--- 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 *"…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. 🧑‍💻 **Code, build & MCP server:** 🔭 **Live explorer (navigate by meaning, or search a theme):** [![Sinew explorer demo](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/LucasGalhardoLima/sinew/main/docs/demo.gif)](https://huggingface.co/spaces/LucasGalhardoLima/sinew-explorer) ## Why 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) - **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 | | | |---|---| | **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) | ## Files | 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 **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") ``` **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) - **`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` **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.