Artifact
Classhttps://www.ontologyrepository.com/CommonCoreOntologies/Artifact
An Artifact is a material entity that was intentionally designed and made by an agent to realise some function. Being an artifact is a matter of origin and purpose: it is produced to do something, and it bears an artifact function accordingly.
Examples
- a fastener
- an instrument
- a housing
Where it sits in the suite
Artifact is defined in the Common Core Ontologies, a mid-level suite that specialises the top-level categories of Basic Formal Ontology. It is released as part of the maintained, logically consistent CCO release and is reused across the connected ontology modules.