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I Added a Knowledge Graph to My Search. It Made It Worse.

My second brain searches over a vault of markdown using BM25 + vectors + graph expansion. I’d been telling people the graph improved recall. Then I finally benchmarked it, and plain keyword search beat my fancy hybrid — the graph was actively dragging the right answers out of the results. Here’s the scorecard and what it taught me about where graphs actually belong.