DBpedia

DBpedia (from "DB" for "database") is a project aiming to extract structured content from the information created in the Wikipedia project. This structured information is made available on the World Wide Web using OpenLink Virtuoso. DBpedia allows users to semantically query relationships and properties of Wikipedia resources, including links to other related datasets.

DBpedia
Developer(s)
  • Leipzig University
  • University of Mannheim
Initial release10 January 2007 (2007-01-10)
Stable release
DBpedia 2016-10 / 4 July 2017
Repository
Written in
Type
  • Semantic Web
  • Linked Data
LicenseGNU General Public License
Websitedbpedia.org

The project was heralded as "one of the more famous pieces" of the decentralized Linked Data effort by Tim Berners-Lee, one of the Internet's pioneers. As of June 2021, DBPedia contained over 850 million triples.

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