Traditional semantic data models, such as the Entity Relationship (ER) data model, are used to represent real world semantics that are crucial for the effective management of structured data. The semantics that can be expressed in the ER data model include the representation of entity types together with their identifiers and attributes, n-ary relationship types together with their participating entity types and attributes, and functional dependencies among the participating entity types of relationship types and their attributes, etc.
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