Relationships

2,079 typed, source-backed relationships between entities. Each row records a directed relationship (subject → type → object) with a justifying source and rationale note. See relationship_types for the full controlled vocabulary of 70 relationship types. Key types: reception_of / received_as (transmission across traditions), equated_with (interpretatio graeca / analogues), parent_of (genealogy), member_of (collective membership), emanates_from (Gnostic/Neoplatonic structure).

Data license: MIT · Data source: jebboone/deitydb

subject_entity_id
{'description': 'The entity initiating or holding the relationship'}
relationship_type
{'description': 'Typed relationship from the controlled vocabulary (see relationship_types table)'}
object_entity_id
{'description': 'The entity receiving or targeted by the relationship'}
confidence
{'description': 'high / medium / low / speculative'}
rationale
{'description': 'Scholarly justification for the relationship, with source citations'}
source_id
{'description': 'Primary source justifying this relationship'}
period_id
{'description': 'Historical period in which this relationship is attested (null = all periods)'}

4 rows where object_entity_id = "ENT_ORTH_ATHANASIUS"

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relationship_id ▼ subject_entity_id relationship_type object_entity_id confidence rationale source_id review_status period_id
7024 Hilary of Poitiers ENT_PAT_HILARY_POITIERS aligned_with Athanasius of Alexandria ENT_ORTH_ATHANASIUS medium Hilary of Poitiers was called 'the Athanasius of the West' for leading the Latin defense of Nicene orthodoxy against Arianism, paralleling Athanasius in the East. Johannes Quasten, Patrology, 4 vols. (Spectrum / Christian Classics, 1950-1986) SRC_QUASTEN_PATROLOGY reviewed  
7027 Cyril of Alexandria ENT_PAT_CYRIL_ALEX reception_of Athanasius of Alexandria ENT_ORTH_ATHANASIUS medium Cyril of Alexandria self-consciously continued the Alexandrian Christological and anti-heretical tradition of his predecessor in the see, Athanasius. Johannes Quasten, Patrology, 4 vols. (Spectrum / Christian Classics, 1950-1986) SRC_QUASTEN_PATROLOGY reviewed  
7116 Pope Kyrillos VI ENT_COP_KYRILLOS_VI reception_of Athanasius of Alexandria ENT_ORTH_ATHANASIUS medium As a successor Pope of Alexandria, Kyrillos VI stands in the continuous Alexandrian patriarchal line whose great early model is Athanasius (Davis, on the papal succession); object verified to exist in DB. Stephen J. Davis, The Early Coptic Papacy: The Egyptian Church and Its Leadership in Late Antiquity (American University in Cairo Press, 2004) SRC_DAVIS_EARLY_COPTIC_PAPACY reviewed  
7132 Arius ENT_HERX_ARIUS opposed_by Athanasius of Alexandria ENT_ORTH_ATHANASIUS high Athanasius of Alexandria was the chief patristic opponent of Arius and Arianism after Nicaea. Jaroslav Pelikan, The Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Doctrine (Univ. of Chicago Press, 1971-1989) SRC_PELIKAN_CT reviewed  

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CREATE TABLE "entity_relationships" (
   [relationship_id] INTEGER PRIMARY KEY,
   [subject_entity_id] TEXT REFERENCES [entities]([entity_id]),
   [relationship_type] TEXT REFERENCES [relationship_types]([relationship_type]),
   [object_entity_id] TEXT REFERENCES [entities]([entity_id]),
   [confidence] TEXT,
   [rationale] TEXT,
   [source_id] TEXT REFERENCES [sources]([source_id]),
   [review_status] TEXT,
   [period_id] TEXT REFERENCES [periods]([period_id])
);
CREATE INDEX [idx_entity_relationships_period_id]
    ON [entity_relationships] ([period_id]);
CREATE INDEX [idx_entity_relationships_source_id]
    ON [entity_relationships] ([source_id]);
CREATE INDEX [idx_entity_relationships_object_entity_id]
    ON [entity_relationships] ([object_entity_id]);
CREATE INDEX [idx_entity_relationships_relationship_type]
    ON [entity_relationships] ([relationship_type]);
CREATE INDEX [idx_entity_relationships_subject_entity_id]
    ON [entity_relationships] ([subject_entity_id]);