Entity Periods

Period assignments linking entities to the historical periods when they are attested. An entity may span multiple periods. All Greek entities are assigned; Egyptian tradition is fully covered; total coverage exceeds 70%.

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confidence
{'description': 'high / medium / low — certainty of the period assignment'}
rationale
{'description': 'Justification with source citations'}

1 row where entity_id = "ENT_VF_THE_UNIVERSE"

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Link entity_id period_id confidence rationale source_id review_status
ENT_VF_THE_UNIVERSE,PER_MODERN_FOLKLORE The Universe ENT_VF_THE_UNIVERSE Modern Urban Legend & Folklore (19th–20th c.) PER_MODERN_FOLKLORE high Genuinely petitioned, thanked, and trusted as a providential agent ('the Universe has my back,' 'thank you, Universe,' 'asking the Universe for X'). Functions as a quasi-deistic provider in Law-of-Attraction practice; Rhonda Byrne's The Secret (2006) instructs the practitioner to ask the Universe, believe, and receive, treating it as a responsive personal force. Rooted in 19th-c. New Thought, hence Modern-Folklore period; the vernacular gratitude/petition idiom is ubiquitous online. SRC_BYRNE_SECRET reviewed

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CREATE TABLE "entity_periods" (
   [entity_id] TEXT REFERENCES [entities]([entity_id]),
   [period_id] TEXT REFERENCES [periods]([period_id]),
   [confidence] TEXT,
   [rationale] TEXT,
   [source_id] TEXT,
   [review_status] TEXT,
   PRIMARY KEY ([entity_id], [period_id])
);
CREATE INDEX [idx_entity_periods_period_id]
    ON [entity_periods] ([period_id]);
CREATE INDEX [idx_entity_periods_entity_id]
    ON [entity_periods] ([entity_id]);