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CHAD: Tim, Tim, Tim – I can’t wait --  I’m running a great new startup – couldn’t wait to tell you! We’ve completely rethought data.

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TIM: All of it?

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CHAD: All of it.

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TIM: That must have been tiring.

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CHAD: Here’s the problem. Companies have petabytes of data—

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TIM: Yes.

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CHAD: —but the data doesn’t know what it means.

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TIM: Jim Hendler, Ora Lassila, and I authored a paper on this very subject.

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CHAD: Cool! Is it online?

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TIM: It was about the Web.

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CHAD: Awesome. Send me the link. I’ll have our AI summarize it.

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CHAD: Anyway, our breakthrough is an AI-native semantic data fabric.

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TIM: Semantic?

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CHAD: Exactly! We invented that.

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TIM: You invented semantics?

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CHAD: At scale.

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CHAD: First, every entity gets a persistent unique identifier.

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TIM: A URI?

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CHAD: No. Global Data Handle.

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TIM: What’s the difference?

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CHAD: Ours has an API.

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TIM: umm, heard of JSON-LD

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CHAD: Then we represent relationships explicitly.

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TIM: RDF?

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CHAD: No. AI-ready relationship data.

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TIM: Subject, predicate, object?

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CHAD: Exactly!

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TIM: That’s a triple.

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CHAD: No. Ours has three fields.

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TIM: I see – sounds entirely different.

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CHAD: You get it!

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CHAD: Then we connect the entities and relationships into a massive enterprise structure—

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TIM: A Knowledge graph.

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CHAD: Enterprise Data Intelligence Mesh.

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TIM: Is it a graph?

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CHAD: Underneath.

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TIM: Does it represent knowledge?

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CHAD: We don’t use that word.

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TIM: Why not?

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CHAD: Hard to monetize.

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CHAD: But here’s the killer feature. Software can navigate this data, reason over it, find information, and take actions for you.

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TIM: Oh, Agents.

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CHAD: Agentic AI.

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TIM: Agents.

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CHAD: No, agentic.

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TIM: We had agents in the original article!

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CHAD: But were they AI-native?

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TIM: THEY WERE AI!

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CHAD: Were they at scale?

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TIM: Chad, I think you’ve reinvented the Semantic Web.

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CHAD: No way. Semantic Web is old technology.

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TIM: Unique identifiers?

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CHAD: Yes.

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TIM: Explicit relationships?

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CHAD: Yes.

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TIM: Knowledge graphs?

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CHAD: Data intelligence mesh.

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TIM: Agents?

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CHAD: Agentic AI.

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TIM: AGENTS!

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CHAD: Wait. When did you guys do this?

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TIM: we published it in 2001.

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CHAD: Wow.

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CHAD: Who funded you?

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TIM: Nobody. We wrote an article.

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CHAD: You had the whole idea...

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TIM: Pretty much.

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CHAD: ...and you didn’t start a company?

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TIM: We were academically inclined …

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CHAD: That is the saddest thing I have ever heard.

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CHAD: Can I license it?

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TIM: It’s an open standard.

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CHAD: Oh my God.