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Enterprise Semantic Infrastructure

Organisations deploying AI at institutional scale cannot afford ambiguity. Matta provides the semantic substrate, from formal ontologies and knowledge graphs to validation infrastructure, that makes machine-verifiable shared meaning possible across every system you govern.

4
Ontology layers
8
Core services
OWL 2
DL reasoning
SHACL
Validation

A model can only be as reliable as the meaning it is grounded in.

Ontologies · Knowledge graph · Validation · Provenance

01The problemWhy meaning
must be governed

AI without grounding is unreliable.

Language models hallucinate because they have no authoritative semantic substrate to verify against. Matta provides that substrate: a machine-readable, institutionally governed body of verified fact.

Ambiguity compounds at scale.

When "Customer" means something different in your CRM, ERP, and data warehouse, every integration is a source of error. Matta eliminates definitional ambiguity by design.

Compliance requires provenance.

Every triple in the Matta knowledge graph records its source, timestamp, and transformation lineage. Audit trails are not an add-on; they are the architecture.

02Ontology architectureFour layers,
one dependency

Import dependencies flow upward only. Domain ontologies extend Core, they never modify it. Application ontologies reference concepts, they never redefine them. Circular dependencies are rejected at authoring time.

ontology/foundation/

Foundational

Universal concepts: Entity, Object, Person, Organisation, Event, Process, Location, Role, Artifact.

Stability: Very high
ontology/core/

Core Enterprise

Shared business concepts: Customer, Product, Order, Invoice, Contract, Asset, Employee, Department.

Stability: High
ontology/domain/{name}/

Domain

Specialised modules: Finance, HR, Procurement, Logistics, Manufacturing, Legal, Security.

Stability: Medium
ontology/app/{system}/

Application

System-specific mappings from CRM, ERP, and database schemas to ontology concepts.

Stability: Low
03Platform servicesEight core
services

Ontology Service

Full lifecycle management: authoring, versioning, validation, documentation generation, and refactoring operations.

Validation Service

SHACL shape evaluation against RDF data graphs. Synchronous and batch validation with severity-graded reports.

Query Service

SPARQL 1.1, GraphQL, and natural-language query interfaces with federated query support across remote endpoints.

Reasoning Service

OWL 2 DL reasoning for inferred facts, inconsistency detection, and incremental inference with dependency tracking.

Ingestion Service

ETL and ELT pipelines with mapping-driven RDF generation, SHACL pre-validation, and exactly-once processing semantics.

LLM Grounding Service

Retrieve ontology context for language-model prompts, and validate generated facts against the knowledge graph before surfacing them.

Governance Service

Stewardship workflows for ontology changes, with impact analysis across dependent ontologies, mappings, shapes, and instances.

Analytics Service

Graph centrality, community detection, shortest paths, embeddings, and data-lineage visualisation.

04LLM groundingVerified before
surfaced

Matta retrieves relevant ontology context and verified facts before language-model inference. Every claim the model produces is validated against the knowledge graph before it is surfaced. Contradictions are flagged, and hallucinations are caught.

Standards-native
Formal ontologiesShape validationGraph queriesControlled vocabularies
Interfaces
Structured queriesNatural-language queriesFederated accessProgrammatic API
Governance
Versioned changesImpact analysisAccess controlFull provenance

Semantic infrastructure is not optional at institutional scale.

Define meaning once, govern it centrally, and let every system and model draw on the same verified ground truth.