Freebase is an open, Creative Commons licensed repository of structured data of more than 12 million entities.

An entity is a single person, place, or thing. Freebase connects entities together as a graph.

Ways to use Freebase:

* Use Freebase's Ids to uniquely identify entities anywhere on the web
* Query Freebase's data using MQL
* Build applications using our API or Acre, our hosted development platform 

Freebase is also a community of thousands of data-lovers, working together to improve Freebase's data. Learn how to contribute, join our mailing list, or find out more on our community page.