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by simonmesmith 975 days ago
Having worked on this problem in biology, I think one of the challenges you’ll find is that the knowledge graph will be extremely context-dependent and biased towards highly probable nodes and edges.

For example, if you ask an LLM to create a graph of all proteins related to X disease, and show how they interact, it will oblige. (You can try this yourself easily in the OpenAI playground. Just ask it to send you back a list like X -> Y -> Z or whatever. Or an array of source/target/relation triplets.)

The challenge is that what you get will be very dependent on how you phrase your request. So you’ll never know if you’re getting a “complete” graph or just the most probable graph for the request you made. If you’re an expert in the domain, you’ll know, but if you’re an expert you might not need the graph in the first place.