Basic Formal Ontology

top-level ontology developed to promote interoperability among domain ontologies
rdfs:label
"Basic Formal Ontology"@en
skos:altLabel
"BFO"@en
schema:description
"top-level ontology developed to promote interoperability among domain ontologies"@en
schema:dateModified "2026-10-25T07:31:47+00:00"^^xsd:dateTime
schema:version 2560593707
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wdt:P126 Barry Smith
wdt:P13002 "BFO"
wdt:P1324 <https://github.com/bfo-ontology/BFO-2020>
wdt:P1343 BioPortal
Bioregistry
wd:Q54302178
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wdt:P1813 "BFO"@en
wdt:P2666 "bioportal-bfo"
wdt:P2689 "216"
wdt:P275 Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
wdt:P2888 <http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo.owl>
wdt:P31 knowledge graph
upper ontology
wdt:P361 BLOD: Biomedical Linked Open Datasets
Open Biological and Biomedical Ontology Foundry Ontologies
Semantic Web
wdt:P50 Barry Smith
wdt:P528 "bfo"
wdt:P6216 copyrighted
wdt:P6366 "2780074733"
wdt:P646 "/m/07kf68d"
wdt:P747 Basic Formal Ontology 1.1
Basic Formal Ontology 2020
wdt:P767 James A. Overton
Niels Grewe
Holger Stenzhorn
Selja Seppälä
Werner Ceusters
Christopher J. Mungall
Fabian Neuhaus
Melanie Courtot
Janna Hastings
Alan Ruttenberg
Charles Tapley Hoyt
Mathias Brochhausen
Bjoern Peters
Randall Dipert
Stefan Schulz
Jie Zheng
Darren A. Natale
wdt:P8168 "Q743270"
wdt:P856 <https://bfo-ontology.github.io/>
wdt:P8605 "bioportal-bfo"
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