Situation -- a type of --> State (as in California, Maryland, etc.)

[rosariou]

Seems that https://conceptnet.io/c/en/situation is a type of https://conceptnet.io/c/en/state, where types of state are California, Colorado, etc. but 'ways of state' is 'add', 'announce', 'articulate', etc.

This creates a lot of noise.

[VladimirAlexiev]

Similar to this problem, these two lists are completely different and should not be joined:

• state is a type of…
  en emotional state
  en attribute (n, wn) ➜
• state is a type of…
  en government (n, government) ➜
  en political unit (n, group) ➜
  en administrative district (n, location) ➜

I see two roots of the problem:

• concepts don't have definitions (that I can see), I'll post a separate issue
• "state" has numerous meanings that are not disambiguated by ConceptNet

[VladimirAlexiev]

@rosariou I think that in ConceptNet, senses of concepts are mixed together (by design?) so it would not be possible to disentangle the two senses of "state". See #336 for more puzzling on multi-sense words like "render" and "coat".

I still don't know how this can be used to avoid confusion between senses. You can try systems in which senses are represented explicitly:

• WordNet, which is used in ConceptNet
• BabelNet, which is perhaps 20x bigger than WordNet because it adds a lot more datasets