YAGO: A Core of Semantic Knowledge

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The people behind YAGO

Fabian Suchanek	Gjergji Kasneci	Gerhard Weikum
Johannes Hoffart	Edwin Lewis-Kelham

If you have any questions about the project, please send a mail to NameOfTheOntology@mpi-inf.mpg.de.

Acknowledgements

YAGO can only be so large because it is based on other sources. We would like to thank

• the numerous voluntary editors of Wikipedia.
  Thank you for giving mankind such a wonderful huge encyclopedia!
• the creators of WordNet.
  Thank you for organizing and analyzing the English language in such a diligent way and thank you for making your work available for free!

YAGO has benefited from many contributors. In particular, the following people deserve our thanks:

• The numerous volunteers who reported bugs in the YAGO ontology
• The DBPedia team for integrating YAGO into the DBPedia project
• Mike Bergman for his numerous helpful comments on YAGO
• Frederick Giasson for his substantial help with the RDFS converter
• Structured Dynamics LLC. for hosting the Web-service of YAGO

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