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All structures are trees if you squint hard enough. Of different shapes. Maybe with some interlinks.

So graphs? Which are matrices.

partially ordered sets / hierarchal structures of entities and relationships

not all graphs can be represented as a poset

True yet most natural ontologies are represented as a poset at the fundamental levels.

Graphs are just tangled mess. Trees are the last useful structure before you need to go absolutely bananas with graphs.