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Developer finds 52% duplicate nodes, 32% missing docs in knowledge graph
A systems administrator building a Rust-based knowledge graph for Dominican banking regulations discovered two silent failures: 52% of nodes were duplicates and 32% of source documents never entered the graph. The duplicate issue stemmed from re-running ingestion without uniqueness checks, while missing documents were silently dropped due to a 100-character text threshold that excluded scanned PDFs. An OCR fallback recovered most missing documents, but some corrupted native text remains unresolved.
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The story highlights how easy it is to build a pipeline that looks successful but hides critical data quality issues, a cautionary tale for any developer working with unstructured data at scale.
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Two audits of my own knowledge graph found two unrelated silent failures →
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