Objectsindividual
Objectsindividual is a term used in some technical contexts to denote a single, concrete instance of an object within a model, data store, or programming environment. It is closely related to the concept of an individual or instance in knowledge representation and to the notion of an object in object-oriented programming. While a class or type defines a set of possible objects, an objectsindividual represents an actual entity that exists or is created during execution or in data.
In programming, an object is an instance of a class; the term objectsindividual may be used to
Example: In a product catalog, the class Product has an individual 'Product-AXB-123' which is an objectsindividual
Tools and standards such as OWL, RDF, and SPARQL support representing and querying individuals, enabling reasoning
See also: class, property, ontology, OWL, RDF, instance, object-oriented programming.