How to Develop An Open Source Ontology & AI Pipeline
generated by Gemini AI In Palantir (specifically the Foundry platform), the Ontology is the "digital twin" of an organization. It is a semantic layer that sits on top of raw data and transforms technical tables into real-world business concepts. Think of it this way: instead of a data scientist looking for TABLE_CX_892 and a business user looking for "Customer 123," both go to the Ontology to find the "Customer" object. 1. What it Does The Ontology maps fragmented data into three core components: Objects: The "nouns" (e.g., Aircraft, Employee, Invoice). Links: The "verbs" or relationships (e.g., an Employee belongs to a Department, an Aircraft is assigned to a Flight). Actions: The "kinetics" or changes (e.g., "Cancel Flight" or "Update Salary"). When a user perfo...