Short Paths, Sharp Minds: Why Knowledge Graph Distance Feels Like Cognitive Gravity
Map distance is not truth. Anyone who has followed a GPS into a dead-end road knows this already. But distance is still useful. If a restaurant is 300 meters away, it is usually a more plausible lunch option than one across the ocean. If a customer record links directly to an invoice, and that invoice links directly to a shipment, the shipment is a more plausible grounding for a customer-service question than a random supplier buried in another region’s procurement graph. Not guaranteed. Just plausible. That small distinction is where the paper becomes interesting. ...