---
name: "wnintro"
section: "5"
platform: "linux"
package: "wordnet-base"
version: "1.7-6"
release: "Debian 3.0 (Woody)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/wnintro/5"
---

# wnintro(5)

introduction to descriptions of WordNet file formats

## NAME

wnintro - introduction to descriptions of WordNet file formats

## SYNOPSIS

**cntlist** - format of **cntlist** and **cntlist.rev** files

**lexnames** - list of lexicographer file names and numbers

**prologdb** - description of Prolog database files

**senseidx** - format of sense index file

**sensemap** - mapping from senses in WordNet 1.6 to corresponding 1.7 senses

**wndb** - format of WordNet database files

**wninput** - format of WordNet lexicographer files

## DESCRIPTION

This section of the *WordNet Reference Manual* contains manual pages that describe the formats of the various files included in different WordNet 1.7 packages.

## NOMENCLATURE

All files are in ASCII.  Fields are generally separated by one space, unless otherwise noted, and each line is terminated with a newline character.  In the file format descriptions, terms in *italics* refer to field names.  Characters or strings in **boldface** represent an actual character or string as it appears in the file. Items enclosed in italicized square brackets (*\[  \]*) may not be present. Since several files contain fields that have the identical meaning, field names are consistently defined.  For example, several WordNet files contain one or more *synset\_offset* fields.  In each case, the definition of *synset\_offset* is identical.

## SEE ALSO

**wnintro**(1WN), **wnintro**(3WN), **wnintro**(7WN), **wngloss**(7WN).

Fellbaum, C. (1998), ed. *"WordNet: An Electronic Lexical Database"*. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.