Automatically Generating Interesting Facts from Wikipedia Tables

Summary: Mines fun facts from Wikipedia's ranking-based superlative tables with a template-based generator. Automates bootstrap-friendly extraction and maintains template-table mappings to cope with updates; facts are used in production search results. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 5717
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2019
Pagerank: 5.289545e-05
Overall Rank: 9,316 | 36.09%
DOI: 10.1145/3299869.3314043

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Flip Korn (Google)
2. Xuezhi Wang (Google)
3. You Wu (Google)
4. Cong Yu (Google)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{korn_sigmod19,
        title = {{Automatically Generating Interesting Facts from Wikipedia Tables}},
        author = {Korn, Flip and Wang, Xuezhi and Wu, You and Yu, Cong},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '19},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3299869.3314043},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3299869.3314043},
        year = {2019}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
10,405	AixelAsk: A Stepwise-Guided Retrieval and Reasoning Framework for Large Table QA	2026	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 6 of 6 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
579	Incremental Knowledge Base Construction Using DeepDive	2015	VLDB	0.00016217563
1,055	Answering Table Queries on the Web using Column Keywords	2012	VLDB	0.00012389274
1,808	λόγος: A System for Translating Queries into Narratives	2012	SIGMOD	9.7050949e-05
3,271	Ten Years of WebTables	2018	VLDB	7.5779937e-05
8,131	Applying WebTables in Practice	2015	CIDR	5.4816838e-05
9,268	Knowledge Exploration Using Tables on the Web	2017	VLDB	5.295208e-05

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