{
  "id": "someone.person",
  "term": "someone",
  "sense": "person",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 7,
  "arena": "someone",
  "domain": "any person",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "any person",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "people.social",
      "others.distinct-entities"
    ],
    "interaction": "A person that is distinct from the current referent becomes a generic reference.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "unspecified identity",
      "generic reference"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "In 2023, a software update broke authentication for millions using Google accounts.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion killed 11 people aboard the offshore drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Marie Curie died in 1934 from aplastic anemia, likely caused by prolonged exposure to ionizing radiation.",
      "domain": "biology"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "people.social",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "advice.social",
    "commission.transaction",
    "gift.present",
    "provide.supply",
    "tell.communication",
    "tour.travel",
    "welcome.greeting"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "someone"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-someone.person"
}