From 4a0913af41d1e907052a61d68842681fb4cea8ef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: tokebe <43009413+tokebe@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2026 17:10:01 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] don't normalize t0 kgraph

Gandalf already properly dedupes edges, we should trust it and not waste
compute time.
---
 src/retriever/data_tiers/tier_0/base_query.py | 5 -----
 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/retriever/data_tiers/tier_0/base_query.py b/src/retriever/data_tiers/tier_0/base_query.py
index 50b56bd8..5e75912b 100644
--- a/src/retriever/data_tiers/tier_0/base_query.py
+++ b/src/retriever/data_tiers/tier_0/base_query.py
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@
 from retriever.utils.logs import TRAPILogger
 from retriever.utils.trapi import (
     append_aggregator_source,
-    normalize_kgraph,
 )
 
 tracer = trace.get_tracer("lookup.execution.tracer")
@@ -52,10 +51,6 @@ async def execute(self) -> LookupArtifacts:
 
             parameters = (self.ctx.body or {}).get("parameters") or ParametersDict()
 
-            if not parameters.get("dehydrated"):
-                with tracer.start_as_current_span("update_kg"):
-                    normalize_kgraph(kgraph, results, aux_graphs)
-
             end_time = time.time()
             duration_ms = math.ceil((end_time - start_time) * 1000)
             self.job_log.info(