information

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Any communication or representation of knowledge, such as facts, data, or opinions in any medium or form, including textual, numerical, graphic, cartographic, narrative, electronic, or audiovisual forms. [18]

polysemousNIST SP 800-172r3

Senses

8 more senses beyond the canonical

NIST Cybersecurity Framework

Any communication or representation of knowledge such as facts, data, or opinions in any medium or form, including textual, numerical, graphic, cartographic, narrative, or audiovisual.

NISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 2

An instance of an information type.

Wordset Dictionary

(communication theory) a numerical measure of the uncertainty of an outcome

Wordset Dictionary

knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction

Wordset Dictionary

a message received and understood

Wordset Dictionary

formal accusation of a crime

Wordset Dictionary

a collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn

NIST SP 800-171r3glossary

Any communication or representation of knowledge such as facts, data, or opinions in any medium or form, including textual, numerical, graphic, cartographic, narrative, electronic, or audiovisual forms. [13]

Classifications

per-axis with provenance

Entity Type

Data85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

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Sensitivity

—60%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

?unassignedlast reviewed —

Information Class

—50%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

?unassignedlast reviewed —

Variants

5 surface forms

synonym: dataentropyinfo
alternatephrasing: Information
possessive: information's

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