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Pull the who and the where out of your sources — the artists, movements, works, and places — and see them as a single connected map instead of names buried in a hundred pages.
When to reach for it
When the cast of your research has grown past what you can hold in your head — dozens of artists, overlapping movements, recurring institutions — and you need to see who connects to whom. It's the tool for the moment a body of sources becomes a web of people, works, and places, and you want that web drawn rather than reconstructed from memory.
Build the graph from your sources
Choose the materials to draw from and build a graph across them. It reads your sources and extracts the entities inside — the named things that populate art-historical research — then works out how they relate. You can scope it to a project or a hand-picked set of materials.
Building a knowledge graph from materials
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Read the entities and their links
The graph shows entities as nodes — artists, artworks, movements, materials, and locations — with edges for the relationships between them. An artist tied to a movement, a work tied to a place, a material recurring across several artists. Reading it is how you spot the central figure you'd underweighted, or the institution that quietly connects everything.
The entity graph
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The most-connected node isn't always the one you expected. That surprise is often the real centre of your show.
Focus by entity type or confidence
Narrow the graph to just the entity types you care about — only artists and movements, say — to see one layer of the picture cleanly. You can also filter by how confident the extraction is, keeping only the high-confidence entities when you want certainty, or including the tentative ones when you're hunting for leads.
Filtering the graph by type and confidence
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Knowledge Graph vs. Connection Mapping
They both draw graphs, but of different things. Connection Mapping links your source documents by how conceptually close they are — a map of your materials. The Knowledge Graph links the entities inside those documents — a map of the artists, works, and places your materials are about. Use Connection Mapping to organise your reading; use the Knowledge Graph to understand the subject.
Building a graph costs roughly 3,000 tokens — a few cents to turn scattered names into a structure you can navigate.
What comes next
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Connection Mapping
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Gap Analysis
5 minFind what's missing — the perspectives, periods, and places your research isn't covering yet
Directed Inquiry
4 minAsk a research question across chosen sources — get themes, quotes, gaps, and outside leads, all cited
Map the people,
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