considered socially appropriate for individuals of the female sex in the context of the culture in question.
definition editor: Mathias Brochhausen
alternative term: female gender

human health care role
type: Class
subclass of: role in human social processes
definition: A human social role that is realized by health care processes such as seeking or providing treatment for disease and injury, diagnosing disease and injury, or undergoing diagnosis.
definition editor: A role in human social processes that is realized by health care processes such as seeking or providing treatment for disease and injury, diagnosing disease and injury, or undergoing diagnosis.
definition editor: William R. Hogan Mathias Brochhausen
alternative term: health care role

patient role
type: Class
subclass of: omrse resource:arc4463b11
definition: A human health care role that inheres in an organism [human?] as the recipient of a health care service.
definition: A role borne by an organism being as the recipient of a health care service.
definition editor: Amanda Hicks
definition editor: Mathias Brochhausen
definition source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patient
alternative term: patient

health care provider role
type: Class
subclass of: human health care role
subclass of: omrse resource:arc4463b15
definition: A human health care role inhering in an organization or human being that is realized by a process of providing health care services to an organism.
definition editor: Mathias Brochhausen William R. Hogan

physician role
type: Class
subclass of: health care provider role
definition: A health care role borne by a human being and realized by promoting, maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, injury and other physical and mental impairments.
definition editor: Mathias Brochhausen
definition source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physician
alternative term: physician

nurse role
type: Class
subclass of: health care provider role
definition: A health care role borne by a human being and realized by the care of individuals, families, and communities so they may attain, maintain, or recover optimal health and quality of life.
definition editor: Mathias Brochhausen
definition source: based on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nursing
alternative term: nurse

health care provider organization role
type: Class
subclass of: organization health care role
comment: Definition needed, but the idea is that we want to differentiate between provider and payer organizations. Some organizaitons have both roles (e.g., UPMC has a Hospital Division, a Physician Divison, and an Insurance Division).

organization health care role
type: Class
subclass of: organization social role
definition: An organization social role that is realized by a health care process.
comment: Previous definition: An organization social role played by an organization in health care processes.

person health care provider role
type: Class
subclass of: human social role

physician practice
type: Class
subclass of: health care provider organization role

hospital role
type: Class
subclass of: health care provider role
definition: A role borne by an organization and realized by providing healthcare services by healthcare professionals of multiple different disciplines of medicine and enabling stationary treatment.
definition editor: Mathias Brochhausen
alternative term: hospital

integrated delivery network
type: Class
subclass of: health care provider organization role

collection of organisms
type: Class
equivalent class: omrse resource:arc4463b19
subclass of: ObjectAggregate
definition: An object aggregate of organisms.
comment: Any arbitrary collection of organisms. They need not be of the same taxonomic class.

collection of humans
type: Class
equivalent class: omrse resource:arc4463b20
subclass of: collection of organisms
comment: An object aggregate all of whose components are human beings.

organization social role
type: Class
subclass of: role in human social processes
definition: A role in human social processes that inheres in an organization.
comment: Defined class that we will ultimately move to an application ontology. We are leaving here for now until we determine which application ontology: it is likely going to be an ontology that does not currently (2012-06-05) exist. Ditto for its current descendants.
definition editor: William R. Hogan

geopolitical organization
type: Class
subclass of: ObsoleteClass
definition: An organization that governs the people living in a particular geographical region or aggregate of geographical regions. The geographical region it governs can change over time (such as the westward expansion of the United States and the addition of Hawaii).
definition editor: William R. Hogan

major administrative subdivision
type: Class
equivalent class: omrse resource:arc4463b25
subclass of: subnational entity
definition: A subnational entity that is the primary organizational member of a nation, is subject to the full set of laws of the nation, enjoys all the privileges established under the laws of the nation, is not a member of any other geopolitical entity, and itself governs a part of the geographical region governed by the nation.
comment: example: Northern Ireland

omrse resource:arc4463b25
type: Restriction
on property: is member of organization
on class: sovereign state
qualified cardinality: 1

sovereign state
type: Class
subclass of: governmental organization
definition: A governmental organization with a defined territory on which it exercises internal and external sovereignty, a permanent population, a government, and the capacity to enter into relations with other sovereign states.
comment: Per Wikipedia, the word 'nation' does not always refer to soverign states. For example, the "nation of Islam".
definition editor: William R. Hogan
definition source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_state
alternative term: nation
alternative term: nation state

subnational entity
type: Class
equivalent class: omrse resource:arc4463b65
subclass of: governmental organization
definition editor: Amanda Hicks
definition editor: William R. Hogan
definition: a governmental organization that has a local, regional, or territorial government that recognizes a sovereign state as its higher political authority

geopolitical dependency
type: Class
subclass of: subnational entity
definition: A subnational entity that does not possess full political independence or sovereignty as a sovereign state, but remains politically outside of the controlling state and controls a geographical region that is outside the controlling state's integral region.
comment: Typically, the common feature is that the dependency does not conduct foreign affairs, and relegates this authority to the sovereign state. BUt otherwise, it is largely or completely autonomous relative to the administrative subdivisions. Examples include Puerto Rico (U.S.), Guam (U.S.), Greenland (Denmark), French Polynesia (France), and Falkland Islands (United Kingdom).

aggregate of organizations
type: Class
equivalent class: omrse resource:arc4463b26
subclass of: ObjectAggregate
definition: An object aggregate that is not itself an organization and whose members are only organizations that have some feature in common
comment: It is often convenient to group organizations together that otherwise might not even interact with one another.
definition editor: William R. Hogan Amanda Hicks

omrse resource:arc4463b31
type: Restriction
on property: is-aggregate-of
on class: organization
min qualified cardinality: 2

aggregate of sovereign states
type: Class
equivalent class: omrse resource:arc4463b33
subclass of: aggregate of geopoli organizations
definition editor: An aggregate of geopoli organizations that is not itself a sovereign state and whose members are only sovereign states that have some feature in common
definition: An aggregate of sovereign states that share some feature in common, but is not an organization nor necessarily the outcome of some treaty among them.
definition editor: William R. Hogan

omrse resource:arc4463b38
type: Restriction
on property: is-aggregate-of
on class: sovereign state
min qualified cardinality: 2

aggregate of geopoli organizations
type: Class
equivalent class: omrse resource:arc4463b40
subclass of: aggregate of organizations
definition: An object aggregate that is not itself a geopolitical organization and whose members are only geopolitical organizations that have some feature in common
definition editor: William R. Hogan Amanda Hicks

omrse resource:arc4463b45
type: Restriction
on property: is-aggregate-of
on class: geopolitical organization
min qualified cardinality: 2

aggregate of dependencies
type: Class
equivalent class: omrse resource:arc4463b47
subclass of: aggregate of geopoli organizations
definition editor: Amanda Hicks
definition: An aggregate of geopoli organizations that is not itself a geopolitical dependency and whose members are only geopolitical dependencies that have some feature in common.

omrse resource:arc4463b52
type: Restriction
on property: is-aggregate-of
on class: geopolitical dependency
min qualified cardinality: 2

aggregate of major administrative subdivisions
type: Class
equivalent class: omrse resource:arc4463b54
subclass of: aggregate of geopoli organizations
definition editor: Amanda Hicks
definition: An aggregate of geopoli organizations that is not itself a major administrative subdivision and whose members are only major administrative subdivisions that have some feature in common

omrse resource:arc4463b59
type: Restriction
on property: is-aggregate-of
on class: major administrative subdivision
min qualified cardinality: 2

legal person role
type: Class
subclass of: role in human social processes
subclass of: omrse resource:arc4463b61
definition source: Malcolm N. Shaw: International Law. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2008.
definition: A role borne by a human individual or by a collection of humans regarded as possessing rights and duties enforeable at law.
definition editor: Mathias Brochhausen
comment: We are aware of the fact that Wikipedia's definition differs from ours by saying that "Legal personality (...) is the characteristic of a non-living entity regarded by law to have the status of personhood" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_personality) However, Shaw explicates: "In any legal system, certain entities, whether they be individuals or companies, will be regarded as possessing rights and duties enforceable at law. Thus an individual may prosecute or be prosecuted for assault and a company can sue for breach of contract. They are able to do this because the law recognises them as 'legal persons' possessing the capacity to have and to maintain certain rights, and being subject to perform specific duties. (...) In municipal law individuals, limited companies and public corporations are recognized as each possessing a distinct legal personality, the terms of which are circumscribed by the relevant legislation" (Shaw MN: International Law. Sixth Edition. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2008). We hold that Shaw's position is ontological more prolific since it not only allows to explain how groups of individuals become recognized as unities at law, but also how different individuals can hold different legal personality roles (always against the context of one legal system). The latter will proof useful when dealing with the representing comatous patients or minorsat law in ontologies.

smoker
type: Class
subclass of: RealizableEntity

intravenous drug user
type: Class
subclass of: RealizableEntity

intergovernmental organization
type: Class
subclass of: geopolitical organization
definition: an intergovernmental organization that has at least three member states, that has activies in at least three states, and that is unified by some formal intergovernmental agreement
definition source: "IGOs are organizations whose memebers include at lesat three states, that have activities in several states, and whose members are held together by a formal intergovernmental agreement ... These organizations range in size from three members (North American Free Trade Argreement [NAFTA]) to more than 190 memembers (Universal Postal Union (UPU)]. Memebers may come from primarily one georgraphic regioni (Oragnaization of American States [OAS]) or from all geographic regions (World Bank). although soem IGOs are designed to achieve a single purpose (Organization of Petroleum exporting countries [OPEC]), others have been developed for multiple tasks (United Nations [UN}). ... IGOs are recognized subjects of international law with separate standing fromt heir member states." Karns and Mingst I(2004) p. 7
definition editor: Amanda Hicks
contributor: Katrina Donovan
comment: examples: North American Free Trade Argreement [NAFTA] , Universal Postal Union [UPU], Oragnaization of American States [OAS], World Bank), Organization of Petroleum exporting countries [OPEC] United Nations [UN[, The World Trade Organization [WTO], The World Health Organization [WHO], UNICEF

nongovernmental organizations
type: Class
subclass of: geopolitical organization
comment: Examples: Internaltion Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, Oxfam, CARE, Doctors Without Borders, World Wildlife Fund, Transparency International, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and Save the Children.
contributor: Katrina Donovan
definition source: NGOs are private voluntary organizations whose members are individuals or associations that come together to acheive a common purpose. Some organizations are formed to advocate a particular cause such as human rights, peace, or envirnomental projetion. Others are established to provide services such as disaster relief, humantarian aid in war-torn socieities, or development assistance. ... National level groups are often called interest or pressure groups, and many of them are now linked to counterpart groups in other countries through transnational networks or federations. International NGOs, like IGOs, may draw their members from one region or several regions, and they may have very specific functions or be multi-functional. Karns and Mingst (2004) p. 10f.
definition: a geopolitical organization that is voluntary and private, whose members are individual persons or organizations that come together to acheive a common purpose.

private governance organizations
type: Class
subclass of: geopolitical organization
definition source: "Although the very meaning of the term is controversial, it involves authoritative decsionmaking in areas that once were part of national legal frameworks, the government, the sovereign state, or the public sector." Karns and Mingst (2004) p. 14.
definition editor: Amanda Hicks
comment: Examples: private bond-rating agencies such as Moody's Investors Service, International Chamber of Commerce, Worldwide Responsible Apparel Manufacturing Principles, Forest Stewardship
contributor: Katrina Donovan

governmental organization
type: Class
subclass of: organization
definition editor: Amanda Hicks
definition: An organization that governs the people living in a particular geographical region or aggregate of geographical regions. The geographical region it governs can change over time (such as the westward expansion of the United States and the addition of Hawaii). Note: this definition was taken over from "geopolitical organization".
comment: IMPORTANT: The label "geopolitical organization" was previously used for OMRSE_00000044 (governmental organization). "geopoli organization" is a label for a new and different class.

omrse resource:arc4463b65
type: Restriction
on property: is member of organization
on class: sovereign state
qualified cardinality: 1

supranational entity
type: Class
subclass of: governmental organization
definition editor: Amanda Hicks
comment: e.g., the EU