{
  "id": "team.social",
  "term": "team",
  "sense": "social",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 7,
  "arena": "concept",
  "domain": "social",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a group of people who work together for a goal",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "people.social",
      "groups.collection",
      "goal.purpose",
      "work.effort"
    ],
    "interaction": "people join as a group and apply effort together toward a shared goal",
    "novel_properties": [
      "coordinated effort",
      "shared purpose",
      "emergent structure"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The 2020 Mars Perseverance rover team at JPL coordinated across 25 time zones to land the rover on February 18, 2021.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 1998 Chicago Bulls won the NBA championship with six players logging over 2,000 minutes each during the season.",
      "domain": "sports"
    },
    {
      "text": "Wikipedia's 2004 edit-a-thon in Oxford united 42 contributors to expand 187 science articles in 48 hours.",
      "domain": "collaboration"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "team",
    "teamed",
    "teaming",
    "teams"
  ],
  "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 work.effort as a constitutive component since work is essential to the concept of a team. The original definition leaned on it implicitly; now the emergence is complete."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-team.social"
}