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: 4767
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2013
Pagerank: 8.2959636e-05
Overall Rank: 2,647 | 81.85%
DOI: 10.1145/2463676.2465297

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Authors

1. Omkar Deshpande (Walmart Labs)
2. Digvijay S. Lamba (Walmart Labs)
3. Michel Tourn (Google)
4. Sanjib Das (University of Wisconsin)
5. Sri Subramaniam (Walmart Labs)
6. Anand Rajaraman (Walmart Labs)
7. Venky Harinarayan (Walmart Labs)
8. AnHai Doan (University of Wisconsin; Walmart Labs)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{deshpande_sigmod13,
        title = {{Building, Maintaining, and Using Knowledge Bases: A Report from the Trenches}},
        author = {Deshpande, Omkar and Lamba, Digvijay S. and Tourn, Michel and Das, Sanjib and Subramaniam, Sri and Rajaraman, Anand and Harinarayan, Venky and Doan, AnHai},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '13},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/2463676.2465297},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2463676.2465297},
        year = {2013}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 11 of 11 citing papers.

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1,101	KATARA: A Data Cleaning System Powered by Knowledge Bases and Crowdsourcing	2015	SIGMOD	0.00012168934
5,246	Entity Extraction, Linking, Classification, and Tagging for Social Media: A Wikipedia-Based Approach	2013	VLDB	6.3012556e-05
5,397	KATARA: Reliable Data Cleaning with Knowledge Bases and Crowdsourcing	2015	VLDB	6.232136e-05
6,068	Why Big Data Industrial Systems Need Rules and What We Can Do About It	2015	SIGMOD	5.9887211e-05
7,929	Knowledge Bases in the Age of Big Data Analytics	2014	VLDB	5.5181056e-05
8,956	A Probabilistic Model for Linking Named Entities in Web Text with Heterogeneous Information Networks	2014	SIGMOD	5.3455323e-05
9,442	Interactive and Deterministic Data Cleaning: A Tossed Stone Raises a Thousand Ripples	2016	SIGMOD	5.2677992e-05
10,755	Credible Intervals for Knowledge Graph Accuracy Estimation	2025	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
11,239	Efficient and Reliable Estimation of Knowledge Graph Accuracy	2024	VLDB	5.093636e-05
11,923	A Demonstration of Sya: A Spatial Probabilistic Knowledge Base Construction System	2018	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
12,105	Knowledge Curation and Knowledge Fusion: Challenges, Models, and Applications	2015	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
65	Freebase: A Collaboratively Created Graph Database For Structuring Human Knowledge	2008	SIGMOD	0.00038697603
1,848	Building Structured Web Community Portals: A Top-Down, Compositional, and Incremental Approach	2007	VLDB	9.6208418e-05
3,843	Efficiently Incorporating User Feedback into Information Extraction and Integration Programs	2009	SIGMOD	7.0791732e-05
13,664	Anatomy of a Gift Recommendation Engine Powered by Social Media	2012	SIGMOD	-

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