Identification (IDE)

Identification (IDE) serves to declare the identity between PLOGESTRB entities, both within an entity type (e.g. P Rocket Man - IDE - P Elton John) and across entity types (L the boat on which we got married - IDE - O this same boat that we then sold).

Not unlike Synonymy, it helps preserving the original expressions used in the modelled Resources, while still keeping them identical. However, Synonymy pertains to Actions and Concepts and is a semantic relation, while Identification pertains to entities of this world, and is an ontological relation.

Unlike all other Relations, Identification can be done with a Certainty level, i.e. the identification can be done at a lower Certainty level, e.g. "probable", "possible", or even "false", which would then mean a negative declaration that the two entities are certainly not identical.

Any queries of entities must take into account the Identifications of the entity (usually including the definition of threshold certainty levels), if they want to include also all of its identificates in search results.