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Hi all,
Congrats about a great product your building here, it
couldwill change the way we find information online. I'll definetly be spreading the word about it over here in the UK dont you worry! and I'm certainly pretty excited to see how it evolves over time.While playing around, I've noticed that the RSS Feed for my profile page doesnt seem to be working:
http://www.freebase.com/feed/newsfeed/profile/user/simonturner
Be handy to have. Is this a one of bug, or is it something thats a work in progress? Also I had a little trouble tracking down the Freebase Discussion Forum and actually had to resort to a google search lol. How do you normally browse to it, just wondering if it should be a little more prominent.
My Exercises base is comming along nicely, but there's still lots to do. I've pretty much tapped into all the data that was fead in from Wikipedia, so the next step is going to be to start created some fresh content.
Cheers,
Simon
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The search engine output from Freebase is a bit messy for "Angelina Jolie" but I dont know why... Just try "Angelina Jolie" you ll see the problem immidiately.
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Can you be more specific? The autocomplete in Freebase for Angelina Jolie seems fine, and typing the name in and hitting Search to get the search results also looks fine. Did you get results you didn’t expect, or was the formatting of the results screwy? Thanks in advance for any additional information you can provide.
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Someone corrected it, but I swear it was there.
It looked a bit messy, like if in the profession someone had added some MQL requests. Looks more like a bug to me, than injection...
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If you have logs, or something like that, you wont miss it. The profile was fine, but if you typed the request in the search, at the end of the description, there was some MQL weird stuff ...
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I saw the previous version of the search results. The topic description for Angelina Jolie showed the old description that was crawled from Wikipedia and you could see some of the wikicode from the info_box. Shortly after that, someone wrote a new description on the Angelina Jolie page but it took a couple days until the index was updated to the new description showed up in the search results.
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When an actor has appeared regularly in more than six seasons of a show, they don't all show up automatically, only the first six show up, you have to press More to see the rest. But this means when you edit them, only the first six appear in the edit box, the others aren't visible. eg. Stargate SG-1 for Richard Dean Anderson
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It also appears to be a problem on the actor, character and season pages (and presumably any more where they appear), except in those cases, no More button is available, but if you go to Stargate SG-1 Season 8 for example, Richard Dean Anderson is in that season, but on the list he's no in season 7, but if you go to season 7, season 8 isn't listed, if you get my drift.
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Oooh, that is a problem. I'll report a bug in our internal tracking. Thanks for letting us know.
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This bug is still around, and makes editing TV shows terribly annoying.
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It’s correct that this hasn’t been fixed yet. It involves a redesign of part of the client view, so it may take a little while.
However, our bug tracking system is now public; you can follow this one as CLI-5472, vote for it and/or add it to your watch list.
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I wrote a perl script to fetch article and image from freebase but seems API has some bug:
my query is :
to retrive result for 'blood cancer' but the result is nothing
same query works for 'cervical cancer' but dosn't work for 'skin cancer' too
both of 'cervical cancer' and 'blood cancer' articles and content exist when is search in website
what's wrong?
actual query :
[
{
"/common/topic/article" : [
{
"id" : null
}
],
"/common/topic/image" : [
{
"id" : null
}
],
"guid" : null,
"name" : "blood cancer",
"type" : "/medicine/disease"
}
]-
There are two separate problems you are running into here.
First, I do not see a topic for blood cancer. A search turns up a few results about leukemia, which have the words “blood” and “cancer” in their Wikipedia articles, but there does not appear to be a topic with that actual name.
The reason your query is not working for skin cancer is that you are requiring the topics to have articles and images. The skin cancer topic has no images, so the query fails.
When you want a query to return results even if some of the interesting properties are not present, use the optional constraint:
"/common/topic/image":[{"id":null,"optional":true}]
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Urgent Require - Fetching Content - http://www.freebase.com/api/trans/raw is not working.
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Hi,
Please any one help me on following issue.
It is unable to fetch content using following url:
Request:- http://www.freebase.com/api/trans/raw/%239202a8c04000641f8000000000acd66c
it give response like as shown below:
Response:-
{
"status":"404 Not Found",
"code":"/api/status/error/blobclient",
"messages":[
{
"info":{
"hostports":"blob03.p01.sjc1.metaweb.com:8120 blob01.p01.sjc1.metaweb.com:8120 blob02.p01.sjc1.metaweb.com:8120"
},
"message":"Could not find or replicate blob: static:mw-render/en/6c/9202a8c04000641f8000000000acd66c",
"code":"/api/status/error/not_found"
}
],
"transaction_id":"cache;cache01.p01.sjc1:8101;2008-10-10T11:18:03Z;0011"
}Thanks in advance...
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Thanks for bringing this up. The data format for blurbs changed, and a piece of the API was overlooked. It should be fixed soon; stay tuned for more information.
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Hi Hemang.
A recent data update seems to have caused the problem. We are working on resolving that as soon as possible. In the meanwhile if you are running this specific query for wikipedia articles only (i.e. not in a generic library or something of that sort), you can get the same content by using the /api/tran/blurb service with a very hign number for maxlength like so:
http://www.freebase.com/api/trans/blurb/%239202a8c04000641f8000000000acd66c?maxlength=3000
This will only work for wikipedia based topics. The reason being that we do not maintain the complete wikipedia article on our backend. However we do allow /api/trans/raw requests for wikipedia based topics, it simply returns the same content as the blurbs without truncating the content.
HTH
AM
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Sometimes a company in Freebase has two cities in the HQ address area when it really doesn't. If the second city is correct, and you delete the first address line, and then try to add information into the remaining line, the autofill fields won't work. You can type things in there, but the auto-suggest won't "open" and you can't link the field to an actual topic. You have to close out and then go back in.
In case that is confusing :) here's hopefully something that will help:
Company XYZ
Company/Headquarters "field"
Line 1 = Paris
Line 2 = London
Go in and delete Paris. Then try to fill in the other address fields for the London line. the fields that link to other topics won't work.
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We downloaded the films data dump, and found that the value of the netflix ID wasn't present in the films.tsv, even though it appeared as a column in the first row. Any reason for this? Is there any way we can get the netflix ID?
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The Netflix IDs have been added and updated extensively since the data dump. I would recommend going to filter view (http://www.freebase.com/view/film/film), adding all the columns from the left that you want, including the Netflix ID, and then "Use these results" --> "Save as TSV/CSV" to produce your own version of the latest film data. Please post if you have trouble doing this.
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So, would this mean that there could be the possibility of certain values being updated, that may not be reflected in the dump? Is there any way of getting this delta as well?
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The best way to pick up deltas between data dumps would be by using our API; this would be very easy for the case you mention, simply getting Netflix IDs for any that have gained them since the last dump. See our help section for API help.
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Another way to detect recent changes is to monitor the RSS feed of the history for that type. For example, the Film type history feed is:
http://www.freebase.com/feed/history/all/film/film
This will notify you as soon as someone adds a new film, changes an existing film or deletes a film.
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This isn't necessarily a bug, but how can you remove the value in the Gender field from the Person type?
For example, I want to remove the Person type from the Bass Brothers topic, but I need to remove the "Male" from the Gender. But I can't figure out how to do that.
If I clear out the value, it wants me to pick something from the list. I cleared the value and then quickly hit enter, but I don't think the form likes that option as it keeps the value pick list open even when the box is closed :) [of course that disappears as soon as I leave the page]
Is there a way to allow someone to blank out a field for cases like this?
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Why do you need to remove "Male" from Gender before removing the type? That's not necessary. You can remove the type without clearing the gender first.
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Oh, good to know. I assumed I had to disassociate all the values before removing the type or there could be a value/space/whatever left hanging on the other end.
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Well... detyping a type from a topic is not necessarily "clean". If a topic is erronously typed with property values, the cleanest way is to detype is to remove all the property values first and then detype the type. Otherwise, you get property artifacts left behind (the link between the topic and the property/value is not unlinked). As an example. see my topic on sandbox - I typed myself as a location, added a containment, then detyped without removing property values.
We're trying to get clean detyping functionality into the client soon, as well as have backend validators run periodically. However, in the meantime, I advocate removing property values first before detyping.
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I guess it depends on if the property value is linked with another topic? So it probably doesn't matter for date of birth, but does for employer.
Not sure where gender falls into it, but the problem with removing the value is seems to want a value and there's no obvious way to remove it.
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Ah, the enumerated type is trying to "force" you to pick a choice. What I do to remove the value is delete the current text in the edit popup, wait for the popup choices appear, then click off of the edit popup. The popup choices will disappear and then you can click save and the value will be disconnected. Definitely not desired functionality - I'll bring it up with client design.
As for removing values, it applies for all properties.
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When you import a list of episodes to a tv series or season, once you've reconciled all of the episodes, on the next page it says the episodes will be reconciled with existing episode etc., but all the episode numbers are going to be created as new topics. And on the next page, it says they've been created, and the links go back to the home page.
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It also seems that when one imports a list of episodes to a season, only existing episodes save the episode number, if you add a new episode, the episode numbers appear to be deleted. And when you import episodes to a TV series, none of the episode numbers are saved.
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It looks like there are two problems here: one an unclear UI, and the other an actual possible bug.
The bit about creating episode numbers as new is because the episode numbers are just text values, not actual topics; the “1” for the first episode is not going to be reconciled with an existing topic called “1.” The UI should be clearer about what is happening with text and number values, however.
The bit about the episode numbers not taking is a real problem.
I will add both of these issues to our bug tracking system.
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People are adding bands, tv shows and things like Wikipedia to the Influence domain (which is intended to be restricted to people), which adds the included type 'people' to things that are obviously not people. I'm not policing the domain rigorously, and you're going to end up with junky data. You could have something like a message:
"Wikipedia" is not yet typed as a person (required by Influence Node). Do you want to continue and add Wikipedia as a person?
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Usually the auto suggestions are fine, but sometimes there are topcis, particularly common city/town names, where there are more options but the auto-suggest list isn't long enough.
For example, try adding Cambridge, Vermont to a location field and you won't see it (well, not the couple times I tried). And depending on the Type, you may not be able to go into that town topic to add the town in the "back way".
One thing I've noticed while trying to add town names to fields is that the auto-suggest won't use the aka name of a topic. So you can't type "Cambridge, V" to pull up the Vermont specific topic.
Perhaps if we could, then we'd be able to better access these "hidden" topics in the list. I know if we lengthen the list then we can run into other issues (like performance) and we probably can't make certain names/topics give a longer list instead of doing a global lengthen. Otherwise, not sure how we can address this issue.
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Autosuggest does use the aliases, but it doesn’t currently do well with partial matches. If you actually type out “Cambridge, Vermont” you will get two primary results: the town, and the village. However, anything less than the full name of the state will return no hits; that is definitely not ideal.
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Ah, I see. I'll start typing out the whole thing then. Thank you
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OK, I'm having more trouble with this auto suggest list, but in a different way. For some reason I can't get the United States topic to come up when I type it in the Import From in Statistical Region!
I've been able to get it previously (other days), but for whatever reason it doesn't as of now. I've tried it a couple times, and even made sure no one renamed that topic to something weird. I get Boston, Massacheussetts, Colorado, US $, etc, but not the actual topic. And I'm typing the full "United States".
Ideas on how to fix??
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I just checked that United States topic, and I think something is wrong with it. When you click on it, it goes to a domain, not the topic itself. Did something get screwed up?
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Oog… yeah, it got mangled. This is a known problem but as yet undiagnosed; the good news is it was a Metaweb employee who did it this time, so we can
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I've got a similar problem with similar symptoms - it seems at the very least, priority should go to exact name/type matches first, then exact name matches, then approximate matches. This isn't what happens and it causes all sorts of grief if the topic name is a simple word.
For example, I want to link to a Doctor Who TV Episode called "Midnight". If I type the word, the topic I want doesn't appear as an auto-suggest - many other topics mentioning the word appear first, some of which aren't even TV episodes. At this point I have only one choice, create a new topic, and plan to merge it later. Of course, the problem is, I can't submit a merge report either, since I get the exact same auto-suggest list with the entry I want too far down.
At the very least, would it be possible for me to use the guid? I can filter down and find the node from the full search box.
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This is underdocmented, but you can always enter an ID in the autocomplete box. So once you know that “Midnight” is /guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000008e684ab, you can enter that literally into the autocomplete box.
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Thank you so much!
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If you do a search for "bennington vermont" you'll see the first result appears to be a normal topic. It even shows the wiki description. But when you click into it, you only find the image and its properties. I can't find a real topic for Bennington, VT, and so didn't know if something went wrong with the import of this one, or what happened.
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The MQL query editor (http://www.freebase.com/tools/queryeditor) is not able to generatea a functioning permalink for the following query
{"id":"#9202a8c04000641f8000000004f4abbe","name":[],"type":[]}
Contrast this to the sample query (from http://www.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000544e148):
{"albums":{"query":{"album":[],"name":"The Police","type":"/music/artist"}}}
which corresponds to the permalink:
Perhaps, it's the "#" in the id that is causing the permalink generator problems.
Thanks,
-Raymond
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I can't enter a value for the ICAO field under Airports. When I try to save the value I get a message saying I don't have authorization. Is this a bug, or by design?
an example code is FMMI for Ivato Airport in Madagascar
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Hi evening,
See http://www.freebase.com/discuss/threads/authority/icao/ESSX#/guid/9202a8c04000641f80000000089b3836 . The long and short of it is that we've updated the property to be an property enumeration with a more restrictive permission. We hope to be loading some more airport data soon, so stay tuned! -
Thanks for the info. I'll wait to add smaller airports until the codes come in -- it should make it a lot easier to keep track of (some airports(some have multiple names and it gets confusing!).
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Good morning,
just discovered that he freebase suggest is not working anymore in some cases
For example
http://mqlx.com/~willmoffat/libs/freebase-suggest/examples/suggest_demo2.html
or also on my web site
http://goosebumps4all.net/goi/
Any quick fix highly appreciated
cheers
martin
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Great,
this was fixed by Willi Moffat.
If you experience the same problem, bellow Willi's response on the question in the developer mailing list
Thanks a lot Willi
martin
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OK, the examples should be fixed now. http://code.google.com/p/freebase-suggest/
You can see the changes I made: http://code.google.com/p/freebase-suggest/source/detail?r=100
Basically this:
$('#example2').freebaseSuggest( {ac_param:{type: '/music/album',
category: "instance", get_all_types: "0", disamb: "1", limit: "10",
strict:1 };
Should be:
$('#example2').freebaseSuggest( {ac_param:{type:'/music/album'}} );
Most of the arguments have been depreciated and 'strict' no longer
takes 1. I've removed strict as well because the default behaviour
seems fine to me, if you want to experiment then see the search API
docs here:
http://www.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000006ad84c9
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I've seen talk about an explore mode accessible by the F8 key I see hints about such an option when I do a google search on "freebase explore mode f8" but nothing shows up when I view the results.
It would appear the the Explore mode only accessible to certain people with special privileges. Any recommendations on accessing the Explore mode or what it is?
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When you hit F8, a Dev Tools footer should appear on the bottom of the page. There are a number of links, with one of them being Explore. You can also get to it by http://www.freebase.com/tools/explore/fb_id where fb_id is the freebase id of a topic.
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Thanks.
I've missed some of these "advanced" topics. Is there a place where items like this are discussed in more detail?
Thanks,
biosopher
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The example for the metaweb PHP class at
http://www.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000544e139#metaweb.php
is cut off at the top as well as the top of albumlist.php in example 4.6.
I know it's not a bug, but I wasn't sure where else to put this.
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I'm getting a unexpected error when retrieving summaries for some article guids. For example these trans queries for San Quentin return errors:
http://www.freebase.com/api/trans/blurb/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000023907a
http://www.freebase.com/api/trans/raw/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000023907aThe San Quentin article does have a summary though:
http://www.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000023907a
And I know these queries work for other guids such as these for RadioHead and Uma Thurman:
http://www.freebase.com/api/trans/raw/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000008c306
http://www.freebase.com/api/trans/blurb/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000008c306
http://www.freebase.com/api/trans/raw/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000004c272
http://www.freebase.com/api/trans/blurb/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000004c272Any advice on whether this is a bug or why the Uma & Radiohead would work but not the San Quentin?
Thanks,
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This one works for me in the client:
http://www.freebase.com/api/trans/raw/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000000239081
This one returns full summary stored.
http://www.freebase.com/api/trans/blurb/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000000239081
This one returns the smaller summary (an excerpt of an excerpt, heh)
The other two do return an error, as the GUID is for the topic that is Sann Quentin Prison and the GUID I use is for the common/topic/article (I got from explore mode (the 'F8' key):
http://www.freebase.com/tools/explore/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000023907a
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Thanks gmackenz,
What's the explore mode with F8 key? I see hints about it when I do a google search on "freebase explore mode f8" but nothing shows up when I view the page.
Is the Explore mode only accessible to certain people with privilege or ...?
Thanks
biosopher
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I recently started exploring Freebase and was delighted to discover that a number of my Creative Commons licensed mushroom images had found their way into your database. It looks like they got there via wikipedia, but I noticed two potential issues with the way they were imported.
First, the original images are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike (cc-by-sa) license. However, according to the Freebase licensing policy this is not a permitted license but Creative Commons Attribution (cc-by) is. Is the Freebase licensing policy wrong or is this something the Wikipedia data import needs to be smarter about?
The second problem is that the attribution information was not maintained. Here's a concrete example that I haven't fixed:
http://www.freebase.com/view/wikipedia/images/commons_id/1710275
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Agaricus_subrufescens.jpg
In the case of my own images, I have no problem relicensing them under cc-by, but I would really like the attribution information to be correctly maintained.
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Hi and welcome to freebase! I don't think I can provide you with an answer to your licensing question, but I've forwarded your post on to folks that can. Hopefully, you'll hear from them soon.
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It looks like we correctly marked the image you posted as CC-BY-SA, but please let us know if you see any otherwise. Regarding the attribution, good point - we are working to improve that. Pulling in the creator data programmatically is often difficult because the Wikipedia page is not structured. While we explore better ways of doing that, we're looking to at least link to the WP image page that has all of the detailed information, including the original attribution. In the meantime, we'd love your help in adding the attribution and/or your data to Freebase.
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Thanks for the follow up. I had noticed that the license was correctly listed as cc-by-sa which is great. So I guess that implies that this license is permitted for Freebase which makes me happy! :-)
I'm definitely interested in getting my data into Freebase and have begun figuring out how to do that.
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I created a Naturalist domain with some types that may be useful for you and wrote a slightly longer description of the domain in your namespace.
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Looks like you and spatialed are collaborating - that's great! Once you become familiarized with freebase, you can create a schema to fit your dataset, and then you can use our API to load the data. We can talk more once you have an idea of what you want to load.
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Good morning freebasers,
hope your great work is joyful.
I am just about to discover freebase playing around with influence nodes. While doing that I came across something strange
The following query
{
"influenced" : [],
"influenced_by" : [],
"name" : "Carl Jung",
"peers" : [],
"type" : "/influence/influence_node"
}
]
doesn't return Carl's peers.I got some hints that this is due to general technical limitations of the freebase framework but I just would like to address it here hoping this will be solved soon. I guess a symmetric relation like in this example "being peers" is something quite common.
cheers
martin
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Peer relationship is a compound value type. You'll have to modify your query to something like this:
{
"influenced" : [],
"influenced_by" : [],
"name" : "Carl Jung",
"peers" : [
{
"peers" : [
{
"id" : null,
"name" : null
}
]
}
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Hello Cheunger,
thanks a lot.
I have a following up question regarding this. I am doing nested queries and the result of your suggested query includes also Carl Jung since it is as you pointed out a compounded value type.
Now to stay with the example, let's say I need also the peers of the peers. The following works
{
"influenced" : [],
"influenced_by" : [],
"name" : "Carl Jung",
"peers" : [
{
"peers" : [
{
"id" : null,
"name" : null,
"peers" : [
{
"peers" : [
{
"id" : null,
"name" : null
}
]
}
]
}
]
}
],
"type" : "/influence/influence_node"
}but there are a lot duplicate subqueries. The query gives my the required information but this seems to unnecessary struggle your DB (and my actual query is quite elaborate)
Any suggestions highly appreciated
Cheers
martin
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Yes, you could infinitely nest subqueries to find peers of peers of peers of peers, etc. There could be a point where an influence node no longer has peers and then the response would be null. What result are you trying to achieve? Finding information about an influence node's first level peers seems reasonable and relevant, but peers of peers of peers, etc.?
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Hello Cheunger,
thanks al lot for the reply.
I recently discovered the |= contraint and changed my query strategy so that I only need one subquery level. By that I can avoid duplicate subqueries, so my question here is not anymore of pratical relevance.
Thanks again
martin
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Great! BTW, spectacular work on your app - it is quite addictive.
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Currently there's only Delete and Move to the Top when editing a list. Could you please add more controls like you have in other website areas, i.e. Move to Bottom, Move One Up, and Move One Down?
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If your are in the edit mode, you can move items manually with your mouse. I thought there might be a demo of this on site (but could well be mistaken, as some new features haven't been documented as they have just now been stabilized).
Just mouse over the the left within list of instances contained within a property (a small square made up of dots) and you'll note the mouse cursor change to a little hand with the little help flyout informing you can move type up and down.
We may introduce additional keyboard controls to match once we are into Beta.
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I've tried exporting data for the public_library type from the browser, and can't get the complete export. There are 9,000 something records, but the times I've exported, I've gotten varying numbers of records back ranging from 1,000 to 2,000 or so.
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This appears to be a bug - someone else ran into this issue also. It looks like it's been filed as a bug already.
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Would it be possible to change how Boolean properties are displayed when they are used as disambiguators? Right now, it just displays "True" or "False", which isn't very useful, especially if someone uses multiple Boolean properties as disambiguators. Maybe something along the lines of "Property Name: True" or displaying the property name when true and nothing when false.
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Can you post a link to a page where you're seeing this problem? I can't seem to reproduce it. Thanks!
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http://sandbox.freebase.com/view/user/drakecaiman/default_domain/computer_game_release
Computer Game Releases has two Boolean disambiguators, Demo and Special Edition. In the list view, they are only denoted with their actual values. There is no obvious way of telling which value goes with which property.
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Thanks -- I see the problem now. This can be true of any type that has disambiguators, and will be a problem not just for booleans but for numeric properties as well. Arguably any property is potentially confusing, since they are not labelled, but it's pretty easy to guess what the values on something like book edition refer to.
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I should also mention that we're in the process of redesigning the filter view page, so this may be addressed in a future release.
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We are, indeed, rolling out a new filter view which should make context for these disambiguating values clearer. Should be available within the next month or so.
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I was playing around with defining the Tarot deck when I noticed something strange: The list of relevance results from teh search box was showing all of the cards typed as "Tarot Card", but when I went to look at the page, the type was nowhere to be found!
After poking around a bit I realized that this must be because user "radiusrs" has a private "Tarot Card" type, which he has set on the cards.
Two suggestions from this:
1) Private types should not tag topics in the list of relevance results. It's very confusing to see information in one place, but not another.
2) Conversely, it might be nice to have some feature off to the side that lists the private types assigned to the topic, and the users that created them. This could help grow community on the site -- once I realized that radiusrs had already done this work, I pinged him and asked to collaborate instead.
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This is a pretty serious error that effects all apps using mjt.js in the IE browser. (doesn't effect firefox, safari, opera. Of course)
I thought this was an onload event error at first, but that may not be the issue.
I'm going to try to fix this when I have a bit of time, but if anyone already has a fix, please let me know!
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Not sure how this is suppose to work, but I noticed a difference in how addresses are handled in editing Public Library topics and everywhere else.
- Postal Code is handle like a topic of that type in addresses for Public Library topics, complete with auto-suggestion. Other topics that use it (Shopping Center and Retail Location for sure) treat it as text.
- The country is automatically filled for addresses in Public Library, while left for user entry in other instances.
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Thanks for the post - I'll file a bug against that and have someone look into it.
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Yes, you are correct. It is because the Public Library address property is unique and the others are non-unique. You should be presented with the same UI as when you are editing non-unique address properties. This is a bug and has been fixed and will be available in our next release. Thanks for reporting it.
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I used the 'Import a list" method for creating a set of Topics for the Type 'SNPBZ variable' in robetm's domain 'SNPBX modelling'. There were over 100 or so in the list, most new, some to merge. It took c. 15 mins to process them 1 by 1.
When I got through to the final step 3, and clicked on the completion button, I got the following message:
"Sorry! We were unable to handle your request. The error was: Internal Server Error"
The URL for this page was http://www.freebase.com/importer/review/user/robertm/snpbz_modelling/snpbz_variable?counter=5&propertyId=%2Ftype%2Ftype%2Finstance
Thinking this was a trasnient problem, I clicked the Back button in my browser, and tried again... and again.
I then checked the list of Topic for this Type - and find that each time I clicked the button to compete step 3, it did in fact add the newly-created Topics - even though they are there already.
I presume that this should not happen.
Given that it did, could someone please remove all the duplicate topics for the Type 'SNPBZ variable' in robertm's domain 'SNPBZ modelling'?
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Thanks for the report, Robert. I’ve filed bugs both to clean up your duplicates and to make the list importer better-behaved.
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The existing duplicates are merged. I note there are a few near matches; you may want to flag those for merge. I am not confident that they are actually the same thing.
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Thanks, Chris. Well spotted about the near-duplicates. They should indeed be merged, referring to the same thing from different sources.
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I've been trying to leave Feedback via the link in the footer, but it doesn't seem to be working.
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Seems to work for me; I just used it and confirmed that the message came through in email to the appropriate email list.
What do you mean by "not working"? Do you get an error message?
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Was it this error? Occurs when you try submit a feedback without being logged in (we don't support anonymous activity other than reading on our site at this time)
{
"status": "400 Bad request",
"code": "/api/status/error",
"messages": [
{
"info": {
"value": null
},
"message": "authentication required",
"code": "/api/status/error/input/invalid"
}
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@gmackenz: ah, i see. yeah, that was the one.
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I want to include an existing Type in the Type 'Variable' in my (robertm's) domain 'SNPBZ modelling'. The Type I want to include is 'Environmental variable' in my domain 'Environmental modelling'.
When I try to include it, I start typing 'enviro...', and various other Types from my domain 'Environmental modleling' are suggested, but not 'Environmental variable'. I should not enter it as a new Type, because it exists already. So I'm stuck.
Seems like a bug.
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Enumerations are not currently displayed in the autocomplete list for included types, I think. (I also agree that it's a bug -- I'll open a ticket for it.) You can work around it by changing the type from "enumeration" to "standard", adding it as an included type, and then changing it back to "enumeration".
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I was working on posting a reply too. Hold off on the bug, Jeff. I'm going to bring this up (filtering for included types) together with filtering for cotypes at the Autocomplete meeting so that they can be reviewed together.
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IThe decision to filter out enumerated typed for cotype and include_type autocomplete queries will be revisited and (mostly likely) reverted. Jeff, since there's already a bug for cotype filtering of enumerated types, I'll add the included_type filtering of the same to the same bug.
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I've been trying to merge Yamanaka Inoichi into Inoichi Yamanaka, but when I hit merge, the spinner pops up for a second, and then the page reloads. If I hit merge again, it just spins forever and does nothing. The same thing happens on any other topics I try to merge, as well.
I'm using Firefox 3 beta 5, in case it's a browser problem.
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Software tickets contain a number of properties that help to diagnose the issue or request. However, if you'd prefer, just post a note to this discussion.
If you're describing a bug, its useful to include a brief description of what you were doing leading up to the error, your internet browser and OS, and if an error was thrown in the UI, paste the text of the error into the bug as well.-
Bad data?
Repro:
1. Go to http://www.freebase.com/view/time/event
2. View list of of events.
3. Click any link and view the item. With the exception of "Apollo 12" none of the first 10 items have a start date. IMO, a historic event or event type need to include at least a start date with the end date being optional. I think it is a bug because it really degrades the value of the data and at the core metaweb is a data service.
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Hi Matt,
As discussed elsewhere, Freebase allows you to type things even if you don't have all the data available at that time. We don't consider this to be a bug; sure, incomplete data is suboptimal, but it's better than nothing, and we expect the Freebase community to fill in properties as time goes on.
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OK, I just went through the whole front page of the Event type and filled in start dates. This took
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Can you supply the MQL to get the list on the front page discussed? I'd appreciate it.
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It seems that it had not been tested with Opera at all!
A plenty of bugs!1) Browsing through I am permanently getting "signed-out" without any reason
2) Every time a stupid drop-down box under the Search bar appears Opera gets hung quite deadly ! F@#k!
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You are correct; we do not currently test or support Opera. Take a look at the Web Browser Support article. It is on our long-term consideration, and we are definitely working on a browser-independent (AJAX-free) view of our data.
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I feel like I'm missing something simple.
How do I edit previously unset properties of my profile? I see how to edit the properties that are there but there are many properties of the type that are not visible and consequently, not editiable.
thanks,
Jason
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Jason, if you look at the bottom of the page, you may see a blue bar with a link which includes “Admin view.” (If you don’t see it, press F8.) If you follow that link, you’ll see your profile presented just like every other Freebase topic, and you should then be able to edit properties that the default user view does not display.
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Have you considered allowing people to import a Personal Ancenstory File from a geneology program to populate the people section? Although there is some around merging data this tool could be a revolution for geneology research since you are commited to open source documentation.
I have linked over 10,000 names in may family tree many including birth, death, marrige location, etc.
If you import a feature like this you may consider excluding some details on records that don't include a death date to protect personal privacy but I think this would tie into a great application.
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Not sure how you'd like to get feedback on Documentation, but I've just been through Sections 1 through 3 and have a few typos / corrections you might like to hear, but I'd like to be able to feed them back via the Documentation pages. In fact, coming up with a model for users to contribute their own documentation might not be a bad idea. My two cents.
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When editing fields that have dependent fields (like Web link, where the title field only becomes editable once the URI field is filled), sometimes when I'm pasting in a URI rather than typing it, the title field stays grayed out, and I have to type some bogus characters at the end of the URI (and erase them) to get the title field editable. Small annoyance, but I thought you'd like to know.
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It looks like the timestamps for discussion posts are shown in UTC, which makes it really hard to figure out how long ago the person posted the message. Possible solutions: (1) show the time in the user's local time, which you could determine either from an explicit preference or from the "Where I Live" field on the user account topic (2) Show the time a "n minutes ago"/"n hours ago", because if it's more than a day or so ago the exact doesn't matter nearly as much. (The user's goal in reading the timestamp is determining how long ago something happened, partly because the more recent, the more likely the original poster is to see a response.)
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Nonfiction
* The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism (1920)
* The Second-Order Mind (1920)
* Tradition and the individual talent (1920)
* Homage to John Dryden (1924)
* Shakespeare and the Stoicism of Seneca (1928)
* For Lancelot Andrewes (1928)
* Dante (1929)
* Selected Essays, 1917–1932 (1932)
* The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism (1933)
* After Strange Gods (1934)
* Elizabethan Essays (1934)
* Essays Ancient and Modern (1936)
* The Idea of a Christian Society (1940)
* Notes Towards the Definition of Culture (1948)
* Poetry and Drama (1951)
* The Three Voices of Poetry (1954)
* On Poetry and Poets (1957)
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Using Firefox 2.0, on page http://www.metaweb.com/metaweb/, clicking on the Film link takes you to the top of the Music domain.
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