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)

Paper ID: h70d2aa8f896d6ffd
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2008
Pagerank: 0.00038204552
Overall Rank: 65 | 99.57%
DOI: 10.1145/1376616.1376746

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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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935	Probase: A Probabilistic Taxonomy for Text Understanding	2012	SIGMOD	0.00012998175
1,778	Annotating Columns with Pre-trained Language Models	2022	SIGMOD	9.6578031e-05
2,093	Sato: Contextual Semantic Type Detection in Tables	2020	VLDB	9.0593586e-05
2,394	From Data Fusion to Knowledge Fusion	2014	VLDB	8.529467e-05
2,429	Building, Maintaining, and Using Knowledge Bases: A Report from the Trenches	2013	SIGMOD	8.4775762e-05
2,795	Realistic Re-evaluation of Knowledge Graph Completion Methods: An Experimental Study	2020	SIGMOD	7.9977085e-05
2,982	Query-Driven On-The-Fly Knowledge Base Construction	2018	VLDB	7.7838352e-05
3,015	Saga: A Platform for Continuous Construction and Serving of Knowledge At Scale	2022	SIGMOD	7.7504975e-05
3,040	Knowledge Expansion over Probabilistic Knowledge Bases	2014	SIGMOD	7.7229256e-05
3,063	Fonduer: Knowledge Base Construction from Richly Formatted Data	2018	SIGMOD	7.689108e-05
3,278	Biperpedia: An Ontology for Search Applications	2014	VLDB	7.4636041e-05
3,554	Knowledge-Based Trust: Estimating the Trustworthiness of Web Sources	2015	VLDB	7.2063742e-05
3,615	TEGRA: Table Extraction by Global Record Alignment	2015	SIGMOD	7.1558238e-05
3,770	KBQA: Learning Question Answering over QA Corpora and Knowledge Bases	2017	VLDB	7.0270714e-05
4,013	LEGO-GraphRAG: Modularizing Graph-based Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Design Space Exploration	2025	VLDB	6.8518465e-05
4,204	SEMA-JOIN: Joining Semantically-Related Tables Using Big Table Corpora	2015	VLDB	6.7331936e-05
4,400	AliCoCo: Alibaba E-commerce Cognitive Concept Net	2020	SIGMOD	6.6122536e-05
4,549	Explaining Link Prediction Systems based on Knowledge Graph Embeddings	2022	SIGMOD	6.5392891e-05
4,555	Extracting and Querying a Comprehensive Web Database	2009	CIDR	6.5360312e-05
5,372	Entity Extraction, Linking, Classification, and Tagging for Social Media: A Wikipedia-Based Approach	2013	VLDB	6.1569567e-05
5,516	Big Graphs: Challenges and Opportunities	2022	VLDB	6.0957673e-05
5,643	AnyLog: a Grand Unification of the Internet of Things	2020	CIDR	6.0518163e-05
5,765	Question Answering Over Knowledge Graphs: Question Understanding Via Template Decomposition	2018	VLDB	6.0002533e-05
5,995	Maestro: Automatic Generation of Comprehensive Benchmarks for Question Answering Over Knowledge Graphs	2023	SIGMOD	5.9186677e-05
6,164	On Uncertain Graphs Modeling and Queries	2015	VLDB	5.8619652e-05
6,334	Generating Preview Tables for Entity Graphs	2016	SIGMOD	5.8093539e-05
6,401	CERES: Distantly Supervised Relation Extraction from the Semi-Structured Web	2018	VLDB	5.7957452e-05
6,443	Maverick: Discovering Exceptional Facts from Knowledge Graphs	2018	SIGMOD	5.7814657e-05
6,477	Clustering Uncertain Graphs	2018	VLDB	5.7708764e-05
6,654	Knowledge Verification for Long-Tail Verticals	2017	VLDB	5.7180739e-05
6,701	Web Data Management	2011	SIGMOD	5.7035061e-05
7,650	eXpath: Explaining Knowledge Graph Link Prediction with Ontological Closed Path Rules	2025	VLDB	5.4746904e-05
7,716	Scalable Column Concept Determination for Web Tables Using Large Knowledge Bases	2013	VLDB	5.4692136e-05
7,889	Subjective Knowledge Base Construction Powered By Crowdsourcing and Knowledge Base	2018	SIGMOD	5.4312213e-05
8,104	Knowledge Bases in the Age of Big Data Analytics	2014	VLDB	5.3917406e-05
8,143	Synthesizing Mapping Relationships Using Table Corpus	2017	SIGMOD	5.3898955e-05
8,552	ALEX: Automatic Link Exploration in Linked Data	2015	SIGMOD	5.3158479e-05
8,617	A Critical Re-evaluation of Neural Methods for Entity Alignment	2022	VLDB	5.300529e-05
8,633	Optimizing Schema-Last Tuple-Store Queries in Graphd	2010	SIGMOD	5.2972057e-05
8,929	What's on the Grapevine ?	2009	SIGMOD	5.2534908e-05
9,092	Generations of Knowledge Graphs: The Crazy Ideas and the Business Impact	2023	VLDB	5.2258409e-05
9,287	Ontological Pathfinding: Mining First-Order Knowledge from Large Knowledge Bases	2016	SIGMOD	5.2015703e-05
9,490	Credible Intervals for Knowledge Graph Accuracy Estimation	2025	SIGMOD	5.168414e-05
9,524	A Time Machine for Information: Looking Back to Look Forward	2015	VLDB	5.166943e-05
9,588	Joint Open Knowledge Base Canonicalization and Linking	2021	SIGMOD	5.154741e-05
10,246	AlphaEvolve: A Learning Framework to Discover Novel Alphas in Quantitative Investment	2021	SIGMOD	5.0511056e-05
10,266	MSGNN: Masked Schema based Graph Neural Networks	2025	VLDB	5.0480912e-05
11,556	Capturing More Associations by Referencing External Graphs	2024	VLDB	4.9769913e-05
11,582	TIGER: Training Inductive Graph Neural Network for Large-scale Knowledge Graph Reasoning	2024	VLDB	4.9769913e-05
11,661	InBox: Recommendation with Knowledge Graph using Interest Box Embedding	2024	VLDB	4.9769913e-05

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