You’ve probably heard of Facebook’s new feature, Graph Search. Allowing you to search for combinations of people, places, and things through Facebook, Graph Search grabs headlines because it’s ...

Software engineer Eric Sun has revealed the evolution of Facebook’s Entity Graph, a complicated data set which maps the social network’s 100+ billion connections between people, places and interests.

Project manager for team Entity, Mitu Singh, says: “We’re trying to map what the real world looks like onto Facebook so you can run really expressive and powerful queries.” To that end, it has taken a ...