Discussing the feasibility of representing ontologies in plain Markdown

durlabha · reddit · 2026-08-20

The author questions if there are significant downsides to representing ontologies entirely in plain Markdown, aside from cases requiring strictly controlled vocabularies or lacking synonyms. They suggest that even then, frontier models could be prompted to interpret the Markdown as specific ontology formats. The post seeks rigorous research or work on the limitations of this approach.

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