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Article

FARM: A Multi-Agent Framework for Automated Construction of Multi-Species Livestock Health Knowledge Graphs

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Institute of Special Animal and Plant Sciences (ISAPS), Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), Changchun 130112, China
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Agricultural Information Institute (AII), Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), Beijing 100081, China
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Institute of Agricultural Economics and Development (IAED), Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), Beijing 100081, China
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National Nanfan Research Institute (NNRI), Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), Sanya 572100, China
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College of Computer and Information Engineering, Xinjiang Agricultural University, Urumqi 830052, China
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Agriculture 2026, 16(3), 356; https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture16030356
Submission received: 17 December 2025 / Revised: 16 January 2026 / Accepted: 28 January 2026 / Published: 2 February 2026
(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence and Digital Agriculture)

Abstract

Livestock health knowledge graphs are essential for decision-making and reasoning in animal husbandry, yet existing knowledge is scattered across unstructured literature and encoded in narrowly scoped, species-specific models, resulting in semantic fragmentation and limited reusability. To address these issues, we proposed FARM (Four-dimensional Automated-Reasoning Multi-agent), a zero-shot multi-agent framework used for constructing multi-species livestock health knowledge graphs. FARM is grounded in a Four-Dimension Livestock Health Framework encompassing Rearing Environment, Physiological Status, Feed & Water Inputs, and Production Performance, and employs a unified ontology strategy that integrates cross-species general labels with species-specific constraints to achieve semantic alignment. The framework orchestrates five specialized agents—Coordination, Entity Extraction, Ontology Normalization, Relation Extraction, and Knowledge Fusion—to automate the construction process. Experiments on 2478 expertly annotated text samples demonstrate that FARM achieves an entity-level F1 score of 0.8070 (IoU ≥ 0.5), surpassing the strongest baseline by 0.1627. Moreover, it attains a corrected entity label accuracy of 90.44% and an F1 score of 0.9277 in relation existence identification, outperforming the baseline by 0.1114. Validation on 500 image samples further confirms its capability in multimodal evidence fusion. The resulting knowledge graph contains 29,064 entities and 26,662 triples, providing a reusable foundation for zero-shot extraction and unified cross-species semantic modeling.
Keywords: livestock health management; knowledge graphs; large language models; multi-agent systems; zero-shot information extraction; automated framework livestock health management; knowledge graphs; large language models; multi-agent systems; zero-shot information extraction; automated framework

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Zhang, S.; Cao, S.; Ma, N.; Sun, W.; Kong, F. FARM: A Multi-Agent Framework for Automated Construction of Multi-Species Livestock Health Knowledge Graphs. Agriculture 2026, 16, 356. https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture16030356

AMA Style

Zhang S, Cao S, Ma N, Sun W, Kong F. FARM: A Multi-Agent Framework for Automated Construction of Multi-Species Livestock Health Knowledge Graphs. Agriculture. 2026; 16(3):356. https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture16030356

Chicago/Turabian Style

Zhang, Songxue, Shanshan Cao, Nan Ma, Wei Sun, and Fantao Kong. 2026. "FARM: A Multi-Agent Framework for Automated Construction of Multi-Species Livestock Health Knowledge Graphs" Agriculture 16, no. 3: 356. https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture16030356

APA Style

Zhang, S., Cao, S., Ma, N., Sun, W., & Kong, F. (2026). FARM: A Multi-Agent Framework for Automated Construction of Multi-Species Livestock Health Knowledge Graphs. Agriculture, 16(3), 356. https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture16030356

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