QuoteKG: A Multilingual Knowledge Graph of Quotes

Abstract Quotes of public figures can mark turning points in history. A quote explain its originator’s actions, foreshadowing political or personal decisions and revealing character traits. Impactful quotes cross language barriers influence the general population’s reaction to specific stances, always facing risk being misattributed taken out context. The provision a cross-lingual knowledge graph that establishes authenticity their contexts is great importance allow exploration lives important people as well topics from perspective what was actually said. In this paper, we present QuoteKG, first multilingual quotes. We propose QuoteKG creation pipeline extracts Wikiquote, free collaboratively created collection many languages, aligns different mentions same quote. includes nearly one million 55 said by more than 69, 000 interest across wide range topics. publicly available be accessed via SPARQL endpoint.