{
  "id": "profile.personal",
  "term": "profile",
  "sense": "personal",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 9,
  "arena": "language",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a piece of information that is ordered with details about a person",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "piece.portion",
      "information.knowledge",
      "order.arrangement",
      "people.social",
      "details.information"
    ],
    "interaction": "the piece collects details about a person into an ordered arrangement",
    "novel_properties": [
      "structured personal data",
      "integrated identity representation",
      "contextual attribute grouping"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The FBI's NCIC database contains over 13 million criminal profiles, updated daily with arrest records and fingerprints.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "Facebook's algorithm assembles user profiles from likes, location data, and friend networks to target advertisements.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 2020 U.S. Census collected detailed demographic profiles for 331 million people, including age, race, and housing status.",
      "domain": "everyday life"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "type.category",
      "type": "is-a",
      "note": "profile is a kind of category"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "profile",
    "profiled",
    "profiles",
    "profiling"
  ],
  "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 'details.information' as a constitutive component since the definition relies on the notion of 'details about a person' which is not fully captured by 'information.knowledge' alone. The definiti"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-profile.personal"
}