Citation Needed: Provenance for LLM-Built Knowledge Graphs
Official Schedule Context
- Date/time: 2026-07-01 · 3:20pm-3:40pm
- Track/room: Graphs · Track 5
- Speaker(s): Daniel Chalef
- Session type/status: sponsor · confirmed
Official Description
An LLM doesn't copy facts into your knowledge graph. It synthesizes them: entities merge across
sources, and later data invalidates earlier facts. By the time your agent retrieves "patient has a
penicillin allergy," the origin — an EHR record, a lab report, or something typed into a chatbot —
is gone. This talk covers engineering lineage into a lossy, generative pipeline: episode-to-fact
links as structural graph properties, provenance that survives entity resolution, metadata
projection (tag a source once; it follows every derived node and edge), and the query semantics of
filtering facts by ancestry, including mixed-trust parentage. Deletion is the inverse problem: GDPR
erasure propagates back through the same derivation edges. Compliance gets an audit trail; engineers
get agents they can debug instead of black boxes.
Related YouTube Video
Stop Using RAG as Memory — Daniel Chalef, Zep (speaker-match related prior/adjacent AI Engineer video; captions: English auto-captions).
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