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Importance of Knowledge Graphs and Their Issues

Understand the importance of knowledge graphs.

Use cases

The main importance of knowledge graphs comes when handling several real-world use cases. Here are some of the few different use cases:

  • Semantic search: Google Search and Google's Knowledge Graph are great examples of this use case. The graphs are used to enhance the search capabilities of the website.

  • Recommendation system: We model the relationships between products, users, and other entities to provide personalized recommendations. Netflix's recommendation system models the relationship between users, movies, and TV shows.

  • Question answering: A chatbot or a language model is a good example for this use case. OpenAI's GPT-3, Google Assistant, and Apple's Siri are some examples that use a knowledge graph to generate human-like text responses.

  • Data integration: Since knowledge graphs are multi-relational, we can integrate and link data from multiple sources to make them more useful.

  • Natural language processing ...