@prefix owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix sco: <http://ontextract.org/sco#> .
@prefix skos: <http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#> .

sco:InflectionPoint a owl:Class ;
    rdfs:label "Inflection Point" ;
    rdfs:comment "Rapid semantic transition marking shift between distinct meanings. Characterized by abrupt change in term usage patterns." ;
    rdfs:subClassOf sco:SemanticChangeEvent ;
    skos:definition "A semantic change event characterized by an abrupt, concentrated shift in meaning occurring within a relatively short temporal window." ;
    skos:example "The term 'agent' in 1995: transition from primarily human actor to computational system in AI discourse.",
        "The term 'ontology' in 1993: shift from philosophical metaphysics to information science knowledge representation." ;
    skos:note "May be operationalized as sudden increase in semantic displacement rate (Hamilton et al. 2016)." .