{
  "id": "best.quality",
  "term": "best",
  "sense": "quality",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 7,
  "arena": "best",
  "domain": "",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "most good among others",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "difference.relation",
      "regular.frequency",
      "good.moral",
      "others.distinct-entities"
    ],
    "interaction": "they together compare many things and rank them to select the one that most exceeds the others",
    "novel_properties": [
      "ranked superiority",
      "evaluative selection",
      "comparative excellence"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Toyota Prius consistently ranked highest in fuel efficiency among 2020 compact cars sold in the U.S.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Serena Williams won Wimbledon in 2015, making her the most decorated Grand Slam champion of her era.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "AlphaFold 2 achieved the lowest error rate in protein structure prediction during CASP14 in 2020.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "best"
  ],
  "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 'good.moral' and 'others.distinct-entities' which are necessary for ranking 'best' by quality; 'regular.frequency' supports consistency in evaluation, and 'differen"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-best.quality"
}