It reminds me of Freebase [1], acquired by Google and later deprecated, you can find the data in [2] and the new Google Knowledge Graph Search API. It may not be enough for making computers think but can help to augment a search engine. In Freebase you could perform queries like "give me the VCs who have great exits in telecommunication companies". It is very useful to apply this kind of queries to news because it adds context. DBpedia [4] is another interesting project on this subject.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freebase
[2] https://developers.google.com/freebase/