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"Freebase is an open database of the world’s information. It is built by the community and for the community—free for anyone to query, contribute to, built applications on top of, or integrate into their websites."
Openness: OPEN
- License: CC-BY for data. Variety of open source licenses (or PD) for text blurbs & images.
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Access: API + bulk.http://www.freebase.com/view/allDomains
- bulk: yes. http://download.freebase.com/
- api: yes. http://www.freebase.com/view/freebase/api
Triple count and link statistics provided by Freebase contributor Tom Morris
RDF data and URIs
Freebase has an RDF service that exposes URIs and generates RDF descriptions for all Freebase topics.
Resources
Directory containing all downloads
http://download.freebase.com/datadumps/ [downloaded 10 times]
A full dump of Freebase assertions as tab separated utf8 text size:3.9GB
A tab-separated file for each type in Freebase size:1.3GB
http://download.freebase.com/datadumps/latest/freebase-datadump-tsv.tar.bz2
Directory of browseable subsets by domain
http://download.freebase.com/datadumps/latest/browse/ [downloaded 4 times]
Topic dump with basic info for each topic Size:1.0 GB
Example RDF resource
http://rdf.freebase.com/ns/en.blade_runner [downloaded 12 times]
Additional Information
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Source | http://freebase.com/ |
| Author | Metaweb (now owned by Google) |
| Maintainer | Maintainer not given |
| links:bbc-music | 350110 |
| links:dbpedia | 3348530 |
| links:geospecies | 100000 |
| links:nytimes-linked-open-data | 9930 |
| links:sec-rdfabout | 120626 |
| namespace | http://rdf.freebase.com/ |
| triples | 337203427 |
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