Artifact

An Artifact is an entity that is produced by an agent.

• AKA: Artefact, Produced Entity.
• Context:
  • It can range from being a Physical Artifact to being a Virtual Artifact (such as fictional entity).
  • It can range from being a Human Created Artifact to being a Machine Created Artifact such as a Model.
  • It can range from being a Human Processable Artifact to being a Machine Processable Artifact.
  • It can retrieved by an Agent and shared between Agents.
  • It can contain Referencers, such as Entity Mentions.
  • It can (typically) be an Information Resource.
  • It can have instrumentality.
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• Example(s):
  • a Written Artifact, such as Dostoevsky's “Crime and Punishment” novel or Newton's Principia treatise.
  • An Ontology, such as the Gene Ontology Database.
  • A Tool, such as a screwdriver or an Integrated Development Environment (IDE).
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • Natural Entities: person, star.
  • Fictional Entity: time machine, Unicorn.
• See: Concept, Belief, Hypothesis, Relation Recognition Task.

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References

2009

• WordNet.
  • a man-made object taken as a whole
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artifact_(sociology)
  • Social artifact is any product of individuals or groups (social beings) or of their social behavior.
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artifact_(archaeology)
  • In archaeology, an artifact or artefact is any object made or modified by a human culture, and often one later recovered by some archaeological endeavor. ...
• http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Artefact
  • An object made by human hand or shaped by it; An object, such as a tool, weapon or ornament, of archaeological or historical interest, esp. …

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