How to Fix RAG’s Wrong Document Problem in Education: The ELERAG Solution

Using Entity Linking to Fix RAG’s Chronic “Wrong Document” Problem Have you ever asked an AI tutor a precise question like “In The Wealth of Nations, how does Adam Smith define the division of labor?” …only to get back a confident answer that’s completely wrong because the system pulled paragraphs about some random economist named Smith from 2023? That’s not the language model being dumb. That’s the retrieval part being blind. In specialized domains — university lectures, medical textbooks, legal documents, corporate knowledge bases — pure semantic similarity retrieval fails exactly when you need it most: when the same word …