An Unflattened Identity and Change Knowledge Graph

Senses over time

How a handful of commodity concepts split into senses that rise and fall across the centuries — each band a sense, its thickness the number of dated claims. Concepts whose near-synonym labels fragment the extraction (e.g. coffee, roasted coffee, coffee beans) are collapsed into one.

Coffee

beverage: 408plant: 116activity: 11substance: 10commodity: 9cultivation: 4other: 281300s1400s1500s1600s1700s1800s1900s
beverage 408plant 116activity 11substance 10commodity 9cultivation 4other 28

Tea

beverage: 77commodity: 12activity: 4plant: 2social practice: 1substance: 11400s1500s1600s1700s1800s1900s2000s
beverage 77commodity 12activity 4plant 2social practice 1substance 1

Chocolate

beverage: 9product: 1substance: 11500s1600s1700s1900s
beverage 9product 1substance 1

Sugar

commodity: 68product: 5substance: 4food: 11300s1400s1500s1600s1700s1800s1900s
commodity 68product 5substance 4food 1