7. All objects in Freebase have strong identifiers
http://rdf.freebase.com/ns/en.yorkie
8. Graph Merging Magic
topic: topic: topic:
Barack Obama Barack Obama Switzerland
government position held took money from is based in
topic:
topic: topic:
United States UBS AG
UBS AG
Senator
Freebase CRP SWX listing
9. Graph Merging Magic
topic: topic:
Barack Obama Switzerland
government position held took money from is based in
topic:
topic: topic:
United States UBS AG
UBS AG
Senator
Freebase SWX listing
10. Graph Merging Magic
topic: topic:
Barack Obama Switzerland
government position held took money from is based in
topic:
topic:
United States
UBS AG
Senator
Freebase
11. Contributions over $50000 made to members of the
US congress in the 2008 election cycle by companies
headquartered outside of the United States
topic: topic:
Barack Obama Switzerland
government position held took money from is based in
topic:
topic:
United States
UBS AG
Senator
Freebase
13. Industry Browser Identity Model
Industry (USCB) Company Company Donations
NAICS Ticker CRP CRP ID CRP CRP ID
NAICS/SIC Map
SEC
Freebase
Industry (SEC) Company People Person
SIC SEC CIK SEC CIK Freebase Wikipedia
Freebase Wikipedia
Location Article
ZIP Code
17. Don’t have a topic that you need need?
ADD IT!
Freebase is user writable
18. The Office (US) Leatherheads
TV Program Film
stars in starred in
John Krasinski
Person, Actor
attended
Brown University
College/university
Data Model
19. Don’t have a topic that you need need?
ADD IT!
Users extend the data model
35. Data Data
Portability
Semantics allows data to
be utilized by
Data
unanticipated new
applications
Data
Data Plug-able
Semantics allows an
Data
application to utilize
unanticipated new
Data
Data
data sources
36. Consume Process Republish
DATA DATA
Application Ecosystem