# Knowledge Graph Builder

A skill for designing knowledge graphs: ontology, graph database choice, entity and relationship extraction. Useful when your data lives in the connections between things.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 433 installs · ★ 38
- Author: daffy0208
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/daffy0208/ai-dev-standards/tree/HEAD/skills/knowledge-graph-builder/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2025-12-25
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/knowledge-graph-builder

## What it does

The skill walks through six phases: ontology design, graph database selection, entity and relationship extraction, and a hybrid graph-plus-vector setup. Ontology is written in RDF/Turtle — classes like Person and Organization, properties like worksFor with a domain and range. For Neo4j it hands you Cypher for uniqueness constraints and indexes on name and type.

Extraction runs as a pipeline: an NER model pulls entities, a linker resolves them against existing nodes, a deduplicator settles conflicts. Relationships come from dependency parsing or an LLM, then get validated against the ontology. In the hybrid architecture structure sits in the graph while description embeddings sit in a vector database, so a query hits both at once.

The skill is upfront about when not to use it: simple tabular data, document-only search, or domains with few real connections between entities. A relational database or plain RAG will do there. It also flags teams without graph modeling experience. Read-heavy workloads with no traversal get nothing out of a graph either.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add daffy0208/ai-dev-standards --skill knowledge-graph-builder -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/knowledge-graph-builder/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/knowledge-graph-builder/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add daffy0208/ai-dev-standards --skill knowledge-graph-builder -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/knowledge-graph-builder/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add daffy0208/ai-dev-standards --skill knowledge-graph-builder -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/knowledge-graph-builder/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install daffy0208/ai-dev-standards knowledge-graph-builder
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/knowledge-graph-builder/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add daffy0208/ai-dev-standards --skill knowledge-graph-builder -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/daffy0208/ai-dev-standards --path skills/knowledge-graph-builder
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/knowledge-graph-builder/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add daffy0208/ai-dev-standards --skill knowledge-graph-builder -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/daffy0208/ai-dev-standards/tree/HEAD/skills/knowledge-graph-builder/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- design an ontology with entity classes and relationship types
- pick a graph database that fits your workload and infrastructure
- build an entity extraction pipeline over text
- tie a graph to structured facts and vector search
- set up Neo4j constraints and indexes

## Example prompts
- help me design an ontology for a knowledge graph of people and companies
- which graph database should I pick for deep relationship traversal
- build an entity and relationship extraction pipeline from these documents

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: Knowledge Graph Builder
description: Design and build knowledge graphs. Use when modeling complex relationships, building semantic search, or creating knowledge bases. Covers schema design, entity relationships, and graph database selection.
version: 1.0.0
---

# Knowledge Graph Builder

Build structured knowledge graphs for enhanced AI system performance through relational knowledge.

## Core Principle

**Knowledge graphs make implicit relationships explicit**, enabling AI systems to reason about connections, verify facts, and avoid hallucinations.

## When to Use Knowledge Graphs

### Use Knowledge Graphs When:

- ✅ Complex entity relationships are central to your domain
- ✅ Need to verify AI-generated facts against structured knowledge
- ✅ Semantic search and relationship traversal required
- ✅ Data has rich interconnections (people, organizations, products)
- ✅ Need to answer "how are X and Y related?" queries
- ✅ Building recommendation systems based on relationships
- ✅ Fraud detection or pattern recognition across connected data

### Don't Use Knowledge Graphs When:

- ❌ Simple tabular data (use relational DB)
- ❌ Purely document-based search (use RAG with vector DB)
- ❌ No significant relationships between entities
- ❌ Team lacks graph modeling expertise
- ❌ Read-heavy workload with no traversal (use traditional DB)

---

## 6-Phase Knowledge Graph Implementation

### Phase 1: Ontology Design

**Goal**: Define entities, relationships, and properties for your domain

**Entity Types** (Nodes):

- Person, Organization, Location, Product, Concept, Event, Document

**Relationship Types** (Edges):

- Hierarchical: IS_A, PART_OF, REPORTS_TO
- Associative: WORKS_FOR, LOCATED_IN, AUTHORED_BY, RELATED_TO
- Temporal: CREATED_ON, OCCURRED_BEFORE, OCCURRED_AFTER

**Properties** (Attributes):

- Node properties: id, name, type, created_at, metadata
- Edge properties: type, confidence, source, timestamp

**Example Ontology**:

```turtle
# RDF/Turtle format
@prefix : <http://example.org/ontology#> .

:Person a owl:Class ;
    rdfs:label "Person" .

:Organization a owl:Class ;
    rdfs:label "Organization" .

:worksFor a owl:ObjectProperty ;
    rdfs:domain :Person ;
    rdfs:range :Organization ;
    rdfs:label "works for" .
```

**Validation**:

- [ ] Entities cover all domain concepts
- [ ] Relationships capture key connections
- [ ] Ontology reviewed with domain experts
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