{
  "id": "entities.object",
  "term": "entities",
  "sense": "object",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 4,
  "arena": "EmergenceLexicon",
  "domain": "common",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "things that are each distinct from other things",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "others.distinct-entities",
      "boundary.limit",
      "distinct.attribute"
    ],
    "interaction": "their boundaries keep each thing separate from the others while distinguishing attributes differentiate them as unique instances.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "individual identity",
      "separateness",
      "attribute-based differentiation"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The International Space Station maintains separate pressurized modules to isolate functional systems and crew areas.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Electrons orbiting a helium nucleus are distinct from those in a neighboring hydrogen atom due to charge and spatial boundaries.",
      "domain": "physics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 2020 U.S. Census counted 331 million individuals, each assigned a unique household identifier.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "others.distinct-entities",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "corporation.business",
    "everything.universal",
    "golf.sport",
    "individual.entity",
    "look.visual",
    "message.information",
    "network.system",
    "people.social",
    "personal.self",
    "read.information",
    "relation.association",
    "says.speech",
    "stranger.unmodeled",
    "subject.entity"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "entities",
    "entity"
  ],
  "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 'distinct.attribute' to components since the definition relies on differentiation beyond spatial-temporal separation. Definition kept — it is accurate and concise."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-entities.object"
}