QIS-TERM-00046 QISTRUST.COM THE GOVERNANCE LAYER REV 2026-08-02 · BUILD 14.4
The QIS Canon · Stack categories

Graph database

A store in which relationships between entities are first-class and indexed, so that traversal across connections is efficient rather than a series of joins.

QIS-TERM-00046·Canonical industry term·Widely used

Why it matters

The natural substrate for the two problems agentic finance cannot currently solve: model provenance and chain of title. Both are traversals — this model derives from that dataset which came from that source under that license — and both are auditable in a way an embedding space is not, because you can show a regulator the path.

Relationships

Typed edges into the rest of the ontology. These are what make the canon traversable rather than merely readable.

QIS-TERM-00046 — outbound relationships
VerbTargetMeaning
relatedToFinancial OntologiesAn association too weak or too general for a stronger verb.
addressesIdentityThe subject speaks to the object as a question or concern.

Record

Canonical identifierQIS-TERM-00046
StatusCanonical industry term
AdoptionWidely used
Domain · LayerStack categories · Intelligence
OriginProperty graph and RDF traditions; long-standing.
Semantic aliasesNone recorded.
First published2026-08-02
Last reviewed2026-08-02 · 180-day cycle

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