{
  "id": "author.person",
  "term": "author",
  "sense": "person",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 8,
  "arena": "author",
  "domain": "common",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "person who makes text",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "people.social",
      "make.verb",
      "text.written"
    ],
    "interaction": "the person makes text",
    "novel_properties": [
      "authored work",
      "creative agency",
      "textual origin"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "J.K. Rowling wrote 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone' in a Edinburgh café while living on state benefits.",
      "domain": "literature"
    },
    {
      "text": "Linus Torvalds authored the first version of the Linux kernel, released in 1991 on comp.os.minix.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "Rachel Carson compiled 'Silent Spring' using government pesticide studies and biologist testimonies from 1958 to 1962.",
      "domain": "science"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "people.social",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "text.written",
      "note": "enables",
      "type": "enables"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "blog.online"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "author",
    "authored",
    "authoring",
    "authors"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "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": "components",
      "note": "Added missing constitutive concept 'text.written' to components, as the definition relies on it. Definition remains accurate and concise."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-author.person"
}