{
  "id": "history.record",
  "term": "history",
  "sense": "record",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 7,
  "arena": "history",
  "domain": "concept",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a set of previous events that persist as information",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "previous.temporal",
      "event.occurrence",
      "information.knowledge",
      "persist.continue",
      "sets.grouped"
    ],
    "interaction": "Previous events are grouped and preserved through time as distinguishable patterns of information.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "enduring collective trace",
      "structured temporal reference"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Library of Alexandria preserved scrolls documenting Mediterranean events from 300 BCE to 500 CE.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Voyager 1 probe carries a golden record with sounds and images from Earth in 1977.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "The fossil record in the Burgess Shale reveals Cambrian life forms from 508 million years ago.",
      "domain": "biology"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "histories",
    "history"
  ],
  "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": "Added missing constitutive concepts 'persist.continue' and 'sets.grouped' to components, as they are essential for 'set' and 'persists' in the definition. Definition was correct but record was incompl"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-history.record"
}