Patent on Using Natural Language Queries For Querying a Data Graph

Bill Slawski breaks down a newly granted Google patent Querying a Data Graph Using Natural Language Queries that sheds some light on how the web can be seen as a data graph. The patent shows us an example, related to a data graph, entities, such as people, places, things, concepts, etc., which may be stored as nodes and the edges between those nodes may indicate the relationship between the nodes.