{
  "id": "records.document",
  "term": "records",
  "sense": "document",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 11,
  "arena": "emergencelexicon",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a structured collection that preserves information about past events",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "register.record",
      "information.knowledge",
      "event.occurrence",
      "keep.maintenance",
      "previous.temporal"
    ],
    "interaction": "the register holds information, linking known differences to occurrences in the past through structured maintenance",
    "novel_properties": [
      "persistent event reference",
      "structured temporal indexing",
      "reportable history"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Domesday Book, commissioned by William the Conqueror in 1086, documented landholdings across England for tax purposes.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Hubble Space Telescope logs every observation in a timestamped data file stored at the Space Telescope Science Institute.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "Patient X-rays and MRI scans are archived in the Mayo Clinic's electronic health record system for future diagnosis.",
      "domain": "medicine"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "register.record",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "archive.record",
    "bill.payment",
    "camera.visual",
    "document.record",
    "film.entertainment",
    "measurement.quantitative",
    "tickets.document"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "record",
    "recorded",
    "recording",
    "recordings",
    "records"
  ],
  "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": "definition corrected for accuracy and aligned with components; missing foundational concepts added"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-records.document"
}