1. A resource that acts as a proxy for some subject; the topic map system's representation of that subject. The relationship between a topic and its subject is defined to be one of reification. Reification of a subject allows topic characteristics[?] to be assigned to the topic that reifies it.
... he died at the colony.
He is the patron of lepers and outcasts, and was recently made the patron of AIDS patients. The world's only Catholic memorial chapel to ...