A cognitive platform, systems and methods for using knowledge to create information from data are disclosed. A cognitive stack supports the separation of enterprise knowledge, information and data into three distinct layers. The cognitive stack provides a curated representation of knowledge as an authoritative enterprise system of truth, which can be applied to enterprise relevant data to create meaningful enterprise information in a timely, scalable and sustainable fashion. In an embodiment, the system implements a transmission methodology capable of providing a knowledge contract to independent information creation agents, a horizontally scalable data transformation methodology for creating raw semantically normalized information from disparate data sources and a materialization methodology for creating flexible representations of addressable information structures from a single enterprise information store to support multiple enterprise cognitive use cases.