Knowledge Graphs: A graph for linking entities? By Aditya Abeysinghe   The use of graphs for retrieving relationships between data entities has caused a massive growth of a new method for search of similar data. Graph databases are used from simple search engine results of searched text to complex social media and big data analytics. A graph with its connections enables faster, efficient data processing while ensuring less need to be context-based data links. While knowledge graphs are not to be thought as same as knowledge stores, their usage has certainly changed how data is handled in current querying methods. What is a knowledge graph? A knowledge graph, referred to as a graph hereafter, is a graph which connects real-world entities. These entities can be of different types: people, places, weather, etc. These entities are stored in a graph database and a graph represents connections between these entities. In a ...

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