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Most Influential SIGMOD 2008 Paper · 2026-03 edition

Freebase: A Collaboratively Created Graph Database For Structuring Human Knowledge

Kurt Bollacker; Colin Evans; Praveen Paritosh; Tim Sturge; Jamie Taylor

Venue
ACM SIGMOD Conference (SIGMOD) 2008
Recognition
Most Influential SIGMOD 2008 Paper (Rank No. 1)
Edition
2026-03
Impact factor
9
Certificate ID
e8f26d13ed7d102c

Abstract

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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