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  "id": "bed.furniture",
  "term": "bed",
  "sense": "furniture",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 17,
  "arena": "household",
  "domain": "home",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a piece of furniture that provides a place for a human to stay while they sleep",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "structure.arrangement",
      "matter.substance",
      "boundary.limit",
      "furniture.home",
      "human.person",
      "persist.continue",
      "piece.portion",
      "provide.supply",
      "sleep.biological",
      "space.extent",
      "time.dimension"
    ],
    "interaction": "the arranged matter forms a boundary that encloses a space for a human to stay",
    "novel_properties": [
      "designated rest area",
      "supported horizontal enclosure",
      "sleep-ready human container"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The IKEA MALM bed frame, made of particleboard and metal fasteners, supports a mattress in a Stockholm apartment.",
      "domain": "everyday life"
    },
    {
      "text": "The hospital bed in Room 304 of St. Mary's ICU adjusts height and angle to keep a patient stable during recovery.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Mars Desert Research Station in Utah includes a sleeping pod designed to simulate astronaut rest cycles on long missions.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "furniture.home",
      "type": "is-a",
      "note": "a piece of furniture"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "bed",
    "beds"
  ],
  "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 concepts from definition; no change to definition needed"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-bed.furniture"
}