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Applied AI·August 2, 2026·1 min read

Stop graphing everything: When GraphRAG actually beats vector RAG

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Graph-based RAG only earns its complexity tax when your questions depend on relationships and structure — policies over time, ownership chains, multi-hop reasoning — not simple semantic lookup. If your RAG system is answering “what” questions fine but failing on “how/why/when” that span documents, it’s time to prototype graph overlays instead of just tuning chunking and embeddings.

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