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Freebase: a collaboratively created graph database for structuring human knowledge

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Freebase is a practical, scalable tuple database used to structure general human knowledge. The data in Freebase is collaboratively created, structured, and maintained. Freebase currently contains more than 125,000,000 tuples, more than 4000 types, and more than 7000 properties. Public read/write access to Freebase is allowed through an HTTP-based graph-query API using the Metaweb Query Language (MQL) as a data query and manipulation language. MQL provides an easy-to-use object-oriented interface to the tuple data in Freebase and is designed to facilitate the creation of collaborative, Web-based data-oriented applications.

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        SIGMOD '08: Proceedings of the 2008 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
        June 2008
        1396 pages
        ISBN:9781605581026
        DOI:10.1145/1376616

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