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

Relations

Superclass ofsystem-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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  "@type": "skos:Concept",
  "title": "Role - BFO 2.0",
  "description": "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)",
  "status": "standard",
  "isReferencedBy": [
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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