Artifact
An
Artifact
is an
Entity
that is produced by an
Agent
.
AKA:
Artefact
Context:
It can be:
a
Physical Artifact
, such as a statue.
a
Virtual Artifact
, such as
Fictional Entity
.
It can be:
a
Human Created Artifact
such as a
Document
or a
Paper Record
.
a
Machine Created Artifact
such as a
Model
.
It can be:
a
Human Processable Artifact
, such as a
Written Artifact
.
a
Machine Processable Artifact
, such as an
Ontology
or
Computer Program
.
It can contain
Referencer
s, such as
Entity Mention
s.
It can (typically) be an
Information Resource
.
It can have instrumentality.
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
car
.
Counter-Example(s):
Natural Entities
:
person
,
star
.
Fictional Entity
: time machine, Unicorn.
See:
Concept
,
Belief
,
Hypothesis
,
Relation Recognition Task
References
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. ...