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Freebase: A Collaboratively Created Graph Database For Structuring Human Knowledge

Summary: Collaboratively created graph DB for structuring knowledge; scalable tuple store with 125M+ tuples, 4k+ types, 7k+ properties. Public read/write via HTTP-based graph-query API; MQL as a data query/manipulation language for web-based collaborative apps. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
4136
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2008
Pagerank
0.00038697603
Overall Rank
65 | 99.56%
DOI
10.1145/1376616.1376746

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BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{bollacker_sigmod08,
        title = {{Freebase: A Collaboratively Created Graph Database For Structuring Human Knowledge}},
        author = {Bollacker, Kurt and Evans, Colin and Paritosh, Praveen and Sturge, Tim and Taylor, Jamie},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '08},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1376616.1376746},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1376616.1376746},
        year = {2008}
}

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2,647 Building, Maintaining, and Using Knowledge Bases: A Report from the Trenches 2013 SIGMOD 8.2959636e-05
2,781 Realistic Re-evaluation of Knowledge Graph Completion Methods: An Experimental Study 2020 SIGMOD 8.1281896e-05
2,917 Query-Driven On-The-Fly Knowledge Base Construction 2018 VLDB 7.9661816e-05
2,990 Knowledge Expansion over Probabilistic Knowledge Bases 2014 SIGMOD 7.8883704e-05
3,192 Fonduer: Knowledge Base Construction from Richly Formatted Data 2018 SIGMOD 7.65035e-05
3,211 Biperpedia: An Ontology for Search Applications 2014 VLDB 7.6330836e-05
3,304 Saga: A Platform for Continuous Construction and Serving of Knowledge At Scale 2022 SIGMOD 7.5404346e-05
3,495 Knowledge-Based Trust: Estimating the Trustworthiness of Web Sources 2015 VLDB 7.3636386e-05
3,574 TEGRA: Table Extraction by Global Record Alignment 2015 SIGMOD 7.2958137e-05
3,699 KBQA: Learning Question Answering over QA Corpora and Knowledge Bases 2017 VLDB 7.1882315e-05
4,314 AliCoCo: Alibaba E-commerce Cognitive Concept Net 2020 SIGMOD 6.7661904e-05
4,461 Extracting and Querying a Comprehensive Web Database 2009 CIDR 6.6889881e-05
4,525 SEMA-JOIN: Joining Semantically-Related Tables Using Big Table Corpora 2015 VLDB 6.6456999e-05
5,246 Entity Extraction, Linking, Classification, and Tagging for Social Media: A Wikipedia-Based Approach 2013 VLDB 6.3012556e-05
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5,671 Question Answering Over Knowledge Graphs: Question Understanding Via Template Decomposition 2018 VLDB 6.1262839e-05
5,969 Maestro: Automatic Generation of Comprehensive Benchmarks for Question Answering Over Knowledge Graphs 2023 SIGMOD 6.0247307e-05
6,037 On Uncertain Graphs Modeling and Queries 2015 VLDB 5.9990983e-05
6,201 Generating Preview Tables for Entity Graphs 2016 SIGMOD 5.9455064e-05
6,295 Explaining Link Prediction Systems based on Knowledge Graph Embeddings 2022 SIGMOD 5.9231159e-05
6,320 CERES: Distantly Supervised Relation Extraction from the Semi-Structured Web 2018 VLDB 5.9150411e-05
6,345 Clustering Uncertain Graphs 2018 VLDB 5.9059861e-05
6,522 Knowledge Verification for Long-Tail Verticals 2017 VLDB 5.8518748e-05
6,573 Web Data Management 2011 SIGMOD 5.8371536e-05
7,393 Maverick: Discovering Exceptional Facts from Knowledge Graphs 2018 SIGMOD 5.6261241e-05
7,575 Scalable Column Concept Determination for Web Tables Using Large Knowledge Bases 2013 VLDB 5.5937684e-05
7,729 Subjective Knowledge Base Construction Powered By Crowdsourcing and Knowledge Base 2018 SIGMOD 5.5574654e-05
7,929 Knowledge Bases in the Age of Big Data Analytics 2014 VLDB 5.5181056e-05
8,372 ALEX: Automatic Link Exploration in Linked Data 2015 SIGMOD 5.4403598e-05
8,441 A Critical Re-evaluation of Neural Methods for Entity Alignment 2022 VLDB 5.4247564e-05
8,461 Optimizing Schema-Last Tuple-Store Queries in Graphd 2010 SIGMOD 5.4213884e-05
8,491 Synthesizing Mapping Relationships Using Table Corpus 2017 SIGMOD 5.414689e-05
8,758 What's on the Grapevine ? 2009 SIGMOD 5.3766157e-05
8,921 Generations of Knowledge Graphs: The Crazy Ideas and the Business Impact 2023 VLDB 5.3483178e-05
9,124 Ontological Pathfinding: Mining First-Order Knowledge from Large Knowledge Bases 2016 SIGMOD 5.319248e-05
9,335 A Time Machine for Information: Looking Back to Look Forward 2015 VLDB 5.2880344e-05
9,397 Joint Open Knowledge Base Canonicalization and Linking 2021 SIGMOD 5.2755515e-05
10,071 AlphaEvolve: A Learning Framework to Discover Novel Alphas in Quantitative Investment 2021 SIGMOD 5.1627323e-05
10,755 Credible Intervals for Knowledge Graph Accuracy Estimation 2025 SIGMOD 5.093636e-05
10,892 eXpath: Explaining Knowledge Graph Link Prediction with Ontological Closed Path Rules 2025 VLDB 5.093636e-05
10,916 LEGO-GraphRAG: Modularizing Graph-based Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Design Space Exploration 2025 VLDB 5.093636e-05
11,082 MSGNN: Masked Schema based Graph Neural Networks 2025 VLDB 5.093636e-05
11,212 Capturing More Associations by Referencing External Graphs 2024 VLDB 5.093636e-05
11,243 TIGER: Training Inductive Graph Neural Network for Large-scale Knowledge Graph Reasoning 2024 VLDB 5.093636e-05
11,337 InBox: Recommendation with Knowledge Graph using Interest Box Embedding 2024 VLDB 5.093636e-05
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