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
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car
drive a car T1 PROCESS 0 5 drive T2 ARTIFACT 8 11 car -
sensor
data from a single sensor T1 DATA-ITEM 0 4 data T2 QUANTITY 11 18 single T3 ARTIFACT 19 25 sensor -
supercomputer
ranking of supercomputers T1 DATA-ITEM 0 7 ranking T2 ARTIFACT 11 25 supercomputers -
sensor network
queries in sensor networks T1 DATA-ITEM 0 7 queries T2 ARTIFACT 11 26 sensor networks -
UNIX workstation
software for UNIX workstations T1 PLAN 0 8 software T2 PLAN 13 17 UNIX T3 ARTIFACT 13 30 UNIX workstations -
air-conditioner
maintenance of an air-conditioner T1 PROCESS 0 11 maintenance T2 ARTIFACT 17 33 air-conditioner -
hardware
hardware and software are fundamental for computer systems T1 ARTIFACT 0 8 hardware T2 PLAN 13 21 software T3 QUALITY 26 37 fundamental T4 ARTIFACT 42 50 computer T5 PLAN 42 58 computer systems -
Penicillin
a possible penicillin for web spamming T1 QUALITY 2 10 possible T2 ARTIFACT 11 21 penicillin T3 PLAN-OR-PROCESS 26 38 web spamming
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.