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* The text is the database.

* Making statements across web sites.
* Creating views based on multiple web sites.
* Across wikipedia: Places with populations between 100 and 10,000 with a 
* Technical ontologies
** Classes (categories) - '''person''', place, date
** Properties - birth date, birth place, current location, height
** Inference
*** If a person (class) was born in Canada, they speak English or French
**** Guessiness
* Usefully and easily combine different data sources - data network effects
** Recipe from one site, ingredients from another
** Web searches that only include precise content
** Aggregate reviews from different sites
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