User Administratorhttp://www.freebase.com/view/user/user_administratorFreebase Atom Feed Generatorhttp://www.freebase.com/view/user/sgmilsFreebase: Discussion about sgmils2008-10-12T22:35:30Zspatialedhttp://www.freebase.com/view/user/spatialed+1 for separate topics.http://www.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f80000000092f4c89+1 for separate topics. Creating Types and Properties: monotypic taxa2008-10-09T02:45:31.0017Zjghttp://www.freebase.com/view/user/jg<p>Since an organism_classification instance has a rank, I think we definitely want to add the additional ranks and not conflate the topics.</p>http://www.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f80000000092c2b2cSince an organism_classification instance has a rank, I think we definitely want to add the...Creating Types and Properties: monotypic taxa2008-10-09T00:21:32.0035Zcrismhttp://www.freebase.com/view/user/crismThis wasn’t a deliberate decision within Freebase, but a side-effect of the import from Wikipedia. The Wikipedia article has no problem being about a genus, a family, and an order, all at once. However, the Freebase topic asserts that it is about the genus; there should be discrete topics for the family and the order. I wonder how easy it would be to automatically find these Wikipedian conflations.http://www.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f80000000092b52f3This wasn’t a deliberate decision within Freebase, but a side-effect of the import from...Creating Types and Properties: monotypic taxa2008-10-08T17:50:31.0012Zxtinehttp://www.freebase.com/view/user/xtine<p>If a taxon is monotypic (having only one member, such as a genus that has only 1 species), there is no Freebase topic for the monotypic taxon. Instead, the monotypic taxon is listed as an alias of the next lower taxon that has >1 member, or if there is only one member of the group, that member.</p><p>For example, the genus <a href="/view/en/loon">Gavia</a> (Loons) is the only member of the family Gaviidae, which is the only family in the order Gaviformes. There is only topic for Gavia, and Gaviidae and Gaviformes are listed as aliases.</p><p>My instinct was to add topics for the family and order, so that we could programatically answer questions like "what order is the Red-throated Loon in?" -- it seems wrong to have structured data in the alias. But it looks like this was a deliberate decision that was made when the topics were loaded, so I thought I'd better throw it out there.</p><p>(I have a list of birds from the americas that I wanted to add data for -- there were a couple of hundred genera for which there is no Freebase topic, and a few random searches revealed that many of these genera had only 1 species.) </p>http://www.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f80000000092b4fabIf a taxon is monotypic (having only one member, such as a genus that has only 1 species), there is...Creating Types and Properties: monotypic taxa2008-10-08T17:36:22.0018Ztrs80http://www.freebase.com/view/user/trs80Thanks.http://www.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f80000000091edd29Thanks. Creating Types and Properties: instances2008-09-30T03:50:16.0012Zjeffhttp://www.freebase.com/view/user/jeffOops. Thanks for catching that -- I made it non-unique, now.http://www.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f80000000091e761dOops. Thanks for catching that -- I made it non-unique, now. Creating Types and Properties: instances2008-09-29T19:51:43.0005Ztrs80http://www.freebase.com/view/user/trs80Why is instances a unique property?http://www.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f80000000091e630eWhy is instances a unique property? Creating Types and Properties: instances2008-09-29T16:21:05.0019Z