Knowledge Graph
A structured map of facts and how they relate to each other — not just a list of information, but a web of connections. For example: "Claude is made by Anthropic. Anthropic was founded in 2021. Dario Amodei is the CEO of Anthropic." A knowledge graph encodes these relationships so AI can follow chains of reasoning ("who founded the company that makes Claude?") rather than just matching text. Some companies use knowledge graphs to make AI more reliably accurate about their specific domain.
In practice
You're building an AI that answers questions about your product catalog, where products have components, components have suppliers, and suppliers have contracts. A knowledge graph stores all those relationships explicitly — so when someone asks "what products would be affected if Supplier X had a delay?" the AI can trace the connections and give a real answer.
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