---
name: "uniqbeg"
section: "7"
platform: "linux"
package: "wordnet"
version: "1.7-6"
release: "Debian 3.0 (Woody)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/uniqbeg"
---

# uniqbeg(7)

unique beginners for noun hierarchies

## NAME

uniqbeg - unique beginners for noun hierarchies

## DESCRIPTION

All of the WordNet noun synsets are organized into hierarchies.  Each synset is part of at least one hierarchy, headed by a synset called a unique beginner.  All of these synsets originate in the lexicographer file **noun.Tops**.  From any noun synset, except a unique beginner, the hypernym pointers can be traced up to one of the following synsets:

```
{ entity, (that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own physical existence (living or nonliving)) }
{ psychological_feature, (a feature of the mental life of a living organism) }
{ abstraction, (a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples) }
{ state, (the way something is with respect to its main attributes; "the current state of knowledge"; "his state of health"; "in a weak financial state") }
{ event, (something that happens at a given place and time) }
{ act, human_action, human_activity, (something that people do or cause to happen) }
{ group, grouping, (any number of entities (members) considered as a unit) }
{ possession, (anything owned or possessed) }
{ phenomenon, (any state or process known through the senses rather than by intuition or reasoning) }
```

## NOTES

The lexicographer files are not included in the WordNet package.

## FILES

- **noun.Tops**

  unique beginners for nouns

## SEE ALSO

**wndb**(5WN), **wninput**(5WN), **wngloss**(7WN).