Relation Vocabulary

A relation may carry from (an OSIS verse reference, giving verse precision inside a chapter-granular document), surface (the exact words in that verse that name the target), verses (how many verses support the edge), note (what the source says the edge is about, in its own words — a topical sub-heading, an event name), confidence and source. All are optional; a consumer that ignores them still sees the same graph.

surface is deliberately a string rather than a character offset. An offset would be a claim about one edition of one translation; the word stays true of any text that reads the same way, and it keeps the scripture in this bundle free of markup.

id	heading	inverse	domain → range	meaning
part-of	Part Of	contains	Chapter → Book	Structural containment.
follows	Follows	precedes	Chapter → Chapter	Canonical reading order.
mentions	People	mentioned-in	Chapter → Person	A person named or referred to in the passage. Carries from for the verse and, where the naming word was identified, surface for the exact word — which is how a reader marks the mention in the text without any markup being written into the scripture itself.
occurs-at	Places	site-of	Chapter → Place	A place named in the passage. Carries from and surface on the same terms as mentions.
related-to	Cross References	symmetric	Passage → Passage	An untyped connection between passages, as recorded by the cross-reference corpus. The corpus does not say why two passages relate, so neither do we.
parent-of	Family	child-of	Person → Person	Direct parentage, as distinct from ancestry.
ancestor-of	Ancestry	descendant-of	Person → Person	Ancestry across an unspecified number of generations.
spouse-of	Marriage	symmetric	Person → Person	Marriage or equivalent partnership.
sibling-of	Siblings	symmetric	Person → Person	Shared parentage, whole or half.
associated-with	Associations	symmetric	Person → Person	A recorded non-family relationship — master, servant, disciple, ally, adversary.
born-at	Birthplace	birthplace-of	Person → Place	Where the text places a person's birth.
died-at	Place of Death	deathplace-of	Person → Place	Where the text places a person's death.
active-at	Recorded At	setting-for	Person → Place	A dated event in this person's life is recorded as happening here.
co-occurs-with	Named Together	symmetric	Person → Place	Person and place are named in the same verse. This is co-occurrence, not presence — a prophet in Jerusalem names Babylon constantly. The shared-verse count is carried so a consumer can weigh it.
develops	Themes	developed-in	Chapter → Theme	The passage develops a theme, as indexed by Nave's Topical Bible. Carries from for the verse the topical entry cites and note for the sub-heading it cites the verse under, so a theme lists what it actually claims about the passage rather than a bare link.
identified-with	Modern Identifications	undefined	Place → Place	A proposed modern location for an ancient site. Competing proposals are all recorded, with their scholarly support scores.
narrated-in	Narrated In	narrates	Event, Epoch → Chapter	The chapter that tells this event, or that fixes the start or end of this epoch. Verse precision is carried in the relation's from field rather than by linking each verse separately.
involves	Participants	takes-part-in	Event, Epoch → Person	A person the source records as taking part, which is a stronger claim than being named in the same passage. An epoch involves the person whose life, reign or ministry defines it.
stated-in	Stated In	states	Commandment → Chapter	The passage a commandment is drawn from. One reference per commandment, as the traditional enumeration assigns it.
named-by	Original Language	names	Person, Place → Lexeme	A Hebrew or Greek word used as this entity's name or title, identified by its Strong's number. Only the Hebrew side resolves to a Lexeme document — this bundle carries no Greek lexicon — so a Greek form is recorded on the entity without an edge.
first-occurs-in	First Occurrence	first-attests	Lexeme → Chapter	The chapter of the word's first occurrence in the Hebrew Bible, as Strong's records it.
derives-from	Root	root-of	Lexeme → Lexeme	The root a Hebrew word is formed from. Chains of these are what make a word family navigable.
documents	Coverage	documented-by	Source → Book, Place	A book this dataset actually contributes something to. Recorded at book level: a source that feeds every one of the 3,009 person documents would otherwise be a hub joined to a third of the graph, and everything would appear two hops from everything else. Also used for the handful of documents a source records that no verse names — an ancient site the geocoding data carries for context — where the dataset itself is the only thing that connects them to anything.
derived-from	Derived From	source-of	Dataset → Source	The upstream dataset this bulk file was produced from.
typed-by	Vocabulary	types	Source → Relation Vocabulary	The predicate set used to type relations derived from this dataset.
complements	Related Sources	symmetric	Source → Source	Two datasets covering the same ground. Used where one is staged but not yet consumed, so it says what currently does that job instead.