Neuro-Symbolic Question Answering on an Enterprise Knowledge Graph
Overview
What this challenge is about.
You receive a curated Turtle-format knowledge graph (around 2 million triples covering organizational structure, products, projects), 200 labeled question-SPARQL pairs split 140/30/30 train/val/test, and budget for OpenAI-compatible LLM calls via a self-hosted gateway. Implement (a) LLM-only QA where the model is given the schema and asked to answer in natural language, and (b) a neuro-symbolic pipeline where the LLM generates SPARQL that runs against the graph and the result is verbalized. Evaluate on exact-match answer accuracy, query-execution success rate, and per-question latency. Write a 3-page architecture memo with a recommendation.
The Brief
What you'll do, and what you'll demonstrate.
Compare LLM-only QA vs. a neuro-symbolic SPARQL-generation pipeline on an enterprise knowledge graph and recommend an architecture.
Earning criteria — what you'll demonstrate
- Build a SPARQL-generation pipeline from natural language
- Run SPARQL against a real-scale knowledge graph
- Evaluate neuro-symbolic vs. LLM-only QA fairly
- Communicate architecture trade-offs for enterprise clients
Program Fit
Where this fits in your program.
Sharpens the same skills your degree expects you to demonstrate.
Skills
Skills you'll demonstrate.
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Careers
Roles this prepares you for.
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AI Engineer
Shipping a neuro-symbolic QA pipeline against a real knowledge graph is exactly the day-one work of an AI engineer at an enterprise-AI consulting or platform team.
This challenge sharpens
- neuro-symbolic
- sparql
- knowledge-graphs
NLP Engineer
Building natural-language-to-SPARQL pipelines and evaluating QA fairly is core NLP-engineer work for knowledge-intensive products.
This challenge sharpens
- question-answering
- sparql
- llm-evaluation
AI Solutions Architect
Translating a research comparison into a client-facing architecture memo is exactly what AI solutions architects do in consulting practices.
This challenge sharpens
- neuro-symbolic
- knowledge-graphs
- rdf