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GraphFaker: Instant Graphs for Prototyping, Teaching, and Beyond
GraphFaker: Instant Graphs for Prototyping, Teaching, and Beyond
I can't tell you how many times I've had a graph analytics idea, only to spend days trying to find decent data to test it on. ๐Ÿ˜คSound familiar? That's why I'm excited about the talk next week by Dennis Irorere on GraphFaker - a free tool from the GraphGeeks Lab to help with the graph data problem. Good graph data is ridiculously hard to come by. It's either locked behind privacy walls, messy beyond belief, or not really relationship-centric. I've been there, we've all been there. Dennis will show us how to: - Generate realistic social networks quickly - Pull actual street network data without the headaches - Access air travel networks, Wikipedia graphs, and more ๐ŸŒ Join us on July 29 - Or register for the recording. https://lnkd.in/gBxjrWGS Whether you're in research, prototyping new features, or teaching graph algorithms, this could shorten your workflow. โ€“And what really caught my attention is that this will allow me to focus on the fun part of testing ideas. ๐Ÿค“
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GraphFaker: Instant Graphs for Prototyping, Teaching, and Beyond
Whatโ€™s the difference between context engineering and ontology engineering?
Whatโ€™s the difference between context engineering and ontology engineering?
Whatโ€™s the difference between context engineering and ontology engineering? We hear a lot about โ€œcontext engineeringโ€ these days in AI wonderland. A lot of good thing are being said but itโ€™s worth noting whatโ€™s missing. Yes, context matters. But context without structure is narrative, not knowledge. And if AI is going to scale beyond demos and copilots into systems that reason, track memory, and interoperate across domainsโ€ฆ then context alone isnโ€™t enough. We need ontology engineering. Hereโ€™s the difference: - Context engineering is about curating inputs: prompts, memory, user instructions, embeddings. Itโ€™s the art of framing. - Ontology engineering is about modeling the world: defining entities, relations, axioms, and constraints that make reasoning possible. In other words: Context guides attention. Ontology shapes understanding. Whatโ€™s dangerous is that many teams stop at context, assuming that if you feed the right words to an LLM, youโ€™ll get truth, traceability, or decisions you can trust. This is what I call โ€œhallucination of controlโ€. Ontologies provide what LLMs lack: grounding, consistency, and interoperability, but they are hard to build without the right methods, adapted from the original discipline that started 20+ years ago with the semantic web, now itโ€™s time to work it out for the LLM AI era. If youโ€™re serious about scaling AI across business processes or mission-critical systems, the real challenge is more than context, itโ€™s shared meaning. And tech alone cannot solve this. Thatโ€™s why we need put ontology discussion in the board room, because integrating AI into organizations is much more complicated than just providing the right context in a prompt or a context window. Thatโ€™s it for today. More tomorrow! Iโ€™m trying to get back at journaling here every day. ๐Ÿค™ hope you will find something useful in what I write. | 71 comments on LinkedIn
Whatโ€™s the difference between context engineering and ontology engineering?
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Whatโ€™s the difference between context engineering and ontology engineering?
how both OWL and SHACL can be employed during the decision-making phase for AI Agents when using a knowledge graph instead of relying on an LLM that hallucinates
how both OWL and SHACL can be employed during the decision-making phase for AI Agents when using a knowledge graph instead of relying on an LLM that hallucinates
๐™๐™๐™ค๐™ช๐™œ๐™๐™ฉ ๐™›๐™ค๐™ง ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š ๐™™๐™–๐™ฎ: I've been mulling over how both OWL and SHACL can be employed during the decision-making phase for AI Agents when using a knowledge graph instead of relying on an LLM that hallucinates. In this way, the LLM can still be used for assessment and sensory feedback, but it augments the graph, not the other way around. OWL and SHACL serve different roles. SHACL is not just a preprocessing validator; it can play an active role in constraining, guiding, or triggering decisions, especially when integrated into AI pipelines. However, OWL is typically more central to inferencing and reasoning tasks. SHACL can actively participate in decision-making, especially when decisions require data integrity, constraint enforcement, or trigger-based logic. In complex agents, OWL provides the inferencing engine, while SHACL acts as the constraint gatekeeper and occasionally contributes to rule-based decision-making. For example, an AI agent processes RDF data describing an applicant's skills, degree, and experience. SHACL validates the data's structure, ensuring required fields are present and correctly formatted. OWL reasoning infers that the applicant is qualified for a technical role and matches the profile of a backend developer. SHACL is then used again to check policy compliance. With all checks passed, the applicant is shortlisted, and a follow-up email is triggered. In AI agent decision-making, OWL and SHACL often work together in complementary ways. SHACL is commonly used as a preprocessing step to validate incoming RDF data. If the data fails validation, it's flagged or excluded, ensuring only clean, structurally sound data reaches the OWL reasoner. In this role, SHACL acts as a gatekeeper. They can also operate in parallel or in an interleaved manner within a pipeline. As decisions evolve, SHACL shapes may be checked mid-process. Some AI agents even use SHACL as a rule engineโ€”to trigger alerts, detect actionable patterns, or constrain reasoning pathsโ€”while OWL continues to handle more complex semantic inferences, such as class hierarchies or property logic. Finally, SHACL can augment decision-making by confirming whether OWL-inferred actions comply with specific constraints. OWL may infer that โ€œA is a type of B, so do X,โ€ and SHACL then determines whether doing X adheres to a policy or requirement. Because SHACL supports closed-world assumptions (which OWL does not), it plays a valuable role in enforcing policies or compliance rules during decision execution. Illustrated:
how both OWL and SHACL can be employed during the decision-making phase for AI Agents when using a knowledge graph instead of relying on an LLM that hallucinates
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how both OWL and SHACL can be employed during the decision-making phase for AI Agents when using a knowledge graph instead of relying on an LLM that hallucinates
I'm trying to build a Knowledge Graph.
I'm trying to build a Knowledge Graph.
I'm trying to build a Knowledge Graph. Our team has done experiments with current libraries available (๐‹๐ฅ๐š๐ฆ๐š๐ˆ๐ง๐๐ž๐ฑ, ๐Œ๐ข๐œ๐ซ๐จ๐ฌ๐จ๐Ÿ๐ญ'๐ฌ ๐†๐ซ๐š๐ฉ๐ก๐‘๐€๐†, ๐‹๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ซ๐š๐ , ๐†๐ซ๐š๐ฉ๐ก๐ข๐ญ๐ข etc.) From a Product perspective, they seem to be missing the basic, common-sense features. ๐’๐ญ๐ข๐œ๐ค ๐ญ๐จ ๐š ๐…๐ข๐ฑ๐ž๐ ๐“๐ž๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐š๐ญ๐ž: My business organizes information in a specific way. I need the system to use our predefined entities and relationships, not invent its own. The output has to be consistent and predictable every time. ๐’๐ญ๐š๐ซ๐ญ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐–๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐–๐ž ๐€๐ฅ๐ซ๐ž๐š๐๐ฒ ๐Š๐ง๐จ๐ฐ: We already have lists of our products, departments, and key employees. The AI shouldn't have to guess this information from documents. I want to seed this this data upfront so that the graph can be build on this foundation of truth. ๐‚๐ฅ๐ž๐š๐ง ๐”๐ฉ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐Œ๐ž๐ซ๐ ๐ž ๐ƒ๐ฎ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ข๐œ๐š๐ญ๐ž๐ฌ: The graph I currently get is messy. It sees "First Quarter Sales" and "Q1 Sales Report" as two completely different things. This is probably easy but want to make sure this does not happen. ๐…๐ฅ๐š๐  ๐–๐ก๐ž๐ง ๐’๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ๐œ๐ž๐ฌ ๐ƒ๐ข๐ฌ๐š๐ ๐ซ๐ž๐ž: If one chunk says our sales were $10M and another says $12M, I need the library to flag this disagreement, not just silently pick one. It also needs to show me exactly which documents the numbers came from so we can investigate. Has anyone solved this? I'm looking for a library โ€”that gets these fundamentals right. | 21 comments on LinkedIn
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โ“ Why I Wrote This Book?
โ“ Why I Wrote This Book?
โ“ Why I Wrote This Book? In the past two to three years, we've witnessed a revolution. First with ChatGPT, and now with autonomous AI agents. This is only the beginning. In the years ahead, AI will transform not only how we work but how we live. At the core of this transformation lies a single breakthrough technology: large language models (LLMs). Thatโ€™s why I decided to write this book. This book explores what an LLM is, how it works, and how it develops its remarkable capabilities. It also shows how to put these capabilities into practice, like turning an LLM into the beating heart of an AI agent. Dissatisfied with the overly simplified or fragmented treatments found in many current books, Iโ€™ve aimed to provide both solid theoretical foundations and hands-on demonstrations. You'll learn how to build agents using LLMs, integrate technologies like retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and knowledge graphs, and explore one of todayโ€™s most fascinating frontiers: multi-agent systems. Finally, Iโ€™ve included a section on open research questions (areas where todayโ€™s models still fall short, ethical issues, doubts, and so on), and where tomorrowโ€™s breakthroughs may lie. ๐Ÿง  Who is this book for? Anyone curious about LLMs, how they work, and how to use them effectively. Whether you're just starting out or already have experience, this book offers both accessible explanations and practical guidance. It's for those who want to understand the theory and apply it in the real world. ๐Ÿ›‘ Who is this book not for? Those who dismiss AI as a passing fad or have no interest in what lies ahead. But for everyone else this book is for you. Because AI agents are no longer speculative. Theyโ€™re real, and theyโ€™re here. A huge thanks to my co-author Gabriele Iuculano, and the Packt's team: Gebin George, Sanjana Gupta, Ali A., Sonia Chauhan, Vignesh Raju., Malhar Deshpande #AI #LLMs #KnowledgeGraphs #AIagents #RAG #GenerativeAI #MachineLearning #NLP #Agents #DeepLearning | 22 comments on LinkedIn
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โ“ Why I Wrote This Book?
What makes the "๐’๐ž๐ฆ๐š๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐œ ๐ƒ๐š๐ญ๐š ๐๐ซ๐จ๐๐ฎ๐œ๐ญ" so valid in data conversations today?๐Ÿ’ก ๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐๐ž๐ ๐‚๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ฑ๐ญ and Right-to-Left Flow from consumers to raw materials.
What makes the "๐’๐ž๐ฆ๐š๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐œ ๐ƒ๐š๐ญ๐š ๐๐ซ๐จ๐๐ฎ๐œ๐ญ" so valid in data conversations today?๐Ÿ’ก ๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐๐ž๐ ๐‚๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ฑ๐ญ and Right-to-Left Flow from consumers to raw materials.
What makes the "๐’๐ž๐ฆ๐š๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐œ ๐ƒ๐š๐ญ๐š ๐๐ซ๐จ๐๐ฎ๐œ๐ญ" so valid in data conversations today?๐Ÿ’ก ๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐๐ž๐ ๐‚๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ฑ๐ญ and Right-to-Left Flow from consumers to raw materials. Tony Seale perfectly defines the value of bounded context. โ€ฆ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜ด๐˜ถ๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ช๐˜ฏ ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ด๐˜ฆ๐˜ญ๐˜ง, ๐˜ข ๐˜ด๐˜บ๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ฎ ๐˜ฎ๐˜ถ๐˜ด๐˜ต ๐˜ฎ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ช๐˜ฎ๐˜ช๐˜ด๐˜ฆ ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ด ๐˜ง๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜จ๐˜บ- ๐˜ข ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ด๐˜ถ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜ถ๐˜ฏ๐˜ค๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜บ. ๐˜”๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ช๐˜ฎ๐˜ช๐˜ด๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ช๐˜ต ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฒ๐˜ถ๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ด ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜ญ๐˜ฐ๐˜ธ ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ฏ๐˜ข๐˜ญ ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฑ๐˜บ. ๐˜ˆ ๐˜ด๐˜บ๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ฎ ๐˜ข๐˜ค๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ฆ๐˜ท๐˜ฆ๐˜ด ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ด ๐˜ฃ๐˜บ ๐˜ง๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ฎ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ข๐˜ค๐˜ค๐˜ถ๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฑ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ๐˜ช๐˜ค๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ด ๐˜ข๐˜ฃ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ต ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฆ๐˜น๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ฏ๐˜ข๐˜ญ ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ท ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ถ๐˜ฑ๐˜ฅ๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ด ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ฏ๐˜ข๐˜ญ ๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ด ๐˜ข๐˜ค๐˜ค๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ฅ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ๐˜ญ๐˜บ, ๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ญ๐˜ฐ๐˜ธ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ง๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ ๐˜ข ๐˜ฅ๐˜บ๐˜ฏ๐˜ข๐˜ฎ๐˜ช๐˜ค ๐˜บ๐˜ฆ๐˜ต ๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ฃ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ค๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ธ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ฉ ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ด ๐˜ด๐˜ถ๐˜ณ๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ๐˜ด. ๐˜–๐˜ฏ๐˜ญ๐˜บ ๐˜ฑ๐˜ฐ๐˜ด๐˜ด๐˜ช๐˜ฃ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ข ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜บ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฆ๐˜ต๐˜ธ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ฏ๐˜ข๐˜ญ ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ฆ๐˜น๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ฏ๐˜ข๐˜ญ ๐˜ด๐˜บ๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ฎ๐˜ด. ๐˜‹๐˜ช๐˜ด๐˜ค๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ค๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ด๐˜บ๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ฎ๐˜ด ๐˜ด๐˜ช๐˜จ๐˜ฏ๐˜ข๐˜ญ ๐˜ธ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ฌ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ฆ๐˜ด. Data Products enable a way to bind context to specific business purposes or use cases. This enables data to become: โœ…ย Purpose-driven โœ…ย Accurately Discoverable โœ…ย Easily Understandable & Addressable โœ…ย Valuable as an independent entity ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐’๐จ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง: The Data Product Model. A conceptual model that precisely captures the business context through an interface operable by business users or domain experts. We have often referred to this as The Data Product Prototype, which is essentially a semantic model and captures information on: โžก๏ธ Popular Metrics the Business wants to drive โžก๏ธ Measures & Dimensions โžก๏ธ Relationships & formulas โžก๏ธ Further context with tags, descriptions, synonyms, & observability metrics โžก๏ธ Quality SLOs - or simply, conditions necessary โžก๏ธ Additional policy specs contributed by Governance Stewards Once the Prototype is validated and given a green flag, development efforts kickstart. Note how all data engineering efforts (left-hand side) are not looped in until this point, saving massive costs and time drainage. The DE teams, who only have a partial view of the business landscape, are now no longer held accountable for this lack in strong business understanding. ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐จ๐ฐ๐ง๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ๐ก๐ข๐ฉ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ƒ๐š๐ญ๐š ๐๐ซ๐จ๐๐ฎ๐œ๐ญ ๐ฆ๐จ๐๐ž๐ฅ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐ซ๐ž๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ข๐ง๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ. ๐Ÿซ  DEs have a blueprint to refer and simply map sources or source data products to the prescribed Data Product Model. Any new request comes through this prototype itself, managed by Data Product Managers in collaboration with business users. Dissolving all bottlenecks from centralised data engineering teams. At this level, necessary transformations are delivered, ๐Ÿ”Œย that activate the SLOs ๐Ÿ”Œย enable interoperability with native tools and upstream data products, ๐Ÿ”Œย allow reusability of pre-existing transforms in the form of Source or Aggregate data products. #datamanagement #dataproducts
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What makes the "๐’๐ž๐ฆ๐š๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐œ ๐ƒ๐š๐ญ๐š ๐๐ซ๐จ๐๐ฎ๐œ๐ญ" so valid in data conversations today?๐Ÿ’ก ๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐๐ž๐ ๐‚๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ฑ๐ญ and Right-to-Left Flow from consumers to raw materials.
GraphRAG in Action: A Simple Agent for Know-Your-Customer Investigations | Towards Data Science
GraphRAG in Action: A Simple Agent for Know-Your-Customer Investigations | Towards Data Science
This blog post provides a hands-on guide for AI engineers and developers on how to build an initial KYC agent prototype with the OpenAI Agents SDK.ย We'll explore how to equip our agent with a suite of tools (including MCP Server tools) to uncover and investigate potential fraud patterns.
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GraphRAG in Action: A Simple Agent for Know-Your-Customer Investigations | Towards Data Science
Transform Claude's Hidden Memory Into Interactive Knowledge Graphs
Transform Claude's Hidden Memory Into Interactive Knowledge Graphs
Transform Claude's Hidden Memory Into Interactive Knowledge Graphs Universal tool to visualize any Claude user's memory.json in beautiful interactive graphs. Transform your Claude Memory MCP data into stunning interactive visualizations to see how your AI assistant's knowledge connects and evolves over time. Enterprise teams using Claude lack visibility into how their AI assistant accumulates and organizes institutional knowledge. Claude Memory Viz provides zero-configuration visualization that automatically finds memory files and displays 72 entities with 93 relationships in real-time force-directed layouts. Teams can filter by entity type, search across all data, and explore detailed connections through rich tooltips. The technical implementation supports Claude's standard NDJSON memory format, automatically detecting and color-coding entity types from personality profiles to technical tools. Node size reflects connection count, while adjustable physics parameters enable optimal spacing for large knowledge graphs. Built with Cytoscape.js for performance optimization. Built with the philosophy "Solve it once and for all," the tool works for any Claude user with zero configuration. The visualizer automatically searches common memory file locations, provides demo data fallback, and offers clear guidance when files aren't found. Integration requires just git clone and one command execution. This matters because AI memory has been invisible to users, creating trust and accountability gaps in enterprise AI deployment. When teams can visualize how their AI assistant organizes knowledge, they gain insights into decision-making patterns and can optimize their AI collaboration strategies. ๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿ’ปhttps://lnkd.in/e__RQh_q | 10 comments on LinkedIn
Transform Claude's Hidden Memory Into Interactive Knowledge Graphs
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Transform Claude's Hidden Memory Into Interactive Knowledge Graphs
The Orchestration Graph
The Orchestration Graph
This is it. This is the conversation every leadership team needs to be having right now. "The Orchestration Graph" by WRITER product leader Matan-Paul Shetrit linked in comments is a must-read. The primary constraint on business is no longerย execution. It'sย supervision. For a century, we built companies to overcome the high cost of getting things done. We built hierarchies, departments, and complex processes โ€” all to manage labor-intensive execution. That era is over. With AI agents, execution is becoming abundant, on-demand, and programmatic. The new bottleneck is our ability to direct, govern, and orchestrate this immense new capacity. The firm is evolving from a factory into an "operating system." Your ORG CHART is no longer the map. The real map is theย Orchestration Graph: the dynamic, software-defined network of humans, models, and agents that actually does the work. This isn't just a new tool or a productivity hack. It's a fundamental rewiring of the enterprise. It demands we rethink everything: Structure:ย How do we manage systems, not just people? Strategy:ย What work do we insource to our agentic "OS" versus outsource to models-as-a-service? Metrics:ย Are we still measuring human activity, or are we measuring system throughput and intelligence? This is the WRITER call to arms: The companies that win won't just adopt AI; they will restructure themselves around it. They will build their own Orchestration Graph, with governance and institutional memory at the core. They will treat AI not as a feature, but as the new foundation. At WRITER, this is the future we are building every single day โ€” giving companies the platform to create their own secure, governed, and intelligent orchestration layer. The time to act is now. Read the article. Start the conversation with your leaders. And begin rewiring your firm. | 37 comments on LinkedIn
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The Orchestration Graph
LLMs and Neurosymbolic reasoning
LLMs and Neurosymbolic reasoning
When people discuss how LLMS "reason," youโ€™ll often hear that they rely on transduction rather than abduction. It sounds technical, but the distinction matters - especially as we start wiring LLMs into systems that are supposed to think. ๐Ÿ”ต Transduction is case-to-case reasoning. It doesnโ€™t build theories; it draws fuzzy connections based on resemblance. Think: โ€œThis metal conducts electricity, and that one looks similar - so maybe it does too.โ€ ๐Ÿ”ต Abduction, by contrast, is about generating explanations. Itโ€™s what scientists (and detectives) do: โ€œThis metal is conducting - maybe it contains free electrons. That would explain it.โ€ The claim is that LLMs operate more like transducers - navigating high-dimensional spaces of statistical similarity, rather than forming crisp generalisations. But this isnโ€™t the whole picture. In practice, it seems to me that LLMs also perform a kind of induction - abstracting general patterns from oceans of text. They learn the shape of ideas and apply them in novel ways. Thatโ€™s closer to โ€œAll metals of this type have conducted in the past, so this one probably will.โ€ Now add tools to the mix - code execution, web search, Elon Musk's tweet history ๐Ÿ˜‰ - and LLMs start doing something even more interesting: program search and synthesis. It's messy, probabilistic, and not at all principled or rigorous. But itโ€™s inching toward a form of abductive reasoning. Which brings us to a more principled approach for reasoning within an enterprise domain: the neuro-symbolic loop - a collaboration between large language models and knowledge graphs. The graph provides structure: formal semantics, ontologies, logic, and depth. The LLM brings intuition: flexible inference, linguistic creativity, and breadth. One grounds. The other leaps. ๐Ÿ’ก The real breakthrough could come when the grounding isnโ€™t just factual, but conceptual - when the ontology encodes clean, meaningful generalisations. Thatโ€™s when the LLMโ€™s leaps wouldnโ€™t just reach further - theyโ€™d rise higher, landing on novel ideas that hold up under formal scrutiny. ๐Ÿ’ก So where do metals fit into this new framing? ๐Ÿ”ต Transduction: โ€œThis metal conducts. That one looks the same - it probably does too.โ€ ๐Ÿ”ต Induction: โ€œIโ€™ve tested ten of these. All conducted. Itโ€™s probably a rule.โ€ ๐Ÿ”ต Abduction: โ€œThis metal is conducting. It shares properties with the โ€˜conductive alloyโ€™ class - especially composition and crystal structure. The best explanation is a sea of free electrons.โ€ LLMs, in isolation, are limited in their ability to perform structured abduction. But when embedded in a system that includes a formal ontology, logical reasoning, and external tools, they can begin to participate in richer forms of reasoning. These hybrid systems are still far from principled scientific reasoners - but they hint at a path forward: a more integrated and disciplined neuro-symbolic architecture that moves beyond mere pattern completion.
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LLMs and Neurosymbolic reasoning
S&P Global Unlocks the Future of AI-driven insights with AI-Ready Metadata on S&P Global Marketplace
S&P Global Unlocks the Future of AI-driven insights with AI-Ready Metadata on S&P Global Marketplace
๐Ÿš€ When I shared our 2025 goals for the Enterprise Data Organization, one of the things I alluded to was machine-readable column-level metadata. Letโ€™s unpack what that meansโ€”and why it matters. ๐Ÿ” What: For datasets we deliver via modern cloud distribution, we now provide human - and machine - readable metadata at the column level. Each column has an immutable URL (no auth, no CAPTCHA) that hosts name/value metadata - synonyms, units of measure, descriptions, and more - in multiple human languages. Itโ€™s semantic context that goes far beyond what a traditional data dictionary can convey. We can't embed it, so we link to it. ๐Ÿ’ก Why: Metadata is foundational to agentic, precise consumption of structured data. Our customers are investing in semantic layers, data catalogs, and knowledge graphs - and they shouldnโ€™t have to copy-paste from a PDF to get there. Use curl, Python, Bash - whatever works - to automate ingestion. (We support content negotiation and conditional GETs.) ๐Ÿง  Under the hood? Itโ€™s RDF. Love it or hate it, you donโ€™t need to engage with the plumbing unless you want to. โœจ To our knowledge, this hasnโ€™t been done before. This is our MVP. Weโ€™re putting it out there to learn what works - and what doesnโ€™t. Itโ€™s vendor-neutral, web-based, and designed to scale across: ๐Ÿ“Š Breadth of datasets across S&P ๐Ÿงฌ Depth of metadata ๐Ÿ”— Choice of linking venue ๐Ÿ™ It took a village to make this happen. I canโ€™t name everyone without writing a book, but I want to thank our executive leadership for the trust and support to go build this. Let us know what you think! ๐Ÿ”— https://lnkd.in/gbe3NApH Martina Cheung, Saugata Saha, Swamy Kocherlakota, Dave Ernsberger, Mark Eramo, Frank Tarsillo, Warren Breakstone, Hamish B., Erica Robeen, Laura Miller, Justine S Iverson, | 17 comments on LinkedIn
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S&P Global Unlocks the Future of AI-driven insights with AI-Ready Metadata on S&P Global Marketplace
TigerGraph Accelerates Enterprise AI Infrastructure Innovation with Strategic Investment from Cuadrilla Capital - TigerGraph
TigerGraph Accelerates Enterprise AI Infrastructure Innovation with Strategic Investment from Cuadrilla Capital - TigerGraph
TigerGraph secures a strategic investment from Cuadrilla Capital to fuel innovation in enterprise AI infrastructure and graph database technology, delivering advanced solutions for fraud detection, customer 360, supply chain optimization, and real-time data analytics.
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TigerGraph Accelerates Enterprise AI Infrastructure Innovation with Strategic Investment from Cuadrilla Capital - TigerGraph
Should ontologies be treated as organizational resources for semantic capabilities?
Should ontologies be treated as organizational resources for semantic capabilities?
๐Ÿ’ก Should ontologies be treated as organizational resources for semantic capabilities? More and more organizations are investing in data platforms, modeling tools, and integration frameworks. But one key capability is often underused or misunderstood: ontologies as semantic infrastructure. While databases handle facts and BI platforms handle queries, ontologies structure meaning. They define what things are, not just what data says. When treated as living organizational resources, ontologies can bring: ๐Ÿ”น Shared understanding across silos ๐Ÿ”น Reasoning and inference beyond data queries ๐Ÿ”น Semantic integration of diverse systems ๐Ÿ”น Clarity and coherence in enterprise models But hereโ€™s the challenge โ€” ontologies donโ€™t operate in isolation. They must be positioned alongside: ๐Ÿ”ธ Data-oriented technologies (RDF, RDF-star, quad stores) that track facts and provenance ๐Ÿ”ธ Enterprise modeling tools (e.g., ArchiMate) that describe systems and views ๐Ÿ”ธ Exploratory approaches (like semantic cartography) that support emergence over constraint These layers each come with their own logic โ€” epistemic vs. ontologic, structural vs. operational, contextual vs. formal. โœ… Building semantic capabilities requires aligning all these dimensions. โœ… It demands governance, tooling, and a culture of collaboration between ontologists, data managers, architects, and domain experts. โœ… And it opens the door to richer insight, smarter automation, and more agile knowledge flows. ๐Ÿ” With projects like ArchiCG (semantic interactive cartography), I aim to explore how we can visually navigate this landscape โ€” not constrained by predefined viewpoints, but guided by logic, meaning, and emergent perspectives. What do you think? Are ontologies ready to take their place as core infrastructure in your organization? | 16 comments on LinkedIn
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Building AI Agents with LLMs, RAG, and Knowledge Graphs: A practical guide to autonomous and modern AI agents
Building AI Agents with LLMs, RAG, and Knowledge Graphs: A practical guide to autonomous and modern AI agents
๐๐จ๐จ๐ค ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ๐จ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐›๐ž๐œ๐š๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ž ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐จ๐ง๐ž ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ญ๐ก ๐ข๐ญ.. ๐€๐ ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐œ ๐€๐ˆ ๐š๐ญ ๐ข๐ญ๐ฌ ๐›๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ.. This masterpiece was published by Salvatore Raieli and Gabriele Iuculano, and it is available for orders from today, and it's already a ๐๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ๐ฌ๐ž๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ž๐ซ! While many resources focus on LLMs or basic agentic workflows, what makes this book stand out is its deep dive into grounding LLMs with real-world data and action through the powerful combination of ๐˜™๐˜ฆ๐˜ต๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ฆ๐˜ท๐˜ข๐˜ญ-๐˜ˆ๐˜ถ๐˜จ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ ๐˜Ž๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ (๐˜™๐˜ˆ๐˜Ž) ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜’๐˜ฏ๐˜ฐ๐˜ธ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ๐˜จ๐˜ฆ ๐˜Ž๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ฑ๐˜ฉ๐˜ด. This isn't just about building Agents; it's about building AI that reasons, retrieves accurate information, and acts autonomously by leveraging structured knowledge alongside advanced LLMs. The book offers a practical roadmap, packed with concrete Python examples and real-world case studies, guiding you from concept to deployment of intelligent, robust, and hallucination-minimized AI solutions, even orchestrating multi-agent systems. Order your copy here - https://packt.link/RpzGM #AI #LLMs #KnowledgeGraphs #AIAgents #RAG #GenerativeAI #MachineLearning
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Building AI Agents with LLMs, RAG, and Knowledge Graphs: A practical guide to autonomous and modern AI agents
Semantics in use (part 3): an interview with Saritha V.Kuriakose, VP Research Data Management at Novo Nordisk | LinkedIn
Semantics in use (part 3): an interview with Saritha V.Kuriakose, VP Research Data Management at Novo Nordisk | LinkedIn
We continue our series of examples of the use of semantics and ontologies across organizations with an interview with Saritha V. Kuriakose from Novo Nordisk, talking about the pervasive and foundational use of ontologies in pharmaceutical R&D.
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Semantics in use (part 3): an interview with Saritha V.Kuriakose, VP Research Data Management at Novo Nordisk | LinkedIn