Epigraphy Knowledge Network

Epigraphy Knowledge Network

Build the evidence chain

CandidateMention → HumanAdjudicatedAssertion → EvidenceBackedGraphEdge

Software may create candidates. Only a trusted human adjudication creates an assertion. Only accepted assertions materialize edges, deterministically. No layer may be skipped.

Version 1.0.0 runs one lane end to end: synthetic-test-fixture. Both real lanes are parsed, reported and blocked, because no trusted rights, authority or human-identity verifier exists yet. A synthetic pass proves the contract and the CLI run; it proves nothing about any rubbing, entity identity or graph quality.

Read input-contract.md before building an intake and output-contract.md before consuming a state, query or export. The JSON Schemas give shape; the controller performs the authoritative semantic and current-file checks.

Preconditions

1. Finish OCR review and text structuring first; pass an immutable epigraphy-text-structure state plus its verification report, never a draft, a handoff or a bare OCR result.
2. Register every source, rights record and evidence card, with page/folio or byte span, excerpt hash and independence group.
3. Freeze docs/research/registries/predicate-registry-v01.json; it is a required input and it is self-hashed.
4. Keep one ResearchCase v1 with question, falsification and stop conditions.
5. Wrap material runs with research-run-ledger.

Verify an intake

python3 scripts/knowledge_network.py intake-verify \
  --intake-bundle /new/run/intake-bundle.json \
  --output-report /new/run/intake.verify.json

The report separates qualification, schema integrity, locator, evidence, rights, human identity and ResearchCase gates. human_identity is always block.

Create an immutable graph case

python3 scripts/knowledge_network.py init \
  --verified-intake /new/run/intake.verify.json \
  --graph-case-id SYN-GRAPH-CASE-001 \
  --output-dir /new/run/graph-case

init refuses an existing directory and creates graph-state-v001.json, events/0001-init.json, inputs/, locators/, queries/, exports/ and verification/.

Append the three layers

python3 scripts/knowledge_network.py candidate-append \
  --graph .../graph-state-v001.json --candidate .../mention.json \
  --output-graph .../graph-state-v002.json --output-event .../events/0002-candidate.json

python3 scripts/knowledge_network.py assertion-propose \
  --graph .../graph-state-v002.json --proposal .../proposal.json \
  --output-graph .../graph-state-v003.json --output-event .../events/0003-proposal.json

python3 scripts/knowledge_network.py decision-append \
  --graph .../graph-state-v003.json --decision .../decision.json \
  --identity-assertion /frozen/identity-assertion.json \
  --output-graph .../graph-state-v004.json --output-event .../events/0004-decision.json

A candidate may not declare accepted, a human actor, an OBS/SRC entity candidate or an edge. A proposal may not contain an edge or an adjudication. A decision may not choose its own reviewer, identity assurance, evidence or locators — the controller injects them.

conflict-register and uncertainty-register append typed ConflictSet and Uncertainty objects over existing assertions. They exist because §10 of the contract requires structured conflicts and uncertainties; the contract's §14 command list is a minimum, not a maximum.

Materialize, verify, query

python3 scripts/knowledge_network.py materialize \
  --graph .../graph-state-v00N.json \
  --output-graph .../graph-state-v00N+1.json --output-event .../events/000N+1-materialized.json

python3 scripts/knowledge_network.py verify \
  --graph .../graph-state-v00N+1.json --check-current-files \
  --output-report .../verification/graph.verify.json

python3 scripts/knowledge_network.py query \
  --graph .../graph-state-v00N+1.json --query .../queries/timeline.json \
  --view draft --generated-at 2026-07-24T00:00:00Z \
  --output .../queries/timeline-result.json

materialize takes no edge input at all. verify walks the whole chain, re-derives the projection and reports every gate separately. query binds the graph state hash and the canonical query hash; --view publishable re-runs the publish gate and exits 3 when it blocks; --as-of-state replays an ancestor state so a withdrawn edge stays recoverable.

Export

python3 scripts/knowledge_network.py export-draft \
  --graph .../graph-state-v00N.json --output-dir .../exports/draft

python3 scripts/knowledge_network.py export-publishable \
  --graph .../graph-state-v00N.json \
  --research-case /frozen/research-case.json \
  --integrity-audit /frozen/integrity-audit.json \
  --output-dir .../exports/publish

export-draft exits 0 and is explicitly not a verified knowledge graph. export-publishable writes its exclusions, conflicts and negative-result sidecars first and then exits 3 while any gate blocks, including no-publishable-content when no edge is eligible.

Integrity rules

• Reject symlinks, hardlink aliases, path traversal, oversized JSON, unknown fields, duplicate ids, hash drift, existing outputs and non-monotonic versions.
• Recompute every surface, excerpt, carrier, card, registry and asset hash.
• One carrier is one independence group, however often it is transcluded.
• Never merge entities by name, alias, dynasty, office, place or model similarity; a high-impact identity claim needs an evidentiary basis dimension, two independent evidence groups and an explicit exclusion of each competing candidate.
• Never fill in a missing month or day, and never draw an interval as a point.
• Never resolve a conflict by last write, majority vote or same-source transclusion; open conflicts block unconditional publication and are always listed.
• Never let a graph path imply causation; path output is structural only.
• Never remove the synthetic policy, notice or SYN- prefixes.
• Machine output is never ground truth, and an AI actor never satisfies a human gate.

Validate the installation

From the project root:

PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=1 \
python3 skills/epigraphy-knowledge-network/tests/test_knowledge_network.py

PYTHONNOUSERSITE=1 PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=1 \
python3 -m unittest \
  skills/epigraphy-knowledge-network/tests/test_knowledge_network.py

The tests are standard-library unittest and require no third-party package. The implementation binding contains 15 files: the controller, SKILL.md, agents/openai.yaml, both reference contracts, schema-catalog.json and all nine JSON Schemas. Declare all 15 as material inputs when wrapping a run with research-run-ledger.

Offline schema resolution

Treat https://huayun.local/schemas/epigraphy-knowledge-network/ as an identifier namespace, never a network source. Load every URI-to-file mapping from schema-catalog.json into the Draft 2020-12 resolver before validating, and do not permit resolver network fallback.