# Palantir Gotham **Entity class:** Data-integration and operational-intelligence platform **Domain:** Knowledge graphs / defense / intelligence / law enforcement **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition **Palantir Gotham** is a platform for integrating heterogeneous data into an ontology-backed object model and exposing it through investigative, graph, geospatial, temporal, and operational applications. Public documentation describes Gotham's RevDB as an object database backed by a dynamic ontology and exposes APIs for Gaia maps, geotemporal data, targets, intelligence objects, and federated sources. Gotham is developed by [[wiki/Palantir Technologies|Palantir Technologies]]. Gotham represents the move from a link chart to an operational knowledge graph: identity resolution, relationships, locations, events, and source records can occupy one permissioned object model. The platform does not erase the limitations of its inputs; provenance, access controls, ontology design, and analyst judgment determine whether integration clarifies or compounds error. ## Relationships - **implements:** [[wiki/Graph Analytics|Graph Analytics]], [[wiki/Identity and Relationship Analysis|Identity and Relationship Analysis]], and [[wiki/Common Operational Picture|Common Operational Picture]]. - **geospatial application:** Gaia. - **counterterrorism context:** [[wiki/Counterterrorism Intelligence|Counterterrorism Intelligence]]. - **risk domain:** [[wiki/Dataveillance|Dataveillance]] and false association. - **ICE/HSI systems:** [[wiki/FALCON Search and Analysis|FALCON-SA]], [[wiki/Investigative Case Management|ICM]], and the [[wiki/Case Management and Analytics Platform|CMAP]] modernization lineage. - **developer:** [[wiki/Palantir Technologies|Palantir Technologies]]. - **historical functional predecessor:** [[wiki/ICEPIC|ICEPIC]] for identity and relationship analysis, while direct platform lineage begins with documented Palantir deployments. ## Sources / Provenance - [Palantir — Gotham API and dynamic ontology](https://www.palantir.com/docs/docs/gotham/api) - [Palantir — Gaia map API](https://palantirfoundation.org/docs/gotham/api/v1/map-resources/maps/load-map) - [DHS — ICM Privacy Impact Assessment, 2016](https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/privacy-pia-ice-icm-june2016.pdf) - [DHS — FALCON-SA PIA update, 2021](https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/privacy-pia-ice032b-falconsa-appendixbupdate-march2021.pdf)