When is GraphRAG useful?
It is a candidate for questions spanning many documents, especially global themes and entity relationships. Its additional indexing and maintenance costs should be compared with a simpler retrieval baseline.
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GraphRAG Explained: When Graphs Help Retrieval and Global SummariesGraphRAG adds entity relationships and community reports to retrieval. It can improve broad summaries; extraction errors still need evaluation.
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