fix(kg): backfill relations independently of entity links - #807
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Process existing linked chunks through source-grounded, fully windowed relation extraction. Commit new facts and input-version completion together while preserving existing facts, expired relations, chunks and entity data. Co-Authored-By: astra-brainlayer running gpt-6-astra <noreply@anthropic.com>
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughAdds a resumable relation backfill pipeline for linked chunks. The pipeline prepares entity-aware windows, calls a supplied model, validates grounded JSON relations, preserves existing facts, records completion hashes, and retries failed or changed inputs. ChangesRelation Backfill
Priority: ⬇️ Low — Defer the relation backfill pipeline because it is an additive, test-covered data-processing change with no claimed production backfill, release, or user-facing impact. Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Long chunks can be marked complete while omitting relations whose entity mentions span a window boundary, preventing later backfill runs from discovering those facts. This should be corrected before merge. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant backfill
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backfill->>SQLite: Select eligible chunks and linked entities
backfill->>caller: Submit an entity-grounded content window
caller-->>backfill: Return JSON relations
backfill->>SQLite: Recheck source and entity state
backfill->>SQLite: Insert relations and completion hash
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| or not quote.strip() | ||
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| or any(not _present(names[eid], quote) for eid in (source, target)) |
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When linked entities have nested whole-word names, such as agent Claude and tool Claude Code, both _present calls succeed on the same Claude Code occurrence. A model response can therefore claim a relation between them using a quote that never separately mentions Claude, and this validator commits it as grounded; overlapping or fragment entities can consequently create relations that do not trace to their stated evidence. Require two non-overlapping mention spans, or reject nested endpoint names, before accepting the relation.
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Fixed in c29ced7: independent, non-overlapping name spans are required. A shorter name contained inside the other endpoint is excluded even when the longer name occurs twice; both endpoint orders are covered by regression tests.
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| def windows(chunk, size): | ||
| """Visit all source text with overlap; only send windows containing two names.""" | ||
| content = chunk["content"] | ||
| for start in range(0, len(content), size - 500): |
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When two linked names straddle a window step by more than the fixed 500-character overlap—for example, positions 5400 and 6100 with the default 6000-character window—neither adjacent window contains both, so windows() yields nothing for that pair. The outer loop nevertheless records the chunk as completed, causing explicit relations whose endpoint mentions span such a boundary to be silently omitted on every resume. Generate pair-covering windows or avoid marking completion until all candidate pairs have actually been covered.
AGENTS.md reference: AGENTS.md:L33-L33
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Fixed in c29ced7: pair-covering windows replace reliance on fixed overlap for endpoint coverage. Added the5400/6100 regression and a separate no-covered-window test that asserts no completion marker.
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In `@src/brainlayer/pipeline/relation_backfill.py`:
- Line 65: Update the window generation used by windows() so every entity pair
within the supported maximum evidence span appears in at least one window; do
not hard-code the 500-character overlap unless it is derived from that defined
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[info] 31-44: use jsonify instead of json.dumps for JSON output
Context: json.dumps(
{
"chunks": [
{
"chunk_id": "c1",
"relations": relations
if relations is not None
else [
{"source_id": "p", "target_id": "t", "type": "uses", "quote": "Atlas uses SQLite for storage."}
],
}
]
}
)
Note: [CWE-116] Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output.
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src/brainlayer/pipeline/relation_backfill.py
[info] 78-78: use jsonify instead of json.dumps for JSON output
Context: json.dumps([chunk, window_chars], sort_keys=True)
Note: [CWE-116] Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output.
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[info] 176-176: use jsonify instead of json.dumps for JSON output
Context: json.dumps([window])
Note: [CWE-116] Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output.
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[info] 204-206: use jsonify instead of json.dumps for JSON output
Context: json.dumps(
dict(extractor=VERSION, evidence_quote=quote, source_content_sha256=_hash(chunk["content"]))
)
Note: [CWE-116] Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output.
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Cover endpoint pairs across window boundaries; leave uncovered sources retryable. Require independent name mentions and classify historical facts as non-current. Keep semantic rejections explicit. Co-Authored-By: astra-brainlayer running gpt-6-astra <noreply@anthropic.com>
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| (id, source_id, target_id, relation_type, properties, confidence, fact, source_chunk_id, importance, expired_at) | ||
| VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?, ?, 0.7, ?, ?, 0.5, | ||
| CASE WHEN ?='historical' THEN strftime('%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%fZ','now') END) | ||
| ON CONFLICT(source_id, target_id, relation_type) DO NOTHING""", |
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When the same (source_id, target_id, type) is extracted more than once—such as an early window saying “used previously” and a later window saying “now uses”—the relations are inserted in response/window order and DO NOTHING discards every later observation. If the historical observation arrives first, the only stored row is immediately expired, the current relationship is omitted from all current-graph consumers, and the completion marker prevents reprocessing. Coalesce or reject conflicting temporal states before insertion rather than letting arbitrary window order decide currentness.
AGENTS.md reference: AGENTS.md:L24-L28
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Fixed in1256da99. Conflicting temporal states for a tuple within one source are rejected before the write transaction, leaving facts and completion untouched. Window order can no longer decide the state. Existing database facts remain insert-only/preserved as required by this lane.
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When on_rejection is supplied, rejected chunks deliberately receive no completion marker, but _candidates deterministically selects the newest limit chunks on every invocation. Once at least limit recent chunks remain retryable—for example because no endpoint pair fits a window or their model output is repeatedly invalid—every subsequent run selects and rejects that same set, so all older chunks are permanently starved despite the handler being intended to let other sources proceed. Add retry scheduling, pagination, or a rejection state that allows later candidates to be selected.
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Fixed in1256da99 with explicit keyset pagination: each completed or rejected source advances next_chunk_id; callers pass after_chunk_id to continue beyond that batch. PR809 wires --after-chunk and documents deliberate retry from newest. The regression rejects c1, advances past it and processes older c2 without completing c1.
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| completed = conn.execute( | ||
| "SELECT input_hash FROM kg_relation_backfill WHERE chunk_id=? AND version=?", (chunk_id, VERSION) | ||
| ).fetchone() | ||
| if completed and completed[0] == _input_hash(chunk, window_chars): |
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Completion filtering happens only after the query restarts from the newest row and _entities has already been loaded for each candidate. Thus batch 2 revisits batch 1, batch 3 revisits both prior batches, and a full resumable backfill performs quadratically many entity/completion probes; against the documented 817,238-chunk database this can make later batches prohibitively slow. Filter or page completed rows in SQL, or persist a traversal cursor, instead of restarting the scan for every limit-sized call.
AGENTS.md reference: AGENTS.md:L231-L235
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Fixed in1256da99 with a SQL keyset boundary before candidate entity/completion probes. Supplying the emitted next_chunk_id via after_chunk_id avoids reopening earlier completed/rejected batches. Omitting the cursor deliberately starts a fresh scan for changed/retryable inputs; that distinction is documented in PR809.
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Resolve all round2 findings: avoid same-entity pair scans, use explicit keyset cursors past completed or rejected batches, and fail retryably on conflicting currentness within a source. Co-Authored-By: astra-brainlayer running gpt-6-astra <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The KG rebuild's Tier1 creates entity links with
relations=[]; Tier2 requiresec.chunk_id IS NULL, excluding those same chunks. The old backfill repeats that skip, and Tier2 also excludes importance below6. Entity linkage therefore hid relation work that had never run.This adds independent, input-versioned relation completion and an insert-only writer with no importance floor. Whole source text is traversed; extra windows cover endpoint pairs within the configured context span. Uncovered sources stay retryable. New relations require exact supporting quotes, independent endpoint mentions, valid typed direction and explicit current/historical status. Historical-only edges are non-current; existing facts, including expired ones, remain untouched. Source/type changes during inference abort writes. A separate local transport/CLI PR follows.
Validation:42 focused writer/extraction/relation tests passed; the scoped pre-push gate passed, including25 writer regressions. Review fixes cover nested names, temporal status and pair boundaries. Full real-copy row hashes and provenance distribution remain identical for831865 chunks,12575 entities,646879 links and604 pre-existing relations.
First10 transcript-heavy sources correctly abstained604→604; this is not evidence the writer failed. The100-conversation rehearsal completed85 sources, rejected15 retryably and added0. Crucially, those saved outputs were AFTER correction: a subsequent10-window diagnostic replay captured12 raw proposal occurrences, all rejected (3 missing-name quotes,4 unknown endpoint IDs,5 invented chunk IDs). No third corpus sample or production write ran. This proves rejection/preservation behavior, not corpus extraction accuracy or a repaired graph. The exact final prompt still needs quality qualification before the lead authorizes canonical execution.
Size:L rationale: the writer and regression suite across the writer and regression file keep atomic write, temporal and evidence gates together; the transport/CLI remains a separate small PR.
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@codex reviewand lead-routed Claude pair review. Production execution/release stay lead-owned. DeepSource skipped analysis; no clean-scan claim.Round2 fixes at1256da99: reject conflicting temporal states within a source, avoid same-entity pair enumeration/tail slicing, and provide explicit keyset pagination past completed or rejected batches.25 writer tests pass; CLI cursor wiring is in #809. The real-copy rehearsal was v2; no additional corpus rehearsal was run after the STOP instruction. Current v3 code is locally tested; new corpus/production qualification is still gated.
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