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what are called infoboxes
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). DBpedia extracts this and turns it into a knowledge base that
contains data on, for example, people (including name, birthplace, birth date etc.) and
buildings (latitude, longitude, architect, style etc.).
e extraction process makes use of Wikipedia’s live article feed and therefore is auto-
matically updated on a regular basis.
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e data are organised into millions of RDF triples,
ready for the Semantic Web, and there are already over a billion of them.
15.1.2 Semantic Web versus semantic web
e Semantic Web vision and its proposed implementation through sta ...