What is an instance of a field called?

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This might be an odd question, but it has actually caused me some headache.

In Object oriented programming, there are accepted names for key concepts. In our model, we have classes with methods and fields. Now, going to the data world:

An instance of a class is called an object.
An instance of a field is called... what?

A value? Isn't the term value a little broad for this? I have been offered "property" as well, but isn't property also part of the model and not the data?

(This is not purely academic, I am actually coding these concepts.)

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