Freebase: Discussion about alexander

August Hahn: 19th century German author & RPG author conflated

2010-01-07T11:11:58.0011Z

OpenLibrary has merged a German author with a guy who writes about games. There is a "hidden" death date which matches the German author (from OL).

Brooklyn Navy Yard: Seatrain Shipbuilding

2010-01-04T16:31:42.0013Z

Shipbuilding did not end inside the Brooklyn Navy Yard when the Navy closed the Yard. The City of New York bought the Yard from the Navy for 24 million dollars. In 1968 Seatrain Shipbuilding signed a 20 year lease [1.6 million dollars a year] ,for a large part of the yard, Seatrain Shipbuilding modernized their leased section of the Yard with the intent to build 7 VLCC's and 4 Contairer Ships for Seatrain Lines. As history will show Seatrain Shipbuilding built 4-VLCC's the Brooklyn, Williamsburg, Stuyvesant, Bay Ridge, 8 ocean going barges, 1 oil barge and 1 Ice Breaker barge. 2 Ro RO's were started. One RO-RO was towed to another yard in 1981 and finished, the second RO RO was scrappted. The Ice Braker Super Tanker Manhatten [110,000 tons] was owned by Seatrain Lines, she was brought into the Yard and Seatrain removed her Ice Breaker Hull. The burned out hull of the Sea Witch [built by Bath Iron Works] was towed into the Yard. Seatrain Shipbuild was contracted to turn her into a stainless steel chemical tanker. Work was started on the Sea Witch but Seatrain never finished her. She was towed out of the Yard in the early 1980's, she was towed to Newport News Shipbuilding where she was finished, she still sails today under a different name. The only ship shill in use today is the Bay Ridge, her name was change. I n 1988 the Bay Ridge was concerted to an oil-drilling ship by the Sembawang Shipyard in Singapore, She is working for Chevron Texaco drilling for oil off the coast of Angola. The 5th VLCC was to be named the Crown Hights, one of her two boilers can be found inside the Brooklyn Navy Yard by dry dock #6.

Seatrain Shipbuilding: Seatrain Shipbuilding

2010-01-04T15:53:21.0013Z

If anyone is looking for detailed information on the Brooklyn Navy Yard & Seatrain Shipbuilding, the Brooklyn Historical Society has an great collection of photo's and print information. Please try www.brooklynhistory.org/library/wp/trezza-frank

United States House of Representatives: US House of Representatives

2010-01-04T11:49:38.0013Z

Unless I'm misreading the history for the six that you cleaned up the other day (A. Walter Norblad, Robert "Bob" Price, Speedy O. Long, Harris B. McDowell, Jr., William Temple, Donald M. Fraser), I don't think I was actually the guilty party (although I was the last to edit them back in the Spring when I loaded the Library of Congress THOMAS identifiers for all the congresspeople).

It appears that the mw_template_bot (Wikimedia importer) had a bug that caused it to create these entries on Jun 11, 2008. The bug was apparently fixed quickly, but the bad data never got cleaned up. If you look at the history (http://www.freebase.com/history/view/en/united_states_house_of_representatives) and filter to the appropriate dates, you can see where the problem occurred.

Seatrain Shipbuilding: Seatrain Shipbuilding

2010-01-04T09:22:46.0000Z

Welcome to Freebase. I think you probably wanted to add Seatrain Shipbuilding as a topic, rather than a type. We actually already have a topic for Seatrain Shipbuilding, but it wasn't typed as a Company or much of anything else useful, so it may have been hard to find.

I've added some basic information including a list of ships built there, but please flesh out the details for the company, the yard, or any of the ships that you're familiar with. One of the oil barges, later to be known as the Morris J. Berman, went on to become quite famous (or infamous).

Guitarist: Some properties

2010-01-03T21:14:02.0005Z

how bout handedness?

Seatrain Shipbuilding: Seatrain Shipbuilding

2010-01-03T17:15:04.0005Z

Seatrain Shipbuilding Corp. leased a major part of the Brooklyn Navy Yard from 1968-1979. In that time the shipbuilders of Seatrain Shipbuilding, most of comeing from the ranks of the working poor of Brooklyn, built 4 VLCC's [tankers larger than Super tankers], 8 ocean going barges, 1 Ice Breaker Barge and started 2 RO-RO's, work on the Sea Witch to convert it from a burned out container ship into a chemical tanker. The Brooklyn [a VLCC] was the largest ship ever to be built in the Brooklyn Navy Yard and the first VLCC to ever be built in the United States. The Brooklyn was 1,090 feet long, a 140 wide, 90 feet from the keel to the main deck, 70 draft and was 220,000 DWT. The full story can be found in the book Brooklyn Steel-Blood Tenacity by Frank J. Trezza. You can visit www.BrooklynSteel-BloodTenacity.com for more detailed information includeing a slide show inside the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

Cambridge College of Arts and Technology: Merger

2010-01-03T10:42:56.0014Z

CCAT is one of the previous names for what is now Anglia Ruskin University.

Music: Thematic catalogs

2010-01-03T03:17:02.0013Z

It looks like few changes are proposed which impact on classical music (a pity), which us where most of this catalog stuff would impact.

I would like to see a single structure for 'classical' music compositions which links to composer (obviously) and catalog. That would be the framework on which other bases (opera, works by composer, songs etc. ). could hang.

United States House of Representatives: US House of Representatives

2010-01-02T23:25:12.0000Z

Thanks for the tip.

Is this in response to something specific that I can go back and review to see what I screwed up?

United States House of Representatives: US House of Representatives

2010-01-02T19:17:13.0006Z

The US House of Representatives should not be both a Government Office and a Government Body. When associating the House with Politicians, place the House under Body not Office. The Title should be United States Representative.

Mars Petcare Australia: Mars Petcare Australia

2010-01-02T18:37:53.0005Z

Hi doconnor. Mars Petcare Australia is actually a business division, not an actual company. Australia has an online database you can check of registered names and companies. When you search on Mars Petcare you'll see it is a registered tradename of Mars Australia Pty Ltd. I've updated the topic accordingly.

Ramset: Ramset brand

2010-01-02T18:33:02.0000Z

FYI, a brand cannot also be a company, so I moved the product from the Company type and added it to the Brand type.

Music: Compositional Forms and Sub-forms

2010-01-02T17:05:45.0013Z

Hi, welcome to Freebase and thanks for your contributions so far, which look good to me.

The only reason is because nobody has added that data yet - please do so.

If you have any further questions, please ask and we'll try and answer them as best we can. Cheers!

Music: Thematic catalogs

2010-01-02T17:01:56.0000Z

I think this is a good idea. Some thoughts:

1) It would indeed be beneficial to link composers with their associated catalogs. It would also be good to enable compositions to be associated with their catalog numbers.

2) It would be better for the type to be called Music Catalog rather than Thematic Catalog. "Music catalog" seems to be the more general term and is consistent with Wikipedia e.g. wikipedia's article on the Köchel catalogue is in the Music catalogs category. (As I understand it, a thematic catalog is a kind of music catalog which indexes work by its opening notes -- But i am not a Musicologist!)

3) Expanding on (1) above, if a composition can only be in one catalog (that being the one associated with the composer) then a text field would suffice e.g. "K525" for Eine kleine Nachtmusik. However, it seems likely that more than one catalog could contain the same work, in which case perhaps there should be (following my proposed terminology) a Music Catalog Entry type to link Compositons with Music Catalogs.

Music: Compositional Forms and Sub-forms

2010-01-02T16:35:43.0013Z

Is there a reason why (for example) the various kinds of concerto, such as "Piano concerto" and "Violin concerto", are not included as sub-forms of "Concerto" (at present only the only sub-form of "Concerto" is "Concerto for Orchestra")?

I am new to freebase. I was thinking of adding these relationships but I don't want to "jump in" and mess things up, so I thought I would ask here.

Kevin Rose: Primary Type

2010-01-01T22:16:23.0000Z

Personally, I'd much rather see development effort put towards making the algorithm do "the right thing" by default rather than adding support for manually fixing up cases people consider to be "wrong".

Kevin Rose: Primary Type

2010-01-01T21:30:57.0013Z

Yes, I would suggest Kevin Rose is a Company Founder first and foremost. Ideally there should be a way to set the primary type and people can fight over it as necessary.

Rock am Ring 1991: praise

2010-01-01T11:56:22.0006Z

Thanks :)

alexander: What's a /common/resource?

2009-12-31T20:55:49.0000Z

Thanks for the link. Hmmm, can't really tell from that what, if anything, needs to be done with these. The wiki page seems to say that /common/resource would co-typed with something else end would hold/link to a URI, neither of which seems to be true in this case.

Digging deeper it looks like the duplicate topics might be part of some kind of Entertainment Weakly experiment/demo (/base/ew) by Alexander, so copying him to see if they should be merged with the Matt Groening who plays in the Rock Bottom Remainders.

Matt Groening: What's a /common/resource?

2009-12-31T20:55:49.0000Z

alexander: What's a /common/resource?

2009-12-31T15:27:20.0013Z

http://wiki.freebase.com/wiki/Webpage_Proposal

Matt Groening: What's a /common/resource?

2009-12-31T15:27:20.0013Z

http://wiki.freebase.com/wiki/Webpage_Proposal

alexander: What's a /common/resource?

2009-12-31T07:14:08.0020Z

There are three Matt Groening topics, two of which are of type /common/resource, but there's no documentation for that type, so it's hard to tell if they should be merged with the Person Matt Groening. They appear to have been created by a bot called 'linkbot'.

Any hints?

Matt Groening: What's a /common/resource?

2009-12-31T07:14:08.0020Z

Any hints?

Rock am Ring 1991: praise

2009-12-31T01:24:07.0000Z

Johannes, great work on that rock am stuff!

Musical Release: Barcode & Catalog Number

2009-12-25T08:31:41.0013Z

Thanks Tom for this explanation.

Phil.B