Replace per-triple provenance reification with subgraph model
Extraction provenance previously created a full reification (statement
URI, activity, agent) for every single extracted triple, producing ~13
provenance triples per knowledge triple. Since each chunk is processed
by a single LLM call, this was both redundant and semantically
inaccurate.
Now one subgraph object is created per chunk extraction, with
tg:contains linking to each extracted triple. For 20 extractions from
a chunk this reduces provenance from ~260 triples to ~33.
- Rename tg:reifies -> tg:contains, stmt_uri -> subgraph_uri
- Replace triple_provenance_triples() with subgraph_provenance_triples()
- Refactor kg-extract-definitions and kg-extract-relationships to
generate provenance once per chunk instead of per triple
- Add subgraph provenance to kg-extract-ontology and kg-extract-agent
(previously had none)
- Update CLI tools and tech specs to match
Also rename tg-show-document-hierarchy to tg-show-extraction-provenance.
Added extra typing for extraction provenance, fixed extraction prov CLI
Add unified explainability support and librarian storage for all retrieval engines
Implements consistent explainability/provenance tracking
across GraphRAG, DocumentRAG, and Agent retrieval
engines. All large content (answers, thoughts, observations)
is now stored in librarian rather than as inline literals in
the knowledge graph.
Explainability API:
- New explainability.py module with entity classes (Question,
Exploration, Focus, Synthesis, Analysis, Conclusion) and
ExplainabilityClient
- Quiescence-based eventual consistency handling for trace
fetching
- Content fetching from librarian with retry logic
CLI updates:
- tg-invoke-graph-rag -x/--explainable flag returns
explain_id
- tg-invoke-document-rag -x/--explainable flag returns
explain_id
- tg-invoke-agent -x/--explainable flag returns explain_id
- tg-list-explain-traces uses new explainability API
- tg-show-explain-trace handles all three trace types
Agent provenance:
- Records session, iterations (think/act/observe), and conclusion
- Stores thoughts and observations in librarian with document
references
- New predicates: tg:thoughtDocument, tg:observationDocument
DocumentRAG provenance:
- Records question, exploration (chunk retrieval), and synthesis
- Stores answers in librarian with document references
Schema changes:
- AgentResponse: added explain_id, explain_graph fields
- RetrievalResponse: added explain_id, explain_graph fields
- agent_iteration_triples: supports thought_document_id,
observation_document_id
Update tests.
Update RAG and Agent clients for streaming message handling
GraphRAG now sends multiple message types in a stream:
- 'explain' messages with explain_id and explain_graph for
provenance
- 'chunk' messages with response text fragments
- end_of_session marker for stream completion
Updated all clients to handle this properly:
CLI clients (trustgraph-base/trustgraph/clients/):
- graph_rag_client.py: Added chunk_callback and explain_callback
- document_rag_client.py: Added chunk_callback and explain_callback
- agent_client.py: Added think, observe, answer_callback,
error_callback
Internal clients (trustgraph-base/trustgraph/base/):
- graph_rag_client.py: Async callbacks for streaming
- agent_client.py: Async callbacks for streaming
All clients now:
- Route messages by chunk_type/message_type
- Stream via optional callbacks for incremental delivery
- Wait for proper completion signals
(end_of_dialog/end_of_session/end_of_stream)
- Accumulate and return complete response for callers not using
callbacks
Updated callers:
- extract/kg/agent/extract.py: Uses new invoke(question=...) API
- tests/integration/test_agent_kg_extraction_integration.py:
Updated mocks
This fixes the agent infinite loop issue where knowledge_query was
returning the first 'explain' message (empty response) instead of
waiting for the actual answer chunks.
Concurrency in triples query
- Fix ontology RAG pipeline: embeddings API, chunker provenance, and query concurrency
- Fix ontology embeddings to use correct response shape from embed()
API (returns list of vectors, not list of list of vectors).
- Simplify chunker URI logic to append /c{index} to parent ID
instead of parsing page/doc URI structure which was fragile.
- Add provenance tracking and librarian integration to token
chunker, matching recursive chunker capabilities.
- Add configurable concurrency (default 10) to Cassandra, Qdrant,
and embeddings query services.
The id field in pipeline Metadata was being overwritten at each processing
stage (document → page → chunk), causing knowledge storage to create
separate cores per chunk instead of grouping by document.
Add a root field that:
- Is set by librarian to the original document ID
- Is copied unchanged through PDF decoder, chunkers, and extractors
- Is used by knowledge storage for document_id grouping (with fallback to id)
Changes:
- Add root field to Metadata schema with empty string default
- Set root=document.id in librarian when initiating document processing
- Copy root through PDF decoder, recursive chunker, and all extractors
- Update knowledge storage to use root (or id as fallback) for grouping
- Add root handling to translators and gateway serialization
- Update test mock Metadata class to include root parameter
The metadata field (list of triples) in the pipeline Metadata class
was redundant. Document metadata triples already flow directly from
librarian to triple-store via emit_document_provenance() - they don't
need to pass through the extraction pipeline.
Additionally, chunker and PDF decoder were overwriting metadata to []
anyway, so any metadata passed through the pipeline was being
discarded.
Changes:
- Remove metadata field from Metadata dataclass
(schema/core/metadata.py)
- Update all Metadata instantiations to remove metadata=[]
parameter
- Remove metadata handling from translators (document_loading,
knowledge)
- Remove metadata consumption from extractors (ontology, agent)
- Update gateway serializers and import handlers
- Update all unit, integration, and contract tests
Terminology Rename, and named-graphs for explainability data
Changed terminology:
- session -> question
- retrieval -> exploration
- selection -> focus
- answer -> synthesis
- uris.py: Renamed query_session_uri → question_uri,
retrieval_uri → exploration_uri, selection_uri → focus_uri,
answer_uri → synthesis_uri
- triples.py: Renamed corresponding triple generation functions with
updated labels ("GraphRAG question", "Exploration", "Focus",
"Synthesis")
- namespaces.py: Added named graph constants GRAPH_DEFAULT,
GRAPH_SOURCE, GRAPH_RETRIEVAL
- init.py: Updated exports
- graph_rag.py: Updated to use new terminology
- invoke_graph_rag.py: Updated CLI to display new stage names
(Question, Exploration, Focus, Synthesis)
Query-Time Explainability → Named Graph
- triples.py: Added set_graph() helper function to set named graph
on triples
- graph_rag.py: All explainability triples now use GRAPH_RETRIEVAL
named graph
- rag.py: Explainability triples stored in user's collection (not
separate collection) with named graph
Extraction Provenance → Named Graph
- relationships/extract.py: Provenance triples use GRAPH_SOURCE
named graph
- definitions/extract.py: Provenance triples use GRAPH_SOURCE
named graph
- chunker.py: Provenance triples use GRAPH_SOURCE named graph
- pdf_decoder.py: Provenance triples use GRAPH_SOURCE named graph
CLI Updates
- show_graph.py: Added -g/--graph option to filter by named graph and
--show-graph to display graph column
Also:
- Fix knowledge core schemas
Knowledge core fixed:
- trustgraph-flow/trustgraph/tables/knowledge.py - v.vector, v.chunk_id
- trustgraph-base/trustgraph/messaging/translators/document_loading.py -
chunk.vector
- trustgraph-base/trustgraph/messaging/translators/knowledge.py -
entity.vector
- trustgraph-flow/trustgraph/gateway/dispatch/serialize.py - entity.vector,
chunk.vector
Test fixtures fixed:
- tests/unit/test_storage/conftest.py - All mock entities/chunks use vector
- tests/unit/test_query/conftest.py - All mock requests use vector
- tests/unit/test_query/test_doc_embeddings_pinecone_query.py - All mock
messages use vector
These changes align with commit f2ae0e86 which changed the schema from
vectors: list[list[float]] to vector: list[float].
Schema fix (dtype/lang clustering key):
- Add dtype and lang to PRIMARY KEY in quads_by_entity table
- Add otype, dtype, lang to PRIMARY KEY in quads_by_collection table
- Fixes deduplication bug where literals with same value but different
datatype or language tag were collapsed (e.g., "thing" vs "thing"@en)
- Update delete_collection to pass new clustering columns
- Update tech spec to reflect new schema
Graph filter semantics (simplified, no wildcard constant):
- g=None means all graphs (no filter)
- g="" means default graph only
- g="uri" means specific named graph
- Remove GRAPH_WILDCARD usage from EntityCentricKnowledgeGraph
- Fix service.py streaming and non-streaming paths
- Fix CLI to preserve empty string for -g '' argument
Base Service (trustgraph-base/trustgraph/base/embeddings_service.py):
- Changed on_request to use request.texts
FastEmbed Processor
(trustgraph-flow/trustgraph/embeddings/fastembed/processor.py):
- on_embeddings(texts, model=None) now processes full batch efficiently
- Returns [[v.tolist()] for v in vecs] - list of vector sets
Ollama Processor (trustgraph-flow/trustgraph/embeddings/ollama/processor.py):
- on_embeddings(texts, model=None) passes list directly to Ollama
- Returns [[embedding] for embedding in embeds.embeddings]
EmbeddingsClient (trustgraph-base/trustgraph/base/embeddings_client.py):
- embed(texts, timeout=300) accepts list of texts
Tests Updated:
- test_fastembed_dynamic_model.py - 4 tests updated for new interface
- test_ollama_dynamic_model.py - 4 tests updated for new interface
Updated CLI, SDK and APIs
Quoted triple fixes, including...
1. Updated triple_provenance_triples() in triples.py:
- Now accepts a Triple object directly
- Creates the reification triple using TRIPLE term type: stmt_uri tg:reifies
<<extracted_triple>>
- Includes it in the returned provenance triples
2. Updated definitions extractor:
- Added imports for provenance functions and component version
- Added ParameterSpec for optional llm-model and ontology flow parameters
- For each definition triple, generates provenance with reification
3. Updated relationships extractor:
- Same changes as definitions extractor
Tech spec
BlobStore (trustgraph-flow/trustgraph/librarian/blob_store.py):
- get_stream() - yields document content in chunks for streaming retrieval
- create_multipart_upload() - initializes S3 multipart upload, returns
upload_id
- upload_part() - uploads a single part, returns etag
- complete_multipart_upload() - finalizes upload with part etags
- abort_multipart_upload() - cancels and cleans up
Cassandra schema (trustgraph-flow/trustgraph/tables/library.py):
- New upload_session table with 24-hour TTL
- Index on user for listing sessions
- Prepared statements for all operations
- Methods: create_upload_session(), get_upload_session(),
update_upload_session_chunk(), delete_upload_session(),
list_upload_sessions()
- Schema extended with UploadSession, UploadProgress, and new
request/response fields
- Librarian methods: begin_upload, upload_chunk, complete_upload,
abort_upload, get_upload_status, list_uploads
- Service routing for all new operations
- Python SDK with transparent chunked upload:
- add_document() auto-switches to chunked for files > 10MB
- Progress callback support (on_progress)
- get_pending_uploads(), get_upload_status(), abort_upload(),
resume_upload()
- Document table: Added parent_id and document_type columns with index
- Document schema (knowledge/document.py): Added document_id field for
streaming retrieval
- Librarian operations:
- add-child-document for extracted PDF pages
- list-children to get child documents
- stream-document for chunked content retrieval
- Cascade delete removes children when parent is deleted
- list-documents filters children by default
- PDF decoder (decoding/pdf/pdf_decoder.py): Updated to stream large
documents from librarian API to temp file
- Librarian service (librarian/service.py): Sends document_id instead of
content for large PDFs (>2MB)
- Deprecated tools (load_pdf.py, load_text.py): Added deprecation
warnings directing users to tg-add-library-document +
tg-start-library-processing
Remove load_pdf and load_text utils
Move chunker/librarian comms to base class
Updating tests
* Don't emit graph embeddings if there aren't any.
* Don't store graph embeddings in a knowledge store if there's an empty list.
* Translate between Cassandra's 'null' representing an empty list and an
empty list which is what the surrounding code wants (and stored in the
first place).
* Avoid emitting empty embedding lists
* Avoid output empty triple lists
* Fix tests
* CLI tools for tg-invoke-graph-embeddings, tg-invoke-document-embeddings,
and tg-invoke-embeddings. Just useful for diagnostics.
* Fix tg-load-knowledge
* Changed schema for Value -> Term, majorly breaking change
* Following the schema change, Value -> Term into all processing
* Updated Cassandra for g, p, s, o index patterns (7 indexes)
* Reviewed and updated all tests
* Neo4j, Memgraph and FalkorDB remain broken, will look at once settled down
