{
  "id": "advice.social",
  "term": "advice",
  "sense": "social",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 8,
  "arena": "social",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "information that helps a person perform an action",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "information.knowledge",
      "help.assistance",
      "action.deed",
      "someone.person"
    ],
    "interaction": "knowledge and assistance combine to enable a person to carry out an action",
    "novel_properties": [
      "guidance for action",
      "social intentionality",
      "context-sensitive support"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "In 2021, the Linux kernel maintainers reviewed and merged 15,000 patches to keep the system functional and secure.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill response included real-time advice from oceanographers to predict spill drift.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Mayo Clinic’s online symptom checker provides personalized guidance based on medical knowledge and patient input.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "information.knowledge",
      "type": "is-a",
      "note": "advice is a kind of information"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "advice"
  ],
  "closed": false,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "factual",
      "note": "an action/deed is the actual doing; assistance targets the person to overcome inability; knowledge provides the informational basis. These together produce socially situated advice."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-advice.social"
}