  In this work, we fill the gap in the Semantic Web in the context of Cultural
Symbolism. Building upon earlier work in, we introduce the Simulation Ontology,
an ontology that models the background knowledge of symbolic meanings,
developed by combining the concepts taken from the authoritative theory of
Simulacra and Simulations of Jean Baudrillard with symbolic structures and
content taken from "Symbolism: a Comprehensive Dictionary" by Steven Olderr. We
re-engineered the symbolic knowledge already present in heterogeneous resources
by converting it into our ontology schema to create HyperReal, the first
knowledge graph completely dedicated to cultural symbolism. A first experiment
run on the knowledge graph is presented to show the potential of quantitative
research on symbolism.
