OWL Full

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OWL Full is the most expressive and semantically unrestricted variant of the Web Ontology Language, allowing full RDF compatibility at the cost of computational decidability.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf Web Ontology Language profile
knowledge representation language
ontology language
allows punning of entities across different syntactic categories
using OWL vocabulary in arbitrary RDF positions
compatibleWith RDF
RDF Schema
contrastsWith OWL 2 EL
OWL 2 QL
OWL 2 RL
OWL DL
OWL Lite
definedIn OWL 1
OWL 2
discouragedFor applications needing guaranteed reasoning performance
hasAbbreviation OWL-Full
hasConsequence no complete reasoning procedure exists
hasDesignGoal full RDF compatibility
maximum expressivity
hasProperty allows meta‑modeling
classes can be treated as individuals
fully compatible with RDF
most expressive OWL variant
no computational completeness guarantees
no computational decidability guarantees
no separation between classes, properties, and individuals
properties can be treated as individuals
semantically unrestricted
supports arbitrary RDF graphs
undecidable reasoning
hasReasoningComplexity undecidable in general
hasSemanticBasis RDF model theory
hasSemanticRestriction none beyond RDF semantics
hasTradeoff expressivity versus decidability
lessRestrictiveThan OWL DL
OWL Lite
partOf Web Ontology Language
relatedStandard OWL 2
OWL DL
RDF
RDFS
standardizedBy W3C
supportsFeature annotation of classes and properties as individuals
higher‑order style modeling
usedFor applications requiring full RDF interoperability
highly expressive ontologies

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Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
OWL
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