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Re:Wikipedia is now drawing facts from the Wikidata repository by mindcrime on Monday April 29, 2013 @03:51PM (#5628265)
Yeah, there's that as well.

Also, if you're interested in that sort of thing, two other projects you might find interest are:

http://stanbol.apache.org

and

http://uima.apache.org

Both involve extracting semantic meaning from unstructured data. It's pretty cool stuff.

Re:Wikipedia is now drawing facts from the Wikidata repository by bergie on Monday April 29, 2013 @05:12PM (#5628814)
Here is a quick demo of Stanbol-provided Wikipedia annotations and disambiguation in a WYSIWYG editor:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAMUpd6rb9k&feature=yout...