{
  "id": "library.information",
  "term": "library",
  "sense": "information",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 18,
  "arena": "library",
  "domain": "information",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a room that includes a collection of books for people to access and read",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "collection.group",
      "rooms.space",
      "access.entry",
      "books.information",
      "include.addition",
      "people.social",
      "read.information"
    ],
    "interaction": "the collection of books is in a room that people can visit and read the books",
    "novel_properties": [
      "public access to reading materials",
      "organized book storage",
      "shared reading space"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. houses over 170 million items across multiple buildings.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "The ancient Library of Alexandria once held an estimated 400,000 scroll collections in Ptolemaic Egypt.",
      "domain": "history"
    },
    {
      "text": "New York Public Library’s main branch at 42nd Street allows public access to 15 million books.",
      "domain": "urban"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "rooms.space",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "read.information",
      "note": "enables",
      "type": "enables"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "libraries",
    "library"
  ],
  "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 missing constitutive concepts; all components are existing and non-cyclic"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-library.information"
}