{
  "id": "notes.written",
  "term": "notes",
  "sense": "written",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 14,
  "arena": "notes",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a piece of written text that is about information",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "piece.portion",
      "text.written",
      "information.knowledge",
      "write.communication"
    ],
    "interaction": "The portion of a thing with a boundary holds a collection of marks made by writing, which together convey a pattern of differences that constitute knowledge.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "authored symbolic record",
      "structured informational artifact",
      "persistent knowledge trace"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "Leonardo da Vinci's Codex Leicester contains scientific observations written between 1506 and 1510.",
      "domain": "art"
    },
    {
      "text": "The lab notebook of Marie Curie records her measurements of radioactivity from 1897 to 1902.",
      "domain": "science"
    },
    {
      "text": "Engineers at the 1969 Apollo 11 mission logged real-time handwritten notes during descent to the Moon.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "text.written",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "information.knowledge",
      "note": "abstracts",
      "type": "abstracts"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "note",
    "noted",
    "notes",
    "noting"
  ],
  "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 'write.communication' to components since writing is constitutive of what makes the marks on the portion; the definition already correctly implies authored text but previously omitted the act of"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-notes.written"
}