Links & Power Features

Small display settings decide how finished a Knowledge Graph feels. This lecture covers four of them, each set on a single field in Studio: turning a website attribute into a clickable link, restyling a field with an HTML tag, defining a custom unit so long numbers read at a glance, and giving values with a natural order the right sort.

One rule ties all four together. They change what users see, never the value underneath.

Key points

• extends: url marks a string attribute as a URL, and Veezoo maps that link onto the parent class.
• The website column then drops out of the answer, because the customer name itself carries the link.
• An html tag restyles how any field is displayed, for example showing email addresses in italics.
• A custom unit is an object tagged kb.unit whose html rule reshapes the number, such as dividing by a thousand and adding a K.
• Swapping a field's unit, from US dollars to thousands of US dollars, makes long figures readable at a glance.
• By default a chart sorts by the value, so age groups come out ordered by sales rather than by age.
• An ordinal class tagged kb.ordinal fixes that once every entity has a sort_id, and the order then holds in every visualisation.

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