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)'}

5 rows where object_entity_id = "ENT_SAINT_JOHN_BAPTIST"

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relationship_id ▼ subject_entity_id relationship_type object_entity_id confidence rationale source_id review_status period_id
921 John the Baptist ENT_MAN_JOHN_BAPTIST identified_with John the Baptist ENT_SAINT_JOHN_BAPTIST high Mandaean John corresponds to the broader John the Baptist figure. Mandaean Book of John SRC_MANDAEAN_BOOK_JOHN reviewed  
1552 Elijah ENT_ISR_ELIJAH received_as John the Baptist ENT_SAINT_JOHN_BAPTIST high The identification of John the Baptist with the returning Elijah foretold in Malachi 4:5 is explicit and foundational in the New Testament. Matthew 11:14: "And if you are willing to accept it, he [John] is the Elijah who was to come." Matthew 17:10-12: the disciples ask about the scribal teaching that Elijah must come first; Jesus responds that "Elijah has already come, and they did not recognize him, but have done to him everything they wished." Luke 1:17 describes John as coming "in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children." The identification is grounded in: (1) Malachi's explicit eschatological prophecy; (2) John's desert asceticism and camel-hair garment matching Elijah's description in 2 Kings 1:8; (3) his function as the forerunner who "prepares the way." At the Transfiguration (Matthew 17:3; Mark 9:4; Luke 9:30), Elijah appears alongside Moses as a representative of the prophetic tradition, with John-as-Elijah already having fulfilled the preparatory role. This is the best-documented Hebrew Bible prophet → New Testament reception chain in the dataset. The Hebrew Bible / Tanakh (primary text; Masoretic Text tradition; reference editions: Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia / Biblia Hebraica Quinta; citations by book, chapter, and verse) SRC_HEBREW_BIBLE reviewed Second Temple Period PER_ISR_SECOND_TEMPLE
5152 Yahya ENT_ISL_YAHYA reception_of John the Baptist ENT_SAINT_JOHN_BAPTIST high The Qur'anic Yahya is the Islamic reception of John the Baptist. Qur’an SRC_QURAN reviewed  
5238 Herod Antipas ENT_NT_HEROD_ANTIPAS opposes John the Baptist ENT_SAINT_JOHN_BAPTIST high Mark 6:14-29: Herod Antipas imprisoned and beheaded John the Baptist. New Testament (primary text; Greek: Nestle-Aland 28th ed.; citations by book, chapter, and verse) SRC_NEW_TESTAMENT reviewed  
6501 John the Baptist ENT_MAN_JOHN_BAPTIST reception_of John the Baptist ENT_SAINT_JOHN_BAPTIST medium The Mandaean Yahia Yuhana (John the Baptist), supreme prophet-teacher of the Mandaeans and central figure of the Mandaean Book of John, is a distinct religious reception of the historical John the Baptist (ENT_SAINT_JOHN_BAPTIST), cast as the true prophet of Jordan baptism and polemically against Jesus, contrasting the Christian reception. Intentional homonym (both flagged intentional_distinct in entity_duplicate_review); parallels ENT_ISL_YAHYA reception_of ENT_SAINT_JOHN_BAPTIST. Source: SRC_MANDAEAN_BOOK_JOHN; SRC_DROWER_MANDAEANS. E. S. Drower, The Mandaeans of Iraq and Iran SRC_DROWER_MANDAEANS 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]);