Use case overview
Document Q&A with GraphRAG provides:- Semantic understanding - Answer questions based on meaning, not just keywords
- Multi-document synthesis - Combine information from multiple sources
- Entity-aware responses - Understand questions about specific people, places, things
- Relationship queries - Answer “how” and “why” questions about connections
- Source attribution - Provide evidence and citations for answers
Basic Q&A pipeline
Question types and methods
Factual questions (use local search)
What questions
What questions
Who questions
Who questions
When questions
When questions
Where questions
Where questions
Analytical questions (use global search)
Summary questions
Summary questions
Comparison questions
Comparison questions
Trend questions
Trend questions
Complex questions (use DRIFT search)
Building a Q&A application
Here’s a complete example of a document Q&A application:Backend API
Frontend interface
Advanced features
Conversational Q&A
Maintain conversation context for follow-up questions:Question suggestion
Generate suggested follow-up questions:Answer confidence scoring
Domain-specific examples
- Legal Q&A
- Technical documentation
- Medical records
- Customer support
Performance optimization
Cache frequent queries
Batch similar questions
Group similar questions and answer together to reduce redundant context building
Precompute embeddings
Index documents during off-peak hours; serve queries instantly
Use appropriate search method
Local search for 80% of queries; global/DRIFT for complex cases only
Evaluation and quality
Creating a test set
Next steps
Research analysis
Apply Q&A to research papers and academic content
Enterprise knowledge
Build internal knowledge bases and Q&A systems
Search notebooks
Deep dive into search methods
Query API
Complete query API documentation