A pattern for building temporally-grounded knowledge graphs from scholarly and documentary sources, optimised for downstream knowledge graph embedding (KGE) training.
Most knowledge graph construction from text produces triples: (subject, predicate, object). Applied to scholarly or historical sources, this collapses a critical distinction. A monograph arguing that the Treaty of Westphalia established state sovereignty is doing something categorically different from the same monograph reporting that previous historians have made this argument. The first is a knowledge claim being advanced; the second is a claim being attributed. Embedding models trained on undifferentiated triples will represent both as equivalent facts which could create a fundamental error of provenance.