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Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-22 21:52:50 +05:30

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Provenance Module W3C PROV-O compliant lineage tracking, source attribution, and audit trails across all 17 modules. link

W3C PROV-O compliant provenance tracking for high-stakes domains requiring complete traceability.


Overview

The Provenance Module tracks the full lineage of every fact — from raw ingestion through extraction, reasoning, and export. Compliant with W3C PROV-O, suitable for HIPAA, SOX, GDPR, and FDA 21 CFR Part 11 environments.


ProvenanceManager

from semantica.provenance import ProvenanceManager

manager = ProvenanceManager()

# Track an entity
manager.track_entity(
    entity_id="apple_inc",
    source="annual_report_2023.pdf",
    entity_type="Organization",
    extraction_method="llm",
    confidence=0.98
)

# Track a relationship
manager.track_relationship(
    rel_id="steve_jobs_founded_apple",
    source="annual_report_2023.pdf",
    extraction_method="llm",
    confidence=0.92
)

# Get full lineage
lineage = manager.get_lineage("apple_inc")
print(f"Source: {lineage.source}")
print(f"Extracted: {lineage.extracted_at}")
print(f"Method: {lineage.extraction_method}")

Activity Tracking

# Track a pipeline activity
activity_id = manager.start_activity(
    activity_type="ner_extraction",
    used=["annual_report_2023.pdf"],
    generated=["apple_inc", "steve_jobs"]
)

manager.end_activity(activity_id)

# Query activities
activities = manager.get_activities(entity_id="apple_inc")

Lineage Graph

# Full lineage from source to current state
lineage_graph = manager.get_lineage_graph("apple_inc")

for node in lineage_graph.nodes:
    print(f"{node.id}: {node.type}{node.timestamp}")

W3C PROV-O Export

# Export provenance as W3C PROV-O Turtle
prov_ttl = manager.export_prov_o("apple_inc", format="turtle")

# Export full provenance graph
manager.export_all(path="provenance.ttl", format="turtle")

Integration with Other Modules

Provenance is automatically tracked when using GraphBuilderWithProvenance:

from semantica.kg import GraphBuilderWithProvenance

builder = GraphBuilderWithProvenance(provenance=True)
result = builder.build_single_source(graph_data)

# The builder records what was used to produce each node/edge
lineage = result.provenance_manager.get_lineage("entity_id")

See Also

Version control and audit trails. Provenance begins at ingestion. Include provenance in exports. Decision provenance via AgentContext.