Subclass of:

• crm:E77 Persistent Item

Superclass of:

• crm:E71 Man-Made Thing
• crm:E72 Legal Object

Scope note:

This general class comprises discrete, identifiable, instances of E77 Persistent Item that are documented as single units, that either consist of matter or depend on being carried by matter and are characterized by relative stability.

They may be intellectual products or physical things. They may for instance have a solid physical form, an electronic encoding, or they may be a logical concept or structure.

Examples:

• my photograph collection (E78)
• the bottle of milk in my refrigerator (E22)
• the plan of the Strassburger Muenster (E29)
• the  thing on the top of Otto Hahn’s desk (E19)
• the form of the no-smoking sign (E36)
• the cave of Dirou, Mani, Greece (E27) 

In First Order Logic:

• E70(x) ⊃ E77(x)

Outgoing properties:

• crm:P101 had as general use (was use of) → crm:E55 Type
• crm:P130 shows features of (features are also found on) → crm:E70 Thing
• crm:P43 has dimension (is dimension of) → crm:E54 Dimension

Incoming properties:

• crm:E7 Activity → crm:P16 used specific object (was used for)
• crm:E70 Thing → crm:P130 shows features of (features are also found on)