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Three classes provide a basis for the rest of PROV-O:
</p>
<ul>
- <li>An <a class="qname" href="#Entity">prov:Entity</a> is a thing one wants to provide provenance for. Things can be physical, digital, conceptual, or otherwise.
+ <li>An <a class="qname" href="#Entity">prov:Entity</a> is a physical, digital, conceptual, or other kind of thing with some fixed aspects; entities may be real or imaginary.
</li>
- <li>An <a class="qname" href="#Activity">prov:Activity</a> is something that occurs over a period of time and acts upon or with entities; it may include consuming, processing, transforming, modifying, or relocating entities.
+ <li>An <a class="qname" href="#Activity">prov:Activity</a> is something that occurs over a period of time and acts upon or with entities; it may include consuming, processing, transforming, modifying, relocating, using, or generating entities.
</li>
- <li>An <a class="qname" href="#Agent">prov:Agent</a> is something that bears some form of responsibility for an activity taking place or for the existence of an entity.
+ <li>An <a class="qname" href="#Agent">prov:Agent</a> is something that bears some form of responsibility for an activity taking place, for the existence of an entity, or for another agent's activity.
</li>
</ul>
<p>The three primary classes relate to one another and to themselves using the properties shown in the following figure.</p>