{
  "id": "information.knowledge",
  "term": "information",
  "sense": "knowledge",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 6,
  "arena": "common",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a pattern of marks that are differences",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "difference.relation",
      "marks.visual",
      "pattern.regularity"
    ],
    "interaction": "differences make marks into a pattern",
    "novel_properties": [
      "recognizable structure",
      "repeating contrast",
      "visible order"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Voyager Golden Record carries etched patterns representing Earth's sounds and images into interstellar space.",
      "domain": "space exploration"
    },
    {
      "text": "Morse code pulses in the 1901 transatlantic radio signal transmitted by Marconi's team distinguished letters by timing.",
      "domain": "communications"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Rosetta Stone's parallel scripts revealed linguistic differences that cracked Egyptian hieroglyphs.",
      "domain": "archaeology"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "pattern.regularity",
      "type": "abstracts",
      "note": "information abstracts a regular pattern of differences"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "advertise.commercial",
    "advice.social",
    "archive.record",
    "books.information",
    "call.communication",
    "card.paper",
    "code.information",
    "computer.digital",
    "confusion.state",
    "copyright.legal",
    "data.information",
    "delay.timing",
    "details.information",
    "digital.electrical",
    "discussion.social",
    "document.record",
    "electronics.electrical",
    "email.digital",
    "english.language",
    "express.communication",
    "feedback.communication",
    "forum.social",
    "given.premise",
    "history.record",
    "internet.digital",
    "know.cognitive",
    "knowledge.cognitive",
    "learn.cognitive",
    "mail.postal",
    "meaning.significance",
    "media.communication",
    "memory.cognitive",
    "message.information",
    "name.identifier",
    "news.information",
    "notes.written",
    "noun.language",
    "online.digital",
    "policy.governance",
    "privacy.social",
    "profile.personal",
    "program.digital",
    "questions.linguistic",
    "read.information",
    "recorded.information",
    "records.document",
    "reference.citation",
    "report.information",
    "request.social",
    "research.investigation",
    "review.assessment",
    "school.education",
    "screen.visual",
    "server.digital",
    "study.learning",
    "tech.tool",
    "terms.language",
    "text.written",
    "think.cognitive",
    "tips.advice",
    "topic.subject",
    "visual.perceptual",
    "wireless.electrical"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "information"
  ],
  "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 'pattern.regularity' as a component since the definition relies on the idea of a pattern, which is not fully formed by marks and differences alone."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-information.knowledge"
}