entity graph
The web of nodes and typed edges a resolver builds from your declarations plus everyone else's: your Organization node, the Person it names as founder, the Wikidata item that names you back. It is distinct from the entity map, which is the file pair a site publishes, and from a knowledge graph, which is the store an engine keeps.
What entity graph does not show
A site contributes nodes and edges to a graph; it does not own the graph, and a claim nobody else corroborates is an edge with one end.
Where entity graph comes up on this site
- Entity SEO: what a machine or AI agent has to resolve before it can cite or act on youA related pattern: using the entity graph as a place to put keywords.
- How to read a CrawlCheck report: the grade, the three stages, the fix list and the evidenceThe Overview tab After the stages: a tally of sections passing, needing work, failing and not measurable; the remaining sections as tiles; the chain a crawler follows (robots.txt names the sitemap, llms.txt points onward, the entity graph points home) with…
- 33 AI visibility tools measured: a third publish llms.txt, none an entity mapWhat the battery actually measures Every vendor site got the same scan a paying customer gets: machine files on both hostnames, robots.txt parsed per agent, fifteen crawler identities fetching the homepage and compared against an unnamed client, schema…
Terms this definition uses
Wikidata · entity map · knowledge graph
Definitions that name entity graph
Related terms in Entities and schema
Declaring who you are in a form a resolver can use without guessing.
invented value · signed business record · listing audit · listing supplier · fix receipt · structured data · JSON-LD · stable @id · entity collision · reciprocated sameAs · sameAs · knowledge graph · entity resolution · entity disambiguation · Wikidata · NAP · local citation · Organization schema · LocalBusiness · FAQPage · structured data validation · @context · agentic knowledge graph · microformats (h-card) · RDF · triple · dangling @id · RDFa and Microdata · founder edge · foundingDate · knowsAbout · unreciprocated profile · DefinedTerm · Person schema · named entity recognition · NAP consistency · name drift · geocoding · rival roots · speakable · FAQPage schema · OpeningHoursSpecification · service area
Questions about entity graph
What is entity graph?
The web of nodes and typed edges a resolver builds from your declarations plus everyone else's: your Organization node, the Person it names as founder, the Wikidata item that names you back. It is distinct from the entity map, which is the file pair a site publishes, and from a knowledge graph, which is the store an engine keeps.
What does entity graph not show or guarantee?
A site contributes nodes and edges to a graph; it does not own the graph, and a claim nobody else corroborates is an edge with one end.
Which area of the glossary does entity graph belong to?
Entities and schema: Declaring who you are in a form a resolver can use without guessing.
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