| --- |
| pretty_name: "Sinew — sourced Bible connection-graph" |
| license: cc-by-4.0 |
| language: |
| - en |
| tags: |
| - bible |
| - cross-references |
| - knowledge-graph |
| - versification |
| - openbible |
| size_categories: |
| - 100K<n<1M |
| configs: |
| - config_name: connections |
| data_files: parquet/connections.parquet |
| default: true |
| - config_name: verses |
| data_files: parquet/verses.parquet |
| - config_name: texts |
| data_files: parquet/texts.parquet |
| - config_name: books |
| data_files: parquet/books.parquet |
| - config_name: versification_map |
| data_files: parquet/versification_map.parquet |
| - config_name: dataset_meta |
| data_files: parquet/dataset_meta.parquet |
| --- |
| |
| # Sinew — a *sourced* Bible connection-graph |
|
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| **An open database of the Bible and its internal connections** — text + canonical IDs + |
| versification reconciliation + cross-references in one queryable artifact, **every connection |
| carrying its provenance**. |
|
|
| > *"…the sinews and the flesh came up upon them… and they lived." — Ezekiel 37:8,10* |
| > Sinew is the connective tissue of the canon — the layer that links verse↔verse *with provenance*, |
| > so others build on reconnected Scripture instead of feeding a PDF to an AI. |
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| 🧑💻 **Code, build & MCP server:** <https://github.com/LucasGalhardoLima/sinew> |
| 🔭 **Live explorer (navigate by meaning, or search a theme):** <https://huggingface.co/spaces/LucasGalhardoLima/sinew-explorer> |
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| [](https://huggingface.co/spaces/LucasGalhardoLima/sinew-explorer) |
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|
| ## Why |
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| Anyone building on the Bible (study apps, sermon tools, AI agents, research) redoes the same |
| foundational work — parsing text, canonical IDs, versification reconciliation, cross-reference |
| lookup — and worse, **derives connections from text similarity, which is itself an interpretive |
| assumption** (similarity ≠ connection). Sinew separates **fact from interpretation**: every |
| connection is `type + source + weight`, the dataset *attributes, never asserts*, and nothing is |
| silently dropped. v1 is entirely **public-domain text + CC-BY data** → frictionlessly redistributable. |
|
|
| ## The three tiers (never blurred) |
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| - **Tier 1 — Facts:** verse text, canonical IDs, book metadata, versification map. |
| - **Tier 2 — Sourced connections:** every edge has `type + source + weight (+ review_status)`. |
| - **Tier 3 — Derived (optional):** computed embeddings/similarity, *"computed, not authoritative"* — |
| powers the live explorer's meaning-terrain **and its in-browser theme search**; built opt-in, never |
| joined to the fact tables (and not part of this published dataset, which is Tier-1/2 only). |
|
|
| ## What's in v1 |
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| | | | |
| |---|---| |
| | **Text** | World English Bible (WEB), public domain — 31,095 verses / 1,189 chapters / 66 books | |
| | **Canonical IDs** | `Book.Chapter.Verse` (e.g. `John.3.16`), **eng/KJV** numbering base | |
| | **Versification** | `eng` (identity) + `org` (Hebrew) per verse, via the Copenhagen Alliance spec | |
| | **Connections** | OpenBible cross-references → **613,998** Tier-2 edges (`type=cross_reference`, `weight=votes`) | |
| | **Formats** | `sinew.sqlite` (all tables + joins) **and** per-table Parquet (this dataset's viewer) | |
|
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| ## Files |
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| | Path | What | |
| |---|---| |
| | `sinew.sqlite` | The whole dataset in one SQLite file — all tables, ready for joins | |
| | `parquet/*.parquet` | One file per table (powers the dataset viewer above) | |
| | `sources.lock.json` | Exact upstream retrieval URLs + sha256 pins (reproducible build) | |
|
|
| ## Load it |
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| **Parquet, via 🤗 `datasets`** (each table is a named config): |
|
|
| ```python |
| from datasets import load_dataset |
| |
| edges = load_dataset("LucasGalhardoLima/sinew", "connections", split="train") |
| verses = load_dataset("LucasGalhardoLima/sinew", "verses", split="train") |
| texts = load_dataset("LucasGalhardoLima/sinew", "texts", split="train") |
| ``` |
|
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| **SQLite, for joins** (one file, all tables): |
|
|
| ```python |
| from huggingface_hub import hf_hub_download |
| import sqlite3 |
| |
| db = hf_hub_download("LucasGalhardoLima/sinew", "sinew.sqlite", repo_type="dataset") |
| con = sqlite3.connect(db) |
| |
| # John 3:16 and its strongest sourced cross-references (with provenance) |
| con.execute("SELECT text FROM texts WHERE verse_id='John.3.16'").fetchone() |
| con.execute("""SELECT target_verse_id, source, weight FROM connections |
| WHERE source_verse_id='John.3.16' AND review_status='ok' |
| ORDER BY weight DESC LIMIT 5""").fetchall() |
| |
| # Hebrew (org) numbering for an eng verse |
| con.execute("SELECT scheme_ref FROM versification_map WHERE verse_id='Joel.2.32' AND scheme='org'").fetchone() |
| # -> ('Joel.3.5',) |
| ``` |
|
|
| ## Schema (tables) |
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| - **`verses`** — `verse_id (PK)`, `book`, `chapter`, `verse`, `canonical_order`, `tier=1` *(stable, translation-independent address)* |
| - **`books`** — `book (PK)`, `name`, `testament`, `book_number`, `chapter_count` |
| - **`texts`** — `verse_id`, `translation`, `text`, `tier=1` *(PK `verse_id+translation`; v1: WEB only)* |
| - **`versification_map`** — `verse_id`, `scheme ∈ {eng,org}`, `scheme_ref`, `status ∈ {present,merged,split}`, `tier=1` |
| - **`connections`** — `source_verse_id`, `target_verse_id`, `type`, `source`, `weight`, `confidence`, `review_status`, `turpie_class (NULL in v1)`, `tier=2` |
| - **`dataset_meta`** — `key`, `value` |
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| **Rules:** no `connections` row without `source`; endpoints reference the canonical **address** |
| (`verses.verse_id`), never a `texts` row; an edge whose endpoint doesn't resolve (≈311, versification |
| gaps) is **flagged in `review_status`, never dropped** — the "no silent failure" guarantee. |
| |
| ## Sources & license |
| |
| | Source | Provides | License | |
| |---|---|---| |
| | [World English Bible](https://ebible.org/web/) (via getbible.net v2) | PD English text | Public Domain | |
| | [Copenhagen Alliance versification](https://github.com/Copenhagen-Alliance/versification-specification) | eng/org mappings | CC-BY / open | |
| | [OpenBible.info cross-references](https://www.openbible.info/labs/cross-references/) | ~340k weighted edges | **CC-BY** | |
| |
| **This compilation is licensed CC-BY-4.0** and **requires attribution to OpenBible.info**; the |
| underlying Bible text is public domain. Exact retrieval URLs + sha256 pins are in `sources.lock.json` |
| and the `dataset_meta` table. |
| |
| **Roadmap (P1):** typed NT→OT quotations (Turpie 1868, classified A–E); deeper Tier-3 semantic search |
| beyond the explorer (a query/MCP-layer semantic endpoint — the explorer's in-browser theme search |
| already ships); original-language (Macula) lemma/morphology; more PD translations + multilingual alignment. |
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