Biperpedia: An Ontology for Search Applications

Summary: Biperpedia builds a 1.6M (class, attribute)-pair ontology from search queries and text, storing attribute synonyms and patterns. Its broad attribute coverage enables long-tail fact understanding and recovers Web-table semantics over 4× better than Freebase. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 11117
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2014
Pagerank: 7.6330836e-05
Overall Rank: 3,211 | 77.98%
DOI: 10.14778/2732296.2732303

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Authors

1. Rahul Gupta (Google)
2. Alon Halevy (Google)
3. Xuezhi Wang (Carnegie Mellon University)
4. Steven Euijong Whang (Google)
5. Fei Wu (Google)

BibTeX Citation

@article{gupta_vldb14,
        title = {{Biperpedia: An Ontology for Search Applications}},
        author = {Gupta, Rahul and Halevy, Alon and Wang, Xuezhi and Whang, Steven Euijong and Wu, Fei},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '14},
        volume = {7},
        number = {7},
        pages = {505--516},
        doi = {10.14778/2732296.2732303},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2732296.2732303},
        year = {2014}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 10 of 10 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,169	Data Integration: After the Teenage Years	2017	PODS	9.0436759e-05
2,351	From Data Fusion to Knowledge Fusion	2014	VLDB	8.7099618e-05
3,271	Ten Years of WebTables	2018	VLDB	7.5779937e-05
5,999	Exploratory Querying of Extended Knowledge Graphs	2016	VLDB	6.0137042e-05
7,929	Knowledge Bases in the Age of Big Data Analytics	2014	VLDB	5.5181056e-05
8,131	Applying WebTables in Practice	2015	CIDR	5.4816838e-05
8,491	Synthesizing Mapping Relationships Using Table Corpus	2017	SIGMOD	5.414689e-05
9,268	Knowledge Exploration Using Tables on the Web	2017	VLDB	5.295208e-05
11,786	GIANT: Scalable Creation of a Web-scale Ontology	2020	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
11,980	Building Structured Databases of Factual Knowledge from Massive Text Corpora	2017	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 6 of 6 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
65	Freebase: A Collaboratively Created Graph Database For Structuring Human Knowledge	2008	SIGMOD	0.00038697603
91	WebTables: Exploring the Power of Tables on the Web	2008	VLDB	0.00034838835
317	Annotating and Searching Web Tables Using Entities, Types and Relationships	2010	VLDB	0.00021402049
367	InfoGather: Entity Augmentation and Attribute Discovery By Holistic Matching with Web Tables	2012	SIGMOD	0.00019979463
753	Recovering Semantics of Tables on the Web	2011	VLDB	0.00014336094
2,415	Schema Extraction for Tabular Data on the Web	2013	VLDB	8.6069635e-05

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