On 8/23/13 9:53 AM, Tom Morris wrote:
In a word, no. Google acquired Metaweb, the company that built Freebase, which forms the core of the Knowledge Graph in 2010. Metaweb was founded in 2005 (interesting Google search: "Metaweb founding") and started extracting information from Wikipedia into Freebase in 2006. https://www.freebase.com/m/0gw0?links&lang=en&historical=true
The first DBpedia release was in 2007. Semantic information nets go back to the 60s. TBL coined the term "semantic web" in 2006.
Freebase and DBpedia started around the same time. DBpedia just had its coming out party at WWW 2007 in Banff.
FWIW -- the projects started around the same time.