{
  "id": "union.group",
  "term": "union",
  "sense": "group",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 6,
  "arena": "union",
  "domain": "social",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "A whole created when parts join together.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "part.relation",
      "join.connection",
      "create.production",
      "whole.complete"
    ],
    "interaction": "Parts join together to form a unified whole that did not exist before.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "collective existence",
      "irreducible structure",
      "emergent unity"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The International Space Station assembled in orbit from modules launched by multiple nations.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 1936 General Motors sit-down strike formed a UAW local that won union recognition.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "Flocking starlings create murmurations visible from kilometers away at dusk in Rome.",
      "domain": "biology"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "sets.grouped",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "whole.complete",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "wed.social"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "union",
    "unions"
  ],
  "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 omitted constitutive concepts 'create.production' and 'whole.complete' to align record with definition. Definition remains accurate and concise."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-union.group"
}