ENGINES OF AMERICA · NO. 15 · THE NETWORK ENGINE
The Connection Engine
See who's tied to who, like a neural network.
Running nowv0.9 AlphaFree
Nobody moves alone. The Connection Engine takes a public figure and fans out their whole network the way a neural network fires: family and blood, teachers and who they influenced, the groups, money and offices they held, the schools and orders they passed through, and every WW9 receipt that names them. Tap any node to fire it and open its ties. Put two figures on the map and the ties they share light up in gold. Or build your own map by hand, tie by tie, receipt by receipt, in your own colors and shapes.
Run the Connection EngineEvery Engine of America
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What it can do
- Maps a public figure's network in seconds
- Sorts ties into eight kinds: family, influence, work and money, offices and power, schools and faith, honors, places, works
- Pulls WW9's own receipts that name the figure into the same map
- Fires any node to open the next layer
- Finds the ties two to four figures share
- Builds maps by hand, with a receipt link on every tie
- Custom colors and shapes for each kind of tie or any single node: circle, square, diamond, triangle, hexagon, star, ring
- Saves your maps on your device and puts any node or the whole map on your Engine Room table
Spec plate
- Fuel
- Wikidata, plus WW9's Library, Atlas and News
- Layers
- Figure, kind of tie, who and what
- Compare
- Up to four figures, shared ties in gold
- Build
- Your own maps, ties and receipts by hand
How it runs
- Search a public figureOnly people with a Wikipedia article come up: public figures, never private people.
- Press MapTheir ties fan out in layers. Every line says where it came from: Wikidata, WW9, or you.
- Fire a nodeTap a person, group or place and fire it to open its own ties as the next layer.
- Map twoPut a second figure on. What they share lights up in gold.
- Make it yoursAdd ties by hand with a receipt link, color and shape every kind of tie or any single node, save the map, and put it on your table.
Use it to
- See who Marcus Garvey's movement touched, and who it influenced
- Put two leaders on one map and find the groups and people they share
- Build the network of a movement or a temple that the record leaves out, tie by tie
- Trace a figure's teachers and who they taught, layer by layer
Straight up
- Wikidata is only as good as what's been entered. Thin records give thin maps; add what's missing by hand.
- Search only maps public figures with a Wikipedia article.
- Maps you build are saved on this device. Put a map on your table to keep it on your account.
Tested
On the live site, Nov 14, 2026
- Marcus Garvey: maps in seconds
- Two figures: shared ties found
- Hand-built map with custom colors and shapes
Found a bug?
This engine is in alpha: brand new. It works, but expect bugs and changes. If something broke, looked wrong or gave a bad answer, tell us. Every report gets read.