{
  "id": "player.human",
  "term": "player",
  "sense": "human",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 18,
  "arena": "play.game",
  "domain": "people.social",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a person who participates in a game or sport",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "people.social",
      "play.game",
      "game.playful",
      "sports.activity"
    ],
    "interaction": "a social individual engages in a structured, goal-oriented activity involving play or competition",
    "novel_properties": [
      "participatory role",
      "structured interaction",
      "competitive engagement"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "Serena Williams competed in the 2018 Wimbledon Championships final.",
      "domain": "sports"
    },
    {
      "text": "A child named Sam played the board game Monopoly with friends on a Saturday afternoon in 2023.",
      "domain": "everyday life"
    },
    {
      "text": "Minecraft player Kurtjmac streamed his gameplay continuously for over 1,000 days starting in 2010.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "people.social",
      "type": "is-a",
      "note": "player is a person"
    },
    {
      "id": "play.game",
      "type": "enables",
      "note": "player engages in play"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "player",
    "players"
  ],
  "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": "definition",
      "note": "Definition tightened to remove redundancy and properly reflect inclusion of game and sports structures; missing constitutive components added."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-player.human"
}