Hierachical Locations
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I was adding to the entry for Isaac Newton. It did not have his birthplace.
So I entered "Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, Lincolnshire, England" not knowing about all the subtypes? of location you have.
Actually there does not seem to be a subtype that fits that.
My expectation was that the system would parse through what I entered and realize it was a "Hierachical Location", do something like "Aha! a New location 'Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth' that we are told is in 'Lincolnshire' which we have, and the user means the one that is in 'England' which we have.
Instead, there now seems to be a monolithic type "Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, Lincolnshire, England" created. That's not what I expected or intended.
-- Mike Berrow-
I guess I actually mean something like "monolithic location type instance" in that last sentence.
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You must type fast. :) There's already a "Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth" in Freebase typed as a Location. The idea is that a user would start typing "woolsth..." and auto-complete would prompt with what's already in the system, including "Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth". This, by the way, would fit the Type "City/Town" in addition to the more generic Location type it has acquired.
Non-US cities used to be named the city names only (e.g. "Paris") but a recent improvement appended country names to foreign city names for clarification (e.g. "Paris, France"). My guess is that because "Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth" was only typed as Location but not City/Town, it was omitted in the process that examined cities. I'll type it City/Town right now, and add "England" to the end, following the "city, country" convention we have for non-US cities.
FYI, US cities are displayed as "city, state" (e.g. "Paris, Arkansas") and co-typed "US City/Town" (in addition to Location and City/Town).
You can find more information on the various Location types at the Location Domain:
http://www.freebase.com/view/domain?id=/location -
Ah! That's it. I actually don't type *that* fast. But I did a cut/paste from Wikipedia, which amounts to the same thing.
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