Selected Basic Formal Ontology Terms — English (BFO)

Selected terminology labels for Basic Formal Ontology. Original publisher/project: Basic Formal Ontology; credited creators: Alan Ruttenberg; Albert Goldfain; Barry Smith; Bill Duncan; Bjoern Peters; Chris Mungall; David Osumi-Sutherland; Fabian Neuhaus; Holger Stenzhorn; James A. Overton; Janna Hastings; Jie Zheng; Jonathan Bona; Larry Hunter; Leonard Jacuzzo; Ludger Jansen; Mark Ressler; Mathias Brochhausen; Mauricio Almeida; Melanie Courtot; Pierre Grenon; Randall Dipert; Ron Rudnicki; Selja Seppälä; Stefan Schulz; Thomas Bittner; Werner Ceusters; Yongqun "Oliver" He. Original source: https://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo.owl; actual download: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BFO-ontology/BFO/v2019-08-26/bfo_classes_only.owl; official project record: https://obofoundry.org/ontology/bfo.html. Retrieved 2026-11-07. Version: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/2019-08-26/bfo.owl. Original artifact SHA-256: ca399c2b8b79f4d12b296d5c4ea4c00940e1f82cee7d1a50ddc292aa4f6c4666. Original and public license: CC-BY-4.0; license evidence is embedded in that exact artifact: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Source IDs and individual source citations are preserved. Languages: English; explicit tags are retained; untagged English labels are inferred from the OLS language index, with this inference retained in private source notes. No nationality, jurisdiction or cross-language equivalence is inferred. Only active own-project owl:Class primary labels and explicit exact synonyms are included. Deprecated classes, general alternative labels, external namespaces, definitions, relationships and imports are excluded. This is a selected subset, not the complete ontology. Semantic review is ongoing; the resource library does not claim project authorization or endorsement.

Curator: Oliver Bennett