{
  "id": "event.occurrence",
  "term": "event",
  "sense": "occurrence",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 3,
  "arena": "EmergenceLexicon",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a change that occurs in a place during a time",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "change.process",
      "space.extent",
      "time.dimension",
      "occurs.event"
    ],
    "interaction": "the change happens in a place during time",
    "novel_properties": [
      "localized occurrence",
      "temporal manifestation",
      "eventness"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The 2011 Tōhoku earthquake shifted Japan's coastline by 4.4 meters and triggered a tsunami.",
      "domain": "geology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Heartbleed bug exposed OpenSSL memory contents for two years before it was patched.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "Halley's Comet appears every 76 years, last spotted in 1986 and expected next in 2061.",
      "domain": "astronomy"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [
    "already.temporal",
    "club.social",
    "experience.cognitive",
    "history.record",
    "journal.record",
    "login.digital",
    "memory.cognitive",
    "records.document",
    "report.information",
    "story.narrative",
    "subject.entity",
    "surprise.reaction",
    "test.assessment"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "event",
    "events"
  ],
  "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": "definition",
      "note": "Added 'occurs.event' as a component to align the emergence record with the definition, which implicitly depends on it. No change to definition wording was needed."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-event.occurrence"
}