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)
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Authors
- 1. Kurt Bollacker (Metaweb Technologies)
- 2. Colin Evans (Metaweb Technologies)
- 3. Praveen Paritosh (Metaweb Technologies)
- 4. Tim Sturge (Metaweb Technologies)
- 5. Jamie Taylor (Metaweb Technologies)
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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