TV Program

TV Program: TV Program: add 'tagline'?

2008-05-17T01:14:21.0026Z

Seems a lot of tv programs from the past decade or so have taglines (similar to Film's longstanding taglines).

Examples I found from IMDb trolling:

Nip/Tuck:

The deeply superficial series returns.

Beauty is a curse on the world.

Make me beautiful.

Truth is only skin deep

A disturbingly perfect new drama.

Beauty isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Tell me what you don't like about yourself...?

Change what you can. Hide what you can't.

Six Feet Under:

Every Day Above Ground Is A Good One.

Life is wasted on the living.

How's Death?

Your whole life is leading up to this...

Everything. Everyone. Everywhere. Ends.

Moonlight: Moonlight episode list

2008-05-06T19:42:20.0007Z

Igor - we sync with wikipedia data on a regular basis, so you don't need to create Freebase topics for articles in WP -- they will get here soon if they are not already here. For example, the first episode, "No Such Thing as Vampires" is already in Freebase, and "Out of the Past" will be added the next time we load WP data.

Everything is a topic in Freebase - a TV program, a season, an episode. If it's not there, just create one and add the appropriate type which brings appropriate properties to fill out. Because Freebase data is structured, you can easily run queries to create lists that organize data by anyway: you can ask for all episodes in a show, all episodes in a season, episodes with a particular actor or director, etc. The flexibility eliminates the need for static lists.

I've created a Season topic for you, and added the Moonlight pilot episode. The next step is to create a topic for each episode not in WP. (If there would be a second season -- too bad insiders think this show may be canceled -- you'd create a new topic for it.) Post back if you have any questions.

Moonlight: Moonlight episode list

2008-05-06T16:51:17.0007Z

The best way to add episodes for Moonlight is to create a separate topic for each one (if they don't exist already) using the "tv episode" type, and connect them to Moonlight via the property "episodes". If you want, you can also create topics for seasons of Moonlight, and link the episodes to the seasons, as well.

Moonlight: Moonlight episode list

2008-05-06T06:38:44.0016Z

Hi there,

I've started this topic, because I've been watching Moonlight yesterday. Before I started, I actually had to look something up, because I wasn't sure about what the last episode was that I watched. There are different ways to look up this kind of information, but I use most of the time Wikipedia and sometimes IMDb.

Here is an example for the episode list on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Moonlight_episodes

I'm not sure about the assembly of freebase articles, but there is no good way to start such an episode list in the main Moonlight article. Should I start a new article for an episode list? Maybe one article for each episode? Is there a way to consolidate those articles?

Firefly: Split into TV show and Fictional Universe

2008-04-27T08:18:26.0012Z

The fictional universe "firefly" is not the same as the tv program

TV Program: Regular performances, but which episodes?

2008-04-14T19:56:47.0007Z

The next question is (having capitulated to adding seasons to the regular acting performance), do we still need the "to" and "from" dates? Arguably, no, since the seasons should tell us that. But sometimes we only have that data (e.g., from wikipedia infobox loades).

TV Program: Regular performances, but which episodes?

2008-04-14T18:51:10.0007Z

Right, but if you use the Performance for a regular actor, the data gets quite dense very quickly. It seemed like Performances was for additional actors beyond the regulars. There’s also an important distinction; sometimes a frequent guest star becomes a regular character, and sometimes a regular character returns for a guest appearance.

In fact, here’s a crazy idea… What if the Regular Performance CVT had additional disambiguators for seasons and episodes?

TV Program: Regular performances, but which episodes?

2008-04-14T18:22:07.0007Z

Whatchoo talkin' 'bout, crism? TV episode has properties "performances" and "personal appearances" which are for all people who appear on the episode, regular, guest, or otherwise.

TV Program: Regular performances, but which episodes?

2008-04-12T08:33:23.0012Z

I think it makes sense to have the regular performances property. However, there is no way to indicate in which episodes a regularly-credited actor appeared, and it is silly to mark them as a guest actor.

What if the regular appearance (and I think I will copy this comment there) had an additional disambiguator pointing to the episodes in which the actor actually appeared?

Babylon 5: Split: yes

2008-04-07T07:38:16.0012Z

The series should be split from the fictional universe, which was also the setting for four movies and two other series.

The Price Is Right: Merge warranted?

2008-03-06T00:56:37.0000Z

I agree, but I'd say it's a delete candidate -- all versions of the show would be equally valid merge candidates, so I think it's cleaner to delete it.

The Price Is Right: Merge warranted?

2008-03-05T23:46:14.0012Z

This looks like a a WP disambiguation-like page for all the international versions of The Price is Right.

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy: Split

2007-11-05T23:15:50.0012Z

The novel and the television adaptation should be separate topics.

My Name Is Earl: Soundtrack and actual TV show..

2007-10-31T16:26:04.0005Z

.. should be split into two topics.

None: Absence of information vs. information of absence

2007-09-17T01:04:49.0007Z

Ah, this page is no longer marked for deletion. Cool.

None: Absence of information vs. information of absence

2007-09-09T04:07:16.0012Z

Freebase generally conflates the absence of information with information of absence, a distinction that many other knowledge representation systems make. If there is a discussion of the logic behind this stance, this would be a good place to link to it.

The Tracey Ullman Show: Removed Simpsons Shorts Photo

2007-08-10T06:17:32.0011Z

I have removed the Simpsons shorts photo because it was, in my opinion, inappropriate placed; the show was not in any way defined by the Simpsons, but instead they were just a small component of the show.

Battlestar Galactica (2003): Universe is distinct from TV Series

2007-05-29T22:13:06.0006Z

I was being a little too zealous in my 'pruning'...I took the article in the original Battlestar Galactica 2003 to be a more general overview of the universe than the topic for just the TV series starting in 2003.

Well, I just edited the description of Robert's created topic to make it clear what it is, a Fictional Universe topic.

Looney Tunes: Wrong type

2007-05-26T20:46:15.0011Z

"Looney Tunes" is not a TV program or a television series. It is a series of theatrical short subjects.

There were television series that later incorporated Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts, such as "The Bugs Bunny Show", "The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour", etc. There was even one called "Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies". However, this entry should be for the original series of shorts.

Does the correct type exist yet (Short Film Series)? I haven't checked yet. If so, the same type would be used for other cartoon series that were made for theaters (Disney's "Silly Symphonies" or "Mickey Mouse" series, Fleischer/Paramount's "Screen Songs", "Betty Boop", and "Popeye" series) as well as live-action series ("Flash Gordon", "Our Gang", etc.)

Battlestar Galactica (2003): Universe is distinct from TV Series

2007-05-26T05:17:00.0011Z

I created a separate topic for the Fictional Universe, which is really a distinct thing from the TV series. This will become particularly important when the new series "Caprica" comes out, which shares this universe and will have new characters.

TV Program: Episodes

2007-05-16T16:20:38.0006Z

'Suspecting' isn't something computers do ;-) Anyhow, then someone should go thought all types/docs and unify this. Thanks for the clarification thought

TV Program: Episodes

2007-05-15T01:32:18.0006Z

David Flanagan wrote the documentation based on my music types, which were among the first types designed for Freebase. I tended to use singular for the property keys. The display names have since changed to plural, and this is definitely a better user model. So: plural if you expect that there will usually be more than one value for the property.

TV Program: Episodes

2007-05-07T21:32:45.0006Z

Interesting. You've just found a big discrepancy in our documentation. The help topic "adding properties to types" reads, in part:

Property Name
[...]
To add a new property, you simply click the 'Add New Property' button and type in a display name for the property. These new properties are displayed in the 'User Created Properties' section. Note: A display name must be unique for that type. You may also want to use a plural name because the property often contains a list of items (example: 'siblings' instead of 'sibling').

Since creating a property through the UI automatically generates the property key from the display name, this instruction is essentially the opposite of the one in the developer API. I'll see if we can't get some clarity on this.

TV Program: Episodes

2007-05-07T20:14:43.0006Z

From the Developer API:

Singular or Plural?

Note that the property we query in the example above is named "album" and not "albums", even though bands like The Police may well have more than one album. This reflects the underlying nature of Metaweb: the database object that represents The Police has many links of type "album" that refer to the objects that represent those albums. The type /music/artist aggregates these many links into a single set of albums, but retains the singular name "album" because that is the name of the underlying link type.

Also, as we'll see soon when you want to obtain information (such as a list of tracks) about one particular album, you specify a single value (instead of an array) for the album property. In this case, the singular name makes a lot of sense.

Although property names are typically singular, there are exceptions to this rule, and sometimes you'll see a plural property name.

In this case we have a property TV Program, which links to a property Episode, which is the name of the underlying object. I don't think this calls for an exception, if you read the explanation. (I didn't mean the label, I meant the property)

TV Program: Episodes

2007-05-07T20:09:48.0006Z

Since we're expecting to see a list of episodes, I think the plural makes more sense; I think it would look awkward if the label were "episode" and there was a list of several episodes below it. Unless there's something I'm missing?

TV Program: Episodes

2007-05-07T11:27:32.0012Z

Shouldn't the TV Program property "episodes" be "episode"?