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A guide to Knowledge Graphs
A consolidation of notes that briefly but gently introduces Knowledge graphs and shines a light on several practical aspects.
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10 min readAug 30, 2021
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- What is a Knowledge Graph (KG)?
- Why KG?
- How to use KG? - KG in practice
- Open source KGs
- Creating custom KG
- KG Ontology
- Hosting KG (database)
- Query facts from KG
Introduction
In this section, we will introduce KG by asking some simple but intuitive questions about KG. In fact, we will cover the what, why, and how of the knowledge graph. We will also go through some real-world examples.
What is a Knowledge graph?
- To better under Knowledge graphs, let's start by understanding its basic unit i.e. a “fact”. A fact is the most basic piece of information that can be stored in a KG. Facts can be represented in form of triplets in either of the ways,
- HRT: <head, relation, tail>
- SPO: <subject, predicate, object> - Remember, the above representations are just for nomenclature sake, hence you may come across people referring to the fact either way. Let’s follow the HRT representation for…