{
  "id": "facilities.place",
  "term": "facilities",
  "sense": "place",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 10,
  "arena": "facilities",
  "domain": "common",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "A place where equipment or service is provided for an activity.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "space.extent",
      "equipment.tool",
      "services.economic",
      "activities.general",
      "provide.supply"
    ],
    "interaction": "The place provides equipment and service for an activity.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "availability of support resources",
      "integration of services and tools",
      "location-specific function enablement"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Large Hadron Collider in Geneva provides facilities for high-energy particle collisions using superconducting magnets and vacuum tunnels.",
      "domain": "physics"
    },
    {
      "text": "Mount Wilson Observatory housed the 100-inch Hooker Telescope, enabling Hubble's discovery of galaxy redshifts.",
      "domain": "astronomy"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Port of Singapore handles over 37 million TEUs annually, offering cargo handling, refueling, and customs services.",
      "domain": "economics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "structure.arrangement",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "services.economic",
      "note": "enables",
      "type": "enables"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "facilities",
    "facility"
  ],
  "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 'provide.supply' as constitutive, since provision is conceptually essential and not reducible to the other components."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-facilities.place"
}