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Sep 19, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

Beyond Ontology: The Four Knowledge Types Enterprise Agents Actually Need

This article argues that enterprise AI agents require four distinct knowledge categories—world knowledge, domain semantics, task processes, and real-time situational state—each with separate governance and update cycles, rather than stuffing everything into a single ontology, and illustrates how they converge during task execution using a contract risk detection example.