{
  "id": "guide.person",
  "term": "guide",
  "sense": "person",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 14,
  "arena": "lexicon",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a person who helps others find their way by indicating paths or directions",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "people.social",
      "help.assistance",
      "way.method",
      "others.distinct-entities",
      "points.location"
    ],
    "interaction": "the person interacts with distinct others by indicating locations or paths, enabling them to proceed along a way that they could not navigate alone",
    "novel_properties": [
      "directional guidance",
      "mediated access to pathways",
      "context-sensitive pointing"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "A Sherpa leads climbers through the Khumbu Icefall on Mount Everest using fixed ropes and ladders.",
      "domain": "everyday life"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Linux kernel's MAINTAINERS file lists developers responsible for guiding code contributions.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "Park rangers at Yellowstone National Park direct visitors along safe trails during wildlife migrations.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "people.social",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "guide",
    "guided",
    "guides",
    "guiding"
  ],
  "closed": false,
  "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": "Definition tightened to align with components and remove reliance on non-constitutive concepts like 'irreversible'; added missing but necessary components 'others.distinct-entities' and 'points.locati"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-guide.person"
}