Ontological Prisms

Knowledge Engineering for Enterprise & Agentic Systems

Ontological Prisms

The expansion of generative AI has highlighted the limitations of purely neural approaches and the benefits of coupling them with symbolic counterparts epitomized by ontologies. While knowledge graphs emerge as the jack of all trades among agents dealing with language, knowledge, and orchestration, there is little consensus on the sources and roles of ontologies, in other words, knowledge.

The book introduces ontological prisms, a game-changing paradigm that unfolds the geometry of knowledge into a triptych of observed worlds (facts), meanings (concepts), and shared representations (categories).

This approach entails three major breakthroughs with regard to:

• Interoperability: by establishing a principled and actionable distinction between communication (language) and representation (knowledge), ontological prisms