Understanding Google's Knowledge Vault

A recent New Scientist article about Google's Knowledge Vault gave some perspective on the scale of this project. This is a bigger and stronger version of Google's Knowledge Graph, which was largely reliant upon humans inputting information. The Knowledge Vault is using technology to gather and merge information about basically everything.

"The breadth and accuracy of this gathered knowledge is already becoming the foundation of systems that allow robots and smartphones to understand what people ask them. It promises to let Google answer questions like an oracle rather than a search engine, and even to turn a new lens on human history."

Google employees published an academic paper called Knowledge Vault: A Web-Scale Approach to Probabilistic Knowledge Fusion. In this paper they described how they built this "Web-scale probabilistic knowledge base" and how it determines how accurate the information it pulls in is. This is the largest computer knowledge base to date and here is what Google's team is saying about the project:

In the future, we hope to continue to scale [Knowledge Vault], to store more knowledge about the world, and to use this resource to help various downstream applications, such as question answering, entity-based search, etc.

Read our recent update on the latest news on Authorship to understand how all your Markups are helping to build your personal & business's profile within Google's Knowledge Vault.