"I have discovered something more crack-like than Wikipedia. Freebase is a collection of user-contributed and -edited data about everything. Like Wikipedia, you can put just about anything in there. Unlike Wikipedia, you don’t just provide text, but can provide structured data. For instance, for a topic of type “person”, there are fields for date of birth and so forth. This structured data then permits all kinds of navigation, analysis, and further use beyond what an unstructured essay can provide..."
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