
GraphRAG vs. Vanilla RAG: Structure, Signal, and the End of Hallucinations
TL;DR: Vanilla RAG (vector search → stuff context → generate) is great for “find and summarize.” It breaks on multi-hop questions, entity-heavy domains, and anything that needs joins, constraints, or causality. GraphRAG adds an explicit knowledge graph—entities, relationships, events—so the model retrieves structured facts first, then uses text passages as evidence. The result: higher factuality, […]