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EntityDeterminer in natural language grammar is the class of words that comprises articles, demonstrative pronouns, and quantifiers. In the RIM, determiner is a structural code in the Entity class to distinguish whether any given Entity object stands for some, any one, or a specific thing.
{ "resourceType": "ValueSet", "id": "v3-EntityDeterminer", "meta": { "lastUpdated": "2014-12-11T00:00:00.000+11:00", "profile": [ "http://hl7.org/fhir/Profile/valueset-shareable-definition" ] }, "text": { "status": "generated", "div": "<div>!-- Snipped for Brevity --></div>" }, "extension": [ { "url": "http://hl7.org/fhir/ExtensionDefinition/valueset-oid", "valueUri": "urn:oid:2.16.840.1.113883.1.11.10878" } ], "url": "http://hl7.org/fhir/v3/vs/EntityDeterminer", "version": "2014-12-11", "name": "v3 Code System EntityDeterminer", "publisher": "HL7, Inc", "contact": [ { "telecom": [ { "system": "url", "value": "http://hl7.org" } ] } ], "description": " EntityDeterminer in natural language grammar is the class of words that comprises articles, demonstrative pronouns, and quantifiers. In the RIM, determiner is a structural code in the Entity class to distinguish whether any given Entity object stands for some, any one, or a specific thing.", "status": "active", "experimental": false, "date": "2014-12-11", "define": { "extension": [ { "url": "http://hl7.org/fhir/ExtensionDefinition/valueset-oid", "valueUri": "urn:oid:2.16.840.1.113883.5.30" } ], "system": "http://hl7.org/fhir/v3/EntityDeterminer", "caseSensitive": true, "concept": [ { "code": "INSTANCE", "abstract": false, "display": "specific", "definition": "Description:A determiner that specifies that the Entity object represents a particular physical thing (as opposed to a universal, kind, or class of physical thing).\r\n\n \n Discussion: It does not matter whether an INSTANCE still exists as a whole at the point in time (or process) when we mention it, for example, a drug product lot is an INSTANCE even though it has been portioned out for retail purpose.", "concept": [ { "code": "GROUP", "abstract": false, "display": "specific group", "definition": "A determiner that specifies that the Entity object represents a particular collection of physical things (as opposed to a universal, kind, or class of physical thing). While the collection may resolve to having only a single individual (or even no individuals), the potential should exist for it to cover multiple individuals." } ] }, { "code": "KIND", "abstract": false, "display": "described", "definition": "Description:A determiner that specifies that the Entity object represents a universal, kind or class of physical thing (as opposed to a particular thing).", "concept": [ { "code": "GROUPKIND", "abstract": false, "display": "described group", "definition": "A determiner that specifies that the Entity object represents a universal, kind or class of collections physical things. While the collection may resolve to having only a single individual (or even no individuals), the potential should exist for it to cover multiple individuals." } ] } ] } }
Usage note: every effort has been made to ensure that the examples are correct and useful, but they are not a normative part of the specification.