In the era of interconnected data, graphs have emerged as an effective abstraction for modeling complex systems in an intuitive format, especially with the rise of Property Graphs, which offer an intuitive and scalable way of navigating non-intuitive structures. In this context, graph mining techniques have been developed for testing complex graph-based rules, as the MINE GRAPH RULE operator, which, however, require users to have prior expertise both in graph theory and formal query language. In this work, we propose to bridge the gap between users and the graph-association rule-mining process by showing how Large Language Models (LLMs) can be easily prompted to formulate, refine, and interpret complex relational rules, directly producing MINE GRAPH RULE queries.
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