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Metaweb: Companies, Funding & Overview

Metaweb Technologies, Inc. was a San Francisco–based company that developed Freebase, described as an "open, shared database of the world's knowledge". The company was co-founded by Danny Hillis, Veda Hlubinka-Cook and John Giannandrea in 2005.

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Metaweb topic overview

The analysis highlights Companies, Funding and Overview as prominent areas in the source structure around Metaweb.

Related topics
12
Source areas
2
Connected nodes
14
Extracted relationships
21
Concept neighborhoods
11
Bridge connections
14

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Overview · 7 topics
Funding · 5 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Founded
July 2005; 21 years ago (2005-07)
Industry
Data management
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Fate
acquired by Google in July 2010
Founder
Veda Hlubinka-Cook, Danny Hillis, John Giannandrea
Key people
Kurt Bollacker (Chief scientist) Danny Hillis (Chairman) Thomas Layton (CEO) Veda Hlubinka-Cook EVP, product development John Giannandrea (CTO)

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

Funding

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How Metaweb connects Entity context

The extracted context around Metaweb shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Metaweb → Benchmark Capital, Goldman Sachs, Investors, Kevin Harvey, Metaweb's, Millennium Technology Ventures, Omidyar Network, On January, On March, Series Another extracted example is Metaweb → Google, On July. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Metaweb

Top relations

related to Funding · 10
Metaweb → Benchmark Capital, Goldman Sachs, Investors, Kevin Harvey, Metaweb's, Millennium Technology Ventures, Omidyar Network, On January, On March, Series
related to Acquisition · 2
Metaweb → Google, On July
Fate · 1
Metaweb → acquired by Google in July 2010
Founded · 1
Metaweb → July 2005; 21 years ago (2005-07)
Founder · 1
Metaweb → Veda Hlubinka-Cook, Danny Hillis, John Giannandrea
Headquarters · 1
Metaweb → San Francisco, California, United States
Industry · 1
Metaweb → Data management
Key people · 1
Metaweb → Kurt Bollacker (Chief scientist) Danny Hillis (Chairman) Thomas Layton (CEO) Veda Hlubinka-Cook EVP, product development John Giannandrea (CTO)
Products · 1
Metaweb → Freebase — an online database
Type · 1
Metaweb → Private

Important terminology

Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.

Important terminology

google freebase acquired 2010 company technologies inc san francisco database danny hillis veda hlubinka-cook john giannandrea 2005 data benchmark capital

Metaweb relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 21 structured relationships around Metaweb. Examples in this analysis include Metaweb → Fate → acquired by Google in July 2010 and Metaweb → Founded → July 2005; 21 years ago (2005-07). The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
MetawebFateacquired by Google in July 20101.00infobox
MetawebFoundedJuly 2005; 21 years ago (2005-07)1.00infobox
MetawebFounderVeda Hlubinka-Cook, Danny Hillis, John Giannandrea1.00infobox
MetawebHeadquartersSan Francisco, California, United States1.00infobox
MetawebIndustryData management1.00infobox
MetawebKey peopleKurt Bollacker (Chief scientist) Danny Hillis (Chairman) Thomas Layton (CEO) Veda Hlubinka-Cook EVP, product development John Giannandrea (CTO)1.00infobox
MetawebProductsFreebase — an online database1.00infobox
MetawebTypePrivate1.00infobox
MetawebWebsitewww.metaweb.com1.00infobox
Metawebrelated to AcquisitionOn July0.60section
Metawebrelated to AcquisitionGoogle0.60section
Metawebrelated to FundingOn March0.60section

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Metaweb bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Acquired, Google and Database. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Metaweb
    • Acquired
    • Google
    • Database
    • Francisco
    • Funding
    • Inc
    • July
    • Million
    • San
    • Technologies
    • Freebase
    • Based
  • metaweb
    • Acquired
    • Google
    • Database
    • Francisco
    • Funding
    • Inc
    • July
    • Million
    • San
    • Technologies
    • Freebase
    • Based
  • san francisco
    • Database
    • San
    • Freebase
    • Based
    • Described
    • Developed
    • Knowledge
    • Open
    • Shared
    • World's
    • Company
    • Danny
  • freebase
    • Data
    • Database
    • San
    • Google
    • Described
    • Knowledge
    • Met
    • Notability
    • Open
    • Required
    • Shared
    • Shut
  • veda hlubinka-cook
    • Danny
    • Giannandrea
    • Hillis
    • Hlubinka-cook
    • John
    • Veda
    • Co-founded
    • Company
    • Data
    • Database
    • Francisco
    • Funding
  • danny hillis
    • Giannandrea
    • Hillis
    • Hlubinka-cook
    • John
    • Veda
    • Data
    • Database
    • Francisco
    • Funding
    • July
    • Million
    • San
  • google
    • Data
    • July
    • Metaweb
    • Met
    • Notability
    • Required
    • Shut
    • Transferring
    • Wikidata
    • Funding
    • Hillis
    • Hlubinka-cook
  • john giannandrea
    • Hillis
    • Hlubinka-cook
    • John
    • Veda
    • Data
    • Funding
    • July
    • Million
    • San
    • Acquired
    • Google
    • Metaweb

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Metaweb, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Metaweb with Overview. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
MetawebOverview · splits 7 ⟂ 8
MetawebFunding · splits 9 ⟂ 6

Map overview Semantic statistics

Metaweb

Nodes15
Edges14
Triples21
Avg. degree1.87
Density0.133333
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Metaweb to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Companies, Funding & Overview, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Metaweb · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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