Retail Graph — Walmart’s Product Knowledge Graph
Graph Data (Image credit actify)eCommerce catalogs are created by sourcing data from sellers(3P), suppliers/brands(1P). The data provided by partners (sellers, suppliers, brands) are often incomplete, sometimes missing crucial bits of information that our customers are looking for. Even though partners adhere to a spec (an agreed format for sending product data) there is a vast amount of data buried in the title, description and images. Besides the data provided by our partners there are lots of unstructured data on the internet in the form of product manual, product reviews, blogs, social media sites etc.At Walmart we are working on building a Retail Graph that captures the knowledge about product and its related entities to help our customers better discover products in our catalog. It’s a product knowledge graph that can answer questions about products and related knowledge in the retail context. Such a system can be used to power semantic search, recommendation system etc.