{
  "id": "editor.role",
  "term": "editor",
  "sense": "role",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 17,
  "arena": "common",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a human who selects text, changes it, and orders its structure",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "human.person",
      "edit.process",
      "select.choice",
      "change.process",
      "order.arrangement",
      "text.written",
      "structure.arrangement"
    ],
    "interaction": "a human selects from written text, applies changes, and arranges structure to form a coherent whole",
    "novel_properties": [
      "curated content flow",
      "intentional textual organization",
      "hierarchical revision"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "Jorge Luis Borges curated stories for the 1952 anthology 'Antología de la literatura fantástica,' arranging them by theme and tone.",
      "domain": "literature"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Linux kernel's MAINTAINERS file lists contributors who approve code changes before merging into the main branch.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Associated Press Stylebook guides journalists in revising articles for consistency, clarity, and factual order.",
      "domain": "journalism"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "human.person",
      "type": "is-a",
      "note": "a editor is a human person"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "editor",
    "editors"
  ],
  "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: select.choice, change.process, text.written; interaction rewritten to reflect actual joint function"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-editor.role"
}