Beyond the Chunk: How GraphRAG Teaches AI to Reason, Not Just Retrieve

Introduction To understand knowledge graphs, you first need to grasp three core concepts: entities , relations , and triples . Imagine a knowledge graph as a network that models the real world using nodes and connections . In this network, an entity is any distinct thing or object such as a person , city , or company . For example, “Sreeni”, “Plano”, and “Caterpillar” are all entities. A relation describes how two entities are connected, such as “ lives_in ”, “ works_at ”, or “ located_in ”. Rel