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I question how valuable the ontology is even once you come up with it.

It seems to me if the idea behind all this was that valuable, it would have transformed banking in the 2000s and all banks would currently run on Palantir products.

Like the graph for songs in the example, Palantir always seems like some some kind of technological theatrical performance to convince non-tech people that it is more than it really is.

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To be fair, Palantir started building this commercial ontology stuff in the early 2010s and the product now seems to really gain traction in certain business areas, like energy and manufacturing.

I think the ontology becomes especially valuable when using LLMs, because you can traverse the entities of your business without knowing anything about the infrastructure behind it. You essentially have an object API into your business for the LLM to use.

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