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    ],
    "interaction": "the process uses the substance to change the condition",
    "novel_properties": [
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      "causal leverage",
      "therapeutic agency"
    ]
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    {
      "text": "Penicillin treatment cured Anne Miller of septicemia in 1942, the first successful use in a human.",
      "domain": "medicine"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill led to widespread use of Corexit dispersant to break down crude oil.",
      "domain": "environmental_engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Antiretroviral therapy has reduced HIV mortality in Uganda by 77% since 2004.",
      "domain": "public_health"
    }
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      "id": "process.general",
      "note": "is-a",
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    }
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  "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 missing constitutive concepts from definition: condition.state, process.general, use.application"
    }
  },
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}