Verifiable Disaster Storylines and Causal Knowledge Graphs: A Citation-Grounded Pipeline from Heterogeneous Humanitarian Sources

arXiv:2609.00858 · cs.AI, cs.CL · Submitted 2026-09-01 · Read on arXiv

cs.AI, cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-09-01

Updated: 2026-09-13

Code: https://github.com/idecost/StoryLine_KG

Project page: https://idecost.github.io/StoryLine_

Terminology

• Knowledge Graph — 44× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Knowledge graphs — 20× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• RAG — 13× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation — 7× in this paper
• alpha — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Accuracy — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Graph Construction — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Embeddings — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Explainability — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Provenance — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Verification — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abstention — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Abstraction — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Actor — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Causal Discovery — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Downstream Tasks — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Elias — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Grounding — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Interpretability — 1× in this paper · explained in 15 episodes
• Knowledge Distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 11 episodes
• ReliefWeb and the European Media Monitor — 1× in this paper
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) — 1× in this paper · explained in 16 episodes
• Structured Reasoning — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verifiability — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• FloodBrain: Flood Disaster Reporting by Web-based Retrieval Augmented Generation with an LLM
• A Large-Language-Model Framework for Automated Humanitarian Situation Reporting
• The Llama 3 Herd of Models
• Knowledge Graph Validation
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Knowledge-Intensive NLP Tasks
• M3-Embedding: Multi-Linguality, Multi-Functionality, Multi-Granularity Text Embeddings Through Self-Knowledge Distillation
• Evaluating Retrieval Quality in Retrieval-Augmented Generation
• Attribute First, then Generate: Locally-attributable Grounded Text Generation

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