{
  "id": "inn.lodging",
  "term": "inn",
  "sense": "lodging",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 17,
  "arena": "built environment",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a place that provides shelter and rooms for people",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "home.shelter",
      "building.structure",
      "rooms.space",
      "people.social",
      "provide.supply",
      "shelter.protection",
      "space.extent"
    ],
    "interaction": "home provides shelter and building includes rooms, together with people needing rest and supply of space, forming a place made for temporary habitation",
    "novel_properties": [
      "temporary lodging",
      "guest occupancy",
      "commercial hospitality"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Old Faithful Inn in Yellowstone National Park has housed visitors since 1904 near the geyser basin.",
      "domain": "architecture"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Silk Road caravan sarai of Zeinodin near Samarkand sheltered traders and their animals in the 15th century.",
      "domain": "history"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Starling Motel in Wollongong provides rooms for truckers on Australia’s M1 highway since 1987.",
      "domain": "economics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "building.structure",
      "type": "is-a",
      "note": ""
    },
    {
      "id": "home.shelter",
      "type": "is-a",
      "note": ""
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "inn",
    "inns"
  ],
  "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": "definition",
      "note": "Added missing constitutive concepts from definition; all components are existing nodes and non-cyclic. Definition kept as correct and minimal."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-inn.lodging"
}