{
  "id": "journal.record",
  "term": "journal",
  "sense": "record",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 18,
  "arena": "definition",
  "domain": "lexicon",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a book of pages where a person writes about events that occur over time",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "books.information",
      "page.sheet",
      "write.communication",
      "time.dimension",
      "event.occurrence",
      "people.social"
    ],
    "interaction": "Pages are bound into a book and a person writes events on them as time goes, making a record",
    "novel_properties": [
      "personal temporal narrative",
      "sequential documentation",
      "reflective continuity"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "Leonardo da Vinci's Codex Arundel records observations and ideas from 1478 to 1518 on 283 pages.",
      "domain": "history"
    },
    {
      "text": "The captain of the USS Constitution logged daily events in the ship's logbook during its 1812 Pacific voyage.",
      "domain": "naval"
    },
    {
      "text": "Marie Curie documented radium experiments in leather-bound notebooks stored at the Bibliothèque Nationale.",
      "domain": "science"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "books.information",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "journal",
    "journaled",
    "journaling",
    "journals"
  ],
  "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 'event.occurrence' and 'people.social' to components to align with definition."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-journal.record"
}