Visually Connecting Historical Figures Through Event Knowledge Graphs

Abstract

Figure 1: VisKonnect interface visualizing the result of a query on soccer players: (A) An event timeline shows individual (uni-colored rectangles) and shared (multi-colored rectangles) life events of all historical figures in a user query. (B) An event map provides a geographic perspective of those events. (C) A relationship graph provides an overview of all shared events. (D) Clicking an event brings up a related article from Wikipedia. (E) A chat interface enables typing in a query and generates a short textual answer.