<s>
DBpedia	B-Application
(	O
from	O
"	O
DB	O
"	O
for	O
"	O
database	O
"	O
)	O
is	O
a	O
project	O
aiming	O
to	O
extract	O
structured	B-General_Concept
content	I-General_Concept
from	O
the	O
information	O
created	O
in	O
the	O
Wikipedia	O
project	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
DBpedia	B-Application
allows	O
users	O
to	O
semantically	B-General_Concept
query	I-General_Concept
relationships	O
and	O
properties	O
of	O
Wikipedia	O
resources	O
,	O
including	O
links	O
to	O
other	O
related	O
datasets	B-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
2008	O
,	O
Tim	O
Berners-Lee	O
described	O
DBpedia	B-Application
as	O
one	O
of	O
the	O
most	O
famous	O
parts	O
of	O
the	O
decentralized	O
Linked	B-Operating_System
Data	I-Operating_System
effort	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
first	O
publicly	O
available	O
dataset	B-General_Concept
was	O
published	O
in	O
2007	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
data	O
is	O
made	O
available	O
under	O
free	B-License
licences	I-License
(	O
CC	O
BY-SA	O
)	O
,	O
allowing	O
others	O
to	O
reuse	O
the	O
dataset	B-General_Concept
;	O
it	O
does	O
n't	O
however	O
use	O
an	O
open	O
data	O
license	O
to	O
waive	O
the	O
sui	O
generis	O
database	O
rights	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
structured	O
information	O
is	O
extracted	O
and	O
put	O
in	O
a	O
uniform	O
dataset	B-General_Concept
which	O
can	O
be	O
queried	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
2016-04	O
release	O
of	O
the	O
DBpedia	B-Application
data	B-General_Concept
set	I-General_Concept
describes	O
6.0	O
million	O
entities	O
,	O
out	O
of	O
which	O
5.2	O
million	O
are	O
classified	O
in	O
a	O
consistent	O
ontology	O
,	O
including	O
1.5	O
million	O
persons	O
,	O
810,000	O
places	O
,	O
135,000	O
music	O
albums	O
,	O
106,000	O
films	O
,	O
20,000	O
video	O
games	O
,	O
275,000	O
organizations	O
,	O
301,000	O
species	O
and	O
5,000	O
diseases	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
DBpedia	B-Application
uses	O
the	O
Resource	O
Description	O
Framework	O
(	O
RDF	O
)	O
to	O
represent	O
extracted	O
information	O
and	O
consists	O
of	O
9.5	O
billion	O
RDF	O
triples	O
,	O
of	O
which	O
1.3	O
billion	O
were	O
extracted	O
from	O
the	O
English	O
edition	O
of	O
Wikipedia	O
and	O
5.0	O
billion	O
from	O
other	O
language	O
editions	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
From	O
this	O
data	B-General_Concept
set	I-General_Concept
,	O
information	O
spread	O
across	O
multiple	O
pages	O
can	O
be	O
extracted	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
As	O
a	O
result	O
,	O
the	O
DBpedia	B-Application
Mapping	O
Language	O
has	O
been	O
developed	O
to	O
help	O
in	O
mapping	O
these	O
properties	O
to	O
an	O
ontology	O
while	O
reducing	O
the	O
number	O
of	O
synonyms	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Also	O
,	O
a	O
new	O
data	B-General_Concept
set	I-General_Concept
extracted	O
from	O
Wikimedia	O
Commons	O
was	O
introduced	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
As	O
of	O
June	O
2021	O
,	O
DBPedia	B-Application
contains	O
over	O
850	O
million	O
triples	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
DBpedia	B-Application
extracts	O
factual	O
information	O
from	O
Wikipedia	O
pages	O
,	O
allowing	O
users	O
to	O
find	O
answers	O
to	O
questions	O
where	O
the	O
information	O
is	O
spread	O
across	O
multiple	O
Wikipedia	O
articles	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Data	O
is	O
accessed	O
using	O
an	O
SQL-like	O
query	B-Language
language	I-Language
for	O
RDF	O
called	O
SPARQL	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
DBpedia	B-Application
combines	O
information	O
from	O
Wikipedia	O
's	O
entries	O
on	O
Tokyo	O
Mew	O
Mew	O
,	O
Mia	O
Ikumi	O
and	O
on	O
works	O
such	O
as	O
Super	O
Doll	O
Licca-chan	O
and	O
Koi	O
Cupid	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Since	O
DBpedia	B-Application
normalises	O
information	O
into	O
a	O
single	O
database	O
,	O
the	O
following	O
can	O
be	O
asked	O
without	O
needing	O
to	O
know	O
exactly	O
which	O
entry	O
carries	O
each	O
fragment	O
of	O
information	O
,	O
and	O
will	O
list	O
related	O
genres	O
:	O
</s>
<s>
DBpedia	B-Application
has	O
a	O
broad	O
scope	O
of	O
entities	O
covering	O
different	O
areas	O
of	O
human	O
knowledge	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
makes	O
it	O
a	O
natural	O
hub	O
for	O
connecting	O
datasets	B-General_Concept
,	O
where	O
external	O
datasets	B-General_Concept
could	O
link	O
to	O
its	O
concepts	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
DBpedia	B-Application
dataset	B-General_Concept
is	O
interlinked	O
on	O
the	O
RDF	O
level	O
with	O
various	O
other	O
Open	O
Data	O
datasets	B-General_Concept
on	O
the	O
Web	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
enables	O
applications	O
to	O
enrich	O
DBpedia	B-Application
data	O
with	O
data	O
from	O
these	O
datasets	B-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
,	O
there	O
are	O
more	O
than	O
45	O
million	O
interlinks	O
between	O
DBpedia	B-Application
and	O
external	O
datasets	B-General_Concept
including	O
:	O
Freebase	O
,	O
OpenCyc	O
,	O
UMBEL	O
,	O
GeoNames	O
,	O
MusicBrainz	B-Application
,	O
CIA	O
World	O
Fact	O
Book	O
,	O
DBLP	O
,	O
Project	O
Gutenberg	O
,	O
DBtune	O
Jamendo	O
,	O
Eurostat	O
,	O
UniProt	O
,	O
Bio2RDF	O
,	O
and	O
US	O
Census	O
data	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
Thomson	O
Reuters	O
initiative	O
OpenCalais	B-General_Concept
,	O
the	O
Linked	B-Operating_System
Open	I-Operating_System
Data	I-Operating_System
project	O
of	O
The	O
New	O
York	O
Times	O
,	O
the	O
Zemanta	O
API	B-Application
and	O
DBpedia	B-Application
Spotlight	O
also	O
include	O
links	O
to	O
DBpedia	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
BBC	O
uses	O
DBpedia	B-Application
to	O
help	O
organize	O
its	O
content	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Faviki	O
uses	O
DBpedia	B-Application
for	O
semantic	O
tagging	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Samsung	B-Application
also	O
includes	O
DBpedia	B-Application
in	O
its	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Such	O
a	O
rich	O
source	O
of	O
structured	O
cross-domain	O
knowledge	O
is	O
fertile	O
ground	O
for	O
Artificial	B-Application
Intelligence	I-Application
systems	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
DBpedia	B-Application
was	O
used	O
as	O
one	O
of	O
the	O
knowledge	O
sources	O
in	O
IBM	B-Application
Watson	I-Application
's	O
Jeopardy	O
!	O
</s>
<s>
Amazon	B-Application
provides	O
a	O
DBpedia	B-Application
Public	O
Data	B-General_Concept
Set	I-General_Concept
that	O
can	O
be	O
integrated	O
into	O
Amazon	B-Application
Web	I-Application
Services	I-Application
applications	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Data	O
about	O
creators	O
from	O
DBpedia	B-Application
can	O
be	O
used	O
for	O
enriching	O
artworks	O
 '	O
sales	O
observations	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
crowdsourcing	O
software	O
company	O
,	O
Ushahidi	B-Application
,	O
built	O
a	O
prototype	O
of	O
its	O
software	O
that	O
leveraged	O
DBpedia	B-Application
to	O
perform	O
semantic	O
annotations	O
on	O
citizen-generated	O
reports	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
prototype	O
incorporated	O
the	O
"	O
YODIE	O
"	O
(	O
Yet	O
another	O
Open	O
Data	O
Information	B-General_Concept
Extraction	I-General_Concept
system	O
)	O
service	O
developed	O
by	O
the	O
University	O
of	O
Sheffield	O
,	O
which	O
uses	O
DBpedia	B-Application
to	O
perform	O
the	O
annotations	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
goal	O
for	O
Ushahidi	B-Application
was	O
to	O
improve	O
the	O
speed	O
and	O
facility	O
with	O
which	O
incoming	O
reports	O
could	O
be	O
validated	O
managed	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
DBpedia	B-Application
Spotlight	O
is	O
a	O
tool	O
for	O
annotating	O
mentions	O
of	O
DBpedia	B-Application
resources	O
in	O
text	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
allows	O
linking	O
unstructured	O
information	O
sources	O
to	O
the	O
Linked	B-Operating_System
Open	I-Operating_System
Data	I-Operating_System
cloud	O
through	O
DBpedia	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
DBpedia	B-Application
Spotlight	O
performs	O
named	O
entity	B-General_Concept
extraction	I-General_Concept
,	O
including	O
entity	B-General_Concept
detection	I-General_Concept
and	O
name	B-General_Concept
resolution	I-General_Concept
(	O
in	O
other	O
words	O
,	O
disambiguation	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
can	O
also	O
be	O
used	O
for	O
named	B-General_Concept
entity	I-General_Concept
recognition	I-General_Concept
,	O
and	O
other	O
information	B-General_Concept
extraction	I-General_Concept
tasks	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
DBpedia	B-Application
Spotlight	O
aims	O
to	O
be	O
customizable	O
for	O
many	O
use	O
cases	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Instead	O
of	O
focusing	O
on	O
a	O
few	O
entity	O
types	O
,	O
the	O
project	O
strives	O
to	O
support	O
the	O
annotation	O
of	O
all	O
3.5million	O
entities	O
and	O
concepts	O
from	O
more	O
than	O
320	O
classes	O
in	O
DBpedia	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
DBpedia	B-Application
Spotlight	O
is	O
publicly	O
available	O
as	O
a	O
web	O
service	O
for	O
testing	O
and	O
a	O
Java/Scala	O
API	B-Application
licensed	O
via	O
the	O
Apache	B-Application
License	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
DBpedia	B-Application
Spotlight	O
distribution	O
includes	O
a	O
jQuery	B-Language
plugin	O
that	O
allows	O
developers	O
to	O
annotate	O
pages	O
anywhere	O
on	O
the	O
Web	O
by	O
adding	O
one	O
line	O
to	O
their	O
page	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Clients	O
are	O
also	O
available	O
in	O
Java	B-Language
or	O
PHP	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
From	O
2020	O
,	O
the	O
DBpedia	B-Application
project	O
provides	O
a	O
regularly	O
updated	O
database	O
of	O
web‑accessible	O
ontologies	O
written	O
in	O
the	O
OWL	B-Language
ontology	I-Language
language	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
DBpedia	B-Application
was	O
initiated	O
in	O
2007	O
by	O
Sören	O
Auer	O
,	O
Christian	O
Bizer	O
,	O
Georgi	O
Kobilarov	O
,	O
Jens	O
Lehmann	O
,	O
Richard	O
Cyganiak	O
and	O
Zachary	O
Ives	O
.	O
</s>
