Graph

Instances, edges, provenance, and readers

The graph is the actual corpus: nodes and edges with identities, properties, and relationships. A graph declaration identifies its node, edge, source, and reader. Readers are named for the mechanism by which they read, not for a single graph they happen to serve. Materialization makes edges, orphans, and coverage inspectable. The manifest is a queryable projection of the authored graph, not a substitute for it.