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	The '''Google Knowledge Graph''' is a [[knowledge base]] used by [[Google]] and its services to enhance its [[Google Search\|search engine]]'s results with information gathered from a variety of sources. The information is presented to users in an [[infobox]] next to the [[Search engine results page\|search results]]. These infoboxes were added to Google's search engine in May 2012, starting in the United States, with international expansion by the end of the year.<ref name=":0">{{cite web \|url= http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/05/introducing-knowledge-graph-things-not.html \|title=Introducing the Knowledge Graph: Things, Not Strings \|work=Google Official Blog		The '''Google Knowledge Graph''' is a [[knowledge base]] used by [[Google]] and its services to enhance its [[Google Search\|search engine]]'s results with information gathered from a variety of sources. The information is presented to users in an [[infobox]] next to the [[Search engine results page\|search results]]. These infoboxes were added to Google's search engine in May 2012, starting in the [[United States]], with [[international]] expansion by the end of the year.<ref name=":0">{{cite web \|url= http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/05/introducing-knowledge-graph-things-not.html \|title=Introducing the Knowledge Graph: Things, Not Strings \|work=Google Official Blog
	\|first=Amit \|last=Singhal \|date=May 16, 2012 \|access-date=September 6, 2014}}</ref>		\|first=Amit \|last=Singhal \|date=May 16, 2012 \|access-date=September 6, 2014}}</ref>
	Google refers to the infoboxes, which appear to the right (top on mobile) of search results, as "knowledge panels".<ref>{{cite web \|title=Your business information in the Knowledge Panel \|url=https://support.google.com/business/answer/6331288 \|website=Google My Business Help \|publisher=Google Inc. \|access-date=December 10, 2017}}</ref>		Google refers to the infoboxes, which appear to the right (top on mobile) of search results, as "knowledge panels".<ref>{{cite web \|title=Your business information in the Knowledge Panel \|url=https://support.google.com/business/answer/6331288 \|website=Google My Business Help \|publisher=Google Inc. \|access-date=December 10, 2017}}</ref>

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 The '''Google Knowledge Graph''' is a [[knowledge base]] used by [[Google]] and its services to enhance its [[Google Search|search engine]]'s results with information gathered from a variety of sources. The information is presented to users in an [[infobox]] next to the [[Search engine results page|search results]]. These infoboxes were added to Google's search engine in May 2012, starting in the United States, with international expansion by the end of the year.<ref name=":0">{{cite web |url= http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/05/introducing-knowledge-graph-things-not.html |title=Introducing the Knowledge Graph: Things, Not Strings |work=Google Official Blog
 |first=Amit |last=Singhal |date=May 16, 2012 |access-date=September 6, 2014}}</ref>
-Google has referred to these infoboxes, which appear to the right (top on mobile) of search results, as "knowledge panels".<ref>{{cite web |title=Your business information in the Knowledge Panel |url=https://support.google.com/business/answer/6331288 |website=Google My Business Help |publisher=Google Inc. |access-date=December 10, 2017}}</ref>
+Google refers to the infoboxes, which appear to the right (top on mobile) of search results, as "knowledge panels".<ref>{{cite web |title=Your business information in the Knowledge Panel |url=https://support.google.com/business/answer/6331288 |website=Google My Business Help |publisher=Google Inc. |access-date=December 10, 2017}}</ref>
 The information covered by Google's Knowledge Graph grew quickly after launch, tripling its size within seven months (covering 570 million entities and 18 billion facts<ref>{{cite web |first=Casey |last=Newton |title=Google's Knowledge Graph tripled in size in seven months |url=https://www.cnet.com/news/googles-knowledge-graph-tripled-in-size-in-seven-months/ |website=[[CNET]] |publisher=[[CBS Interactive]] |date=December 4, 2012 |access-date=December 10, 2017}}</ref>). By mid-2016, Google reported that it held 70 billion facts<ref>{{cite web |first=James |last=Vincent |title=Apple boasts about sales; Google boasts about how good its AI is |url=https://www.theverge.com/2016/10/4/13122406/google-phone-event-stats |website=[[The Verge]] |publisher=[[Vox Media]] |date=October 4, 2016 |access-date=December 10, 2017}}</ref> and answered "roughly one-third" of the 100 billion monthly searches they handled. By May 2020, this had grown to 500 billion facts on 5 billion entities.<ref>{{Cite web|title=A reintroduction to our Knowledge Graph and knowledge panels|url=https://blog.google/products/search/about-knowledge-graph-and-knowledge-panels/|date=2020-05-20|website=Google|language=en|access-date=2020-05-26}}</ref>
 There is no official documentation of how the Google Knowledge Graph is implemented.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1695/paper4.pdf|title=Towards a Definition of Knowledge Graphs|last1=Ehrlinger|first1=Lisa|last2=Wöß|first2=Wolfram|date=2016}}</ref>
-According to Google, its information is retrieved from many sources, including the ''[[The World Factbook|CIA World Factbook]]'', [[Wikidata]], and [[Wikipedia]].<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{cite web |first=Barry |last=Schwartz |title=Google's Freebase To Close After Migrating To Wikidata: Knowledge Graph Impact? |url=https://www.seroundtable.com/google-freebase-wikidata-knowledge-graph-19591.html |website=[[Search Engine Roundtable]] |date=December 17, 2014 |access-date=December 10, 2017}}</ref>
+According to Google, its information is retrieved from many sources, including the ''[[The World Factbook|CIA World Factbook]]'' and [[Wikipedia]].<ref name=":0" />
 It is used to answer direct spoken questions in [[Google Assistant]]<ref>{{cite web |first=Matthew |last=Lynley |title=Google unveils Google Assistant, a virtual assistant that's a big upgrade to Google Now |url=https://techcrunch.com/2016/05/18/google-unveils-google-assistant-a-big-upgrade-to-google-now/ |website=[[TechCrunch]] |publisher=[[Oath Inc.]] |date=May 18, 2016 |access-date=December 10, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/why-google-assistant-will-win-the-ai-race-2016-10|title=Google is going to win the next major battle in computing|last=Kovach|first=Steve|date=October 4, 2016|website=[[Business Insider]]|publisher=[[Axel Springer SE]]|access-date=December 10, 2017}}</ref> and [[Google Home]] voice queries.<ref>{{cite web |first=Dieter |last=Bohn |title=Google Home: a speaker to finally take on the Amazon Echo |url=https://www.theverge.com/2016/5/18/11688376/google-home-speaker-announced-virtual-assistant-io-2016 |website=[[The Verge]] |publisher=[[Vox Media]] |date=May 18, 2016 |access-date=December 10, 2017}}</ref>
-It has been criticized for providing answers without [[Citation|source attribution or citation]].<ref name="wapo">{{Cite web|date=May 11, 2016|title=You Probably Haven't Even Noticed Google's Sketchy Quest to Control the World's Knowledge|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/05/11/you-probably-havent-even-noticed-googles-sketchy-quest-to-control-the-worlds-knowledge/|work=Washington Post|last=Dewey|first=Caitlin}}</ref> Google knowledge panel will update automatically based on the information available on the web and various other sources.<ref>{{Cite web|title=About knowledge panels - Knowledge Panel Help|url=https://support.google.com/knowledgepanel/answer/9163198?hl=en|access-date=2021-03-15|website=support.google.com}}</ref>
+It has been criticized for providing answers without [[Citation|source attribution or citation]].<ref name="wapo">{{Cite web |last=Dewey |first=Caitlin |date=May 11, 2016 |title=You Probably Haven't Even Noticed Google's Sketchy Quest to Control the World's Knowledge |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/05/11/you-probably-havent-even-noticed-googles-sketchy-quest-to-control-the-worlds-knowledge/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160603201137/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/05/11/you-probably-havent-even-noticed-googles-sketchy-quest-to-control-the-worlds-knowledge/ |archive-date=June 3, 2016 |access-date=May 25, 2022 |work=Washington Post}}</ref> The data is updated automatically based on information available on the web and from various other sources.<ref>{{Cite web|title=About knowledge panels - Knowledge Panel Help|url=https://support.google.com/knowledgepanel/answer/9163198?hl=en|access-date=2021-03-15|website=support.google.com}}</ref>

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[[Image:Google Knowledge Panel.png|right|thumb|Knowledge panel data about [[Thomas Jefferson]] displayed on [[Google Search]], as of January 2015]]

The '''Google Knowledge Graph''' is a [[knowledge base]] used by [[Google]] and its services to enhance its [[Google Search|search engine]]'s results with information gathered from a variety of sources. The information is presented to users in an [[infobox]] next to the [[Search engine results page|search results]]. These infoboxes were added to Google's search engine in May 2012, starting in the United States, with international expansion by the end of the year.<ref name=":0">{{cite web |url= http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/05/introducing-knowledge-graph-things-not.html |title=Introducing the Knowledge Graph: Things, Not Strings |work=Google Official Blog
|first=Amit |last=Singhal |date=May 16, 2012 |access-date=September 6, 2014}}</ref>
Google has referred to these infoboxes, which appear to the right (top on mobile) of search results, as "knowledge panels".<ref>{{cite web |title=Your business information in the Knowledge Panel |url=https://support.google.com/business/answer/6331288 |website=Google My Business Help |publisher=Google Inc. |access-date=December 10, 2017}}</ref>

The information covered by Google's Knowledge Graph grew quickly after launch, tripling its size within seven months (covering 570 million entities and 18 billion facts<ref>{{cite web |first=Casey |last=Newton |title=Google's Knowledge Graph tripled in size in seven months |url=https://www.cnet.com/news/googles-knowledge-graph-tripled-in-size-in-seven-months/ |website=[[CNET]] |publisher=[[CBS Interactive]] |date=December 4, 2012 |access-date=December 10, 2017}}</ref>). By mid-2016, Google reported that it held 70 billion facts<ref>{{cite web |first=James |last=Vincent |title=Apple boasts about sales; Google boasts about how good its AI is |url=https://www.theverge.com/2016/10/4/13122406/google-phone-event-stats |website=[[The Verge]] |publisher=[[Vox Media]] |date=October 4, 2016 |access-date=December 10, 2017}}</ref> and answered "roughly one-third" of the 100 billion monthly searches they handled. By May 2020, this had grown to 500 billion facts on 5 billion entities.<ref>{{Cite web|title=A reintroduction to our Knowledge Graph and knowledge panels|url=https://blog.google/products/search/about-knowledge-graph-and-knowledge-panels/|date=2020-05-20|website=Google|language=en|access-date=2020-05-26}}</ref>

There is no official documentation of how the Google Knowledge Graph is implemented.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1695/paper4.pdf|title=Towards a Definition of Knowledge Graphs|last1=Ehrlinger|first1=Lisa|last2=Wöß|first2=Wolfram|date=2016}}</ref>
According to Google, its information is retrieved from many sources, including the ''[[The World Factbook|CIA World Factbook]]'', [[Wikidata]], and [[Wikipedia]].<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{cite web |first=Barry |last=Schwartz |title=Google's Freebase To Close After Migrating To Wikidata: Knowledge Graph Impact? |url=https://www.seroundtable.com/google-freebase-wikidata-knowledge-graph-19591.html |website=[[Search Engine Roundtable]] |date=December 17, 2014 |access-date=December 10, 2017}}</ref>
It is used to answer direct spoken questions in [[Google Assistant]]<ref>{{cite web |first=Matthew |last=Lynley |title=Google unveils Google Assistant, a virtual assistant that's a big upgrade to Google Now |url=https://techcrunch.com/2016/05/18/google-unveils-google-assistant-a-big-upgrade-to-google-now/ |website=[[TechCrunch]] |publisher=[[Oath Inc.]] |date=May 18, 2016 |access-date=December 10, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/why-google-assistant-will-win-the-ai-race-2016-10|title=Google is going to win the next major battle in computing|last=Kovach|first=Steve|date=October 4, 2016|website=[[Business Insider]]|publisher=[[Axel Springer SE]]|access-date=December 10, 2017}}</ref> and [[Google Home]] voice queries.<ref>{{cite web |first=Dieter |last=Bohn |title=Google Home: a speaker to finally take on the Amazon Echo |url=https://www.theverge.com/2016/5/18/11688376/google-home-speaker-announced-virtual-assistant-io-2016 |website=[[The Verge]] |publisher=[[Vox Media]] |date=May 18, 2016 |access-date=December 10, 2017}}</ref>
It has been criticized for providing answers without [[Citation|source attribution or citation]].<ref name="wapo">{{Cite web|date=May 11, 2016|title=You Probably Haven't Even Noticed Google's Sketchy Quest to Control the World's Knowledge|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/05/11/you-probably-havent-even-noticed-googles-sketchy-quest-to-control-the-worlds-knowledge/|work=Washington Post|last=Dewey|first=Caitlin}}</ref> Google knowledge panel will update automatically based on the information available on the web and various other sources.<ref>{{Cite web|title=About knowledge panels - Knowledge Panel Help|url=https://support.google.com/knowledgepanel/answer/9163198?hl=en|access-date=2021-03-15|website=support.google.com}}</ref>