{
  "id": "title.label",
  "term": "title",
  "sense": "label",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 14,
  "arena": "title",
  "domain": "day-to-day",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "the name of a work or role",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "name.identifier",
      "type.category",
      "role.social",
      "work.effort"
    ],
    "interaction": "the name and type together make a name of a work",
    "novel_properties": [
      "assigned identity for a role",
      "contextual meaning in a social structure",
      "distinctive label within a category"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Iliad bears the title attributed to Homer in ancient Greek manuscripts.",
      "domain": "literature"
    },
    {
      "text": "Python 3.12 is the version name given to a specific release of the programming language.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Treaty of Westphalia refers to the 1648 agreement ending the Thirty Years' War.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "name.identifier",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "title",
    "titled",
    "titles",
    "titling"
  ],
  "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": "factual",
      "note": "Definition was factually incomplete—omitted essential components role.social and work.effort. Added them to align record with actual conceptual dependence."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-title.label"
}