Differentiating Multiple Individuals
The nonunique naming assumption allowed us to use a new resource—RimbaudsMovie—to stand in for an indeterminate movie. With appropriate use of modeling constructs, we were able to get inferences about which movie it actually was, using owl:sameAs to indicate the answer. The nonunique naming assumption applies to all resources. For instance, even though we intuitively know that ss:Earth and ss:Mars do not refer to the same thing, we need to state that in our model. We did this before using owl:differentFrom. We also want to say that ss:Earth is different from ss:Jupiter and ss:Venus, ss:Venus is different from ss:Mars, and so on.
To simplify the specification of lists of items, all of which are different from ...
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