Subclass of:

• crm:E20 Biological Object
• crm:E39 Actor

Superclass of:

• frbroo:F10 Person

Scope note:

This class comprises real persons who live or are assumed to have lived.

Legendary figures that may have existed, such as Ulysses and King Arthur, fall into this class if the documentation refers to them as historical figures. In cases where doubt exists as to whether several persons are in fact identical, multiple instances can be created and linked to indicate their relationship. The CIDOC CRM does not propose a specific form to support reasoning about possible identity.

In a bibliographic context, a name presented following the conventions usually employed for personal names will be assumed to correspond to an actual real person (an instance of E21 Person), unless evidence is available to indicate that this is not the case. The fact that a persona may erroneously be classified as an instance of E21 Person does not imply that the concept comprises personae.

Examples:

Tut-Ankh-Amun (Edwards and Boltin, 1979)

Nelson Mandela (Brown and Hort, 2006)

In First Order Logic:

• E21(x) ⇒ E20(x)
• E21(x) ⇒ E39(x)

Outgoing properties:

• crm:P152 has parent (is parent of) → crm:E21 Person

Incoming properties:

• crm:E67 Birth → crm:P96 by mother (gave birth)
• crm:E67 Birth → crm:P97 from father (was father for)
• crm:E67 Birth → crm:P98 brought into life (was born)
• crm:E69 Death → crm:P100 was death of (died in)
• crm:E21 Person → crm:P152 has parent (is parent of)