{
  "id": "document.record",
  "term": "document",
  "sense": "record",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 17,
  "arena": "document",
  "domain": "record",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a piece of written text that records information",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "paper.material",
      "information.knowledge",
      "piece.portion",
      "text.written",
      "write.communication",
      "records.document"
    ],
    "interaction": "the paper and the marks made on it together preserve information through written form",
    "novel_properties": [
      "preserved information about past events",
      "structured access to facts",
      "enduring informational form"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Domesday Book, compiled in 1086, recorded landholdings across England for tax purposes.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Linux kernel's changelog files track every code modification since 1991.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Dead Sea Scrolls include parchment manuscripts preserving Jewish texts from the Second Temple period.",
      "domain": "archaeology"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "records.document",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "medium-for"
    },
    {
      "id": "information.knowledge",
      "note": "medium-for",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "bill.payment",
    "submit.administrative",
    "tickets.document"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "document",
    "documented",
    "documenting",
    "documents"
  ],
  "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 'records.document' to components as it is a core emergent property; definition already correctly implies this function"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-document.record"
}