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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+
+# This software was developed at the National Institute of Standards
+# and Technology by employees of the Federal Government in the course
+# of their official duties. Pursuant to title 17 Section 105 of the
+# United States Code this software is not subject to copyright
+# protection and is in the public domain. NIST assumes no
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+# no guarantees, expressed or implied, about its quality,
+# reliability, or any other characteristic.
+#
+# We would appreciate acknowledgement if the software is used.
+
+"""
+This file tests behaviors of owl:Axioms.
+
+The OWL-RDF mapping [2], Table 7 row 7, would match the introduction
+pattern pertaining to EX.NamedAxiom with a Class Declaration, EXCEPT the
+axiom's identifier is an IRI instead of a blank node.  The document only
+defines behaviors for `owl:Axiom`s identifying as blank nodes.  Given
+this pattern non-match, the RDF graph will contain these triples after
+the mapping process of [2] Section 3 should have emptied the RDF graph.
+
+The requirement at the end of [2] Section 3, "At the end of this
+process, the graph G MUST be empty." fails, meaning [1] Section 2.1's
+requirement "conformant OWL 2 tools that take ontology documents as
+input(s) MUST accept ontology documents using the RDF/XML serialization"
+fails, placing the graph into OWL 2 FULL and providing no behaviors for
+or against constructing a class declaration.
+
+[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/2012/REC-owl2-conformance-20121211/
+[2] https://www.w3.org/TR/2012/REC-owl2-mapping-to-rdf-20121211/
+"""
+
+import logging
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import owlrl
+import pytest
+from rdflib import BNode, Graph, Namespace
+from rdflib.namespace import OWL, RDF
+
+EX = Namespace("http://example.org/")
+RELS = Namespace("http://example.org/relatives#")
+
+def _test_owl_axiom(include_named_axiom: bool) -> None:
+    """
+    Test whether an axiom written only as an owl:Axiom is an asserted axiom.
+    """
+    g = Graph()
+    relatives_ttl_path = Path(__file__).parent / "relatives.ttl"
+    g.parse(str(relatives_ttl_path), format="turtle")
+
+    # Define three individuals - "Max", but in three ways.
+
+    # First, Max, directly asserted.
+    g.add((EX.MaxByAssertion, RDF.type, RELS.Person))
+
+    # Second, Max, not directly asserted, but would be asserted if this blank-node axiom were not reified.
+    # NOTE - [2] Table 7 row 7 matches this pattern with a Class Declaration.
+    ax = BNode()
+    g.add((ax, RDF.type, OWL.Axiom))
+    g.add((ax, OWL.annotatedSource, EX.MaxByBlankAxiom))
+    g.add((ax, OWL.annotatedProperty, RDF.type))
+    g.add((ax, OWL.annotatedTarget, RELS.Person))
+
+    if include_named_axiom:
+        # Third, Max, not directly asserted, but would be asserted if this named axiom were not reified.
+        # NOTE - [2] Table 7 row 7 does not match this pattern with a Class Declaration.
+        g.add((EX.NamedAxiom, RDF.type, OWL.Axiom))
+        g.add((EX.NamedAxiom, OWL.annotatedSource, EX.MaxByNamedAxiom))
+        g.add((EX.NamedAxiom, OWL.annotatedProperty, RDF.type))
+        g.add((EX.NamedAxiom, OWL.annotatedTarget, RELS.Person))
+
+    # Before defining and expanding closure, confirm the direct and both reified Maxes are, are not, and are not in the graph, respectively.
+    assert (EX.MaxByAssertion, RDF.type, RELS.Person) in g
+    assert not (EX.MaxByBlankAxiom, RDF.type, RELS.Person) in g
+    assert not (EX.MaxByNamedAxiom, RDF.type, RELS.Person) in g
+
+    try:
+        owlrl.DeductiveClosure(owlrl.OWLRL_Extension).expand(g)
+    except:
+        if include_named_axiom:
+            pytest.xfail("The OWL 2 RL closure correctly rejected an IRI-identified owl:Axiom.")
+        else:
+            raise
+
+    if include_named_axiom:
+        assert False, "The OWL 2 RL closure should have rejected an IRI-identified owl:Axiom."
+
+    # After defining and expanding closure, confirm the direct and reified Maxes are in the graph according to [2].
+    assert (EX.MaxByAssertion, RDF.type, RELS.Person) in g
+    assert (EX.MaxByBlankAxiom, RDF.type, RELS.Person) in g
+
+
+def test_owl_axiom_blank() -> None:
+    _test_owl_axiom(False)
+
+
+def test_owl_axiom_iri() -> None:
+    _test_owl_axiom(True)