# [The Context Gap](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fpulse%2Fcontext-gap-jessica-talisman-pexvc%23article) RDF-backed companion for Jessica Talisman's LinkedIn article and the visible comment thread captured with Browser Use. Related files: [HTML](./context-gap-jessica-talisman-gpt5-1.html) | [RDF Turtle](../rdf/context-gap-jessica-talisman-gpt5-1.ttl) | [JSON-LD](../json/context-gap-jessica-talisman-gpt5-1.jsonld) Source: [LinkedIn article](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/context-gap-jessica-talisman-pexvc) ## Overview The article argues that the enterprise AI "context graph" boom is a market rediscovery of [process knowledge](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fpulse%2Fcontext-gap-jessica-talisman-pexvc%23concept-process-knowledge), [procedural knowledge graphs](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fpulse%2Fcontext-gap-jessica-talisman-pexvc%23concept-procedural-knowledge-graph), [institutional memory](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fpulse%2Fcontext-gap-jessica-talisman-pexvc%23concept-institutional-memory), and [knowledge management](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fpulse%2Fcontext-gap-jessica-talisman-pexvc%23concept-knowledge-management). ## Core Claims ### [A New Name for an Old Wound](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fpulse%2Fcontext-gap-jessica-talisman-pexvc%23section-new-name-old-wound) A New Name for an Old Wound In December 2025, Foundation Capital published an essay titled 'AI's Trillion-Dollar Opportunity: Context Graphs,' which has since become one of the most-discussed pieces in enterprise AI. The thesis holds that agents are hitting a wall that governance alone cannot solve, and the wall is not missing data - it is missing decision traces. Foundation Capital proposes the 'context graph' as the answer, characterized as a living record of decision traces stitched across entities and time, where precedent becomes searchable. Within a month, Dharmesh Shah of HubSpot was calling context graphs 'a system of record for decisions, not just data,' Aaron Levie of Box declared we had entered 'the era of context,' and Arvind Jain of Glean wrote that the concept 'finally has a name.' In other words, a rebranding of a discipline lost. Allow me a moment of professional indignat... ### [Outsourcing and Process Knowledge Loss](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fpulse%2Fcontext-gap-jessica-talisman-pexvc%23section-outsourcing-process-knowledge) What Foundation Capital calls a context graph is, in the disciplinary vocabulary of information science, a procedural knowledge graph grounded in formal ontologies, with provenance, temporal validity, entity resolution and controlled vocabularies underneath. We already have the methods. PROV-O models provenance. SKOS handles vocabulary control. OWL provides the reasoning structures. The toolkit predates the marketing. What is missing is not tooling but the recognition that this is a knowledge management problem, requiring knowledge engineers, information architects, ontologists and the cultural conditions that allow their work to be valued and sustained as part of the operational infrastructure. The Foundation Capital thesis is therefore best read not as a revelation but as a confession. The market is admitting, in the language it understands, that the operational knowledge required to r... ### [The Great Unbundling](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fpulse%2Fcontext-gap-jessica-talisman-pexvc%23section-great-unbundling) When we sent manufacturing to China, India and the Philippines, we divested from the opportunity to learn, iterate, fail and improve. We eliminated critical feedback loops, a requisite for capturing and documenting procedural knowledge. We dissolved communities of practice that essential sources for process knowledge. And crucially, thanks to gapping holes in the end-to-end process knowledge fabric, we stopped investing in the knowledge infrastructure required to capture and maintain our understanding of how complex systems actually work. The Great Unbundling The story begins in the 1880s and accelerates through the 1990s and 2000s with what business strategists celebrated this as 'disaggregation' and 'core competency focus.' Companies would concentrate on their 'core' activities - typically defined as customer-facing brand management, product design and strategic decision making - while... ### [Shenzhen and Process Knowledge](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fpulse%2Fcontext-gap-jessica-talisman-pexvc%23section-shenzhen-process-knowledge) What went largely unexamined was what happened to process knowledge when these activities migrated. The assumption was that process knowledge could be cleanly separated from execution - that 'knowing how' could remain in Western headquarters while 'doing what' happened elsewhere. This assumption proved catastrophically wrong. Look no further than current struggles in developing knowledge infrastructures in technology organizations and massive failures of agentic AI systems. (see my series, 'Why AI Isn't Autonomous (Yet)'). Shenzhen and Process Knowledge To understand what was lost, we must first understand what was gained. Dan Wang's Breakneck provides the most compelling account of how China, and Shenzhen in particular, transformed manufacturing offshoring into a comprehensive accumulation of process knowledge.3 I adore Wang's book so much, I have read it twice, and highly recommend.../... ## Visible Comment Thread ### [Kingsley Uyi Idehen](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fpulse%2Fcontext-gap-jessica-talisman-pexvc%23comment-kingsley-idehen-1) Author entity: [Kingsley Uyi Idehen](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fin%2Fkidehen%23this) Visible time: 1m Role/context: Founder & CEO at OpenLink Software | Driving GenAI-Based AI Agents | Harmonizing Disparate Data Spaces Jessica, here is a knowledge graph, deployed as a Semantic Web, constructed from notes generated by my AI agent from this post. Publication for Web access and upload to the underlying Virtuoso-hosted knowledge graph is achieved by mounting a Virtuoso WebDAV folder to the local operating system, copying local files into the mounted folder, and letting Linked Data principles provide Web-scale data access by reference. Links include https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/DAV/demos/daas/context-gap-jessica-talisman-gpt5-1.html and hashtags #AgenticWeb #ContextGraph #KnowledgeGraphs #LinkedData #SemanticWeb #HowTo #UseCase. ### [Charles Ivie](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fpulse%2Fcontext-gap-jessica-talisman-pexvc%23comment-charles-ivie-1) Author entity: [Charles Ivie](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fin%2Fcharlesivie%23this) Visible time: 3h Role/context: Partner, Data & AI Engineering Lead | ex AWS, BBC | Ontologist Very astute observations Jessica Talisman. It reminds me of so many decisions that are made by every government. Quick decisions are made with unknown consequences yet to be realised. Often resulting in the cure being worse than the original pathogen. We are, as a species, so destined to find a quick fix, only to realise it cases a slow decline. ### [Jessica Talisman](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fpulse%2Fcontext-gap-jessica-talisman-pexvc%23comment-jessica-reply-charles) Author entity: [Jessica Talisman](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fin%2Fjmtalisman%23this) Visible time: 3h Role/context: Author, Building information systems for the benefit of all Taxonomy | Ontology | Knowledge Graphs Charles outsource or automate without much in between. Currently reading Goliath's Curse by Luke Kemp which I think you'd appreciate ### [Fred Lardaro](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fpulse%2Fcontext-gap-jessica-talisman-pexvc%23comment-fred-lardaro-1) Author entity: [Fred Lardaro](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fin%2Ffred-lardaro%23this) Visible time: 58m Role/context: Let's make your home more safe and secure with a self-monitored video sensor solution that provides one-touch 911. Jessica Talisman!!! Everything old is new again. If all our experts disappeared... would our decision making systems be able to explain how decisions were made? One consolation is that we are pretty good at gaining wisdom after the fact. ### [Jessica Talisman](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fpulse%2Fcontext-gap-jessica-talisman-pexvc%23comment-jessica-reply-fred) Author entity: [Jessica Talisman](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fin%2Fjmtalisman%23this) Visible time: 55m Role/context: Author, Building information systems for the benefit of all Taxonomy | Ontology | Knowledge Graphs Fred knowledge and wisdom! ### [Andrei Bâcu](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fpulse%2Fcontext-gap-jessica-talisman-pexvc%23comment-andrei-bacu-1) Author entity: [Andrei Bâcu](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fin%2Fandreibacu%23this) Visible time: 2h Role/context: Founder @Antifragile.AI | Senior Architect | GenAI | Data | AI/ML @ Flutter Entertainment Jessica Talisman I really appreciate that you are sharing all this valuable information in an usable format. Have started building a knowledge graph and an ontology for the EU AI Act at Antifragile.AI, for streamlining compliance & cybersecurity and helping systems to become antifragile in time. Context graphs and context engineering are core components for providing evidence-based assertions and remediations, advanced observability and even inputs for RL of Agents. ### [Andreas Schurch](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fpulse%2Fcontext-gap-jessica-talisman-pexvc%23comment-andreas-schurch-1) Author entity: [Andreas Schurch](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fin%2Fandreas-schurch%23this) Visible time: 2h Role/context: Founder, Duodata | I help data leaders go from messy KPIs to a business-approved metrics layer everyone trusts | Ex-AWS, Microsoft, Matillion Jessica, love this! The phrase "context graph" is useful, but your point that the market is rediscovering process knowledge, ontology, and institutional memory is spot on. Curious how others here are thinking about the cultural side of this: can companies rebuild the communities of practice behind the graph, or will they keep trying to buy the artifact without restoring the discipline? We have seen this movie before. ### [Andi Willmott](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fpulse%2Fcontext-gap-jessica-talisman-pexvc%23comment-andi-willmott-1) Author entity: [Andi Willmott](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fin%2Fandi-willmott-330457%23this) Visible time: 2h Role/context: Chief Solutions Officer What is lost is found again - just repackaged. Jessica Talisman, really enjoyed your observations linking the past days to today - hugely astute. ### [Jessica Talisman](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fpulse%2Fcontext-gap-jessica-talisman-pexvc%23comment-jessica-reply-andi) Author entity: [Jessica Talisman](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fin%2Fjmtalisman%23this) Visible time: 2h Role/context: Author, Building information systems for the benefit of all Taxonomy | Ontology | Knowledge Graphs thank you, Andi ### [Shashi Bhatnagar](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fpulse%2Fcontext-gap-jessica-talisman-pexvc%23comment-shashi-bhatnagar-1) Author entity: [Shashi Bhatnagar](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fin%2Fshashikaantbhatnagar%23this) Visible time: 15h Role/context: Planetary Risk managed, Spatially Intelligent, Adaptive Resilient Assets & Solutions. This is brilliant articulation of risks we face - and what to do to influence the mitigation. A very multidimensional view can be formed from the same article. ## References ### Essays and Articles - [AI's Trillion-Dollar Opportunity: Context Graphs](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fpulse%2Fcontext-gap-jessica-talisman-pexvc%23ref-foundation-context-graphs) — Foundation Capital essay that names context graphs as an enterprise AI opportunity and supplies the primary thesis critiqued by the article. Source: [Foundation Capital](https://foundationcapital.com/ideas/context-graphs-ais-trillion-dollar-opportunity) - [Context Graphs, One Month In](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fpulse%2Fcontext-gap-jessica-talisman-pexvc%23ref-foundation-one-month) — Follow-up Foundation Capital essay referenced for Dharmesh Shah and the system-of-record-for-decisions framing. Source: [Foundation Capital](https://foundationcapital.com/ideas/context-graphs-one-month-in) - [Context Data Platform](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fpulse%2Fcontext-gap-jessica-talisman-pexvc%23ref-glean-context-data-platform) — Glean article referenced for Arvind Jain and the claim that the context graph concept finally has a name. Source: [Glean](https://www.glean.com/blog/context-data-platform) - [Why AI Isn't Autonomous Yet](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fpulse%2Fcontext-gap-jessica-talisman-pexvc%23ref-why-ai-isnt-autonomous) — Related Substack series linked in the article when discussing knowledge infrastructure failures and agentic AI systems. Source: [Jessica Talisman](https://open.substack.com/pub/jessicatalisman/p/why-ai-isnt-autonomous-yet?r=ee6qm&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web) - [The Context Gap on Intentional Arrangement](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fpulse%2Fcontext-gap-jessica-talisman-pexvc%23ref-intentional-arrangement-context-gap) — Continuation link from the LinkedIn article to the longer Substack version. Source: [Jessica Talisman](https://open.substack.com/pub/jessicatalisman/p/the-context-gap?r=ee6qm&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true) ### Studies and Source Notes - [Process Knowledge Management](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fpulse%2Fcontext-gap-jessica-talisman-pexvc%23ref-process-knowledge-management) — Substack source linked through footnotes for KPO, market estimates, and the process-knowledge-management continuation. Source: [Jessica Talisman](https://jessicatalisman.substack.com/p/process-knowledge-management-part-c45) - [Knowledge Process Outsourcing](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fpulse%2Fcontext-gap-jessica-talisman-pexvc%23ref-kpo-wikipedia) — Wikipedia reference linked directly from the article for Knowledge Process Outsourcing. Source: [Wikipedia contributors](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_process_outsourcing); identities: [DBpedia](http://dbpedia.org/resource/Knowledge_process_outsourcing), [Wikidata](http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2917279) - [Business Process Outsourcing](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fpulse%2Fcontext-gap-jessica-talisman-pexvc%23ref-bpo-wikipedia) — Wikipedia reference linked directly from the article for Business Process Outsourcing. Source: [Wikipedia contributors](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_process_outsourcing); identities: [DBpedia](http://dbpedia.org/resource/Business_process_outsourcing), [Wikidata](http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1017608) ### Books - [Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fpulse%2Fcontext-gap-jessica-talisman-pexvc%23ref-breakneck) — Book by Dan Wang cited for the account of China, Shenzhen, and the engineering-state frame behind process-knowledge accumulation. Source: [Dan Wang](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakneck:_China%27s_Quest_to_Engineer_the_Future) - [Goliath's Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fpulse%2Fcontext-gap-jessica-talisman-pexvc%23ref-goliaths-curse) — Book recommended by Jessica Talisman in the comment thread, relevant to slow institutional decline and collapse dynamics. Source: [Luke Kemp](https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/691357/goliaths-curse-by-luke-kemp/) ### Standards and Specifications - [PROV-O: The PROV Ontology](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fpulse%2Fcontext-gap-jessica-talisman-pexvc%23ref-prov-o) — W3C provenance ontology named in the article as a method for modeling provenance. Source: [W3C](https://www.w3.org/TR/prov-o/); identities: [Wikidata](http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q62213429) - [SKOS Simple Knowledge Organization System Reference](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fpulse%2Fcontext-gap-jessica-talisman-pexvc%23ref-skos) — W3C SKOS recommendation named in the article for vocabulary control. Source: [W3C](https://www.w3.org/TR/skos-reference/); identities: [DBpedia](http://dbpedia.org/resource/Simple_Knowledge_Organization_System), [Wikidata](http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2288360) - [OWL 2 Web Ontology Language Document Overview](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fpulse%2Fcontext-gap-jessica-talisman-pexvc%23ref-owl) — W3C OWL 2 overview named in the article for reasoning structures. 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[context graph](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fpulse%2Fcontext-gap-jessica-talisman-pexvc%23concept-context-graph): [http://dbpedia.org/resource/Knowledge_graph](http://dbpedia.org/resource/Knowledge_graph) - [procedural knowledge graph](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fpulse%2Fcontext-gap-jessica-talisman-pexvc%23concept-procedural-knowledge-graph): [http://dbpedia.org/resource/Knowledge_graph](http://dbpedia.org/resource/Knowledge_graph) - [semantic web](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fpulse%2Fcontext-gap-jessica-talisman-pexvc%23concept-semantic-web): [http://dbpedia.org/resource/Semantic_Web](http://dbpedia.org/resource/Semantic_Web), [http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q54837](http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q54837) - [linked data](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fpulse%2Fcontext-gap-jessica-talisman-pexvc%23concept-linked-data): [http://dbpedia.org/resource/Linked_data](http://dbpedia.org/resource/Linked_data), [http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q515701](http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q515701) - [webdav](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fpulse%2Fcontext-gap-jessica-talisman-pexvc%23concept-webdav): [http://dbpedia.org/resource/WebDAV](http://dbpedia.org/resource/WebDAV), [http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177457](http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177457) - [shenzhen](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fpulse%2Fcontext-gap-jessica-talisman-pexvc%23place-shenzhen): [http://dbpedia.org/resource/Shenzhen](http://dbpedia.org/resource/Shenzhen), [http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q15174](http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q15174) - [bangalore](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fpulse%2Fcontext-gap-jessica-talisman-pexvc%23place-bangalore): [http://dbpedia.org/resource/Bangalore](http://dbpedia.org/resource/Bangalore), [http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1355](http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1355) - [manila](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fpulse%2Fcontext-gap-jessica-talisman-pexvc%23place-manila): [http://dbpedia.org/resource/Manila](http://dbpedia.org/resource/Manila), [http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1461](http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1461) - [san francisco](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fpulse%2Fcontext-gap-jessica-talisman-pexvc%23place-san-francisco): [http://dbpedia.org/resource/San_Francisco](http://dbpedia.org/resource/San_Francisco), [http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q62](http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q62) ## Source Media Embeds ### [Article continuation embed](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fpulse%2Fcontext-gap-jessica-talisman-pexvc%23media-context-gap-embed) The Context Gap Embed: [https://www.linkedin.com/embeds/publishingEmbed.html?articleId=7018075332802441830](https://www.linkedin.com/embeds/publishingEmbed.html?articleId=7018075332802441830) ### [Neo4J Event. Context Graphs and Process Knowledge](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fpulse%2Fcontext-gap-jessica-talisman-pexvc%23media-neo4j-event) Context Graph and Process Knowledge, Jessica Talisman, Contextually LLC Embed: [https://www.linkedin.com/embeds/publishingEmbed.html?articleId=9118468824929546588](https://www.linkedin.com/embeds/publishingEmbed.html?articleId=9118468824929546588) ### [The Data and AI Chief. How Semantic Layers and Ontologies Create Trusted AI](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fpulse%2Fcontext-gap-jessica-talisman-pexvc%23media-data-ai-chief) How Semantic Layers and Ontologies Create Trusted AI Embed: [https://www.linkedin.com/embeds/publishingEmbed.html?articleId=8232927058197027381](https://www.linkedin.com/embeds/publishingEmbed.html?articleId=8232927058197027381) ### [O Reilly Data Superstream. The Ontology Pipeline for AI Systems](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fpulse%2Fcontext-gap-jessica-talisman-pexvc%23media-oreilly-superstream) Knowledge Infrastructures and the Ontology Pipeline for AI Systems with Jessica Talisman Embed: [https://www.linkedin.com/embeds/publishingEmbed.html?articleId=8970937109799091943](https://www.linkedin.com/embeds/publishingEmbed.html?articleId=8970937109799091943) ### [It is About Data. Knowledge Graphs, Ontologies and Context](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fpulse%2Fcontext-gap-jessica-talisman-pexvc%23media-its-about-data) Knowledge Graphs, Ontologies and Context (Ep 56 with Jessica Talisman) Embed: [https://www.linkedin.com/embeds/publishingEmbed.html?articleId=7906156547092161082](https://www.linkedin.com/embeds/publishingEmbed.html?articleId=7906156547092161082) ### [Intentional Arrangement Substack embed](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fpulse%2Fcontext-gap-jessica-talisman-pexvc%23media-intentional-arrangement) Intentional Arrangement | Jessica Talisman, MLS | Substack Embed: [https://www.linkedin.com/embeds/publishingEmbed.html?articleId=7166632652848936994](https://www.linkedin.com/embeds/publishingEmbed.html?articleId=7166632652848936994) ## HowTo: Close The Context Gap 1. [Capture decision traces at execution time](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fpulse%2Fcontext-gap-jessica-talisman-pexvc%23step1) - Record the decision context, inputs, actors, approvals, constraints, and alternatives while work is performed. 2. [Model provenance and temporal validity](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fpulse%2Fcontext-gap-jessica-talisman-pexvc%23step2) - Use provenance and time-aware modeling so later agents can replay the state of the world at decision time. 3. [Normalize entities and vocabularies](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fpulse%2Fcontext-gap-jessica-talisman-pexvc%23step3) - Use entity resolution and controlled vocabularies so people, systems, decisions, processes, and evidence can be joined reliably. 4. [Link comments and institutional feedback](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fpulse%2Fcontext-gap-jessica-talisman-pexvc%23step4) - Treat expert discussion as knowledge-bearing evidence and connect comments to the claims, questions, and concepts they refine. 5. [Rebuild communities of practice](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fpulse%2Fcontext-gap-jessica-talisman-pexvc%23step5) - Support the human practices that make process knowledge trustworthy, maintained, and operationally useful. ## FAQ ### [What is the context gap?](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fpulse%2Fcontext-gap-jessica-talisman-pexvc%23q1) The context gap is the difference between knowing what happened and knowing why a decision was justified, permitted, and executed in a given operational moment. ### [Why does the article critique the phrase context graph?](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fpulse%2Fcontext-gap-jessica-talisman-pexvc%23q2) The article argues that context graph is a market-friendly name for process knowledge, procedural knowledge, institutional memory, and formal knowledge-management practices that already existed. ### [What role did outsourcing play in the argument?](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fpulse%2Fcontext-gap-jessica-talisman-pexvc%23q3) Outsourcing is presented as a long-term driver of process-knowledge loss because organizations separated execution from the environments where knowledge was generated, documented, and transmitted. ### [How do comments extend the article?](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fpulse%2Fcontext-gap-jessica-talisman-pexvc%23q4) The comments connect the thesis to government decision making, wisdom after the fact, EU AI Act compliance, context engineering, observability, Linked Data publication workflows, and the need to rebuild communities of practice. ### [What is missing if companies only buy context graph software?](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fpulse%2Fcontext-gap-jessica-talisman-pexvc%23q5) Software alone cannot restore documentation practices, apprenticeship lineages, communities of practice, or cultural respect for knowledge engineering work. ### [Which semantic-web standards does the article mention?](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fpulse%2Fcontext-gap-jessica-talisman-pexvc%23q6) The article mentions PROV-O for provenance, SKOS for vocabulary control, and OWL for reasoning structures. ### [How is process mining used as an analogy?](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fpulse%2Fcontext-gap-jessica-talisman-pexvc%23q7) Process mining is used as an analog because companies such as Celonis built businesses by helping enterprises see workflows they had ceased to understand. ### [What is a procedural knowledge graph?](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fpulse%2Fcontext-gap-jessica-talisman-pexvc%23q8) A procedural knowledge graph is an ontology-grounded graph that captures process knowledge with provenance, temporal validity, entity resolution, controlled vocabularies, and decision traces. ### [Why are communities of practice central?](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fpulse%2Fcontext-gap-jessica-talisman-pexvc%23q9) They are the social infrastructure through which operational knowledge, craft judgement, documentation habits, and apprenticeship practices are sustained. ### [What does the comment thread add about culture?](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fpulse%2Fcontext-gap-jessica-talisman-pexvc%23q10) The thread asks whether companies can rebuild the communities of practice behind the graph or will keep trying to buy the artifact without restoring the discipline, while also showing how practitioners can publish and inspect graph artifacts directly. ## Glossary - [Context graph](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fpulse%2Fcontext-gap-jessica-talisman-pexvc%23concept-context-graph): A living record of decision traces stitched across entities and time, making precedent searchable. - [Context gap](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fpulse%2Fcontext-gap-jessica-talisman-pexvc%23concept-context-gap): The gap between recorded facts and the reasoning, permissions, and conditions that made decisions possible. - [Decision trace](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fpulse%2Fcontext-gap-jessica-talisman-pexvc%23concept-decision-trace): Evidence of why a decision was allowed to happen at a particular time. - [Process knowledge](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fpulse%2Fcontext-gap-jessica-talisman-pexvc%23concept-process-knowledge): Operational know-how about how work is performed, improved, and transmitted. - [Procedural knowledge graph](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fpulse%2Fcontext-gap-jessica-talisman-pexvc%23concept-procedural-knowledge-graph): A graph grounded in formal ontologies, provenance, temporal validity, entity resolution, and controlled vocabularies. - [Institutional memory](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fpulse%2Fcontext-gap-jessica-talisman-pexvc%23concept-institutional-memory): Organizational knowledge accumulated through documentation, apprenticeship, and communities of practice. - [Knowledge management](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fpulse%2Fcontext-gap-jessica-talisman-pexvc%23concept-knowledge-management): Discipline concerned with capturing, organizing, maintaining, and applying organizational knowledge. - [Community of practice](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fpulse%2Fcontext-gap-jessica-talisman-pexvc%23concept-community-of-practice): Social structure through which practitioners transmit process knowledge and improve work. - [Outsourcing](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fpulse%2Fcontext-gap-jessica-talisman-pexvc%23concept-outsourcing): Transfer of work outside an organization, treated in the article as a driver of lost process knowledge. - [Knowledge Process Outsourcing](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fpulse%2Fcontext-gap-jessica-talisman-pexvc%23concept-kpo): Outsourcing of specialized knowledge-intensive work such as legal research, analytics, engineering design, and research. - [Business Process Outsourcing](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fpulse%2Fcontext-gap-jessica-talisman-pexvc%23concept-bpo): Outsourcing of routine transactional processes such as call centers and data entry. - [Process mining](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fpulse%2Fcontext-gap-jessica-talisman-pexvc%23concept-process-mining): Method for analyzing event logs to reveal operational workflows; used as an analogy for context graphs. - [PROV-O](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fpulse%2Fcontext-gap-jessica-talisman-pexvc%23concept-prov-o): W3C provenance ontology for modeling provenance information. - [SKOS](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fpulse%2Fcontext-gap-jessica-talisman-pexvc%23concept-skos): W3C model for controlled vocabularies, concept schemes, and thesauri. - [OWL](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fpulse%2Fcontext-gap-jessica-talisman-pexvc%23concept-owl): Web Ontology Language used for formal reasoning structures. - [EU AI Act](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fpulse%2Fcontext-gap-jessica-talisman-pexvc%23concept-eu-ai-act): Regulatory context mentioned in the comments as a target for knowledge graph and ontology work. - [Context engineering](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fpulse%2Fcontext-gap-jessica-talisman-pexvc%23concept-context-engineering): Practice of supplying agents and systems with evidence-rich context. - [Agentic AI systems](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fpulse%2Fcontext-gap-jessica-talisman-pexvc%23concept-agentic-ai): AI systems whose failures are framed as symptoms of weak process knowledge and missing decision traces. - [Semantic Web](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fpulse%2Fcontext-gap-jessica-talisman-pexvc%23concept-semantic-web): Web of linked RDF data and dereferenceable identifiers used to publish knowledge graphs for machine and human access. - [Linked Data](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fpulse%2Fcontext-gap-jessica-talisman-pexvc%23concept-linked-data): Principles for publishing structured data on the Web using HTTP IRIs and typed links between resources. - [WebDAV](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fpulse%2Fcontext-gap-jessica-talisman-pexvc%23concept-webdav): HTTP extension used here as a mounted file folder workflow for publishing generated RDF and HTML artifacts. - [Virtuoso WebDAV publication](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fpulse%2Fcontext-gap-jessica-talisman-pexvc%23concept-virtuoso-webdav-publication): Workflow where files copied to a mounted Virtuoso WebDAV folder become Web-accessible resources and graph inputs. - [Risk mitigation](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fpulse%2Fcontext-gap-jessica-talisman-pexvc%23concept-risk-mitigation): Comment-thread framing that the article can inform mitigation of multidimensional organizational and AI risks. - [Multidimensional view](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fpulse%2Fcontext-gap-jessica-talisman-pexvc%23concept-multidimensional-view): Comment-thread idea that the same article can support many perspectives when represented as a graph. ## Provenance Primary source material: [Jessica Talisman's LinkedIn article, The Context Gap](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/context-gap-jessica-talisman-pexvc), plus Browser Use capture of the visible, expanded comments. Companion files: [HTML](./context-gap-jessica-talisman-gpt5-1.html), [RDF Turtle](../rdf/context-gap-jessica-talisman-gpt5-1.ttl), [JSON-LD](../json/context-gap-jessica-talisman-gpt5-1.jsonld), and this Markdown file. Skills used: [kg-generator](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2FOpenLinkSoftware%2Fai-agent-skills%2Ftree%2Fmain%2Fkg-generator%23this) and [rdf-infographic-skill](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2FOpenLinkSoftware%2Fai-agent-skills%2Ftree%2Fmain%2Frdf-infographic-skill%23this). Generation environment: [Codex desktop workspace](https://openai.com/codex/), [Node.js](https://nodejs.org/), [D3.js](https://d3js.org/), and Codex in-app browser for visible comment-thread inspection. Linked Data platform: [URIBurner](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/) runs on [OpenLink Virtuoso](https://virtuoso.openlinksw.com/), the hybrid relational/RDF database and Linked Data server platform used here for entity hyperlinks, RDF graph access, and SPARQL exploration. Resolver pattern: `https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url={encodedIRI}`. Hash IRIs are encoded once as `%23`. SPARQL: [Explore Turtle graph](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/sparql?default-graph-uri=&query=SELECT%20*%20WHERE%20%7B%20GRAPH%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Flinkeddata.uriburner.com%2FDAV%2Fdemos%2Fdaas%2Fcontext-gap-jessica-talisman-gpt5-1.ttl%3E%20%7B%20%3Fs%20%3Fp%20%3Fo%20%7D%20%7D%20LIMIT%20100&format=text%2Fhtml&timeout=0&debug=on&run=+Run+Query+) | [Explore JSON-LD graph](https://linkeddata.uriburner.com/sparql?default-graph-uri=&query=SELECT%20*%20WHERE%20%7B%20GRAPH%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Flinkeddata.uriburner.com%2FDAV%2Fdemos%2Fdaas%2Fcontext-gap-jessica-talisman-gpt5-1.jsonld%3E%20%7B%20%3Fs%20%3Fp%20%3Fo%20%7D%20%7D%20LIMIT%20100&format=text%2Fhtml&timeout=0&debug=on&run=+Run+Query+)