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ontology

[on-tol-uh-jee] / ɒnˈtɒl ə dʒi /


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UBS says customer feedback on Palantir’s data ontology layer shows “no evidence of churn or heightened competition in Palantir’s numbers or in our customer checks.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

The analyst believes Palantir’s ontology and forward deployed engineers, which Morgan Stanley covered favorably last month, “will maintain a competitive differentiated moat in this agentic AI super cycle.”

From Barron's • Apr. 1, 2026

An ontology is formal representation of knowledge within a domain and the relationships between those concepts, used to model and manage complex information systems.

From Science Daily • May 10, 2024

Many Nigerians believe in the supernatural, and this often stems from the animistic ontology that undergirds self and being in many Nigerian communities.

From New York Times • Feb. 7, 2024

These were the great, complex questions of ontology that tormented him.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller




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