{
  "id": "message.information",
  "term": "message",
  "sense": "information",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 7,
  "arena": "message",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "information that one entity puts into space for another entity",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "information.knowledge",
      "entities.object",
      "space.extent",
      "put.placement"
    ],
    "interaction": "an entity uses placement to put knowledge into space so another entity can receive it",
    "novel_properties": [
      "directed information transfer",
      "spatial mediation of meaning",
      "intentional sharing"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Voyager 1 probe carries a golden record with sounds and images selected to portray life on Earth.",
      "domain": "space exploration"
    },
    {
      "text": "In 2010, WikiLeaks published U.S. State Department diplomatic cables on its website for global access.",
      "domain": "information systems"
    },
    {
      "text": "Honeybees perform waggle dances in the hive to indicate the direction and distance of pollen sources.",
      "domain": "biology"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "information.knowledge",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "advertising.commercial",
    "comments.communication",
    "communications.social",
    "fax.communication",
    "mail.postal",
    "phone.electrical",
    "reply.communication",
    "report.information",
    "said.speech",
    "says.speech",
    "send.communication",
    "statement.communication",
    "tell.communication",
    "topic.subject"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "message",
    "messaged",
    "messages",
    "messaging"
  ],
  "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 put.placement (L3) as a constitutive component missing in original record; definition remained correct and unchanged."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-message.information"
}