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How to deprecate and replace ontology terms safely

A 2026 decision guide for ontology stewards: test changed referents, choose exact or candidate replacements, publish a migration notice, and measure consumer impact against an inventory.

September 27, 2026• 22 min read
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Truth existence in data fusion: when all sources err

A 2026 research guide to no-truth questions in data fusion, TEM source-quality assumptions, SF2013 F1 denominators, and a held-out test for candidate omission and correct abstention.

September 26, 2026• 27 min read
truth existencedata fusiontruth discovery

LLM Context Compression Evidence Loss: An Acceptance Test

A 2026 guide to testing LLM context compression for evidence loss, with paired source bundles, exact-span scoring, citation-grounding data, and release rules for defensible answers.

September 25, 2026• 24 min read
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Knowledge graph quality assessment for decisions

A 2026 guide to assessing whether a knowledge graph can support a named decision, with separate tests for correctness, coverage, freshness, provenance, uncertainty, and a reusable quality card.

September 24, 2026• 24 min read
knowledge graph quality assessmentknowledge graph qualitydata quality

RDF 1.2 provenance: triple terms, reifiers, named graphs

A 2026 migration analysis of RDF 1.2 provenance, including six assertion-safety tests, a 13-quad two-library round trip, and guidance on reifiers versus named graphs.

September 23, 2026• 24 min read
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Google Knowledge Vault: What Survived at Web Scale

A 2026 evidence-led analysis of Google Knowledge Vault, its 1.6 billion unique triples, POPACCU+ error audit, provenance assumptions, and a defensible evaluation checklist.

September 23, 2026• 19 min read
probabilistic knowledge basesknowledge graphsknowledge provenance

How to Test Truth-Discovery Algorithms Before Choosing

A 2026 comparison of truth discovery algorithms using formal property tests, transparent baselines, empirical-Bayes conditions, benchmark design, and a reproducible acceptance protocol.

September 22, 2026• 21 min read
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Testing Streaming Truth Discovery Under Drift

A 2026 research guide to streaming truth discovery, separating one-pass computation, evolving truth and source reliability drift with decision matrices and failure-injection metrics.

September 22, 2026• 21 min read
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Fairness Tests for Truth-Discovery Aggregation

A 2026 evidence-based protocol for auditing truth-discovery aggregation across accuracy, disparity, coverage, uncertainty, dataset lineage, and downstream effects.

September 22, 2026• 19 min read
fairness tests for truth discovery aggregationtruth discoveryfair aggregation

Competency Questions: From Business Need to Ontology Test

A 2026 guide to ontology competency questions as traceability contracts, covering five CQ types, SPARQL and SHACL testing, fixtures, expected results, and regression evidence.

September 22, 2026• 24 min read
competency questions ontologyontology engineeringontology requirements

LLM Judge Groundedness Evaluation Calibration Protocol

A 2026 protocol for calibrating an LLM groundedness judge with controlled contradictions, paired judge-by-generator tests, confidence intervals, human review, and release gates.

September 22, 2026• 20 min read
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Comparing Truth Discovery Methods Without Gold Labels

A 2026 protocol for evaluating truth discovery without ground truth, comparing synthetic stress tests, sparse adjudication, observation likelihood, stability, and uncertainty.

September 22, 2026• 19 min read
truth discovery without ground truthtruth discovery evaluationdata fusion

When a Data Contract Needs an Ontology: ODCS 3.2 Test

A 2026 acceptance test for choosing contract-only, linked definitions, taxonomies, or ontology-backed ODCS 3.2 contracts, with a worked field crosswalk and handoff tests.

September 22, 2026• 21 min read
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Ontology Crosswalk Acceptance Tests for Mapping Quality

A 2026 method for testing ontology crosswalks through predicate semantics, inference closure, consumer queries, evidence packets, and version drift.

September 22, 2026• 22 min read
ontology crosswalk acceptance testontology mapping validationskos

Confidence-Aware Truth Discovery for Long-Tail Evidence

A 2026 guide to truth discovery from conflicting sources, with Wilson intervals, CATD and RTD analysis, source-count diagnostics, and retain, discount, pool, or abstain decisions.

September 22, 2026• 23 min read
truth discovery from conflicting sourcesconfidence-aware truth discoverytruth discovery algorithms

Safe ontology releases beyond SHACL conformance

A 2026 release-gate method for ontology owners covering SHACL limits, OWL import closure, query and entailment regression, migration evidence, and rollback.

September 22, 2026• 22 min read
ontology release beyond shacl conformanceontology versioningshacl validation

What Does a Fact-Verification Benchmark Test?

A 2026 guide to fact-verification benchmarks, covering system boundaries, evidence regimes, dataset scales, metric validity, leakage, and benchmark selection.

September 22, 2026• 24 min read
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Bitemporal Data vs Temporal Knowledge Graphs: A Guide

A 2026 research comparison of valid time, transaction time, temporal link prediction, MRR, snapshot replay, benchmark design, and when to combine both models.

September 22, 2026• 17 min read
bitemporal datatemporal knowledge graphsvalid time

W3C PROV for LLM Context Provenance: A Testable Profile

A 2026 application profile for reconstructable LLM evidence, with mandatory PROV mappings, source-state fields, mutation tests, and a two-serializer conformance matrix.

September 22, 2026• 22 min read
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Minimum Data Provenance Requirements for Defensible Values

A 2026 standards analysis of 15 minimum provenance fields, five audit questions, PROV-O mappings, temporal rules, declared unknowns, validation tests, and export packaging.

September 22, 2026• 26 min read
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AI Agent Memory Update: When to Update or Abstain

A 2026 test framework for AI agent memory updates using two clocks, temporal fixtures, stale-answer rates, evidence reconstruction, conflict handling, and justified abstention.

September 22, 2026• 24 min read
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