When you say that GraphQL is built on top of REST, are you sure you're not mixing up REST and HTTP? Replace the hierarchical URI structure from REST with a 'nov

When you say that GraphQL is built on top of REST, are you sure you're not mixing up REST and HTTP? Replace the hierarchical URI structure from REST with a 'novel query syntax' and all that's left is pretty much just the fact that both are ways of fetching data using HTTP methods.