{
  "id": "house.dwelling",
  "term": "house",
  "sense": "dwelling",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 8,
  "arena": "house",
  "domain": "dwelling",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a structure of matter that is an inside space bounded by a boundary and rooms",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "matter.substance",
      "structure.arrangement",
      "boundary.limit",
      "inside.spatial",
      "rooms.space",
      "space.extent"
    ],
    "interaction": "the arrangement of matter creates a bounded inside space with rooms through spatial extent",
    "novel_properties": [
      "bounded inhabitable space",
      "spatially differentiated rooms",
      "interior continuity"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The house at 10050 Cielo Drive in Los Angeles stood from 1971 until its demolition in 2020.",
      "domain": "everyday life"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Ice Stupa project in Ladakh constructs dome-shaped ice houses that last through spring thaw.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Hōryū-ji Temple’s main hall in Japan has housed Buddhist rituals continuously since 607 CE.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "house",
    "houses"
  ],
  "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 space.extent (L0) as it is foundational to 'inside' and 'rooms'; definition was correct but relied on an unlisted component."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-house.dwelling"
}