KBpedia - Features and Benefits

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top: -8px;"> <li>A modular and expandable architecture</li> <li>A completely Web-based knowledge structure, which may be deployed locally or in the cloud.</li> </ul> </div> <div class="col-md-2">   </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-2">   </div> <div class="col-md-8"> <p> In turn, these features provide these benefits: </p> <ul> <li>Integration and incorporation of all data assets — unstructured text, semi-structured and markup data, and structured datasets and databases</li> <li>A reference structure for inter-relating and integrating your own domain content</li> <li>Inherent multi-linguality, supported by the 200+ languages of the source knowledge bases</li> <li>Precise semantic representation for all items, enabling better selections and matches</li> <li>The ability to make selections via inference and other logical operations</li> <li>The potential to recognize and train up to 52,000 fine-grained entity types</li> <li>A knowledge graph suitable to network analytics such as influence, centrality, shortest paths, assortative mixing, and betweenness</li> <li>Faster, cheaper creation of positive and negative machine learning training sets</li> <li>Faster, cheaper configuration and testing of machine learners.</li> </ul> <p> Please <a href="/resources/downloads/">download</a> and contribute to KBpedia. </p> </div> <div class="col-md-2">   </div> </div> <div class="row"> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-2">   </div> <div class="col-md-8"> <a href="/background/data-and-knowledge-structures/" class="btn rounded btn-info pull-right">Continue with the story <i class="fa fa-arrow-right"></i></a> </div> <div class="col-md-2">   </div> </div> <div class="row"> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-2">   </div> <div class="col-md-8"> <h6><a id="ref-1">1.</a>These seven are <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia">Wikipedia</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikidata">Wikidata</a>, <a href="https://schema.org/">schema.org</a>, <a href="http://dbpedia.org/">DBpedia</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeoNames">GeoNames</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyc">OpenCyc</a>, and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNSPSC">UNSPSC products and services</a>. Learn more about these <a href="/docs/core-knowledge-bases">"core" knowledge bases</a>.</h6> <h6><a id="ref-2">2.</a>Notable "extended" KBs include <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DBpedia">DBpedia Ontology</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin_Core">Dublin Core</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOAF_(ontology)">FOAF</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibliographic_Ontology">BIBO</a>. Learn more about these <a href="/docs/extended-mappings">20 "extended" knowledge bases</a>.</h6> <h6><a id="ref-3">3.</a>You can inspect the <a href="/docs/kko-upper-structure">upper structure</a> of the KBpedia Knowledge Ontology, KKO.</h6> <h6><a id="ref-4">4.</a> KBpedia uses the W3C open standards of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Ontology_Language">OWL</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Description_Framework">RDF</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDF_Schema">RDFS</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Knowledge_Organization_System">SKOS</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linked_data">linked data</a>.</h6> </div> <div class="col-md-2">   </div> </div> </div>  <div class="footer-v1"> <div class="footer"> <div class="container"> <div class="row">  <div class="col-md-3 md-margin-bottom-40"> <table> <tbody><tr> <td> <a href="/"> <img id="logo-footer" class="footer-logo" src="/imgs/logo-simple-purple.png" alt="" name="logo-footer"> </a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <center> <p> KBpedia </p> </center> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <p style="font-size: 0.85em;"> KBpedia exploits large-scale knowledge bases and semantic technologies for machine learning, data interoperability and mapping, and fact extraction and tagging. </p> </div>   <div class="col-md-3 md-margin-bottom-40"> <div class="posts"> <div class="headline"> <h2> Latest News </h2> </div> <ul class="list-unstyled latest-list">  <li> <a href="https://kbpedia.org/resources/news/kbpedia-adds-ecommerce/">KBpedia Adds Major eCommerce Capabilities</a> <small>06/15/2020</small> </li>  <li> <a href="http://kbpedia.org/resources/news/kbpedia-continues-quality-improvements/">KBpedia Continues Quality Improvements</a> <small>12/04/2019</small> </li>  <li> <a href="http://kbpedia.org/resources/news/wikidata-coverage-nearly-complete/">Wikidata Coverage Nearly Complete (98%)</a> <small>04/08/2019</small> </li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="col-md-3 md-margin-bottom-40"> <div class="headline"> <h2> Other Resources </h2> </div> <ul class="list-unstyled link-list"> <li> <a href="/resources/about/">About</a> </li> <li> <a href="/resources/faq/">FAQ</a> </li> <li> <a href="/resources/news/">News</a> </li> <li> <a href="/use-cases/">Use Cases</a> </li> <li> <a href="/resources/documentation/">Documentation</a> </li> <li> <a href="/resources/privacy/">Privacy</a> </li> <li> <a href="/resources/terms-of-use/">Terms of Use</a> </li> </ul> </div>  <div class="col-md-3 map-img md-margin-bottom-40"> <div class="headline"> <h2> Contact Us </h2> </div> <address class="md-margin-bottom-40"> c/o <a href="mailto:info@mkbergman.com?subject=KBpedia%20Inquiry">Michael K. 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