knowledge-structuring-consistency-checking

Testing & Quality

Tactic for verifying ontology consistency — detect contradictions, cycles, orphans, and type violations.

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Consistency Checking

Verify the ontology is internally consistent. No contradictions, no cycles in hierarchies, no orphaned concepts, no type violations.

Available SOPs

wiki-lint-fix — run structural validation
wiki-graph-query — explore suspicious neighborhoods
gap-detection — find structural holes
merge-candidates — identify near-duplicates

Guiding Principles

Contradictions are urgent. Two edges that contradict each other (A supports B, A contradicts B) must be resolved immediately.
Orphans are warnings. A concept with no edges is suspicious but not necessarily wrong — it may just need connection.
Type violations are errors. An edge type that doesn't make semantic sense (e.g., "question" component_of "source") indicates a classification mistake.
Fix root causes. Don't just remove the symptom — understand why the inconsistency arose.

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Available SOPs

Optional, no fixed order; the final leaf is always a sop.

SOP	When to use
gap-detection	SOP for finding structural gaps in the ontology — missing concepts, thin branches, disconnected clusters.
merge-candidates	SOP for identifying near-duplicate concepts that should be merged.