Facebook's Entity Graph Brings Real-World Relevance To Graph Search

What is that makes Facebook's graph search tick? The entity graph — Facebook's set of place-specific data. Every time users are prompted to describe a little more about places where they checked in, that's the entity graph at work. It's Facebook's way of making sure the real world comes across accurately on the social network. Mashable recently took a look at what the entity graph is and how it fits into graph search.

What is that makes Facebook’s graph search tick? The entity graph — Facebook’s set of place-specific data. Every time users are prompted to describe a little more about places where they checked in, that’s the entity graph at work. It’s Facebook’s way of making sure the real world comes across accurately on the social network. Mashable recently took a look at what the entity graph is and how it fits into graph search.

As Tom Simonite of the MIT Technology Review wrote for Mashable, the entity graph is like a sidekick to Facebook’s more well-known social graph, which tracks connections between the 1 billion-plus monthly active users on the site.

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