ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Ontology components

Imagine you have a big box of toys, but you don't know what kind of toys are inside or how they are related to each other. Ontology is like a way to organize those toys. It helps you understand what each toy is, how they are related, and how you can play with them together.

Ontology has different parts just like how your body has different parts. These parts help you understand and organize different things about the toys. For example, imagine you have a toy car and a toy truck. The first part of ontology is called "classes." It helps you understand that both the toy car and the toy truck belong to the same class, which is "vehicles." This means they are both types of transportation toys.

The second part of ontology is called "properties." It helps you understand what features or characteristics the toys have. For example, the toy car and the toy truck might have different colors. So, you can use the properties to understand that the toy car is red and the toy truck is blue.

The third part of ontology is called "relations." It helps you understand how the toys are related to each other. For example, the toy truck might be bigger than the toy car. So, you can use relations to understand that the toy truck is the "parent" toy, and the toy car is the "child" toy because it's smaller.

Overall, ontology components help you understand and organize different types of information about something, like toys in a box. It helps you see how they are related to each other and how you can use them together.