The co-evolution of ontologies and extensive knowledge graphs on a web scale
摘要
Large knowledge graphs (LKGs) have become essential components in search engines, digital twins, biomedical discoveries, and retrieval-augmented generation. As these graphs scale from millions to trillions of edges, they transform ontologies from passive frameworks into an active semantic control plane tasked with managing ingestion, reasoning, and compliance instantaneously. This article introduces the first comprehensive framework that describes the co-evolution of ontologies and LKGs at a Web scale. We (i) delineate LKGs across six interdependent "V" dimensions and classify reasoning complexity from straightforward lookup to neuro-symbolic inference; (ii) examine four distributed storage models, demonstrating how hybrid solutions integrate RDF, LPG, and columnar lakes to achieve sub-second query times for graphs on a petabyte scale; (iii) develop ontology-driven construction pipelines capable of supporting more than