Class: Entity
Root Biolink Model class for all things and informational relationships, real or imagined.
URI: biolink:Entity

Children
- Association - A typed association between two entities, supported by evidence
- NamedThing - a databased entity or concept/class
Referenced by class
Attributes
Own
- category 0..*
- Description: Name of the high level ontology class in which this entity is categorized. Corresponds to the label for the biolink entity type class.
- In a neo4j database this MAY correspond to the neo4j label tag.
- In an RDF database it should be a biolink model class URI.
This field is multi-valued. It should include values for ancestors of the biolink class; for example, a protein such as Shh would have category values
biolink:Protein
, biolink:GeneProduct
, biolink:MolecularEntity
, …
In an RDF database, nodes will typically have an rdf:type triples. This can be to the most specific biolink class, or potentially to a class more specific than something in biolink. For example, a sequence feature f
may have a rdf:type assertion to a SO class such as TF_binding_site, which is more specific than anything in biolink. Here we would have categories {biolink:GenomicEntity, biolink:MolecularEntity, biolink:NamedThing}
- description 0..1
- Description: a human-readable description of an entity
- Range: NarrativeText
- in subsets: (translator_minimal)
- has attribute 0..*
- Description: connects any entity to an attribute
- Range: Attribute
- in subsets: (samples)
- id 1..1
- Description: A unique identifier for an entity. Must be either a CURIE shorthand for a URI or a complete URI
- Range: String
- in subsets: (translator_minimal)
- iri 0..1
- Description: An IRI for an entity. This is determined by the id using expansion rules.
- Range: IriType
- in subsets: (translator_minimal,samples)
- type 0..*
Inherited from macromolecular machine mixin:
- name 0..1
- Description: A human-readable name for an attribute or entity.
- Range: LabelType
- in subsets: (translator_minimal,samples)
Domain for slot:
- category 0..*
- Description: Name of the high level ontology class in which this entity is categorized. Corresponds to the label for the biolink entity type class.
- In a neo4j database this MAY correspond to the neo4j label tag.
- In an RDF database it should be a biolink model class URI.
This field is multi-valued. It should include values for ancestors of the biolink class; for example, a protein such as Shh would have category values
biolink:Protein
, biolink:GeneProduct
, biolink:MolecularEntity
, …
In an RDF database, nodes will typically have an rdf:type triples. This can be to the most specific biolink class, or potentially to a class more specific than something in biolink. For example, a sequence feature f
may have a rdf:type assertion to a SO class such as TF_binding_site, which is more specific than anything in biolink. Here we would have categories {biolink:GenomicEntity, biolink:MolecularEntity, biolink:NamedThing}
- has attribute 0..*
- Description: connects any entity to an attribute
- Range: Attribute
- in subsets: (samples)
- id 1..1
- Description: A unique identifier for an entity. Must be either a CURIE shorthand for a URI or a complete URI
- Range: String
- in subsets: (translator_minimal)
- name 0..1
- Description: A human-readable name for an attribute or entity.
- Range: LabelType
- in subsets: (translator_minimal,samples)
- type 0..*