8 Marko A. Rodriguez, Alberto Pepe, and Joshua Shinavier understand what is meant by Marko "knowing" Alberto. What is the nature of the scholarly data set that they analyzed? Who did what for the analysis? Did they ever socialize outside of work when Alberto was visiting LANL?

What was the conversation that they had with Leo Egghe like? Can their foaf:knows relationship ever be fully understood? Only an infinite recursion into their histories, experiences, and subjective worlds could reveal the "true" meaning of (lanl:marko, foaf:knows, ucla:apepe). Only when Tτ = R,
10 that is, when their relationship is placed within the broader context of the world as a whole, does the complete picture emerge. However, with respect to those triples that provide the most context, a |Tτ *|  |*R| suffices to expose the more essential aspects of (lanl:marko, foaf:knows, ucla:apepe).1112 Defining a triple in terms of a larger conceptual structure exposes more degrees of freedom when representing the uniqueness of a relationship. For example, suppose the two dilated triples Tx and Ty diagrammed in Figure 3, where x = (lanl:marko, foaf:knows, ucla:apepe) (3)

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$\cup\overline{\phantom{\rule{0.00em}{0ex}}}$ . 
$\mathrm{d}$. 
$y=(\texttt{land}:\texttt{marko},\texttt{fooif}:\texttt{knows},\texttt{cap}:\texttt{carole})$. 
and
y = (lanl:marko, foaf:knows, cap:carole). (4)

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$\left(4\right)$. 
Both Tx and Ty share the same predicate foaf:knows. However, what is meant by Marko knowing Alberto is much different than what is meant by Marko knowing his mother Carole (cap:carole). While, broadly speaking, it is true that Marko knows both Alberto and Carole, the context in which