artifact: physical object intentionally produced for a purpose

Scope

References to physical objects that have been intentionally produced for a specific purpose are annotated as artifact, including collections and universals of such objects. All criteria are required: entities that are non-physical, not intentionally produced, or not produced for a specific purpose are not in scope of artifact annotation.

Syntactic constraints

Names and nominal mentions (see Span annotation: Name mention annotation and Nominal mention annotation)

Examples

References

The semantic scope of artifact annotations is a subset of object_BFO (see Ontological basis: Top-level organization). Contrast information artifacts data-item and plan.