When you start assigning context to statments, you'll quickly find yourself walking down the path to structured data, and toward the very complexity you're arguing against. At least predicate-wise.

You'll then need to start assigning contexts to entities, at which point you're right about where Freebase begins, in principle. Even if we assume you use Wikipedia-esque strings like "Apple (company)"

Triples are easy. Semantics are hard.