Freebase: Discussion about People

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.

Matt Groening: 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?

2009-12-31T15:27:20.0013Z

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

Matt Groening: 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?

Muriel Brassler: Murial Brassler Alive and Well!

2009-12-27T19:06:18.0013Z

You can fix this kind of thing by just clicking "edit topic". I've removed the Fictional Character type and added the Person type. Feel free to fill any details that you know about her (birthdate, birth place, etc).

Pia Fajelagutan: Real Name

2009-12-25T18:14:11.0013Z

The surname might be wrong, By the way. is it spelled like that?

Pia Fajelagutan: Real Name

2009-12-25T18:13:41.0006Z

Is that Pia Fajelagutan's real name? Simply that? No other aliases either? I was finding it hard to get more info on her. Please verify.

Muriel Brassler: Murial Brassler Alive and Well!

2009-12-24T17:08:48.0000Z

Muriel Brassler is not a fictional character. She is known as Muriel Emory, by marriage. Brassler was her maiden name. I have met her a few times, since I know one of her children. She is a very refined and elegante woman. She is presently living in Monroe County, Pennsylvania, at a Senior Citizens Apartment Complex. She used to live in Hemlock Farms Development in Hawley, PA. You can see a picture of her at the following website: http://www.hollowaypages.com/welles.htm

Hope this will clear up some misunderstanding.

Kevin Rose: Primary Type

2009-12-23T07:51:19.0006Z

In my mind he's associated with Digg and, in general, Company Founder would trump TV Personality, but you're never going to keep everyone happy. Is Donald Trump a real estate developer, TV personality or serial groom? Probably depends on who you ask.

Kevin Rose: Primary Type

2009-12-23T01:37:47.0013Z

Hi,

The notable types algorithm is a work in progress, much of it depends on how well filled out the data is, what types are applied on a topic, and the interaction between types. The newest results that will be on production soon has Kevin Rose most notable as an "Audio Program Host." Is that more acceptable? Adding data to more notable types on a topic will help boost their notability.

Kevin Rose: Primary Type

2009-12-23T00:35:15.0013Z

It has his primary type as TV Personality which I think is flawed. How do we change the primary type that gets placed in the typeahead?