Data Ontology defined: The context layer your AI agents are missing
Summary
AI agents inherit enterprise data architecture's old assumption—that a knowledgeable human fills the context gaps a schema leaves open—and that assumption breaks once the human is gone. Rather than repeating the shelfware fate of hand-modeled semantic layers and knowledge graphs, Databricks' Genie Ontology governs only the small set of concepts that must be correct and continuously learns the rest from how the organization actually operates.
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