如何构建知识图谱
在本指南中,我们将介绍基于非结构化文本构建知识图谱的基本方法。构建好的图谱可用作 RAG 应用中的知识库。
⚠️ 安全提示 ⚠️
构建知识图谱需要执行对数据库的写入操作。这样做存在固有风险。在导入数据之前,请务必验证和确认数据的有效性。有关一般安全最佳实践的更多信息,请参见此处。
架构
从高层次来看,从文本构建知识图的步骤如下:
- 从文本中提取结构化信息: 模型用于从文本中提取结构化的图信息。
- 存储到图数据库: 将提取的结构化图信息存储到图数据库中,可支持下游的 RAG 应用
设置
首先,获取所需的软件包并设置环境变量。 在本示例中,我们将使用 Neo4j 图数据库。
%pip install --upgrade --quiet langchain langchain-neo4j langchain-openai langchain-experimental neo4j
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Note: you may need to restart the kernel to use updated packages.
本指南默认使用 OpenAI 模型。
import getpass
import os
os.environ["OPENAI_API_KEY"] = getpass.getpass()
# Uncomment the below to use LangSmith. Not required.
# os.environ["LANGSMITH_API_KEY"] = getpass.getpass()
# os.environ["LANGSMITH_TRACING"] = "true"
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接下来,我们需要定义 Neo4j 凭据和连接。 请遵循 这些安装步骤 来设置 Neo4j 数据库。
import os
from langchain_neo4j import Neo4jGraph
os.environ["NEO4J_URI"] = "bolt://localhost:7687"
os.environ["NEO4J_USERNAME"] = "neo4j"
os.environ["NEO4J_PASSWORD"] = "password"
graph = Neo4jGraph(refresh_schema=False)
LLM 图转换器
从文本中提取图谱数据能够将非结构化信息转换为结构化格式,从而促进更深入的洞察,并更高效地导航复杂的关系和模式。LLMGraphTransformer通过利用大语言模型(LLM)来解析和分类实体及其关系,将文本文档转换为结构化的图谱文档。所选用的 LLM 模型会显著影响输出结果,因为它决定了所提取图谱数据的准确性和细微差别。
import os
from langchain_experimental.graph_transformers import LLMGraphTransformer
from langchain_openai import ChatOpenAI
llm = ChatOpenAI(temperature=0, model_name="gpt-4-turbo")
llm_transformer = LLMGraphTransformer(llm=llm)
现在我们可以传入示例文本并检查结果。
from langchain_core.documents import Document
text = """
Marie Curie, born in 1867, was a Polish and naturalised-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity.
She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person to win a Nobel Prize twice, and the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two scientific fields.
Her husband, Pierre Curie, was a co-winner of her first Nobel Prize, making them the first-ever married couple to win the Nobel Prize and launching the Curie family legacy of five Nobel Prizes.
She was, in 1906, the first woman to become a professor at the University of Paris.
"""
documents = [Document(page_content=text)]
graph_documents = await llm_transformer.aconvert_to_graph_documents(documents)
print(f"Nodes:{graph_documents[0].nodes}")
print(f"Relationships:{graph_documents[0].relationships}")
Nodes:[Node(id='Marie Curie', type='Person', properties={}), Node(id='Pierre Curie', type='Person', properties={}), Node(id='University Of Paris', type='Organization', properties={})]
Relationships:[Relationship(source=Node(id='Marie Curie', type='Person', properties={}), target=Node(id='Pierre Curie', type='Person', properties={}), type='MARRIED', properties={}), Relationship(source=Node(id='Marie Curie', type='Person', properties={}), target=Node(id='University Of Paris', type='Organization', properties={}), type='PROFESSOR', properties={})]
检查以下图像以更好地理解生成知识图谱的结构。

请注意,由于我们使用了大语言模型(LLM),图构建过程是非确定性的。因此,每次执行时您可能会得到略有不同的结果。
此外,您还可以根据您的需求定义特定类型的节点和关系以进行提取。
llm_transformer_filtered = LLMGraphTransformer(
llm=llm,
allowed_nodes=["Person", "Country", "Organization"],
allowed_relationships=["NATIONALITY", "LOCATED_IN", "WORKED_AT", "SPOUSE"],
)
graph_documents_filtered = await llm_transformer_filtered.aconvert_to_graph_documents(
documents
)
print(f"Nodes:{graph_documents_filtered[0].nodes}")
print(f"Relationships:{graph_documents_filtered[0].relationships}")
Nodes:[Node(id='Marie Curie', type='Person', properties={}), Node(id='Pierre Curie', type='Person', properties={}), Node(id='University Of Paris', type='Organization', properties={})]
Relationships:[Relationship(source=Node(id='Marie Curie', type='Person', properties={}), target=Node(id='Pierre Curie', type='Person', properties={}), type='SPOUSE', properties={}), Relationship(source=Node(id='Marie Curie', type='Person', properties={}), target=Node(id='University Of Paris', type='Organization', properties={}), type='WORKED_AT', properties={})]
为了更精确地定义图模式,可以考虑使用三元组方法来描述关系。在这种方法中,每个三元组包含三个元素:源节点、关系类型和目标节点。
allowed_relationships = [
("Person", "SPOUSE", "Person"),
("Person", "NATIONALITY", "Country"),
("Person", "WORKED_AT", "Organization"),
]
llm_transformer_tuple = LLMGraphTransformer(
llm=llm,
allowed_nodes=["Person", "Country", "Organization"],
allowed_relationships=allowed_relationships,
)
graph_documents_filtered = await llm_transformer_tuple.aconvert_to_graph_documents(
documents
)
print(f"Nodes:{graph_documents_filtered[0].nodes}")
print(f"Relationships:{graph_documents_filtered[0].relationships}")
Nodes:[Node(id='Marie Curie', type='Person', properties={}), Node(id='Pierre Curie', type='Person', properties={}), Node(id='University Of Paris', type='Organization', properties={})]
Relationships:[Relationship(source=Node(id='Marie Curie', type='Person', properties={}), target=Node(id='Pierre Curie', type='Person', properties={}), type='SPOUSE', properties={}), Relationship(source=Node(id='Marie Curie', type='Person', properties={}), target=Node(id='University Of Paris', type='Organization', properties={}), type='WORKED_AT', properties={})]
为了更好地理解生成的图,我们可以再次对其进行可视化。

node_properties 参数启用节点属性的提取,从而允许创建更详细的图。
当设置为 True 时,LLM 会自动识别并提取相关节点属性。
相反,如果将 node_properties 定义为字符串列表,则 LLM 仅从文本中选择性地检索指定的属性。
llm_transformer_props = LLMGraphTransformer(
llm=llm,
allowed_nodes=["Person", "Country", "Organization"],
allowed_relationships=["NATIONALITY", "LOCATED_IN", "WORKED_AT", "SPOUSE"],
node_properties=["born_year"],
)
graph_documents_props = await llm_transformer_props.aconvert_to_graph_documents(
documents
)
print(f"Nodes:{graph_documents_props[0].nodes}")
print(f"Relationships:{graph_documents_props[0].relationships}")
Nodes:[Node(id='Marie Curie', type='Person', properties={'born_year': '1867'}), Node(id='Pierre Curie', type='Person', properties={}), Node(id='University Of Paris', type='Organization', properties={}), Node(id='Poland', type='Country', properties={}), Node(id='France', type='Country', properties={})]
Relationships:[Relationship(source=Node(id='Marie Curie', type='Person', properties={}), target=Node(id='Poland', type='Country', properties={}), type='NATIONALITY', properties={}), Relationship(source=Node(id='Marie Curie', type='Person', properties={}), target=Node(id='France', type='Country', properties={}), type='NATIONALITY', properties={}), Relationship(source=Node(id='Marie Curie', type='Person', properties={}), target=Node(id='Pierre Curie', type='Person', properties={}), type='SPOUSE', properties={}), Relationship(source=Node(id='Marie Curie', type='Person', properties={}), target=Node(id='University Of Paris', type='Organization', properties={}), type='WORKED_AT', properties={})]
存储到图数据库
生成的图文档可以使用 add_graph_documents 方法存储到图数据库中。
graph.add_graph_documents(graph_documents_props)
大多数图数据库支持索引以优化数据导入和检索。由于我们可能无法预先知道所有的节点标签,我们可以通过使用 baseEntityLabel 参数为每个节点添加一个次要基础标签来处理此问题。
graph.add_graph_documents(graph_documents, baseEntityLabel=True)
结果将如下所示:

最后的选项是同时导入提取节点和关系的源文档。这种方法允许我们追踪每个实体出现在哪些文档中。
graph.add_graph_documents(graph_documents, include_source=True)
图将具有以下结构:

在此可视化中,源文档以蓝色高亮显示,从中提取的所有实体通过MENTIONS关系连接。