When I watched Barack Obama accept the Nobel Peace Prize, I thought about how the world has changed since the inception of the prize, and how it will continue to change. Since the winners of the Prize are themselves a reflection of what’s changing, I thought I’d try using Freebase to visualize them over the century the Prize has existed.

What you can find out, with Freebase, depends on its coverage of the topics you’re asking about. So realize that what I’ll show here is possible because Nobel Peace Prize winners are a well-covered topic. Still, it’s wildly impressive.

The Nobel site tells us that 89 Nobel Peace Prizes have been awarded since 1901. I haven’t been able to reproduce that number in Freebase because there are multiple winners in a few years, and I haven’t found a way to group results by year. But for my purposes this related query is good enough:

That number, 100, isn’t as closely related to 89 as you might think. It’s less by the number of years no award was given, but more by the number of recipients in multiple-award years. Perhaps a Free