is it correct that a class can be an instance?
In this document https://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-schema/#ch_introduction it is written: rdfs:Resource is an instance of rdfs:Class. however it is also written: This is the class of everything is this a typo? can a class be an instance ? That's actually an interesting question. I just want to add to your comment in CaptSolo's answer: but can I define my custom classes as instances of an instance? ( i highly doubt that ) It's not so much a question of whether you "can" do something or not (at least not in this case), but rather whether what you do will make sense. After all the Semantic Web was built