{
  "id": "data.information",
  "term": "data",
  "sense": "information",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 7,
  "arena": "EmergenceLexicon",
  "domain": "common",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a set of pieces of information",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "information.knowledge",
      "piece.portion",
      "sets.grouped"
    ],
    "interaction": "the pieces of information are together in a set",
    "novel_properties": [
      "collective meaning",
      "reusability",
      "abstraction"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Hubble Space Telescope transmitted error-corrected data streams despite cosmic radiation flipping bits in its memory.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 2020 U.S. Census collected demographic data from 331 million people across 50 states.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "LIGO recorded gravitational wave data from the collision of two black holes 1.3 billion light-years away.",
      "domain": "physics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "information.knowledge",
      "note": "information",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "database.information",
    "download.digital",
    "files.digital",
    "internet.digital",
    "phone.electrical",
    "software.digital",
    "statistics.data",
    "video.digital"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "data",
    "datum"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-data.information"
}