{
  "id": "stranger.unmodeled",
  "term": "stranger",
  "sense": "unmodeled",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 15,
  "arena": "emergent",
  "domain": "window",
  "style": "window",
  "definition": "An entity for which no model exists, so full verification cost applies. An introduction lends a cache entry.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "model.representation",
      "cost.economic",
      "entities.object",
      "application.use",
      "maintenance.upkeep",
      "applying.action",
      "full.state"
    ],
    "interaction": "The components together enable recognizing when an unknown entity lacks a predictive model, requiring full verification until an initial representation is established and cached.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "unmodeled status triggers full verification",
      "cacheable initial representation",
      "verification cost in absence of model"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The 2023 James Webb Space Telescope calibration required full instrument re-verification after unexpected radiation exposure.",
      "domain": "astronomy"
    },
    {
      "text": "A lost bank customer ID at Chase in 2022 triggered full identity checks, costing $420 in labor and delays.",
      "domain": "finance"
    },
    {
      "text": "When the unknown object ʻOumuamua passed through the solar system in 2017, every observation required new modeling effort.",
      "domain": "astrophysics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "stranger",
    "strangers"
  ],
  "closed": false,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "retrofit:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.8,
    "sources": [
      "Sample/we-already-had-the-words.md"
    ],
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Removed components not grounded in the definition: parameter.condition, window.range, feedback.communication, entry.place. Added applying.action and full.state as constitutive per definition's referen"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-stranger.unmodeled"
}