{"dataset":{"slug":"graph-explorer","title":"Scientific Knowledge Graph Explorer","description":"The graph-explorer views (statistics, knowledge metrics, entity & relation explorers, neighbourhood expansion, shortest-path finder, taxonomy explorer, cross-domain explorer, graph search, mission/institution/discovery/scientific-lineage graphs, force-directed/hierarchical/cluster visualisations, and the graph API). The computed views run real breadth-first algorithms over the actual knowledge graph.","version":"1.0.0","lastGenerated":"2026-06-29","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","entityCount":17,"sources":["nasa"]},"entities":[{"id":"graph_view:cluster-visualization","name":"Cluster Visualisation","type":"graph_view","domain":"science","description":"A grouping of the graph into its natural communities — the tightly-linked clusters of related entities, such as a mission and its instruments, or a star and its planets. A rendering mode over the real link structure.","entryPath":"/graph/cluster-visualization"},{"id":"graph_view:cross-domain-explorer","name":"Cross-Domain Explorer","type":"graph_view","domain":"science","description":"The relations that reach across the graph's domains — where the science of the sky meets its cultural and historical meaning, as when a constellation joins its stars to its myths. The threads that make the graph one whole rather than three.","entryPath":"/graph/cross-domain-explorer"},{"id":"graph_view:discovery-graph","name":"Discovery Graph","type":"graph_view","domain":"science","description":"A discovery set in its web of context — the people who made it, the instruments that enabled it, the objects it revealed, and the ideas it changed. The story of a discovery as a graph.","entryPath":"/graph/discovery-graph"},{"id":"graph_view:entity-explorer","name":"Entity Explorer","type":"graph_view","domain":"science","description":"A browsable index of every entity in the graph, organised by type and domain, each a gateway into its neighbourhood and its place in the wider web of knowledge.","entryPath":"/graph/entity-explorer"},{"id":"graph_view:force-directed-graph","name":"Force-Directed Graph","type":"graph_view","domain":"science","description":"A node-link visualisation in which entities repel and relations pull, so the graph settles into a shape that reveals its clusters and hubs. A rendering mode over the real neighbourhood data.","entryPath":"/graph/force-directed-graph"},{"id":"graph_view:graph-api","name":"Graph API","type":"graph_view","domain":"science","description":"A live, read-only REST API over the whole knowledge graph — entities, relations, neighbourhoods, and paths — served at /api/v0/entities so other tools can build on the knowledge. Now realised as the Open Platform's public Graph API.","entryPath":"/graph/graph-api"},{"id":"graph_view:graph-search","name":"Graph Search","type":"graph_view","domain":"science","description":"A direct search across every entity in the graph by name — the fastest way from a word to a node and its neighbourhood.","entryPath":"/graph/graph-search"},{"id":"graph_view:graph-statistics","name":"Graph Statistics","type":"graph_view","domain":"science","description":"The knowledge graph in numbers, counted live from the real data: how many entities and relations it holds, how they split across science, culture, and astrology, which entity types are largest, and which entities are the most connected hubs.","entryPath":"/graph/graph-statistics"},{"id":"graph_view:hierarchical-graph","name":"Hierarchical Graph","type":"graph_view","domain":"science","description":"A layered layout that arranges entities by level — a taxonomy from the top down, or a dependency chain from cause to effect. A rendering mode for the graph's hierarchical structure.","entryPath":"/graph/hierarchical-graph"},{"id":"graph_view:institution-graph","name":"Institution Graph","type":"graph_view","domain":"science","description":"The reach of a research institution across the graph — the missions it runs, the facilities it operates, and the discoveries it has enabled — traced through the real relations.","entryPath":"/graph/institution-graph"},{"id":"graph_view:knowledge-metrics","name":"Knowledge Metrics","type":"graph_view","domain":"science","description":"Deeper measures of the graph's structure — the average number of links per entity, the distribution of connectivity, and the hubs that hold the network together. The shape of the knowledge, not just its size.","entryPath":"/graph/knowledge-metrics"},{"id":"graph_view:mission-graph","name":"Mission Graph","type":"graph_view","domain":"science","description":"The web around a single mission — its instruments, targets, discoveries, and the institutions behind it — drawn from the real relations. A lens that turns a mission from a name into a network.","entryPath":"/graph/mission-graph"},{"id":"graph_view:neighborhood-explorer","name":"Neighbourhood Explorer","type":"graph_view","domain":"science","description":"The immediate and extended neighbourhood of any entity, expanded breadth-first over the real relations. Start at a star and watch its constellations, catalogues, and physics unfold around it.","entryPath":"/graph/neighborhood-explorer"},{"id":"graph_view:relation-explorer","name":"Relation Explorer","type":"graph_view","domain":"science","description":"The verbs of the graph — the relation types that connect entities, from 'orbits' and 'discovered by' to 'associated with' — and how often each is used. The grammar of the knowledge.","entryPath":"/graph/relation-explorer"},{"id":"graph_view:scientific-lineage","name":"Scientific Lineage","type":"graph_view","domain":"science","description":"The intellectual lineage running through the graph — how an astronomer's work connects to the theories, laws, and later discoveries that built on it. The descent of ideas, traced through the real relations.","entryPath":"/graph/scientific-lineage"},{"id":"graph_view:shortest-path-finder","name":"Shortest-Path Finder","type":"graph_view","domain":"science","description":"The shortest chain of relations connecting any two entities, found by breadth-first search over the real graph. Every link in the path is a genuine relation — a demonstration of how tightly the knowledge is woven together.","entryPath":"/graph/shortest-path-finder"},{"id":"graph_view:taxonomy-explorer","name":"Taxonomy Explorer","type":"graph_view","domain":"science","description":"The graph's schema laid bare — the entity types and how they connect to one another, from stars and galaxies to missions and methods. The scaffolding on which every entity hangs.","entryPath":"/graph/taxonomy-explorer"}]}