This invention discloses a reliable question-answering method and
system for archival knowledge graphs, relating to the field of
knowledge graph processing technology. After receiving an archival query, the method parses the subject entities, relational clues, and constraint sets, constructs an initial evidence subgraph in the archival
knowledge graph, and writes it into a graph evidence cache. Based on the initial evidence subgraph, candidate answers are inferred, and an uncertainty
score is calculated by combining confidence, multi-sample consistency, support paths, relation coverage, constraint coverage, and candidate competition. When the uncertainty exceeds a threshold, a structured diagnosis of the failure cause is performed, identifying it as an entity gap, relation gap, constraint gap, or support gap. Graph evidence is incrementally supplemented according to the
failure type, and the incremental evidence is merged into the graph evidence cache. After further
inference and support
verification, a reliable answer with evidence sources is output. This scheme can reduce the
noise introduced by blindly expanding the scope of the query, significantly improving the reliability, accuracy, and
traceability of archival
question answering.