Knowledge Graphs

Kind: pattern

Layer: Correctness Core

Record: architecture:knowledge-graphs

Severity: contextual

Scope: knowledge modeling, retrieval, reasoning

Canonical: Ontology

A design pattern that stores knowledge as typed entities and named relations, validated against a schema, so queries can traverse them.

Listed in Architecture principles, after Vector Search and before Explainability.

Requires

• Entities
• Relations
• Schema/Ontology

Reinforces

• Semantic Consistency
• Explainability

Enables

• Relationship-Aware Retrieval/Reasoning

Conflicts with

• Flat Document-Only Knowledge

In tension with

• Curation Cost

Tensions

• Knowledge Graphs / Curation Cost

Violated by

• Flat Document-Only Knowledge

Severity

• contextual

Category

• Model Architecture

Linked from

• Systems built around a model
• Model Architecture
• Schema / Canonical Data / Semantics
• Model Architecture
• Severity levels
• The resolutions

in this codebase

• loadReferences
• mountReference