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Table 3 Referent tracking tuples true in every scenario

From: Diagnosis, misdiagnosis, lucky guess, hearsay, and more: an ontological analysis

IUI

Entity

Existence period

Type

Notes

IUI-1

Mr. Adam Jones

t1 – the period during which IUI-1 exists

Material Entity

 

IUI-2

IUI-1’s disease

t2

Disposition

 

Relationships among particulars

IUI-2

inheres in

IUI-1

at t2

 

IUI-2

instance of

UUI-1

at t2

UUI-1 is a universal unique identifier that denotes type 2 diabetes mellitus. We assume that if something is at any time of its existence an instance of type 2 DM, it is instance of type 2 DM at all times it exists.