Patents were the more obvious go to but we didn't want to work with obfuscated patent descriptions for the next years

"follow the best institutions and ~50 top individuals" wasn't meant as a suggestion actually, just an observation of what most people do.

You're right they "could work if designed to solve a specific real world problem" but against what baseline? The baseline could be spending that time on actual deep tech projects and not NLP meta-science

But you're right; open source projects for extracting infos (like PubTator) are valuable but ontologies/KGs need ongoing expert (ML, AI, SWEs, information architects, labelers) work (unlike most of Wikipedia or GH) so it's tough to make something that doesn't suck in a distributed open source fashion

Hey, author here. Great discussion so far. Will update the post with some of the comments and critiques.

You hit the nail on the head. Will put some of that in the appendix of the post!