{
  "id": "head.body-part",
  "term": "head",
  "sense": "body-part",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 14,
  "arena": "EmergenceLexicon",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "the top part of a body that controls the body",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "body.physical",
      "part.relation",
      "control.ability",
      "top.upper"
    ],
    "interaction": "The body provides a physical entity, the part marks a region on it, top specifies that region's position, and control links that region to the body's regulation and actions.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "central control location",
      "positioned at apex",
      "coordinated action origin"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The human brain in Homo sapiens regulates heartbeat, breathing, and balance from within the skull.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "Mission Control in Houston guided Apollo 13’s return after the oxygen tank explosion.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Dalai Lama led Tibetan resistance governance from Dharamsala after 1959.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "part.relation",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "control.ability",
      "note": "enables",
      "type": "enables"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "head",
    "headed",
    "heading",
    "heads"
  ],
  "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 'top.upper' to components to align with definition; interaction and novel properties updated accordingly."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-head.body-part"
}