The platform was initiated by Olaf Simons in 2017/2018 in a cooperation between the Gotha Research Centre of the University of Erfurt and Wikimedia Germany.

FactGrid uses Wikidata's Wikibase software without major modifications of the user interface (Horace-Bénédict de Saussure's Cyanometer is providing the logo motif).

[4] First reservations about the risks of data theft and plagiarism on the openly visible platform have lost their initial importance.

Allowing the display of conflicting information with the respective sources Wikibase is rather an interesting medium to map complex data situations.

The current growth rate appears to be growing to 200,000 database objects per year with tailwind of the ongoing the NFDI process in Germany.