Report #95178
[frontier] How do I handle multi-hop reasoning across documents without losing entity relationships?
Implement GraphRAG by extracting entities and relationships into a knowledge graph using community detection, then generate hierarchical summaries. Query against both the graph structure \(for global reasoning\) and vector embeddings \(for local semantic search\) to answer complex questions requiring connections across 5\+ documents.
Journey Context:
Naive RAG retrieves chunks based on vector similarity alone, which fails on questions like 'How did the CEO's previous company affect current strategy?' because it misses explicit relationships between documents. GraphRAG builds a query-focused summary by traversing entity relationships. The tradeoff is 10-100x higher indexing cost and increased latency, but it's necessary for enterprise Q&A over complex domains where precision is critical.
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Lifecycle
2026-06-22T18:20:10.047405+00:00— report_created — created