API Reference - GraphRAG SDK

Complete reference for all public classes and methods exported by graphrag_sdk.

GraphRAG (Facade)
Connection
Providers
Data Models
Schema
Ingestion Strategies
Ingestion Pipeline
Retrieval Strategies
Reranking Strategies
Storage
Context
Exceptions

GraphRAG (Facade)

The main entry point. Three primary operations: ingest(), retrieve(), and completion().

from graphrag_sdk import GraphRAG

Constructor

GraphRAG(
    connection: FalkorDBConnection | ConnectionConfig,
    llm: LLMInterface,
    embedder: Embedder,
    schema: GraphSchema | None = None,
    retrieval_strategy: RetrievalStrategy | None = None,
)

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
`connection`	`FalkorDBConnection \| ConnectionConfig`	required	Database connection or config to create one
`llm`	`LLMInterface`	required	LLM provider
`embedder`	`Embedder`	required	Embedding provider
`schema`	`GraphSchema \| None`	`None`	Schema constraints for extraction (empty = unconstrained)
`retrieval_strategy`	`RetrievalStrategy \| None`	`None`	Default retrieval strategy (uses `MultiPathRetrieval` if None)

Public attributes: llm, embedder, schema, graph_store, vector_store

ingest()

async def ingest(
    source: str | list[str],
    *,
    text: str | None = None,
    loader: LoaderStrategy | None = None,
    chunker: ChunkingStrategy | None = None,
    extractor: ExtractionStrategy | None = None,
    resolver: ResolutionStrategy | None = None,
    max_concurrent: int = 3,
    ctx: Context | None = None,
) -> IngestionResult | list[IngestionResult]

Build a knowledge graph from one or more sources. Auto-detects loader from file extension. When a list of sources is provided, documents are ingested in parallel with bounded concurrency.

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
`source`	`str \| list[str]`	required	File path (or list of paths) for ingestion
`text`	`str \| None`	`None`	Raw text (single source only; skips loader)
`loader`	`LoaderStrategy \| None`	`None`	Custom loader (auto-detect if None)
`chunker`	`ChunkingStrategy \| None`	`None`	Custom chunker (FixedSizeChunking(1000) if None)
`extractor`	`ExtractionStrategy \| None`	`None`	Custom extractor (GraphExtraction if None)
`resolver`	`ResolutionStrategy \| None`	`None`	Custom resolver (ExactMatchResolution if None)
`max_concurrent`	`int`	`3`	Max parallel ingestions (list input only)
`ctx`	`Context \| None`	`None`	Execution context

Returns: IngestionResult for a single source, list[IngestionResult] for multiple sources.

retrieve()

async def retrieve(
    question: str,
    *,
    strategy: RetrievalStrategy | None = None,
    reranker: RerankingStrategy | None = None,
    ctx: Context | None = None,
) -> RetrieverResult

Retrieve context from the knowledge graph without generating an answer. Use this to inspect retrieved context or pass it to your own LLM.

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
`question`	`str`	required	The user’s question
`strategy`	`RetrievalStrategy \| None`	`None`	Override retrieval strategy
`reranker`	`RerankingStrategy \| None`	`None`	Optional reranking after retrieval
`ctx`	`Context \| None`	`None`	Execution context

Returns: RetrieverResult

completion()

async def completion(
    question: str,
    *,
    history: list[ChatMessage | dict[str, str]] | None = None,
    strategy: RetrievalStrategy | None = None,
    reranker: RerankingStrategy | None = None,
    prompt_template: str | None = None,
    return_context: bool = False,
    ctx: Context | None = None,
) -> RagResult

Full RAG pipeline: retrieve context and generate an answer. When history is provided, messages are passed natively to the LLM provider’s multi-turn chat API.

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
`question`	`str`	required	The user’s question
`history`	`list[ChatMessage \| dict] \| None`	`None`	Conversation history (see below)
`strategy`	`RetrievalStrategy \| None`	`None`	Override retrieval strategy
`reranker`	`RerankingStrategy \| None`	`None`	Optional reranking after retrieval
`prompt_template`	`str \| None`	`None`	Custom prompt for single-turn (must contain `{context}` and `{question}`). Ignored when `history` is provided.
`return_context`	`bool`	`False`	Include retriever results in output
`ctx`	`Context \| None`	`None`	Execution context

Returns: RagResult Conversation history: History accepts a list of ChatMessage objects or plain dicts with role and content keys. Supported roles: "system", "user", "assistant". Invalid roles raise ValueError.

from graphrag_sdk import ChatMessage

# Using ChatMessage objects
result = await rag.completion(
    "What happened next?",
    history=[
        ChatMessage(role="user", content="Who is Alice?"),
        ChatMessage(role="assistant", content="Alice is an engineer."),
    ],
)

# Using plain dicts
result = await rag.completion(
    "Tell me more.",
    history=[
        {"role": "user", "content": "What is Acme?"},
        {"role": "assistant", "content": "A tech company."},
    ],
)

When history is provided, completion() builds a native messages list: [system_prompt, *history, user_question] and calls LLMInterface.ainvoke_messages(). Without history, it uses the single-turn ainvoke() path.

query() (deprecated)

async def query(question: str, **kwargs) -> RagResult

Deprecated. Use completion() for the full RAG pipeline or retrieve() for retrieval-only. Emits a DeprecationWarning and delegates to completion().

deduplicate_entities()

async def deduplicate_entities(
    *,
    fuzzy: bool = False,
    similarity_threshold: float = 0.9,
    batch_size: int = 500,
) -> int

Post-ingestion entity deduplication. Groups entities by (normalized name, label) to prevent cross-type merging (e.g. Person “Paris” and Location “Paris” stay separate).

Phase 1 (always): Exact name match — keeps longest description, remaps RELATES and MENTIONED_IN edges, deletes duplicates.
Phase 2 (optional, fuzzy=True): Embedding-based — embeds entity names, finds near-duplicates by cosine similarity.

Call once after all documents are ingested. Returns: Number of duplicate entities merged.

finalize()

async def finalize() -> dict[str, Any]

Run all post-ingestion steps after all documents are ingested. Bundles:

deduplicate_entities() — global exact-name dedup
backfill_entity_embeddings() — name-only embeddings
embed_relationships() — fact text embeddings on RELATES edges
ensure_indices() — all indexes

Returns: Dict with counts: entities_deduplicated, entities_embedded, relationships_embedded, indexes.

Sync Wrappers

def retrieve_sync(question: str, **kwargs) -> RetrieverResult
def completion_sync(question: str, **kwargs) -> RagResult
def ingest_sync(source: str | list[str], **kwargs) -> IngestionResult | list[IngestionResult]
def finalize_sync() -> dict[str, Any]
def query_sync(question: str, **kwargs) -> RagResult  # deprecated

Convenience methods that run the async versions in asyncio.run().

Connection

from graphrag_sdk import ConnectionConfig, FalkorDBConnection

ConnectionConfig

@dataclass
class ConnectionConfig:
    host: str = "localhost"
    port: int = 6379
    username: str | None = None
    password: str | None = None
    graph_name: str = "knowledge_graph"
    max_connections: int = 16
    retry_count: int = 3
    retry_delay: float = 1.0
    query_timeout_ms: int = 10_000
    pool_timeout: int = 30

FalkorDBConnection

FalkorDBConnection(config: ConnectionConfig | None = None)

Method	Description
`await conn.query(cypher, params=None, timeout=None)`	Execute a Cypher query
`await conn.close()`	Close the connection pool
`conn.graph`	Lazy property returning the AsyncGraph handle

Providers

from graphrag_sdk import LLMInterface, Embedder, LLMBatchItem
from graphrag_sdk import LiteLLM, LiteLLMEmbedder, OpenRouterLLM, OpenRouterEmbedder

LLMInterface (ABC)

LLMInterface(model_name: str, model_params: dict | None = None, max_concurrency: int = 12)

Method	Signature	Description
`invoke`	`(prompt: str, **kwargs) -> LLMResponse`	Sync text generation (abstract)
`ainvoke`	`(prompt: str, , max_retries=3, *kwargs) -> LLMResponse`	Async with retry + backoff
`ainvoke_messages`	`(messages: list[ChatMessage], , max_retries=3, *kwargs) -> LLMResponse`	Multi-turn native messages (see below)
`invoke_with_model`	`(prompt: str, response_model: Type[BaseModel], **kwargs) -> BaseModel`	Structured output
`ainvoke_with_model`	`(prompt: str, response_model: Type[BaseModel], *, max_retries=3) -> BaseModel`	Async structured output
`abatch_invoke`	`(prompts: list[str], *, max_concurrency=None, max_retries=3) -> list[LLMBatchItem]`	Concurrent batch

ainvoke_messages() is used by completion() when conversation history is provided. The default implementation concatenates messages into a single prompt string and calls ainvoke(), so custom providers work without changes. LiteLLM and OpenRouterLLM override this with native multi-turn implementations.

Embedder (ABC)

Method	Signature	Description
`model_name`	`@property -> str`	Embedding model identifier (abstract)
`embed_query`	`(text: str, **kwargs) -> list[float]`	Single text embedding (abstract)
`aembed_query`	`(text: str, **kwargs) -> list[float]`	Async single (default: thread pool)
`embed_documents`	`(texts: list[str], **kwargs) -> list[list[float]]`	Batch (default: sequential)
`aembed_documents`	`(texts: list[str], **kwargs) -> list[list[float]]`	Async batch (default: thread pool)

LLMBatchItem

@dataclass
class LLMBatchItem:
    index: int
    response: LLMResponse | None = None
    error: Exception | None = None

    @property
    def ok(self) -> bool  # True if response is not None

LiteLLM

LiteLLM(model: str, *, api_key=None, api_base=None, api_version=None, temperature=0.0, max_tokens=None, **kwargs)

LiteLLMEmbedder

LiteLLMEmbedder(model: str, *, api_key=None, api_base=None, api_version=None, **kwargs)

OpenRouterLLM

OpenRouterLLM(model: str, *, api_key=None, temperature=0.0, max_tokens=None, extra_headers=None)

OpenRouterEmbedder

OpenRouterEmbedder(model: str, *, api_key=None, extra_headers=None)

Data Models

All models extend DataModel (Pydantic BaseModel with extra="allow").

from graphrag_sdk import GraphNode, GraphRelationship, GraphData
from graphrag_sdk import TextChunk, TextChunks
from graphrag_sdk import DocumentInfo, DocumentOutput
from graphrag_sdk import IngestionResult, RagResult
from graphrag_sdk import RetrieverResult, RetrieverResultItem
from graphrag_sdk import ResolutionResult, SearchType

GraphNode

class GraphNode(DataModel):
    id: str                                              # Unique identifier
    label: str                                           # Node label (Person, Place, etc.)
    properties: dict[str, Any] = {}                      # Key-value properties
    embedding_properties: dict[str, list[float]] | None = None

GraphRelationship

class GraphRelationship(DataModel):
    start_node_id: str
    end_node_id: str
    type: str                                            # Edge type (RELATES for all extracted rels)
    properties: dict[str, Any] = {}                      # Includes rel_type, fact, keywords, etc.
    embedding_properties: dict[str, list[float]] | None = None

GraphData

class GraphData(DataModel):
    nodes: list[GraphNode] = []
    relationships: list[GraphRelationship] = []

TextChunk

class TextChunk(DataModel):
    text: str
    index: int
    metadata: dict[str, Any] = {}
    uid: str                                             # Auto-generated UUID

TextChunks

class TextChunks(DataModel):
    chunks: list[TextChunk] = []

DocumentInfo

class DocumentInfo(DataModel):
    path: str | None = None
    uid: str                                             # Auto-generated UUID
    metadata: dict[str, Any] = {}

DocumentOutput

class DocumentOutput(DataModel):
    text: str
    document_info: DocumentInfo = DocumentInfo()

IngestionResult

class IngestionResult(DataModel):
    document_info: DocumentInfo = DocumentInfo()
    nodes_created: int = 0
    relationships_created: int = 0
    chunks_indexed: int = 0
    metadata: dict[str, Any] = {}

RagResult

class RagResult(DataModel):
    answer: str
    retriever_result: RetrieverResult | None = None      # Populated when return_context=True
    metadata: dict[str, Any] = {}                        # Contains model, num_context_items, strategy

RetrieverResult

class RetrieverResult(DataModel):
    items: list[RetrieverResultItem] = []
    metadata: dict[str, Any] = {}

RetrieverResultItem

class RetrieverResultItem(DataModel):
    content: str
    metadata: dict[str, Any] = {}
    score: float | None = None

ResolutionResult

class ResolutionResult(DataModel):
    nodes: list[GraphNode] = []
    relationships: list[GraphRelationship] = []
    merged_count: int = 0

ChatMessage

from graphrag_sdk import ChatMessage

class ChatMessage(DataModel):
    role: Literal["system", "user", "assistant"]
    content: str

    def to_dict(self) -> dict[str, str]  # {"role": ..., "content": ...}

Validated message type for multi-turn conversations. Used by completion(history=...) and LLMInterface.ainvoke_messages(). Invalid roles raise a validation error on construction. LLMMessage is a backward-compatible alias for ChatMessage.

LLMResponse

class LLMResponse(DataModel):
    content: str
    tool_calls: list[dict[str, Any]] | None = None

SearchType

class SearchType(str, Enum):
    VECTOR = "vector"
    FULLTEXT = "fulltext"
    HYBRID = "hybrid"

Extraction Models

class ExtractedEntity(DataModel):
    name: str
    type: str
    description: str = ""
    source_chunk_ids: list[str] = []

class ExtractedRelation(DataModel):
    source: str
    target: str
    type: str
    keywords: str = ""
    description: str = ""
    weight: float = 1.0
    source_chunk_ids: list[str] = []

class EntityMention(DataModel):
    chunk_id: str
    entity_id: str

class ExtractionOutput(DataModel):
    entities: list[ExtractedEntity] = []
    relations: list[ExtractedRelation] = []
    mentions: list[EntityMention] = []

compute_entity_id()

def compute_entity_id(name: str, entity_type: str = "") -> str

Deterministic entity ID from normalized name and optional type. When entity_type is provided, appends a __type suffix to prevent cross-type collisions (e.g. paris__person vs paris__location). Without entity_type, returns just the normalized name for backwards compatibility.

Schema

from graphrag_sdk import GraphSchema, EntityType, RelationType

EntityType

class EntityType(DataModel):
    label: str                            # e.g. "Person"
    description: str | None = None        # Helps LLM understand what to extract
    properties: list[PropertyType] = []   # Optional property definitions

RelationType

class RelationType(DataModel):
    label: str                            # e.g. "WORKS_AT"
    description: str | None = None
    patterns: list[tuple[str, str]] = []  # Allowed (source_label, target_label) pairs

PropertyType

class PropertyType(DataModel):
    name: str
    type: str = "STRING"                  # STRING, INTEGER, FLOAT, BOOLEAN, DATE, LIST
    description: str | None = None
    required: bool = False

GraphSchema

class GraphSchema(DataModel):
    entities: list[EntityType] = []
    relations: list[RelationType] = []

Ingestion Strategies

LoaderStrategy (ABC)

class LoaderStrategy(ABC):
    @abstractmethod
    async def load(self, source: str, ctx: Context) -> DocumentOutput: ...

Built-in: TextLoader(encoding="utf-8"), PdfLoader()

ChunkingStrategy (ABC)

class ChunkingStrategy(ABC):
    @abstractmethod
    async def chunk(self, text: str, ctx: Context) -> TextChunks: ...

Built-in: FixedSizeChunking(chunk_size=1000, chunk_overlap=100)

ExtractionStrategy (ABC)

class ExtractionStrategy(ABC):
    @abstractmethod
    async def extract(self, chunks: TextChunks, schema: GraphSchema, ctx: Context) -> GraphData: ...

Built-in:

GraphExtraction(llm, *, entity_extractor=None, coref_resolver=None, entity_types=None, max_concurrency=None)

Entity Extractors (step 1 backends for GraphExtraction):

GLiNERExtractor(threshold=0.75, model_name="urchade/gliner_medium-v2.1") — default, local NER
LLMExtractor(llm, threshold=0.75) — LLM-based NER
Subclass EntityExtractor for custom backends

ResolutionStrategy (ABC)

class ResolutionStrategy(ABC):
    @abstractmethod
    async def resolve(self, graph_data: GraphData, ctx: Context) -> ResolutionResult: ...

Built-in:

ExactMatchResolution(resolve_property="id")
DescriptionMergeResolution(llm=None, force_summary_threshold=3, max_summary_tokens=500)

Ingestion Pipeline

from graphrag_sdk import IngestionPipeline

IngestionPipeline(
    loader: LoaderStrategy,
    chunker: ChunkingStrategy,
    extractor: ExtractionStrategy,
    resolver: ResolutionStrategy,
    graph_store: GraphStore,
    vector_store: VectorStore,
    schema: GraphSchema | None = None,
    embedder: Embedder | None = None,
)

Method	Signature	Description
`run`	`(source, ctx=None, *, text=None, document_info=None) -> IngestionResult`	Execute the full 9-step pipeline

Retrieval Strategies

RetrievalStrategy (ABC)

Uses the Template Method pattern.

class RetrievalStrategy(ABC):
    def __init__(self, graph_store=None, vector_store=None): ...

    async def search(self, query, ctx=None, **kwargs) -> RetrieverResult: ...

    @abstractmethod
    async def _execute(self, query, ctx, **kwargs) -> RawSearchResult: ...

LocalRetrieval

LocalRetrieval(graph_store, vector_store, embedder, top_k=5, include_entities=True)

MultiPathRetrieval

MultiPathRetrieval(
    graph_store, vector_store, embedder, llm,
    *,
    chunk_top_k=15,
    max_entities=30,
    max_relationships=20,
    rel_top_k=15,
    keyword_limit=10,
)

Reranking Strategies

RerankingStrategy (ABC)

class RerankingStrategy(ABC):
    @abstractmethod
    async def rerank(self, query, result: RetrieverResult, ctx: Context) -> RetrieverResult: ...

CosineReranker

CosineReranker(embedder: Embedder, top_k: int = 15)

Storage

from graphrag_sdk import GraphStore, VectorStore

GraphStore

GraphStore(connection: FalkorDBConnection)

Method	Signature	Description
`upsert_nodes`	`(nodes: list[GraphNode]) -> int`	Batched MERGE, returns count
`upsert_relationships`	`(rels: list[GraphRelationship]) -> int`	Batched MERGE with label hints
`get_connected_entities`	`(chunk_id, max_hops=1) -> list[dict]`	N-hop entity traversal
`query_raw`	`(cypher, params=None) -> Any`	Raw Cypher execution
`get_statistics`	`() -> dict`	Node/edge counts, types, density
`delete_all`	`() -> None`	Delete all data

VectorStore

VectorStore(connection, embedder=None, index_name="chunk_embeddings", embedding_dimension=256, similarity_function="cosine")

Method	Signature	Description
`create_vector_index`	`(label="Chunk", property="embedding") -> None`	Create vector index
`create_entity_vector_index`	`() -> None`	Create entity vector index
`create_fulltext_index`	`(label="Chunk", *properties) -> None`	Create fulltext index
`ensure_indices`	`() -> None`	Create all standard indices
`index_chunks`	`(chunks: TextChunks) -> int`	Embed and store chunk vectors
`backfill_entity_embeddings`	`() -> int`	Embed all entities missing vectors
`embed_relationships`	`() -> int`	Embed fact text on RELATES edges
`search`	`(query_vector, top_k=5, label="Chunk") -> list[dict]`	Vector similarity search
`search_entities`	`(query_vector, top_k=5) -> list[dict]`	Entity vector search
`search_relationships`	`(query_vector, top_k=15) -> list[dict]`	RELATES edge vector search
`fulltext_search`	`(query, top_k=5, label="Chunk") -> list[dict]`	Fulltext keyword search

Context

from graphrag_sdk import Context

Execution context for logging and budget tracking.

Context(tenant_id: str = "default", latency_budget_ms: float = 60000.0)

Method/Property	Description
`ctx.log(message, log_level=logging.INFO)`	Log a message
`ctx.budget_exceeded`	True if elapsed time > latency_budget_ms

Exceptions

from graphrag_sdk import GraphRAGError

Exception	When Raised
`GraphRAGError`	Base exception for all SDK errors
`LoaderError`	File loading failures
`ChunkingError`	Text splitting failures
`ExtractionError`	LLM extraction or JSON parsing failures
`ResolutionError`	Entity deduplication failures
`RetrieverError`	Retrieval execution failures
`DatabaseError`	FalkorDB connection or query failures
`IngestionError`	Pipeline orchestration failures
`SchemaValidationError`	Schema constraint violations

​Table of Contents

​GraphRAG (Facade)

​Constructor

​ingest()

​retrieve()

​completion()

​query() (deprecated)

​deduplicate_entities()

​finalize()

​Sync Wrappers

​Connection

​ConnectionConfig

​FalkorDBConnection

​Providers

​LLMInterface (ABC)

​Embedder (ABC)

​LLMBatchItem

​LiteLLM

​LiteLLMEmbedder

​OpenRouterLLM

​OpenRouterEmbedder

​Data Models

​GraphNode

​GraphRelationship

​GraphData

​TextChunk

​TextChunks

​DocumentInfo

​DocumentOutput

​IngestionResult

​RagResult

​RetrieverResult

​RetrieverResultItem

​ResolutionResult

​ChatMessage

​LLMResponse

​SearchType

​Extraction Models

​compute_entity_id()

​Schema

​EntityType

​RelationType

​PropertyType

​GraphSchema

​Ingestion Strategies

​LoaderStrategy (ABC)

​ChunkingStrategy (ABC)

​ExtractionStrategy (ABC)

​ResolutionStrategy (ABC)

​Ingestion Pipeline

​Retrieval Strategies

​RetrievalStrategy (ABC)

​LocalRetrieval

​MultiPathRetrieval

​Reranking Strategies

​RerankingStrategy (ABC)

​CosineReranker

​Storage

​GraphStore

​VectorStore

​Context

​Exceptions

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