Using Freebase on your site

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Freebase is a repository of structured data that you can use for any purpose.

  • Use our API to query and extract data for use in apps and mashups
  • Use Freebase Ids to link Freebase with other data sets, including your own
  • Use Freebase Suggest to provide powerful search/autosuggest for your site

Freebase's data is available under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license. You may use it for any purpose, for free, as long as you link back to Freebase.

Who uses Freebase?

  • Google
  • MySpace
  • The Wall Street Journal

About Freebase's license

Most of Freebase's data is available for free under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license. This means you can use Freebase data for any purpose, as long as you provide a link back to Freebase's website.

  • Yes, you can use it for commercial purposes.
  • No, your own site or data doesn't have to be under a similar license.
  • No, you don't need to ask us.
  • See our Attribution Policy for more information about how to attribute us.

How to use Freebase's data

Freebase has a powerful API and many other tools to help you work with our data. See our Developers section for more information.

Reconciling your own data with Freebase

You will quite likely want to match your own entities against Freebase's. We call this process Reconciliation.

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