Name that FoT Term
A natural grouping, usually one row, from an incoming dataset that conveys multiple entities as associated with each other.
What is a Record?
The arrangement of core entities connected by linkages.
What is a Graph?
This orients someone to a project or artifact, while a walkthrough proves how a specific run produced outputs.
What is a README?
The full information about a core entity encountered in a processed record at a single point in time.
What is a Facet?
The action of traversing a graph from specified starting points using filtering criteria about which linkages to follow.
What is a Graph Walk?
This is the abstract thing FoT cares about, while a facet is the observed information about that thing.
What is an Entity?
A typed identifier like state file ID, phone, or email that helps enable matching beyond core facets.
What is a Handle?
A graph representing facets and linkages present only in one given dataset.
What is a Local Context Graph?
These identify facet contents for comparison, while DWID and LocID are internal core IDs for canonical people or locations.
What are Hashes?
System, process, source, or business-rule-generated qualifiers that describe lifecycle, provenance, quality, or context without being part of core identity.
What is Metadata?
The totality of FoT information about core entities and linkages contained in the data model.
What is the Main Graph?
This is one relationship or edge, while a linked entity is a grouping around an anchor node and its linkages.
What is a Linkage?
A minimal, identity-focused subgraph anchored on something like DWID or LocID, used to compare and reconcile identity.
What is a Micrograph?
A canonical representation output from a graph walk over a bounded subgraph of the Main Graph.
What is a Snapshot?
A snapshot is a bounded graph-walk output over a filtered subgraph; this broader output represents all data contained in the main graph and may include contradictory or duplicative representations.
What is a Global Snapshot?
This is FoT’s staged, hash-first process for deciding whether two identity-focused subgraphs represent the same thing under a given rule set.
What is Micrograph Equivalence?