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Transitive properties in OWL (like ancestry) enable automatic inference: if Sue is an ancestor of Mary and Mary is an ancestor of Ann, the system can infer Sue is an ancestor of Ann without explicit statement.

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Frank Coyle

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“If Sue is an ancestor of Mary and Mary is an ancestor of Ann, then Sue is an ancestor of Ann.”

Source

Why Agentic Systems Need Ontologies — Frank Coyle, UC Berkeley— AI Engineer
Created: 8/12/2026, 5:57:54 PM

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