# World Knowledge Database **Entity class:** AI architecture concept **Domain:** Artificial intelligence / Knowledge systems **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition A world knowledge database externalizes factual and relational information so models can retrieve or update it without encoding every fact permanently in their parameters. ## Mechanism and significance Separating knowledge storage from reasoning can improve freshness, provenance, and efficiency, but retrieval quality and conflict resolution become part of intelligence. ## Relationships - **Research dossier:** [[research/ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots|ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots]] - **Ontology route:** [[ASI and RSI Timeline Ontology#Model Architecture and Compute Economics|Model Architecture and Compute Economics]] - **Primary fields:** [[Machine Intelligence]] · [[AI Infrastructure]] · [[Compute Race]] - **Adjacent concepts:** [[Organizational Singularity]] · [[NanoGPT]] · [[Model Distillation]] · [[Open-Weight Chinese Model]] ## Sources and provenance - [[research/ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots|ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots]] — immediate source for this node's role in the broadcast research map. ## Evidence boundary The research dossier establishes why this entity or concept belongs in the Moonshots ontology. Time-sensitive organizational, product, policy, and performance claims should be checked against the linked primary source or a current authoritative source before reuse as settled fact.