What ships in this project
- Graph-backed entity pages. Every canonical entity exposes its relationships to other entities as navigable links — you travel the corpus by following the graph, not by searching from scratch each time.
- Backlinks / inbound edges. A page shows not just what it points to but what points at it, so the graph is traversable in both directions.
- Fast traversal. The graph read path was taken from multi-second to sub-second, so following a connection feels like turning a page rather than running a query.
What this project does not yet ship
- Full ego graphs for media works. Characters have rich connection sets; films, games, books, and events currently render thinner graphs because their inbound edges and work-level facts are still being published into the bundles. That work — reverse-edge publishing plus extraction for media work types — is the active extension of this project.
Why this matters
A Fact-grounded encyclopedia is only as good as the ability to move through it. A graph you can walk — entity to entity, in both directions, instantly — is what makes the corpus feel like a single connected world rather than a pile of pages. It is also the substrate that search relevance (G-063) and discoverability build on. The core was on the homepage as "on the horizon"; it is now live.