{
  "id": "subject.entity",
  "term": "subject",
  "sense": "entity",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 5,
  "arena": "subject",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a thing that a change process is about in an event",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "entities.object",
      "change.process",
      "event.occurrence",
      "process.general"
    ],
    "interaction": "the entity and the change process together are about in an event",
    "novel_properties": [
      "focus of change",
      "role in event",
      "participant in process"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The International Space Station adjusted its orbit in 2023 to avoid a fragment from a Russian anti-satellite test.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "In 2011, a single trader's error at Knight Capital caused a $440 million loss in 45 minutes.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 2020 eruption of Taal Volcano displaced 50,000 people and altered regional air traffic.",
      "domain": "geology"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "entities.object",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "article.written",
    "experience.cognitive",
    "self-model.reflexive",
    "topic.subject"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "subject",
    "subjects"
  ],
  "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 'process.general' to components since the definition implicitly relies on the notion of a process unfolding over time, which is not fully captured by 'change.process' alone."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-subject.entity"
}