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. 2020 Jul 23;20:100395. doi: 10.1016/j.imu.2020.100395

Table 3.

An outline of metrics and with their respective counts in the COVID-19 ontology modeled in this study.

Metrics Number of items Description
Classes 179 sets, collections, concepts, types of objects or things
Class axiom 169 Class-based statements that are asserted to be true in the domain being described: e.g Subclass, Equivalent class, Disjoint class
Individuals 592 An instance of a class
Individuals (Object property assertion) 545 Statements made using object properties and individuals
Individuals (Data property assertion) 1080 Statements made using data properties and individuals
Individuals (Class assertion) 1040 Statements of individuals assigned to a class
Object property axiom (Object property domain/range) 13/13 Statements made by stating the domain and range of an object property
Date property axiom (Object property domain/range) 23/23 Statements made by stating the domain and range of an object property
Properties 37 Represent characteristics of the things that have been described as classes
Maximum depth 4 The farthest route from the Thing class to a leaf class
Disjoint classes 8 Classes that cannot share an instance
Maximum number of children 47
Average number of Children 14.6 Computational value of finding the average number of children immediate subclasses of the Thing class
Classes with a single child 0
Classes with more than 25 children 4
Annotation 2 Comments on entities in an ontology
Axiom 3731 Statements asserted as a priori knowledge
Logical axiom count 2915 Axioms that forms the logical definition of terms
Object Property 13 Properties used to characterize classes
Data Property 24 Properties used to characterize the relationship between classes and data-values
Subclass of 169 a subdivision of a class