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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.
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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.