Object Constraint Language
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Object Constraint Language is a formal specification language used primarily to define precise rules, constraints, and queries on UML models within software and systems modeling.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Object Constraint Language canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7936748 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Object Constraint Language Context triple: [Object Management Group, knownFor, Object Constraint Language]
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A.
OCL
OCL is the commonly used abbreviation for the OFC Champions League, the premier club football competition in Oceania organized by the Oceania Football Confederation.
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B.
OWL 2 QL
OWL 2 QL is a lightweight profile of the Web Ontology Language designed to enable efficient query answering over large datasets using standard relational database technologies.
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C.
kodkod
The kodkod is a small, elusive wild cat native to the temperate rainforests of southern Chile and Argentina, known for being one of the smallest felids in the Americas.
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D.
OWL 2 EL
OWL 2 EL is a lightweight profile of the Web Ontology Language designed for efficient reasoning over large-scale ontologies, particularly in domains like biomedical terminologies.
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E.
OWL 2 RL
OWL 2 RL is a profile of the Web Ontology Language designed for scalable reasoning using rule-based systems, enabling efficient inference over large datasets.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Object Constraint Language Target entity description: Object Constraint Language is a formal specification language used primarily to define precise rules, constraints, and queries on UML models within software and systems modeling.
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A.
OCL
OCL is the commonly used abbreviation for the OFC Champions League, the premier club football competition in Oceania organized by the Oceania Football Confederation.
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B.
OWL 2 QL
OWL 2 QL is a lightweight profile of the Web Ontology Language designed to enable efficient query answering over large datasets using standard relational database technologies.
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C.
kodkod
The kodkod is a small, elusive wild cat native to the temperate rainforests of southern Chile and Argentina, known for being one of the smallest felids in the Americas.
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D.
OWL 2 EL
OWL 2 EL is a lightweight profile of the Web Ontology Language designed for efficient reasoning over large-scale ontologies, particularly in domains like biomedical terminologies.
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E.
OWL 2 RL
OWL 2 RL is a profile of the Web Ontology Language designed for scalable reasoning using rule-based systems, enabling efficient inference over large datasets.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | formal specification language ⓘ |
| abbreviation | OCL ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
UML activity diagrams
ⓘ
UML class diagrams ⓘ
linked to:
Unified Modeling Language
UML state machine diagrams ⓘ UML use case models ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Unified Modeling Language ⓘ |
| basedOn | first-order logic ⓘ |
| domain |
software modeling
ⓘ
systems modeling ⓘ |
| hasCollectionType |
Bag
ⓘ
OrderedSet ⓘ Sequence ⓘ Set ⓘ |
| hasConcept |
context declaration
ⓘ
derived property ⓘ invariant ⓘ operation body expression ⓘ postcondition ⓘ precondition ⓘ |
| hasGoal |
enable automated model checking
ⓘ
increase precision of UML models ⓘ support unambiguous specification of constraints ⓘ |
| hasProperty |
declarative
ⓘ
side-effect free ⓘ strongly typed ⓘ textual notation ⓘ |
| introducedFor | overcoming limitations of UML diagrams in expressing detailed constraints ⓘ |
| not |
executable modeling language
ⓘ
programming language ⓘ |
| shortName |
OMG
ⓘ
UML ⓘ
linked to:
Unified Modeling Language
|
| standardizedBy | Object Management Group ⓘ |
| supports |
Boolean expressions
ⓘ
collection types ⓘ navigation over associations ⓘ quantifiers like exists ⓘ quantifiers like forAll ⓘ |
| syntaxStyle | dot-notation for property navigation ⓘ |
| usedFor |
defining constraints on UML models
ⓘ
formulating queries on models ⓘ model validation ⓘ specifying guards on transitions ⓘ specifying invariants ⓘ specifying postconditions ⓘ specifying preconditions ⓘ writing precise rules on models ⓘ |
| usedIn |
design-by-contract specifications
ⓘ
model-based testing ⓘ model-driven development ⓘ model-driven engineering ⓘ |
| version |
OCL 2.0
ⓘ
linked to:
OCL
OCL 2.4 ⓘ
linked to:
OCL
OCL 2.5 ⓘ
linked to:
OCL
|
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Object Constraint Language Description of subject: Object Constraint Language is a formal specification language used primarily to define precise rules, constraints, and queries on UML models within software and systems modeling.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.