Representing Entity Importance in AI Knowledge Systems: A Dual-Signal Framework of Audience Evaluation and Structural Authority

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.20925v1
• Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2026 05:06:09 GMT
• Title: Representing Entity Importance in AI Knowledge Systems: A Dual-Signal Framework of Audience Evaluation and Structural Authority
• Abstract summary: AI knowledge systems require representations of entity importance for retrieval, recommendation, evidence selection, and knowledge-intensive reasoning.<n>This study introduces an interpretable dual-signal representation in which each entity is characterized by an audience dimension and a structural-authority dimension.<n>Results show that audience evaluation and structural authority are non-redundant signals and should not automatically be collapsed into a single notion of importance.
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• Abstract: AI knowledge systems require representations of entity importance for retrieval, recommendation, evidence selection, and knowledge-intensive reasoning. Yet importance is often reduced to a single score derived from either human response or graph structure. Such compression may discard distinctions that matter when an AI system must choose among entities for different tasks. This study introduces an interpretable dual-signal representation in which each entity is characterized by an audience-evaluation dimension and a structural-authority dimension. The framework is evaluated using movie entities as an empirical validation domain. IMDb non-commercial datasets provide a rating-based audience ranking, Wikidata supports entity alignment, and English Wikipedia hyperlinks form the knowledge network on which PageRank estimates structural authority. Experiments on 482 entities and 13,690 directed relationships reveal a statistically significant but weak association between the two dimensions (Spearman rho = 0.2275, p < 0.001). Their overlap is only 10% in the top 10 and 34% in the top 100, while entity-level divergence occurs in both directions. The results show that audience evaluation and structural authority are non-redundant signals and should not automatically be collapsed into a single scalar notion of importance. The contribution is not a new ranking algorithm or learned embedding, but a minimal knowledge-representation framework and an empirical test of its dimensional necessity. The findings support task-aware AI knowledge systems that preserve distinct importance signals before applying context-specific selection or aggregation.

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