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| license: cc0-1.0 |
| pretty_name: "Hebrew Semantic Neighbor Pairs — cross-signal + LLM verified" |
| language: |
| - hbo |
| task_categories: |
| - text-classification |
| tags: |
| - biblical-hebrew |
| - semantic-similarity |
| - lexicography |
| configs: |
| - config_name: default |
| data_files: "published_pairs.tsv" |
| --- |
| |
| # Hebrew Semantic Neighbor Pairs |
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| 7,977 Strong's-number pairs of Biblical Hebrew words judged to be synonyms or same tight semantic |
| concept, at a publication-confidence level reached through three independent verification methods |
| rather than any single signal. CC0 — no restricted sources. |
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| ## Method |
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| This dataset is the *confident subset* of a larger semantic-neighbor pipeline that combines ten |
| independent signals: distributional embeddings (BEREL), LXX cross-testament co-rendering, gloss |
| overlap, an LLM scholarly-prior pass, Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) etymological roots, |
| T'OMIM poetic-parallelism pairs, Hebrew WordNet, BHSA syntactic structure (coordination/apposition via |
| Context-Fabric), a cross-lingual/Wiktionary-root corroboration tier, and candidates from Radak's Sefer |
| HaShorashim (a 13th-century Public Domain medieval Hebrew root dictionary, via Sefaria). Individually, |
| these signals range from weak (~35%) to strong (~90%). |
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| Rather than trust any single signal's raw output, a pair is published here only if it passes one of |
| three independent confidence gates: |
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| - **`cross_signal`** — asserted by >= 2 methodologically independent signal families (see the |
| `gate` column). 70.2% SDBH `core`-agreement on its own. |
| - **`llm_verified`** — pairs that only ever had ONE signal behind them, individually judged by an LLM |
| (Claude Haiku, strict "are these genuinely synonyms in Biblical Hebrew usage" prompt). Only "yes" |
| verdicts included. 69.5% on its own. |
| - **`sefer_hashorashim_verified`** — candidates from Sefer HaShorashim (words Radak discusses together |
| within one root entry), also LLM-verified the same way. 62.9% on its own (its unique contribution |
| after removing overlap with the other two gates). |
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| 1,241 pairs pass more than one gate — that subset scores 78.4%, the highest-confidence layer in the |
| dataset (see the `gate` column, "+"-joined for multi-gate pairs). |
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| ## Columns |
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| | column | meaning | |
| |---|---| |
| | `strong_a` / `strong_b` | Hebrew Strong's numbers (`H####`) | |
| | `gate` | which confidence check(s) this pair passed — `cross_signal`, `llm_verified`, `sefer_hashorashim_verified`, or a "+"-joined combination | |
| | `n_families` | how many independent signal families asserted this pair (0 if only LLM-verified) | |
| | `llm_verdict` | `yes` if LLM-verified (either LLM gate); blank if published via cross-signal agreement alone | |
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| ## Validation caveat — read before treating the percentages as ground truth |
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| Every accuracy number associated with this pipeline is measured as **agreement with SDBH's own domain |
| codes** (the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew, © United Bible Societies) as an internal proxy — |
| not an independent audit, and not a claim of "correctness." Two things follow: |
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| 1. SDBH is a scholarly taxonomy, not exhaustive ground truth — a real synonym pair can fail to share an |
| SDBH domain code simply because SDBH's own domain boundaries split it, and (separately) SDBH data |
| itself is licensed "used with permission" (not CC-BY) and is **not included or derivable from this |
| dataset** — nothing here reproduces SDBH's domain codes or text. |
| 2. These percentages describe how well this dataset agrees with one particular scholarly resource, not |
| an absolute correctness rate. Treat them as methodology transparency, not a quality guarantee. |
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| ## License |
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| CC0-1.0. Built from: BDB (1906, public domain), T'OMIM (CC BY 4.0), Hebrew WordNet (Ordan & Wintner, |
| permissive), Wiktionary (CC BY-SA), BHSA/Context-Fabric (public-domain WLC + CC BY 4.0 ETCBC |
| annotation), Sefer HaShorashim (Radak, c.1185-1235 CE, Public Domain, via Sefaria), and an LLM |
| verification pass (Claude Haiku) — none of these require restricted-use attribution beyond what's |
| already satisfied by citing this dataset. |
|
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| ## Provenance |
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| Built by `shoresh/macula/build_published_pairs.py` in |
| [bcv-commons/bcv-query](https://github.com/bcv-commons/bcv-query). |
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