I am looking for the name of the semantic relationship "has-instance". For example: "swimmer" - "Michael Phelps". What is the correct name of this relationship?
And further: What is the name of the reversed relationship (is-instance-of)?
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1I'm not sure what you're asking. It's not very clear. But I'm going to take a stab in the dark. Maybe you're looking for "correlation" or "corollary." Or maybe you're just looking for the word "example," but you use that word in your question, so I dunno.– user361733Commented Sep 16, 2019 at 15:35
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1I don't know how as I don't understand the question. Are you looking for "key words"?– LambieCommented Sep 16, 2019 at 15:36
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2Looks to me like categorization, categorizing, classification. Or maybe exemplification (in the specific sub-sense defined by the full OED as The citing of illustrative examples; an illustrative example). You could coin a nonce-word such as hierarchicalization, but I doubt there's any existing term with that precise implication (of everything either being contained within some parent set, or of being a parent set containing children / examples itself).– FumbleFingersCommented Sep 16, 2019 at 15:40
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1@Janothan. Thanks. If none of FumbleFingers' suggestions appeal to you I think we need a really straightforward example; without the words 'has-instance' or 'is-instance-of', which don't mean anything to me. The relationship between 'swimmer' and 'Phelps' is simply that of a category and a member of that category. Maybe you could define the linguistic term you want we could help you. What exactly does it mean?– Old BrixtonianCommented Sep 16, 2019 at 18:08
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1Member of a set?– XanneCommented Sep 17, 2019 at 2:29
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