Great detective work! Actually, (apart from systems that don't have base64), I think you will find there are some characters at the start of the id file that include backspace - can't imagine why they would do that!
Anyway, as it is Sunday of a holiday weekend: http://sameas.org/ggraph/?key=H4sIAAAAAAAAAONgVuLQz9U3MKs0LgIAXXSnTQwAAAA (It's not pretty, as it probably isn't useful - if someone wants it to do something else I can change it). Best Hugh On 3 Jun 2012, at 15:05, Andreas Thalhammer wrote: > Dear all, > > I want to take the opportunity to present my findings after analysing the > patterns of Google's Knowledge Graph. > > Each summary has a unique identifier. This identifier is used when linking to > other entities, e.g. > > H4sIAAAAAAAAAONgVuLQz9U3MKs0LgIAXXSnTQwAAAA > > stands for the summary of Steve Jobs. > > The URI to get the summary is > https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&sa=X&q=steve+jobs&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAONgVuLQz9U3MKs0LgIAXXSnTQwAAAA > > I found out that this key is created with 2 tools, namely base64 and gzip. > > We can use this key to find out what the original content was (hoping to find > a link to Freebase). > > The way to go is the following: > > 1. Store the identifier above (H4sl..) in a file, e.g. id.b64 > 2. console:$ base64 -d id.b64 > id.gz > 3. console:$ gunzip id.gz > 4. console:$ cat id > > --> /m/06y3r > > Now, add the freebase namespace to that: > > http://rdf.freebase.com/ns/m/06y3r > > This redirects to: > > http://www.freebase.com/view/en/steve_jobs > > Have a nice Sunday! > > Andreas > > -- > Andreas Thalhammer > PhD Student > Semantic Technology Institute > University of Innsbruck > http://www.sti2.at/ > > phone: +43 (0) 512507 6454 > email: [email protected] > > -- Hugh Glaser, Web and Internet Science Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ Work: +44 23 8059 3670, Fax: +44 23 8059 3045 Mobile: +44 75 9533 4155 , Home: +44 23 8061 5652 http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~hg/
