- From: Sam Kuper <sam.kuper@uclmail.net>
- Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 00:48:50 +0100
- To: public-lod <public-lod@w3.org>
On 14/05/2013, Daniel O'Connor <daniel.oconnor@gmail.com> wrote: > I'd actually encourage you to use other services, rather than just querying > DBPedia as a single source of truth. > > Why not make use of a service like sameas.org to locate candidates: > http://sameas.org/html?q=Cambridge+University&x=-1007&y=-244 > > ... and crawl those/interrogate various data sets via SPARQL to find > instances of a specific University type? > > > Alternatively, try Freebase's disambiguation control as a good starting > point - I find it more accurate than dbpedia/wikipedia for searching for > the right entity/kind of thing. > > Demo: > http://www.freebase.com/ => Enter "Cambridge University", get the top > result of "University of Cambridge", which is a University. > > Widget: > https://developers.google.com/freebase/v1/search-widget > > You can query freebase via MQL, a javascript flavoured graph query > language, or RDF serialisations of the data (http://basekb.com/ ? I'm sure > there are lots of others too). > > Sure, it's not all pure semantic web tooling, but its pretty close - and I > bet there's more interesting problems to solve after disambiguation of > entities :) Agreed. Now we're cooking! Thanks :) Sam
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