3.3.2 The Default KRI Knowledge Base

The default KB contains numerous instances of PROTON Upper Module classes like: Public Company, Company, Bank, IndustrySector, HomePage, etc. It covers the most popular entities in the world such as:

• Locations: mountains, cities, roads, etc.
• Organizations, all important sorts of: business, international, political, government, sport, academic, etc.
• Specific people

Content

• collected from various sources, like geographical and business intelligence gazetteers
• predefined - KRI uses entities only from trusted sources
• can be enriched, replaced

Entity Description

The NE-s are represented with their Semantic Descriptions via:

• Aliases (Florida & FL);
• Relations with other entities (Person hasPosition Position);
• Attributes (latitude & longitude of geographic entities);
• the proper Class of the NE

The last build of the KRI KB contained 29104 named entities: 6006 persons, 8259 organizations, 12219 locations and 2620 job titles.