Six basic types of information per Robert Horn.

Robert Horn, the father of Information Mapping, suggested that there’s 6 fundamental types of information that cover nearly all needs for technical and business communications.

  1. Procedure - a set of steps to accomplish a task
  2. Process - a series of events, stages, or phases that result in a specific outcome
  3. Principle - a statement that dictates or guides behavior
  4. Concept - a class of things that share a critical set of attributes
  5. Structure - a description of anything that has parts or boundaries
  6. Fact - a statement that’s assumed to be true

Source

Information mapping - Wikipedia