Historical Events Extracted From Wikipedia

This dataset contains historical events extracted from Wikipedia articles across about 2,500 years and different languages. We have extracted about 192,000 events with more than 325,000 links to DBpedia entities. This dataset was extracted in 2011, and the results have been published in two papers: Hienert, Daniel, and Francesco Luciano. 2012. "Extraction of historical events from Wikipedia." In KNOW@LOD 2012 : Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Meets Linked Open Data (KNOW@LOD 2012), edited by Johanna Völker, Heiko Paulheim, Jens Lehmann, and Mathias Niepert, http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-868/. Hienert, Daniel, Dennis Wegener, and Heiko Paulheim. 2012. "Automatic classification and relationship extraction for multi-lingual and multi-granular events from Wikipedia." In DeRiVE 2012 Detection, Representation, and Exploitation of Events in the Semantic Web : Proceedings of the Workhop on Detection, Representation, and Exploitation of Events in the Semantic Web (DeRiVE 2012) ; Workshop in conjunction with the 11th International Semantic Web Conference 2012 (ISWC 2012), edited by Marieke van Erp, Laura Hollink, Willem Robert van Hage, Raphaël Troncy, and David A. Shamma, 1-10. https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-902/. The dataset has been hosted on the author's website and is now available here for long-term availability. Number of events Altogether 192463 events.German/year: 36883 events from -300/00/00 BC to 2013/12/31English/year: 37859 events from -300/00/00 BC to 2012/12/31Italian/year: 13813 events from -300/00/00 BC to 2013/11/03Spanish/year: 20330 events from -299/00/00 BC to 2013/11/17Portuguese/year: 7879 events from -292/00/00 BC to 2013/00/00Catalan/year: 7699 events from -300/00/00 BC to 2013/09/11Indonesian/year: 2430 events from -300/00/00 BC to 2013/05/10Romanian/year: 13936 events from -300/00/00 BC to 2013/07/01Turkish/year: 3572 events from 1/00/00 BC to 2013/05/10German/month: 9912 events from 2000/00/00 BC to 2012/10/28English/month: 38150 events from 2000/00/00 BC to 2012/09/23 We provide SQL files to restore the MySQL database and N3 files in RDF format.