Knowledge Harvesting in the Big-Data Era

Summary: Survey of scalable knowledge harvesting from Web/text for large KBs (DBpedia/Freebase/YAGO), stressing distributed extraction and entity-centric analytics. Highlights expanding entities/facts, multilingual/temporal coverage, commonsense knowledge, disambiguation, and cross-source sameAs linking; outlines data-management challenges. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 4657
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2013
Pagerank: 4.1945683e-05
Overall Rank: 12,044 | 16.22%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Fabian Suchanek
2. Gerhard Weikum

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
7,508	Knowledge Bases in the Age of Big Data Analytics	2014	VLDB	4.7180617e-05

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
62	Freebase: A Collaboratively Created Graph Database For Structuring Human Knowledge	2008	SIGMOD	0.0006429466
263	CrowdER: Crowdsourcing Entity Resolution	2012	VLDB	0.00029862413
319	Evaluation of entity resolution approaches on real-world match problems	2010	VLDB	0.00027781866
364	Annotating and Searching Web Tables Using Entities, Types and Relationships	2010	VLDB	0.00025637562
1,001	Recovering Semantics of Tables on the Web	2011	VLDB	0.00014706505
1,014	Tuffy: Scaling up Statistical Inference in Markov Logic Networks using an RDBMS	2011	VLDB	0.00014640258
1,066	Probase: A Probabilistic Taxonomy for Text Understanding	2012	SIGMOD	0.0001433416
1,095	The Lixto Data Extraction Project - Back and Forth between Theory and Practice	2004	PODS	0.00014126427
1,628	PARIS: Probabilistic Alignment of Relations, Instances, and Schema	2012	VLDB	0.00011085347
2,600	Multilingual Schema Matching for Wikipedia Infoboxes	2012	VLDB	8.4694459e-05
3,645	Large-Scale Collective Entity Matching	2011	VLDB	6.8853274e-05
3,931	Extracting and Querying a Comprehensive Web Database	2009	CIDR	6.6193836e-05
5,652	From Information to Knowledge: Harvesting Entities and Relationships from Web Sources	2010	PODS	5.3903671e-05
8,307	Automatic Web-Scale Information Extraction	2012	SIGMOD	4.5435639e-05

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