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OntoKG: Ontology-Oriented Knowledge Graph Construction with Intrinsic-Relational Routing

Yitao Li , Zhanlin Liu , Anuranjan Pandey , Muni Srikanth
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keywords knowledge graphontology schemaintrinsic-relational routingWikidataproperty graphentity disambiguationLLM-guided extraction
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The pith

Classifying every property as intrinsic or relational produces a declarative schema reusable for ontology tasks independently of the graph construction pipeline.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper establishes that knowledge graph schemas should be designed from the outset for ontology analysis and reuse rather than emerging as a byproduct of pipeline decisions. It introduces intrinsic-relational routing, which sorts each property into one of 94 modules across 8 categories according to whether the property describes an entity by itself or a link to another entity. This produces a schema that can be exported and applied directly to tasks such as entity disambiguation and LLM-guided extraction without needing the original construction code. The method is shown on a cleaned 34.6M-entity subset of Wikidata, yielding a property graph whose schema supports five separate applications at high coverage rates.

Core claim

The central claim is that intrinsic-relational routing classifies every property as either intrinsic or relational and routes it to the corresponding schema module, thereby generating a declarative schema that is portable across storage backends and independently reusable for ontology structure analysis, benchmark annotation auditing, entity disambiguation, domain customization, and LLM-guided extraction.

What carries the argument

Intrinsic-relational routing: the classification step that assigns each property to an intrinsic or relational schema module to form a declarative, pipeline-independent schema.

Load-bearing premise

Every property can be unambiguously labeled intrinsic or relational in a manner that keeps the resulting schema truly independent of the construction steps and directly usable for the listed downstream tasks.

What would settle it

An experiment that applies the exported schema to a sixth downstream task or a new storage backend and finds that the task requires changes to the original construction pipeline would show the independence claim does not hold.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2604.02618 by Anuranjan Pandey, Muni Srikanth, Yitao Li, Zhanlin Liu.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Overview of the schema-centered knowledge graph ecosystem. A raw knowledge graph (left) is transformed [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Bipartite view of 8 categories (top) connected to 18 cross-category relational modules with span [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Governance domain subgraph extracted by selecting three relational modules: [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_3.png] view at source ↗
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Organizing a large-scale knowledge graph into a typed property graph requires structural decisions -- which entities become nodes, which properties become edges, and what schema governs these choices. Existing approaches embed these decisions in pipeline code or extract relations ad hoc, producing schemas that are tightly coupled to their construction process and difficult to reuse for downstream ontology-level tasks. We present an ontology-oriented approach in which the schema is designed from the outset for ontology analysis, entity disambiguation, domain customization, and LLM-guided extraction -- not merely as a byproduct of graph building. The core mechanism is intrinsic-relational routing, which classifies every property as either intrinsic or relational and routes it to the corresponding schema module. This routing produces a declarative schema that is portable across storage backends and independently reusable. We instantiate the approach on the January 2026 Wikidata dump. A rule-based cleaning stage identifies a 34.6M-entity core set from the full dump, followed by iterative intrinsic-relational routing that assigns each property to one of 94 modules organized into 8 categories. With tool-augmented LLM support and human review, the schema reaches 93.3% category coverage and 98.0% module assignment among classified entities. Exporting this schema yields a property graph with 34.0M nodes and 61.2M edges across 38 relationship types. We validate the ontology-oriented claim through five applications that consume the schema independently of the construction pipeline: ontology structure analysis, benchmark annotation auditing, entity disambiguation, domain customization, and LLM-guided extraction.

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Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper presents OntoKG, an ontology-oriented KG construction method that employs intrinsic-relational routing to classify every property as intrinsic or relational and route it to one of 94 modules in 8 categories. Applied to a cleaned 34.6M-entity subset of the Wikidata dump, the process yields a declarative schema exported as a property graph with 34.0M nodes and 61.2M edges over 38 relationship types, claimed to be portable across backends and independently reusable for five downstream tasks: ontology structure analysis, benchmark annotation auditing, entity disambiguation, domain customization, and LLM-guided extraction. The schema reaches 93.3% category coverage and 98.0% module assignment with tool-augmented LLM support and human review.

Significance. If the routing mechanism produces a schema that is genuinely independent of the Wikidata-specific pipeline, the work would advance KG construction by separating declarative ontology design from ad-hoc extraction code, enabling reuse across storage systems and tasks. The concrete scale (34M nodes) and explicit list of five consuming applications provide a practical demonstration that could influence ontology-aware KG tooling if the independence claim holds.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract and method description: the intrinsic-relational routing lacks an explicit formal predicate or deterministic decision procedure (e.g., a rule based on property semantics, domain/range constraints, or ontology-level properties) for classifying a property such as birthDate versus spouse; without this, the exported schema cannot be shown to be independent of the iterative, LLM-augmented, and human-reviewed construction steps, directly undermining the central portability and reusability claim for the five downstream tasks.
  2. [Validation section] Validation through five applications: the applications are described only at high level with no quantitative metrics, baselines, ablation on schema independence, or error analysis showing that each consumes the schema without re-executing equivalent cleaning/routing steps; this leaves the ontology-oriented claim with limited evidential support.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Clarify the Wikidata dump date; 'January 2026' appears inconsistent with current timelines and should be corrected or explained.
  2. [Abstract] The abstract reports aggregate coverage figures (93.3%, 98.0%) but provides no breakdown by category or module; adding a table or figure with per-category statistics would improve clarity.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the insightful comments, which help clarify the requirements for demonstrating schema independence and strengthening the empirical validation. We address each major comment below and will revise the manuscript to incorporate formal definitions and quantitative details.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract and method description: the intrinsic-relational routing lacks an explicit formal predicate or deterministic decision procedure (e.g., a rule based on property semantics, domain/range constraints, or ontology-level properties) for classifying a property such as birthDate versus spouse; without this, the exported schema cannot be shown to be independent of the iterative, LLM-augmented, and human-reviewed construction steps, directly undermining the central portability and reusability claim for the five downstream tasks.

    Authors: We agree that the current manuscript description does not provide an explicit formal predicate. In the revision, we will add a dedicated subsection in the Methods (Section 3) defining the classification as a deterministic function: a property is intrinsic if its range is a literal or self-contained datatype (e.g., birthDate) and relational otherwise (e.g., spouse linking to another entity), using Wikidata property constraints and domain/range axioms as the decision basis. This rule set will be shown to operate independently of the LLM/human review steps, which serve only for initial population and verification, thereby supporting the portability claim. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Validation section] Validation through five applications: the applications are described only at high level with no quantitative metrics, baselines, ablation on schema independence, or error analysis showing that each consumes the schema without re-executing equivalent cleaning/routing steps; this leaves the ontology-oriented claim with limited evidential support.

    Authors: We acknowledge that the validation remains high-level. The revised Validation section will include quantitative results for all five tasks (e.g., F1 scores for entity disambiguation, coverage percentages for domain customization), comparisons against baselines that do not use the schema, an ablation isolating schema independence by re-running tasks with raw Wikidata properties, and error analysis confirming that each application ingests only the exported property graph without re-applying cleaning or routing logic. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: schema produced by explicit pipeline and validated independently

full rationale

The paper describes a concrete sequence—rule-based cleaning of the Wikidata dump followed by iterative property classification into 94 modules via LLM assistance and human review—yielding an exported schema that is then consumed by five separate downstream tasks. No equations, definitions, or self-citations reduce the final schema or its reusability claims back to the construction steps by construction. The classification process is presented as an input-dependent procedure whose output is treated as an independent artifact, satisfying the requirement for non-circular derivation.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

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axioms (1)
  • domain assumption Wikidata dump can be reduced to a 34.6M-entity core set via rule-based cleaning
    Invoked in the initial cleaning stage described in the abstract.

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