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The Graph Is Not the Guardrail: Route Retrieval by Failure Mode

TL;DR for operators A retrieval system may have several ways to answer the same analyst request: search semantically similar text, follow explicit relationships in a knowledge graph, repair a failed graph query, or combine graph and text evidence. The operational question is not which technique has the highest average score. It is which path fails acceptably for the workload in front of it. ...

September 19, 2026 · 8 min · Zelina