DictionaryBinding

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What the Dictionary made of one component, held apart from the component.

The token and its meaning sit at different distances from the bytes. A filename was read literally off the filesystem, and that is what Component records, at LITERAL. Resolving md to a sense is interpretation of meaning rather than form, which is the definition of SEMANTIC, the last rung of the ladder. One record carrying one tier for both said a Dictionary interpretation was as certain as a stat call.

This record carries nothing read from the filesystem. No raw value, no normalized value, no magnitude, no occurrence count. Every literal is one primary-key join away on component_id. That keeps observations and interpretations apart by construction rather than by discipline.

One row per component, always written when the binder ran, including when it declined. Absence of a row is then never a fact about a component: it can only mean the binder did not run, and the run record says so. That is what keeps “not examined” distinct from “examined and found nothing”, which must stay distinct and a bare null cannot express.

Fields

Field	Type	Required	If left out
alternative_count	whole number	no	0
alternatives	list of BindingAlternative	no	[]
binding_id	text	yes
component_id	text	yes
constraint	text or null	no	null
entry_id	text	yes
extraction_tier	ExtractionTier	no	"semantic"
lookup_scope	Scope	yes
method	BindingMethod	no	"surface"
quality	MatchQuality or null	no	null
resolution_status	ResolutionStatus	no	"resolved"
resolver	text	yes
resolver_version	text	yes
run_id	text	yes
schema_version	text	no	"1.23"
sense_digest	text or null	no	null
sense_origin	DictionaryOrigin or null	no	null
sense_origin_rank	whole number or null	no	null
sense_scope	Scope or null	no	null
sense_scope_rank	whole number or null	no	null
sense_status	DictionaryStatus or null	no	null
source_scope	SourceScope	no	"name"
term	text or null	no	null
term_id	text or null	no	null
theme_kind	text or null	no	null

The types named above are described on the shared types page: BindingAlternative, BindingMethod, DictionaryOrigin, DictionaryStatus, ExtractionTier, MatchQuality, ResolutionStatus, Scope, SourceScope.