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Table 1 Examples of competency questions that help in choosing an appropriate ODP

From: Ontology Design Patterns for bio-ontologies: a case study on the Cell Cycle Ontology

Question

ODP

Do these values exhaust the space of possibilities for a value space?

Value Partition

Is this a structure where the order matters?

List

Are those features of a relationship?

N-ary Relationship

Does it constitute an exception of a default case?

Exception