Role - BFO 2.0

Standard

https://www.3se.info/3se-onto/terms/role-bfo-2-0-069f666ab53d7732

A realizable entity that exists in virtue of the bearer's being in some special physical, social, or institutional set of circumstances in which this bearer does not have to be, and which is not a quality and not a disposition. (BFO 2.0, BFO:0000023)

Classification

flowchart TD N1["Role"] N2["Stakeholder"] N3["System"] N4["System element"] N5["System element interface"] N6["System interface"] N7["High level physical element"] N8["System state"] N9["System attribute"] N10["Physical element"] N11["System element state"] N12["System element attribute"] N13["Physical interface"] N14["System architecture constraint"] N15["System element interface attribute"] N16["Actor"] N17["Interdependent actor"] N18["Product"] N19["Service"] N2 -->|subclass of| N1 N3 -->|subclass of| N1 N4 -->|subclass of| N1 N5 -->|subclass of| N1 N6 -->|subclass of| N1 N2 -.->|allocates| N7 N3 -.->|allocates| N7 N3 -.->|allocates| N8 N3 -.->|allocates| N9 N4 -.->|allocates| N10 N4 -.->|allocates| N11 N4 -.->|allocates| N12 N5 -.->|allocates| N13 N5 -.->|allocates| N14 N5 -.->|allocates| N15 N16 -.->|represented by| N2 N17 -.->|represented by| N2 N18 -.->|represented by| N3 N19 -.->|represented by| N3

Relations

Superclass ofstakeholder-3se-069bc40b97d97d03  ·  system-3se-069b85f238f3792d  ·  system-element-3se-069b85f238fb79eb  ·  system-element-interface-3se-069cd5b860d1741a  ·  system-interface-3se-069bd66fb6547971

Source References

Basic Formal Ontology - 2.0

JSON-LD

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  "title": "Role - BFO 2.0",
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  "status": "standard",
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  ],
  "@id": "https://www.3se.info/3se-onto/terms/role-bfo-2-0-069f666ab53d7732",
  "entryCreated": "2026-05-02",
  "entryModified": "2026-05-02",
  "entryCreator": {
    "@type": "foaf:Person",
    "name": "@rcasteran"
  }
}

Raw JSON-LD: index.jsonld

Created 2026-05-02  ·  Modified 2026-05-02  ·  by @rcasteran