{
  "id": "published.information",
  "term": "published",
  "sense": "information",
  "pos": "verb",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 10,
  "arena": "default",
  "domain": "latest",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "content is released to others",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "content.material",
      "release.general",
      "others.distinct-entities"
    ],
    "interaction": "Content released to others is a record that others can access.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "accessible record",
      "public availability",
      "external access"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The first issue of Nature was released on 4 November 1869, making scientific research publicly available.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Linux kernel version 2.0 was released on June 9, 1996, enabling global access to updated open-source code.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "Apollo 11's launch broadcast reached 600 million viewers, transmitting live footage from Cape Kennedy.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "action.deed",
      "type": "is-a",
      "note": "publishing is a kind of action"
    },
    {
      "id": "access.entry",
      "type": "enables",
      "note": "publishing enables others to access the content"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "publish",
    "published",
    "publishes",
    "publishing"
  ],
  "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 'others.distinct-entities' to components since it is essential for the meaning of 'published'—a published information must be accessible to others. The definition already correctly implies this;"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-published.information"
}