Fresians are independent continuants but Holsteins are not

[cmungall]

Why is a Friesian an independent continuant, yet a Holstein is not (or is at least ontologically uncommitted?)

Maybe Fresians have been mixed up with Fregeians?

Are Holsteins actually immaterial entities? Is it because Bos torus being a manifold is a BFO 2D entity? In that case can Fresians really inherit from Bos taurus?

But more seriously, I suspect that there is something up with the subclass having some domain constraint that induces the subclasses, which is materialized by robot in the release pipeline

(the FMA issue is mentioned separately #52)

[sabrinatoro]

Friesian being an independent continuant appears to be inferred based on the "located in" value [country] subclass

This inference is made for all breeds that have a subclass including country. The parent term does not have any relation to country, and therefore does not get the inference to "independent continuant".

What does it mean in terms of the ontology? I don't know. Is having the country of existence as a subclass the wrong way to do it? Is "located in" the wrong relation to use?

[cmungall]

A cob import should fix this, as it will asserted the root of ncbi taxon to be an IC, rendering the fresian inference correct but redundant

[cthoyt]

is there a joke in here about spherical cows?