An imaginary family consisting of Fred and Mary Bloggs and their
children. Used as a standard example in knowledge representation to show
the difference between extensional and intensional objects. For example,
every occurrence of Fred Bloggs
is the same unique person,
whereas occurrences of person
may refer to different people.
Members of the Bloggs family have been known to pop up in bizarre places
such as the old DEC Telephone Directory. Compare
Dr. Fred Mbogo;
J. Random Hacker; Fred Foobar.