OpenCyc and DBpedia

Open­Cyc is now linked with DBpe­dia. DBpe­dia is a “com­mu­nity effort to extract struc­tured infor­ma­tion from Wikipedia.” It mostly looks at infoboxes in the Wikipedia dumps and makes that into a struc­tured query-able sys­tem. (Some­what sim­i­lar to freebase.com).

Open­Cyc is an open sourced imple­men­ta­tion of Cyc, “an arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence project that attempts to assem­ble a com­pre­hen­sive ontol­ogy and data­base of every­day com­mon sense knowl­edge, with the goal of enabling AI appli­ca­tions to per­form human-like reasoning.”

Now, Open­Cyc is look­ing at DBpe­dia data! So next time you fill in that infobox you are not only help­ing lit­tle kids in Africa learn about the world, you are also help­ing (killer) robots learn about mur­der. Ha, just kid­ding of course.