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 Referencers, such as Entity Mentions.
  • 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. ...