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Re:Ask HN: Google search results by tehwebguy on Wednesday September 17, 2014 @08:06PM (#8332990)
That data in particular may be "rich snippets" or "structured data" - I have no idea if it is though

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/99170?hl=en

Re:Ask HN: Google search results by BorisMelnik on Friday September 19, 2014 @04:02PM (#8342208)
correct - the majority of the time this data (known as Knowledge Graph or Knowledge Vault) is pulled from the schema on the website (via structured data) but Google also uses a number of other sources, mainly Freebase and Wikipedia but also privately owned websites as well.