Frame (artificial intelligence)

My first exposure to “frames” (the data structure) was when I took my “Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KRR)” class in college. That class was an elective. I simply picked it because I was interested in it, and I wanted to pursue research in the field of knowledge management.Here’s its definition from Wikipedia.When I first encountered it, I didn’t really understand it. But there was an illustration in the KRR book that visualized what a “frame” is. It looked something like this.An “entity” is described by several slots. Each slot has its own value. Each value has its own “type” (or data type), which could be an instance value or a link to another frame.Years after passing that class, I stumbled upon something really similar to this concept of “frames”: Wikidata.wdlite - Q686797The terminology has changed a bit. Instead of an “entity,” it’s a “Wikidata item.” Instead of slots, there are “statements and properties.”From there, I immediately became an avid Wikidata contributor.…