{
  "id": "soon.temporal",
  "term": "soon",
  "sense": "temporal",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 6,
  "arena": "lexicon",
  "domain": "temporal",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "in a short time after now",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "later.temporal",
      "short.length",
      "time.dimension"
    ],
    "interaction": "a later time is a short period",
    "novel_properties": [
      "temporal proximity",
      "imminence"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Large Hadron Collider resumed operations in April 2022 after a three-year shutdown for upgrades and maintenance.",
      "domain": "physics"
    },
    {
      "text": "After the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, Japan's early warning system issued alerts within seconds of the initial tremors.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Apple announced iOS 15 would be released in the fall of 2021, following its June WWDC announcement.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "future.temporal",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "never.temporal",
      "note": "contrasts-with",
      "type": "contrasts-with"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "soon"
  ],
  "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 'time.dimension' as a constitutive concept since the definition relies on the notion of time, which was previously omitted in components."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-soon.temporal"
}