Building, Maintaining, and Using Knowledge Bases: A Report from the Trenches

Summary: End-to-end KB lifecycle: construction, maintenance, curation, and production use. Industrial case study (Kosmix, Walmart Labs) detailing pipeline, governance, and lessons learned, and applications in query understanding, product search, and social monitoring. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 4705
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2013
Pagerank: 8.0224023e-05
Overall Rank: 2,847 | 80.20%
DOI: -

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 11 of 11 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,546	KATARA: A Data Cleaning System Powered by Knowledge Bases and Crowdsourcing	2015	SIGMOD	0.00011446851
5,431	Entity Extraction, Linking, Classification, and Tagging for Social Media: A Wikipedia-Based Approach	2013	VLDB	5.5076946e-05
5,729	KATARA: Reliable Data Cleaning with Knowledge Bases and Crowdsourcing	2015	VLDB	5.3506368e-05
6,111	Why Big Data Industrial Systems Need Rules and What We Can Do About It	2015	SIGMOD	5.2049579e-05
7,508	Knowledge Bases in the Age of Big Data Analytics	2014	VLDB	4.7180617e-05
8,944	A Probabilistic Model for Linking Named Entities in Web Text with Heterogeneous Information Networks	2014	SIGMOD	4.4258255e-05
9,278	Interactive and Deterministic Data Cleaning: A Tossed Stone Raises a Thousand Ripples	2016	SIGMOD	4.3639892e-05
10,476	Credible Intervals for Knowledge Graph Accuracy Estimation	2025	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
11,029	Efficient and Reliable Estimation of Knowledge Graph Accuracy	2024	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
11,718	A Demonstration of Sya: A Spatial Probabilistic Knowledge Base Construction System	2018	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
11,906	Knowledge Curation and Knowledge Fusion: Challenges, Models, and Applications	2015	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
62	Freebase: A Collaboratively Created Graph Database For Structuring Human Knowledge	2008	SIGMOD	0.0006429466
1,722	Building Structured Web Community Portals: A Top-Down, Compositional, and Incremental Approach	2007	VLDB	0.00010757784
2,984	Efficiently Incorporating User Feedback into Information Extraction and Integration Programs	2009	SIGMOD	7.7796344e-05
13,463	Anatomy of a Gift Recommendation Engine Powered by Social Media	2012	SIGMOD	-

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