{
  "id": "people.social",
  "term": "people",
  "sense": "social",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 6,
  "arena": "people",
  "domain": "emergence",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a group of distinct entities that persist over time and interact through mutual touch",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "others.distinct-entities",
      "sets.grouped",
      "persist.continue",
      "distinct.attribute",
      "entities.object",
      "interacting.social",
      "interaction.process",
      "touch.together",
      "groups.collection",
      "time.dimension"
    ],
    "interaction": "the distinct entities persist through time and mutually influence each other by touching, forming a coherent group",
    "novel_properties": [
      "collective continuity",
      "reciprocal influence",
      "spatiotemporal cohesion"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Navajo Nation continues governance and cultural practices despite centuries of external pressure and displacement.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "A colony of emperor penguins huddles through Antarctic winter, each chick surviving by shifting positions over 64 days.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "Users on Reddit form persistent communities like r/AskHistorians, moderating interactions and maintaining norms since 2010.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [
    "activities.general",
    "administration.administrative",
    "adult.person",
    "airport.transport",
    "american.national",
    "anyone.person",
    "art.creative",
    "artist.creative",
    "asks.social",
    "author.person",
    "auto.vehicle",
    "band.music",
    "bank.financial",
    "british.national",
    "browser.software",
    "call.communication",
    "car.transport",
    "care.emotional",
    "career.occupation",
    "casino.entertainment",
    "chicago.city",
    "children.human",
    "christmas.holiday",
    "church.religious",
    "city.place",
    "client.business",
    "club.social",
    "comments.communication",
    "communications.social",
    "community.social",
    "company.economic",
    "consumer.economic",
    "copyright.legal",
    "council.governance",
    "country.political",
    "court.legal",
    "credit.financial",
    "culture.social",
    "customer.economic",
    "department.organizational",
    "director.leadership",
    "discussion.social",
    "distribution.economic",
    "education.learning",
    "employment.economic",
    "england.political",
    "european.regional",
    "everyone.people",
    "executive.role",
    "family.social",
    "forum.social",
    "france.nation",
    "french.language",
    "friend.social",
    "fun.leisure",
    "gallery.space",
    "game.playful",
    "gay.sexual",
    "golf.sport",
    "governance.administrative",
    "government.administrative",
    "guide.person",
    "hotel.lodging",
    "human.person",
    "inn.lodging",
    "interest.psychological",
    "international.social",
    "jobs.employment",
    "journal.record",
    "king.monarch",
    "knowledge.cognitive",
    "learn.cognitive",
    "library.information",
    "loan.financial",
    "love.emotional",
    "male.sex",
    "management.administrative",
    "manager.administrative",
    "map.spatial",
    "market.economic",
    "media.communication",
    "meeting.social",
    "member.social",
    "memory.cognitive",
    "military.force",
    "nation.political",
    "national.political",
    "offers.proposal",
    "office.workplace",
    "party.social",
    "payment.economic",
    "personal.self",
    "player.human",
    "poker.game",
    "popular.social",
    "present.gift",
    "president.political",
    "pro.professional",
    "professional.occupation",
    "profile.personal",
    "request.social",
    "reserved.allocation",
    "rights.moral",
    "rooms.space",
    "school.education",
    "self.personal",
    "seller.commercial",
    "shop.commercial",
    "social.relational",
    "society.social",
    "someone.person",
    "sports.activity",
    "staff.people",
    "story.narrative",
    "students.group",
    "team.social",
    "tools.tool",
    "town.settlement",
    "university.education",
    "user.role",
    "women.social"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "people",
    "person"
  ],
  "closed": false,
  "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": "factual",
      "note": "Added missing components 'groups.collection' and 'time.dimension' which are essential; the original record omitted foundational dependencies, making it factually incomplete."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-people.social"
}