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Athena Topic Types

Things

an individual, named humanoid being, real or fictional, dead or alive; e.g. elf, Elvis Presley

a group of people organized to accomplish a goal together; government, club, company; e.g. U.S. Air Force, MENSA, Apple Inc.

real or fictional geographic location or jurisdiction, man-made or natural, room-sized to galactic; e.g. the Taj Mahal, the Shire, New Zealand’s North Island, the Pleiades

individual or group of non-human creatures, real or fictional; animal, plant, germ, fungus; e.g. Bigfoot, bristlecone pine, Laika, lion; an entire taxon

something one can purchase on the open market, perhaps mass-produced or sold at scale, usually inanimate, probably not a commodity; the iPhone, one smartphone, a bank account

singular or recurring, organized or accidental, competitive or collaborative, act of God or act of man, closed-ended in nature; e.g. the 2020 Olympics, the World Series, the G8 Summit, Comic Con

passtime, professional or amateur, generally not producing a creative artifact or knowledge output; e.g. hobbies, sports, performance arts such as acting, sinning or singing, martial arts, board games

physical, edible, or monetary substance from which other things are made; matter, mineral, money, raw materials, food and beverage, cuisine

Intangibles

(TODO) Occupation, -ology, -ography, science, humanity, skill, school of thought (?)

ways in which humans categorize and name abstract topics that do not fit into other categories listed here; philosophies, mathematical objects, physical dimensions, software, principles, phenomena, virtues, etc.

an experiment, program, or endeavor by individuals or organizations, usually limited in scope temporally, e.g. Project MKUltra, Operation Paperclip, Apollo 11, Human Genome Project

chunk of time, perhaps recurring, from sub-second, to seasonal, to geologic; e.g. a microsecond, summer, the Jurassic

a collection of links to other topics, usually related in some manner, and usually of the same type; e.g. List of characters in Hamlet

Knowledge Output

probably short, standalone, mostly text; news, essay or think piece, manuscript, constitution

usually mostly text; book, periodical, magazine, journal, poem, play; e.g. the Bible, the New York Times, MacBeth

recorded media; animation, film, television, song, music score, composition, album, video game, slideshow, comic series, a radio show or podcast

current or former destination for your web browser, sending you bytes from a server in the clouds

a document, usually short, primarily stating an opinion about another topic

a document, usually short, mixed with other documents by many other authors; e.g. a Tweet, a forum post, a reply, a quotation

a flat, digital representation of a visual idea; a map, photo, chart, graph, drawing, or painting