| Physical or structural component | Identify both entities, the direct ComponentOf predicate, boundary relevance, and obtaining facts under A.14/the structural pattern. | Diagram containment or removal from a list does not establish component parthood. |
| Conceptual or content constituent | Identify the exact episteme or publication-unit whole and the exact constituent under A.14. Keep the described referent separate. | A section in a file is not therefore a component of the described system. |
| Measured portion | Name the whole, portion, extensive measure μ, compatible unit, additivity/non-overlap rule, and boundary under A.14. | A percentage, share, or smaller numeral does not make a structural component. |
| Collection belonging | Name the collection, its identity rule, the entity said to belong, and the collection’s own rule for when belonging begins and ends. | Belonging alone is not transitive parthood and does not make an acting collective system; neither does it prohibit a separately grounded part relation. |
| Proper temporal restriction of an enduring individual | Apply the subject’s direct identity rule, then use PhaseOf(x,y) only when x is the same exact y restricted to a proper interval. Ordinary restrictions may nest or overlap. Coverage and non-overlap apply only to a separately selected exhaustive partition under A.14. | A timestamp, state label, or changed property alone does not create a phase object. |
| Distinct episteme history | Compare C.2.1 claim content, EntityOfConcern, and effective ReferenceScheme. When a discriminator changes, identify another episteme; assert EpistemeEditionRelation only when its independent historical-continuation predicate obtains. | v2, filename, shared title, provenance, publication order, revision Work, or source use establishes neither identity nor continuity. |
| Performed Work interval, episode, part, retry, resumption, or later occurrence | Use A.15.1 TemporalPartOf_work, EpisodeOf_work, OperationalPartOf_work, another admitted Work-part relation, or a separately identified Work occurrence according to its exact predicate. | A shift, phase, step, log row, or MethodDescription section never routes Work through generic PhaseOf. |
| Method factor, order, branch, or join | Identify exact Methods and method-composition claims under A.3.1/B.1.5; use B.1.4 only for a bounded aggregation of already recovered order relations. | A box, sequence position, description constituent, plan item, or Work part is not a Method part by appearance. |