Since opening up our API, we’ve had a number of partners use True Knowledge in a variety of interesting ways. One partner we’d like to highlight today is Kosmix.
For those of you that don’t know Kosmix, they offer a great service where search terms are used to generate topic pages. Using Kosmix, a topic page can be produced for almost any topic in the universe, such as: Hamburgers, Amazon Kindle, Google Android, Toni Morrison, Julianne Moore, or Toyota Prius. Each topic page can pull back information specific to that topic (Book Clubs for Toni Morrison or Product Reviews for Amazon Kindle), but there are information types that extend across different classes of topics, like Videos, Images, and Facts.
When Kosmix approached us it was to help them become stronger at presenting facts. Until recently, Kosmix did not include facts on most topic pages, but since starting to work with True Knowledge they’ve been able to automatically add comprehensive fact listings across many of their topic pages. Today, our knowledge base contains over 250 million facts about over 8.5 million things. With such a vast amount of knowledge, we are able to help Kosmix make many of their topic pages more interesting and more engaging.
A great example of how we are working together can be seen on their page for Toni Morrison. As you look at the page, you’ll notice the second block on the page reads “Facts from Kosmix.” These are facts that they have accessed from our API. And notice you not only get standard fare like birth date and books written by Morrison, but also deeper factual nuggets like Influences (which include Zora Neale Hurston) and those Morrison has influenced (like Bell Hooks).
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