Data & retrieval
Knowledge graph
A structured network of entities and the relationships between them.
Definition
A knowledge graph represents people, products, organisations, rules or events as linked entities with defined relationship types.
Why it matters
It can support explainable relationship reasoning for clients, risk and controls, but requires strong data lineage and entity resolution.
Related concepts
- Data provenance
The origin, ownership and transformation history of data.
- Retrieval-augmented generation
Generating answers using information retrieved at request time.
- Grounding
Connecting an output to supplied, authoritative evidence.