It is a formal representation of the concepts that the Arabic terms convey, and its content is ontologically well-founded, and benchmarked to scientific advances and rigorous knowledge sources rather than to speakers' naïve beliefs as wordnets typically do[1] .

Concepts and senses are described by further attributes such as era and area - to specify when and where it is used, lexicalization type, example sentence, example instances, ontological analysis, and others.

Concepts in the Arabic Ontology are mapped to synsets in WordNet, as well as to BFO and DOLCE.

Terms used in the Arabic Ontology are mapped to lemmas in the LDC's SAMA database.

However, there are critical foundational differences between them: The Arabic Ontology can be used in many application domains; such as: The URLs in the Arabic Ontology are designed according to the W3C's Best Practices for Publishing Linked Data, as described in the following URL schemes.