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by tuvalie 3793 days ago
Thanks for the feedback! What's being demonstrated here is one part of one feature of a larger project I've been working on over the last several years. I've built a lot of custom parsers that continuously mine/merge facts from various sources. (I think it's sitting at around 215 million atomic facts, right now, outside of what it can dynamically calculate.) The APIs work (theoretically), but they're very rough. Showing this project off is very new to me!
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215 million facts, that's impressive! Anyway, congratulations on shipping. If you ever want to collaborate on search, please let me know.
I'd love to find ways to collaborate with anyone who's interested :) I also forgot to mention that you can download an export of (most) of the timeline events from http://endlessorigins.com/ -- I update it from time to time with new events, too. To my knowledge, it's the largest freely available structured data set of historic human events. Could that be useful to you?
That looks great, I am going to look into this at some point. Thanks a lot for the link and all your hard work.