{
  "id": "items.object",
  "term": "items",
  "sense": "object",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 4,
  "arena": "EmergenceLexicon",
  "domain": "common",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "things that are part of a set and are distinct from each other",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "others.distinct-entities",
      "sets.grouped",
      "part.relation",
      "distinct.attribute"
    ],
    "interaction": "the set groups the parts so that each part is distinguished from the others",
    "novel_properties": [
      "individual identity within collection",
      "bounded differentiation",
      "part-whole distinction"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The 2017 Equifax breach exposed 147 million Social Security numbers, each a distinct item in a database.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "The periodic table organizes 118 confirmed elements as distinct chemical items by atomic number.",
      "domain": "chemistry"
    },
    {
      "text": "Baseball trading cards in the 1989 Topps set each feature one player, making 792 distinct collectible items.",
      "domain": "economics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "others.distinct-entities",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "accessories.fashion",
    "browse.visual",
    "cart.transport",
    "collection.group",
    "delivery.service",
    "directory.information",
    "equipment.tool",
    "example.illustration",
    "furniture.home",
    "important.significance",
    "menu.list",
    "save.preservation",
    "shoes.clothing",
    "statistics.data",
    "store.place",
    "toys.play",
    "various.diverse"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "item",
    "items"
  ],
  "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 'distinct.attribute' to components since the definition relies on the notion of distinction between parts, which is not fully covered by 'others.distinct-entities' alone. Definition remains accu"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-items.object"
}