Knowledge Graph Audit: Six of Mine, Twelve Capabilities, No Complete Column
I had built the same layer six times without noticing. Over the past few years a knowledge graph kept appearing inside otherwise unrelated work. It turned up as a routing viewer for one client, as a layout explorer for another, as a word map I use for teaching, as a live add-in that watches a Revit model while somebody edits it, and as a governance layer over a personal vault of notes. Each one was built for its own reason on its own schedule, and not one of them borrowed a line of code from the others. Last week I stopped and opened all of them at the same time. The trigger was a complaint I had about my own tooling, and the complaint had three parts: none of these tools handled bulk, none of them offered more than one way of looking at the same data, and none of them showed the process by which an answer was reached. I wanted to know whether the fix was a new tool or something I already owned without having collected it. This post is the audit, and the short version is that the sp...
