Temporal Cognify

What it does

Runs the temporal variant of the cognify pipeline: instead of (or in addition to) standard entity/relationship extraction, it extracts events and timestamps so the knowledge graph supports temporal reasoning. Mirrors Python’s temporal_cognify=True.

When to use it

Your corpus is event-driven (logs, meeting notes, news, changelogs) and you want to ask “what happened when?” / “what came before X?”.
You plan to query with temporal recall (see below).

CLI

cognee-cli cognify -d my_dataset --temporal-cognify

The flag is --temporal-cognify (crates/cli/src/cli.rs, CognifyArgs). It maps to CognifyConfig.temporal_cognify.

Programmatic

use cognee_cognify::CognifyConfig;

let config = CognifyConfig::default()
    .with_temporal_cognify(true);
// also: .with_data_per_batch(n) tunes the temporal batch size (default 20)

See CognifyConfig (temporal_cognify, with_temporal_cognify, data_per_batch).

Querying temporal memory

Retrieve with the TEMPORAL search type:

cognee-cli search "what happened before the launch?" -t TEMPORAL -d my_dataset
# or let recall auto-route to a temporal strategy:
cognee-cli recall "timeline of the project"

This uses SearchType::Temporal and the temporal retriever (crates/search/src/). The recall router can auto-select the temporal strategy from the query (crates/search/src/query_router.rs).

Pointers

CognifyConfig — temporal_cognify.
crates/cli/src/cli.rs — --temporal-cognify, -t TEMPORAL.
Operations — cognify and search stages.

Getting Started

Core Concepts

Setup Configuration

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OSS

What it does

When to use it

CLI

Programmatic

Querying temporal memory

Pointers

​What it does

​When to use it

​CLI

​Programmatic

​Querying temporal memory

​Pointers

What it does

When to use it

CLI

Programmatic

Querying temporal memory

Pointers