{
  "id": "president.political",
  "term": "president",
  "sense": "political",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 14,
  "arena": "president",
  "domain": "political",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a role that controls a government",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "people.social",
      "government.administrative",
      "role.social",
      "control.ability"
    ],
    "interaction": "people select a role that controls a government through collective delegation of control via participation in a governmental structure",
    "novel_properties": [
      "centralized authority",
      "executive decision power",
      "symbolic unity of state leadership"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "Barack Obama led the United States government from 2009 to 2017 after winning the 2008 election.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "Cristina Fernández de Kirchner directed Argentina’s executive branch from 2007 to 2015 amid recurring economic controls.",
      "domain": "politics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 2021 storming of the U.S. Capitol targeted President Biden’s authority over federal government operations.",
      "domain": "events"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "role.social",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "president",
    "presidents"
  ],
  "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 control.ability (L4) to components because control is constitutive in the definition and interaction; it was missing from the emergence record though clearly relied upon."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-president.political"
}