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From RDF Semantics (2004-02-10) | Glossary for this source

(v.), (n.) To categorize as an object; to describe as an entity. Often used to describe a convention whereby a syntactic expression is treated as a semantic object and itself described using another syntax. In RDF, a reified triple is a description of a triple-token using other RDF triples.

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