title: Google Freebase Search API Alternative?
body: <p>Google deprecated their Freebase Search API, and is transferring things over to Wikidata, however there appears to be no replacement for their Freebase Search API (<a href="https://developers.google.com/freebase/v1/search-overview">https://developers.google.com/freebase/v1/search-overview</a>) that:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Autosuggesting entities (e.g. Freebase Suggest Widget) </li>
  <li>Getting a ranked list of the most notable entities with a given name. </li>
  <li>Finding entities using Search Metaschema.</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>Moreover, it would also take in malformed strings and correct them, and return nice detailed relevancy rankings, along with the associated freebase topic id. I can't find anything in their Custom Search API that returns any information relevant to their, or any other knowledge graph.</p>
  
  <p>Ideally would like something that I can query similar to this and returns a result like they used to:</p>
  
  <p>For example, a query of "Nirvana" in the Freebase Search API would return:</p>
  
  <pre><code>{
    "status":"200 OK",
    "result":[
      {
        "mid":"/m/0b1zz",
        "name":"Nirvana",
        "notable":{"name":"Record Producer","id":"/music/producer"},
        "score":55.227268
      },{
        "mid":"/m/05b3c",
        "name":"Nirvana",
        "notable":{"name":"Belief","id":"/religion/belief"},
        "score":44.248726
      },{
        "mid":"/m/01h89tx",
        "name":"Nirvana",
        "notable":{"name":"Musical Album","id":"/music/album"},
        "score":30.371510
      },{
        "mid":"/m/01rn9fm",
        "name":"Nirvana",
        "notable":{"name":"Musical Group","id":"/music/musical_group"},
        "score":30.092449
      },{
        "mid":"/m/02_6qh",
        "name":"Nirvana",
        "notable":{"name":"Film","id":"/film/film"},
        "score":29.003593
      },{
        "mid":"/m/01rkx5",
        "name":"Nirvana Sutra",
        "score":21.344824
      }
    ],
    "cost":10,
    "hits":0
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Note the relevance, and Freebase mid.</p>
  
  <p>Essentially are there any alternatives out there, either open source, or commercial that replaces this much needed functionality?</p>