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triple
 n.β€” Β«Who is Bill Clinton’s wife? What’s the capital city of Oregon? What is Britney Spears’ mother’s name? The answers to these and other factual questions are now displayed above natural search results in Google and the information is structured in the traditional subject-predicate-object format, or “triples,” of semantic web parlance.Β» β€”β€œDid Google Just Expose Semantic Data in Search Results?” by Marshall Kirkpatrick Read Write Web Jan. 6, 2009. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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