Beyond the First Answer: When Retrieval Becomes Investigation

Dev.to•Sun, Oct 4, 2026, 05:21 PM•2 min read

What happens when a question looks simple, but answering it correctly requires more than retrieving a few documents? For my TigerGraph Hackathon project, I explored this question by implementing and comparing RAG, GraphRAG, and Agentic GraphRAG on the same benchmark questions. The goal was not ...

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