Terms related to natural language processing · 3.6.15
relationship extraction
a task that finds relationships between entities named in a text
What this term settles
A governance lead borrows this meaning whenever relationship extraction appears in a risk assessment or an assurance argument. The borrowing is safe only if the artefact behind it matches the description.
Who it binds
Nothing here creates an obligation by itself, and the obligation for relationship extraction arrives when the firm writes the term into a control, a specification or a purchase order.
What to do in your practice
Take the firm's own definition of relationship extraction, put it beside this one and mark the differences. Each difference is either a deliberate local choice or an inconsistency to fix.
Evidence an auditor or regulator asks for
- A controlled vocabulary entry for relationship extraction with the citation 3.6.15, an owner and a review date.An auditor can check that relationship extraction is controlled rather than assumed.
- A product description that names the language task and the input and output it handles. The row names relationship extraction.Shows relationship extraction in use in the artefact the firm relies on, not only in a glossary.
- An evaluation set with the language, the domain and the scoring rule. The record carries the relationship extraction entry and its date.The product description mixes the task with the model, so a change of model reads as a change of task. The gap is tested against relationship extraction.
Common gaps this page catches
- relationship extraction is used in the language task in the product description without a written definition, so two teams can mean different things.
- The entry for relationship extraction is reviewed when someone remembers, not on a cadence, so it drifts from the artefact it describes.
What to prepare before the amendment lands
Put relationship extraction on the agenda of the next AI governance meeting with two questions: where is it used, and what would show it is used correctly? Record the answers as actions.
How to test it here
Take one live artefact rather than a template, find the sentence or field where relationship extraction is used, and put this page beside it. Record the answer, the artefact and the date, because that record is the evidence and a glossary entry on its own is only an intention.
What this page does not claim
The page does not reproduce the standard, certify the firm or predict the wording the amendment will use; it states relationship extraction at the claim level "definition" and stops where the public record stops.
Common questions
- What does relationship extraction mean in ISO 22989?
- a task that finds relationships between entities named in a text
- What evidence should we keep for 3.6.15?
- A controlled vocabulary entry for relationship extraction with the citation 3.6.15, an owner and a review date. A product description that names the language task and the input and output it handles. The row names relationship extraction.
- Is relationship extraction a requirement?
- No: relationship extraction is a definition or clause of a terminology standard, and it becomes binding only when a firm writes it into a policy, a contract or a procedure, or when another standard incorporates it.
Related units
Source. ISO/IEC 22989:2022, Clause 3.6.15, Terms and definitions. Open the ISO public entry. Retrieved 21 October 2026.
https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/en/#iso:std:iso-iec:22989:ed-1:v1:en
ISO catalogue record 88145, the amendment status, stage and dates. Catalogue record 74296, the base standard.
Claim level: definition. The definition is in the public preview. This page states it in our own words and does not reproduce the text.
Last updated: 2026-10-21 · Markdown version · Check your vocabulary