{
  "id": "risk.uncertainty",
  "term": "risk",
  "sense": "uncertainty",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 4,
  "arena": "common",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a possible loss that may happen",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "loss.economic",
      "possible.potential",
      "happen.event-occurrence"
    ],
    "interaction": "a potential change involving the absence of something that was present, occurring over time",
    "novel_properties": [
      "contingent negative outcome",
      "temporal possibility",
      "eventuated loss"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers exposed $639 billion in unforeseen liabilities.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant failed containment after the 11 March 2011 tsunami.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "In 1986, the Chernobyl reactor explosion released 400 times more radioactivity than the Hiroshima bomb.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "issue.problem",
      "type": "is-a",
      "note": "risk is a kind of problem"
    },
    {
      "id": "security.safety",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "risk contrasts with safety"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "casino.entertainment",
    "investment.financial"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "risk",
    "risked",
    "risking",
    "risks"
  ],
  "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 'happen.event-occurrence' to align components with definition's reliance on temporal occurrence."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-risk.uncertainty"
}