Freebase

Collaboratively edited knowledge graph built by Metaweb and bought by Google in 2010. It fed Google's Knowledge Graph, and its data was offered to Wikidata when it closed in 2016.

See the archived site ↗ web.archive.org · 1 May 2016 On GitHub ↗

The website is offline. freebase.com no longer works (HTTP 404; checked 22 Oct 2026), so the button opens the last copy the Wayback Machine saved, from 1 May 2016.

Part of threads Who owns what the crowd built? proposes; Who pays for public data infrastructure? proposes

builds on

• MusicBrainz project 2000 [src]

maintained by

• Google organization 1998 (2010–2016) [src]

created by

• Metaweb organization 2005–2010 [src]

subject of

• Freebase: A Collaboratively Created Graph Database for Structuring Human Knowledge writing 2008 [src]
• From Freebase to Wikidata: The Great Migration writing 2016 [src]

built upon by

• Google Knowledge Graph project 2012 [src]
• New York Times linked open data project 2009 [src]

Sources

• https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/deeper-understanding-with-metaweb.html