The late English writer Douglas Adams is best known as the author of the 1979 book The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. But there is much more to Adams than what is written in his Wikipedia entry. Whether or not you need to know that his birth sign is Pisces or that libraries worldwide store his books under the same string of numbers — 13230702 — you can if you head to an overlooked corner of the Wikimedia Foundation called Wikidata.

There, images, text, keywords, and other information related to Adams are stored both in a webpage and, for the robots among us, in formats designed for machines like JSON.

Now, Wikidata is getting a new AI-friendly database that makes it easier for large language models to ingest the information. The database comes from the Wikipedia Embedding Project out

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