Maverick: A System for Discovering Exceptional Facts from Knowledge Graphs

Summary: Maverick employs a beam-search framework to discover exceptional facts about entities in knowledge graphs. Facts are context-subspace pairs (attributes, graph-context) with an end-to-end portal and a shared cache for cross-entity reuse, plus natural-language explanations and charts. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 11866
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2018
Pagerank: 5.2929162e-05
Overall Rank: 9,282 | 36.32%
DOI: 10.14778/3229863.3236228

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Authors

1. Gensheng Zhang (Google)
2. Chengkai Li (University of Texas)

BibTeX Citation

@article{zhang_vldb18,
        title = {{Maverick: A System for Discovering Exceptional Facts from Knowledge Graphs}},
        author = {Zhang, Gensheng and Li, Chengkai},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '18},
        volume = {11},
        number = {12},
        pages = {1934--1937},
        doi = {10.14778/3229863.3236228},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3229863.3236228},
        year = {2018}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
7,628	User Guidance for Efficient Fact Checking	2019	VLDB	5.5798467e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
4,033	Computational Journalism: A Call to Arms to Database Researchers	2011	CIDR	6.9449851e-05
6,919	Data In, Fact Out: Automated Monitoring of Facts by FactWatcher	2014	VLDB	5.7391146e-05
7,393	Maverick: Discovering Exceptional Facts from Knowledge Graphs	2018	SIGMOD	5.6261241e-05

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