A thing which is contained by this thing.

The container membership properties (properties of the form , , ⁊·c) are all implicitly subproperties of this property, altho there is no formal requirement on applications to support this. These properties are intended for use with Containers, but may also be applied to other things.

In , this property is permitted to take literal values; it is neither formally an object property nor a data property. For compatibility with Owl, and to match the most useful cases, this ontology defines it as an object property and disallows its use with literals.