article vs artifact

article and artifact both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
article	Yes	No	Yes	No
artifact	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, artifact is a hypernym of article; that is, artifact is a word with a broader meaning than article:

Other hypernyms of article include artefact.

article (noun)	artifact (noun)
one of a class of artifacts	a man-made object taken as a whole
nonfictional prose forming an independent part of a publication
(grammar) a determiner that may indicate the specificity of reference of a noun phrase
a separate section of a legal document (as a statute or contract or will)

article (verb)	artifact (verb)
bind by a contract; especially for a training period