{
  "id": "children.human",
  "term": "children",
  "sense": "human",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 8,
  "arena": "children",
  "domain": "human",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a person that is part of a family and is in growth",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "people.social",
      "family.social",
      "growth.development",
      "part.relation"
    ],
    "interaction": "When a person is in a family through a part-whole relation and undergoes physical development, the emergent phenomenon is a child.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "dependent agency",
      "developmental status",
      "familial role"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "In 2020, the Smith family in Columbus, Ohio, included three children under age 10 growing visibly each year.",
      "domain": "everyday life"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Brazilian favela school program enrolled 427 children in 2018, tracking their development over three academic cycles.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "Genetic analysis of the 2015–2020 Framingham Heart Study cohort included 1,248 children monitored from birth to adolescence.",
      "domain": "biology"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "people.social",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "teen.age"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "child",
    "children"
  ],
  "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 'part.relation' to components since the definition relies on the idea of belonging-to. All other components are genuinely constitutive and correctly referenced."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-children.human"
}