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Re: Show HN: A database of everything (over 55M keys)

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> Has this been done before? Depends what you mean by "this"! RDF [1] and most of the technology surrounding it and the "Semantic Web" are based on (subject, predicate, object) triples almost exactly like this, where each element is often a URI, and objects are often strings just like they are here. It even has taken this idea to the next level where the statements expressed by such a triple can themselves be given a…

This is exactly what I thought when I saw this project. Having worked with DBPedia data and the triples format ; I was just wondering how Outpan just stole the idea of Triples and packaged it as a new idea

And then, there's also ConceptNet (http://conceptnet5.media.mit.edu/)

Re: Show HN: A database of everything (over 55M keys)

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post #26

There's some more complex and curated projects out there, among them: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Page

+1001 for Wikidata

compare https://www.outpan.com/data?k=germany

to http://netbase.pannous.com/html/verbose/germany (wikidata mirror)

or https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Germany

Re: Show HN: A database of everything (over 55M keys)

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post #15
post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Has this been done before? Depends what you mean by "this"! RDF [1] and most of the technology surrounding it and the "Semantic Web" are based on (subject, predicate, object) triples almost exactly like this, where each element is often a URI, and objects are often strings just like they are here. It even has taken this idea to the next level where the statements expressed by such a triple can themselves be given a…

To borrow a subject matter that's currently popular on the Outpan homepage, here are the first 500 facts DBpedia knows about Donald Trump: SELECT DISTINCT ?property ?value WHERE { ?property ?value } LIMIT 500 Results: http://dbpedia.org/sparql?default-graph-uri=http%3A%2F%2Fdbp... (although, note, not every dataset they have is loaded into their SPARQL endpoint) As you can see there's a lot of metadata type propertie…

So, amongst other things, he is an intellectual and an environmentalist? DB uselessness confirmed!

Re: Show HN: A database of everything (over 55M keys)

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post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Has this been done before? Depends what you mean by "this"! RDF [1] and most of the technology surrounding it and the "Semantic Web" are based on (subject, predicate, object) triples almost exactly like this, where each element is often a URI, and objects are often strings just like they are here. It even has taken this idea to the next level where the statements expressed by such a triple can themselves be given a…

This is exactly what I thought when I saw this project. Having worked with DBPedia data and the triples format ; I was just wondering how Outpan just stole the idea of Triples and packaged it as a new idea

Why "stole" and not "reinvented"?
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