The vocabulary the graph is built on
Before anything can be connected, it must be named consistently. The ontology defines a tiered industrial vocabulary — from broad markets down to specific equipment — that normalizes every source into one coherent model.
From market to equipment
Each tier refines the one above it. A market decomposes into systems, systems into components, and so on down to the equipment that makes them — a complete chain of industrial dependency.
Market
System
Component
Material
Technology
Process
Equipment
Structure requires a shared language
Entity resolution
The same material referenced three ways across three documents resolves to one canonical node.
Consistent traversal
Because tiers are defined, the reasoning engine knows how to walk from a product down to its equipment reliably.
Source normalization
Filings, contracts, and research all map into the same vocabulary rather than living as disconnected silos.
Comparability
Two programs in different markets can be compared because they share the same underlying structural language.
Extensibility
New domains slot into the existing tiers instead of requiring a new schema each time.
Explainable paths
Every dependency chain is expressed in ontology terms, so a conclusion reads as a coherent industrial narrative.
A shared vocabulary for the industrial economy.
The ontology is what lets every source, role, and application speak the same language.