Indeed, I often get the impression that (young) academics want to model the entire world in RDF. This can't work because the world is very ambiguous.
Using it to solve specific problems is good. A company I work with tries to do context engineering / adding guard rails to LLMs by modeling the knowledge in organizations, and that seems very promising.
The big question I still have is whether RDF offers any significant benefits for these way more limited scopes. Is it really that much faster, simpler or better to do queries on knowledge graphs rather than something like SQL?
Using it to solve specific problems is good. A company I work with tries to do context engineering / adding guard rails to LLMs by modeling the knowledge in organizations, and that seems very promising.
The big question I still have is whether RDF offers any significant benefits for these way more limited scopes. Is it really that much faster, simpler or better to do queries on knowledge graphs rather than something like SQL?