From Nodes to Narratives: A Knowledge Graph-based Storytelling Approach

• Pasquale Lisena

Knowledge graphs can turn connected events into narratives that preserve the logic of what happened.

From Nodes to Narratives (Text2Story’24)

Generating a story from a knowledge graph is not only about linking people, places, and dates. It also requires capturing how events shape one another.

In this paper, we enrich event-centric knowledge graphs with fine-grained relations such as causing, preventing, enabling, and intending to cause. We then use these richer graphs to generate more informative narratives.

Human evaluation Combined model Base model
More adequate narratives 58.3% wins 8.3% wins
More fluent narratives 33.3% wins 16.7% wins

The results show that adding precise event relations helps move from isolated graph nodes to narratives that better reflect the meaning and connections behind events.