{
  "id": "dog.animal",
  "term": "dog",
  "sense": "animal",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 17,
  "arena": "dog",
  "domain": "emergence",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a big size live biological thing with fur",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "matter.substance",
      "live.biological",
      "big.size",
      "biological.life",
      "fur.material",
      "size.measurement"
    ],
    "interaction": "the matter and live together form a body that moves and is covered in fur",
    "novel_properties": [
      "mobile body",
      "furred covering",
      "persistent form"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "Hachiko waited at Shibuya Station every day for nine years after his owner's death in 1925.",
      "domain": "everyday life"
    },
    {
      "text": "Laika, the Soviet space dog, orbited Earth in Sputnik 2 in 1957 until life support failed.",
      "domain": "space exploration"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Tibetan Mastiff, weighing up to 90 kilograms, guarded monasteries in the Himalayas for centuries.",
      "domain": "biology"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "dog",
    "dogged",
    "doggedly",
    "dogging",
    "dogs"
  ],
  "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": "factual",
      "note": "Definition was factually incomplete — omitted fur and life as constitutive. Added missing components. Definition kept but flagged as corrected because it implicitly relied on unlisted concepts."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-dog.animal"
}