{
  "id": "gold.metal",
  "term": "gold",
  "sense": "metal",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 23,
  "arena": "gold",
  "domain": "emergence",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a physical material that has a yellow color and value as money",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "substance.material",
      "color.visual",
      "value.worth",
      "material.physical",
      "money.economic",
      "physical.material",
      "yellow.color"
    ],
    "interaction": "the yellow color of the substance and its money value together are this material",
    "novel_properties": [
      "monetary material",
      "durable yellow substance",
      "valued physical resource"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Gold Reserve Act of 1934 required U.S. citizens to surrender gold coins worth over $100 to the Federal Reserve.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Hope Diamond, though blue, was originally part of a gold-bearing quartz vein mined in Brazil in the 1700s.",
      "domain": "geology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 18-karat gold casing of the Voyager Golden Record resisted corrosion in interstellar space for over 40 years.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "material.physical",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "products.goods",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "gold"
  ],
  "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 corrected to remove self-referential term 'gold'; missing constitutive concepts added based on definition dependencies"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-gold.metal"
}