The Google Knowledge Graph Search API will replace Freebase

Google has released an API for its Google Knowledge Graph. The service already produces data in the JSON-LD format (LD here means Linked Data, yes, yes!) And uses the types schema.org . In addition to compliance with the standards, the joyful news is the presence of backward compatibility with Freebase - whenever possible, to identify entities, keys from Freebase are used. The Freebase software interface will be available for another three months.
Let me remind you that Knowledge Graph is a knowledge base that among other things forms such infoboxes in search results:



At first glance, the new API looks much weaker than the MQL query language used in Freebase, but let's hope that the program interface will be updated. You can find an entity by search query, prefix, plus impose restrictions on types from the list of types schema.org. The result can be obtained in different languages.

In the near future, the Knowledge Graph team plans to update the Freebase Suggest API, an interface that provided freebase objects as search hints:

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Two years ago, the company announced it was no longer supporting the Freebase knowledge base , and all this time, Wikimedia Germany had been working hard to transfer data to Wikidata. The Freebase site was promised to be dismantled by June, but so far everything is in place.