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  "entry_id": "TSP-ENT-000252",
  "slug": "gate",
  "url_path": "/types-symbols/gate/",
  "canonical_name": "Gate",
  "entry_classifications": [
    "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION",
    "MOTIF",
    "METAPHOR"
  ],
  "modules": [],
  "aliases": [],
  "legacy_present": true,
  "legacy_raw_wording_public": false,
  "senses": [
    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000591",
      "label": "Gate as entrance/access point",
      "classification": "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION",
      "definition": "Gate language ordinarily denotes a physical or functional point of entry and exit.",
      "not_always": "A physical gate remains ordinary architecture unless context gives it figurative force.",
      "scope_note": "A physical gate remains ordinary architecture unless context gives it figurative force.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-000591",
          "statement": "A gate is ordinarily an entrance or controlled access point in a wall, city, enclosure, or similar structure; the legacy “entrance” component is primarily functional rather than symbolic.",
          "asserted_classifications": [
            "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION"
          ],
          "type_kinds": [],
          "evidence_grade": 4,
          "grade_basis": "G4_RECURRENT_CANONICAL_MOTIF_OR_STRONG_THEMATIC_PATTERN",
          "status": "REQUIRES_RECLASSIFICATION",
          "public_wording_class": "CATEGORY_OR_RECLASSIFICATION_NOTICE",
          "scope_limitation": "A physical gate remains ordinary architecture unless context gives it figurative force.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": null,
          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
          "theological_intersections": [
            "OTHER"
          ],
          "scripture_references": [
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000917",
              "osis_start": "Gen.19.1",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Genesis 19:1",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000918",
              "osis_start": "Neh.3.1",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Nehemiah 3:1",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            }
          ],
          "source_citations": [
            {
              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000001",
              "author_editor": null,
              "title": "Canonical Scripture: MT/LXX/NA28 with NET/ESV comparison",
              "publication_data": "Text loci verified for TSP-S0F Batch 1",
              "locator": null,
              "verification_level": "V4_QUOTATION_VERIFIED",
              "source_function": [
                "CANONICAL_AUTHORITY",
                "TEXT_ESTABLISHMENT"
              ],
              "locator_targets": []
            }
          ],
          "s8_wording_provenance": null
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000592",
      "label": "Gate as civic/judicial authority locus",
      "classification": "MOTIF",
      "definition": "City-gate scenes can function as loci of public authority, judgment, and legal transaction.",
      "not_always": "Authority is a contextual function of particular gate scenes and idioms, not the intrinsic meaning of every gate.",
      "scope_note": "Authority is a contextual function of particular gate scenes and idioms, not the intrinsic meaning of every gate.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-000592",
          "statement": "City gates recurrently serve as places of judgment, civic deliberation, transaction, and public control; this grounds a contextual association with authority or power as social/metonymic function rather than a universal symbolic code.",
          "asserted_classifications": [
            "MOTIF",
            "METAPHOR"
          ],
          "type_kinds": [],
          "evidence_grade": 4,
          "grade_basis": "G4_RECURRENT_CANONICAL_MOTIF_OR_STRONG_THEMATIC_PATTERN",
          "status": "STRONGLY_SUPPORTED",
          "public_wording_class": "CANONICAL_MOTIF",
          "scope_limitation": "Authority is a contextual function of particular gate scenes and idioms, not the intrinsic meaning of every gate.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": null,
          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
          "theological_intersections": [
            "OTHER"
          ],
          "scripture_references": [
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000919",
              "osis_start": "Deut.21.19",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Deuteronomy 21:19",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000920",
              "osis_start": "Ruth.4.1",
              "osis_end": "Ruth.4.11",
              "display_label": "Ruth 4:1–11",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000921",
              "osis_start": "Amos.5.15",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Amos 5:15",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            }
          ],
          "source_citations": [
            {
              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000001",
              "author_editor": null,
              "title": "Canonical Scripture: MT/LXX/NA28 with NET/ESV comparison",
              "publication_data": "Text loci verified for TSP-S0F Batch 1",
              "locator": null,
              "verification_level": "V4_QUOTATION_VERIFIED",
              "source_function": [
                "CANONICAL_AUTHORITY",
                "TEXT_ESTABLISHMENT"
              ],
              "locator_targets": []
            }
          ],
          "s8_wording_provenance": null
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lexeme_mappings": [],
  "canonical_relationships": [],
  "negative_guardrails": []
}