If the "semantic web" worked, they wouldn't have had to buy a startup. You don't need a startup to read kindly-provided, accurate, well-categorized RDF tuples o

If the "semantic web" worked, they wouldn't have had to buy a startup. You don't need a startup to read kindly-provided, accurate, well-categorized RDF tuples out of a web page. One of my favorite ironies of the "semantic web" is almost every story cited as a success story by its advocates is in fact a failure story, in that it involves somebody having to do something that wouldn't have been necessary if the semantic web actually existed. By the way, LLMs completely finish killing off the semantic web. The semantic web will never take the form of the entire world providing nice public RDF snippets. You "just" feed the real-world goo into an LLM (or its sequels) and extract what you need. It turns out that it was literally easier to solve the language comprehension problem than to implement the semantic web. (Even if you don't consider the language comprehension problem solved yet, we are well on track to having it solved before the semantic web is implemented.)