DBpedia

DBpedia is a community project, started in 2007 at the Free University of Berlin and Leipzig University, that extracts structured data from Wikipedia infoboxes and categories and republishes it as RDF. It is one of the central hubs of the Linked Open Data cloud and exposes a public SPARQL endpoint.

DBpedia is a long-running community project that extracts structured information from Wikipedia and republishes it as RDF. It was launched in 2007 by researchers at the Free University of Berlin and Leipzig University in collaboration with OpenLink Software, and is now maintained by groups including the University of Mannheim, Leipzig University, and the University of Pennsylvania. The extraction pipeline targets the relatively regular parts of Wikipedia articles: infoboxes, categories, page links, image links, geographic coordinates, redirects, and disambiguation pages. The extractor maps infobox templates onto a curated ontology of classes (Person, Place, Film, Album, and so on) and properties, normalizing the underlying Wikipedia markup into typed triples. A 2016-04 release described roughly six million entities; later cumulative releases have reported hundreds of millions of triples in total. DBpedia plays a hub role in the Linked Data and RDF cloud. Many other RDF datasets link to DBpedia URIs as canonical identifiers for people, places, and concepts, including GeoNames, MusicBrainz, the New York Times linked data set, and earlier Freebase exports. Users query DBpedia using SPARQL via its public endpoint, which supports cross-article analyses that would be difficult to express against unstructured Wikipedia text. DBpedia overlaps significantly with Wikidata, the Wikimedia Foundation's own structured data project, which is curated directly rather than extracted from articles. The two projects coexist: DBpedia is closer to the wording and structure of Wikipedia itself, while Wikidata is the canonical structured source. Both are widely used as background knowledge for knowledge graphs, entity linking, and question answering.

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