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Glossary

Terms used throughout Atlas and this documentation.

Atlas Console​

The React single-page frontend through which analysts run investigations and engineers configure the platform. See Frontend architecture.

Claim​

A single assertion about an entity attribute made by one provider, carrying its own confidence and source. Multiple providers can make competing claims about the same attribute. See Claims & survivorship.

Crew​

An LLM-driven agent (or set of agents) that performs one OSINT module, using MCP tools in an agentic loop and returning structured findings.

Entity​

A node in the knowledge graph — a LegalEntity, Person, or Address — defined by the ontology.

Entity resolution​

The process of deciding whether incoming data refers to an existing entity (merge) or a new one (create), using blocking and similarity scoring. See Entity resolution.

Investigation​

A unit of work that gathers, resolves, scores, and reports on a subject company. Orchestrated as a Temporal workflow.

Module (OSINT module)​

One of the seven focused analyses — CIR, ROA, MEBO, SPEPWS, AMLRR, DFWO, FRLS — run in parallel during an investigation. See What is Atlas.

MCP (Model Context Protocol)​

The protocol by which crews call external tools (web search, scraping, geocoding). MCP servers are registered per tenant and surfaced as LLM-callable tools.

Mutation​

A recorded change to an entity attribute — before/after values with provider attribution — forming the audit trail. See Mutation queue.

Ontology​

The versioned schema (currently v3.5) of entity types, attributes, relationships, and survivorship rules. See Ontology.

Plugin / Provider​

A data source integration declared via plugin.yaml and a mapping spec. Providers may be sync (HTTP, e.g. KVK, NorthData) or async (Temporal-orchestrated, e.g. OSINT). See Plugins.

Protected field​

An attribute (such as pep_status or sanctions_flags) that survivorship rules must never silently overwrite. See Claims & survivorship.

RLS (Row-Level Security)​

The PostgreSQL mechanism that scopes every query to the current tenant. The backbone of Atlas multi-tenancy. See Security & multi-tenancy.

Risk matrix​

An operator-configurable grid that maps entity characteristics (jurisdiction, industry, UBO clarity, …) to a risk level and score. See Risk scoring.

Source contract​

A declarative description of which ontology fields a provider is allowed to emit, parallel to its mapping spec. See Source contracts.

Survivorship​

The rules that select the winning claim per attribute, weighted by provider trust and guarded by protected fields. See Claims & survivorship.

Temporal​

The durable workflow engine that orchestrates long-running investigations so they survive restarts and are fully observable.

Tenant​

An isolated customer environment. Each tenant has its own Keycloak realm, data segment, and provider credentials; isolation is enforced by RLS.

TranslationRegistry​

The boot-time index (Phase 114) that derives canonical field paths from plugin specs and the active ontology, validating that plugins target a compatible schema version.

UBO (Ultimate Beneficial Owner)​

The natural person(s) who ultimately own or control a company, computed by walking ownership chains in the graph.