Tarfah Alrashed

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May 27, 2026

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Do Agents Need Semantic Metadata? A Comparative Study in Agentic Data Retrieval

LLMs alone can't reliably retrieve actionable data from the web, with agents relying on semantic metadata achieving 65% higher precision in finding FAIR-compliant datasets.

Shiyu Chen, Tarfah Alrashed, Alon Halevy +1

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