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Freebase: Netflix IDs not present in films data dump

2008-09-25T06:04:59.0012Z

Another way to detect recent changes is to monitor the RSS feed of the history for that type. For example, the Film type history feed is:

http://www.freebase.com/feed/history/all/film/film

This will notify you as soon as someone adds a new film, changes an existing film or deletes a film.

Freebase: Netflix IDs not present in films data dump

2008-09-25T04:42:07.0012Z

The best way to pick up deltas between data dumps would be by using our API; this would be very easy for the case you mention, simply getting Netflix IDs for any that have gained them since the last dump. See our help section for API help.

Freebase: Netflix IDs not present in films data dump

2008-09-25T04:13:55.0012Z

So, would this mean that there could be the possibility of certain values being updated, that may not be reflected in the dump? Is there any way of getting this delta as well?

Freebase: Netflix IDs not present in films data dump

2008-09-24T17:29:27.0012Z

The Netflix IDs have been added and updated extensively since the data dump. I would recommend going to filter view (http://www.freebase.com/view/film/film), adding all the columns from the left that you want, including the Netflix ID, and then "Use these results" --> "Save as TSV/CSV" to produce your own version of the latest film data. Please post if you have trouble doing this.

Freebase: Netflix IDs not present in films data dump

2008-09-24T12:32:10.0018Z

We downloaded the films data dump, and found that the value of the netflix ID wasn't present in the films.tsv, even though it appeared as a column in the first row. Any reason for this? Is there any way we can get the netflix ID?

Freebase: Remove Gender?

2008-09-23T18:33:22.0012Z

Ah, the enumerated type is trying to "force" you to pick a choice. What I do to remove the value is delete the current text in the edit popup, wait for the popup choices appear, then click off of the edit popup. The popup choices will disappear and then you can click save and the value will be disconnected. Definitely not desired functionality - I'll bring it up with client design.

As for removing values, it applies for all properties.

Freebase: Remove Gender?

2008-09-23T18:18:41.0012Z

I guess it depends on if the property value is linked with another topic? So it probably doesn't matter for date of birth, but does for employer.

Not sure where gender falls into it, but the problem with removing the value is seems to want a value and there's no obvious way to remove it.

Freebase: Remove Gender?

2008-09-23T18:09:22.0012Z

Well... detyping a type from a topic is not necessarily "clean". If a topic is erronously typed with property values, the cleanest way is to detype is to remove all the property values first and then detype the type. Otherwise, you get property artifacts left behind (the link between the topic and the property/value is not unlinked). As an example. see my topic on sandbox - I typed myself as a location, added a containment, then detyped without removing property values.

We're trying to get clean detyping functionality into the client soon, as well as have backend validators run periodically. However, in the meantime, I advocate removing property values first before detyping.

Freebase: Remove Gender?

2008-09-23T17:44:04.0012Z

Oh, good to know. I assumed I had to disassociate all the values before removing the type or there could be a value/space/whatever left hanging on the other end.

Freebase: Remove Gender?

2008-09-23T17:14:56.0012Z

Why do you need to remove "Male" from Gender before removing the type? That's not necessary. You can remove the type without clearing the gender first.

Freebase: Remove Gender?

2008-09-23T15:51:01.0018Z

This isn't necessarily a bug, but how can you remove the value in the Gender field from the Person type?

For example, I want to remove the Person type from the Bass Brothers topic, but I need to remove the "Male" from the Gender. But I can't figure out how to do that.

If I clear out the value, it wants me to pick something from the list. I cleared the value and then quickly hit enter, but I don't think the form likes that option as it keeps the value pick list open even when the box is closed :) [of course that disappears as soon as I leave the page]

Is there a way to allow someone to blank out a field for cases like this?

Freebase: TV Seasons

2008-09-16T04:54:10.0012Z

It looks like there are two problems here: one an unclear UI, and the other an actual possible bug.

The bit about creating episode numbers as new is because the episode numbers are just text values, not actual topics; the “1” for the first episode is not going to be reconciled with an existing topic called “1.” The UI should be clearer about what is happening with text and number values, however.

The bit about the episode numbers not taking is a real problem.

I will add both of these issues to our bug tracking system.

Freebase: TV Seasons

2008-09-15T18:51:06.0012Z

It also seems that when one imports a list of episodes to a season, only existing episodes save the episode number, if you add a new episode, the episode numbers appear to be deleted. And when you import episodes to a TV series, none of the episode numbers are saved.

Freebase: TV Seasons

2008-09-13T10:17:46.0018Z

When you import a list of episodes to a tv series or season, once you've reconciled all of the episodes, on the next page it says the episodes will be reconciled with existing episode etc., but all the episode numbers are going to be created as new topics. And on the next page, it says they've been created, and the links go back to the home page.

Freebase: TV Regular Acting Performances

2008-09-11T16:04:33.0019Z

Oooh, that is a problem. I'll report a bug in our internal tracking. Thanks for letting us know.

Freebase: TV Regular Acting Performances

2008-09-11T10:46:40.0012Z

It also appears to be a problem on the actor, character and season pages (and presumably any more where they appear), except in those cases, no More button is available, but if you go to Stargate SG-1 Season 8 for example, Richard Dean Anderson is in that season, but on the list he's no in season 7, but if you go to season 7, season 8 isn't listed, if you get my drift.

Freebase: TV Regular Acting Performances

2008-09-11T10:27:21.0018Z

When an actor has appeared regularly in more than six seasons of a show, they don't all show up automatically, only the first six show up, you have to press More to see the rest. But this means when you edit them, only the first six appear in the edit box, the others aren't visible. eg. Stargate SG-1 for Richard Dean Anderson

Freebase: Type/Domain Equivalent Topics

2008-09-10T03:37:48.0012Z

Sorry about Constitutional Convention, I was using the List Import Tool and it automatically merged a lot of topics that it shouldn't have. I guess I missed that one.

I agree with you on Musical Artist, I overlooked the fact that it is a broader term than Musician. For now, its probably safe to just leave it out but at some point in the future I'd like to tie some of these topics to UMBEL subject concepts so that the "Musical Artist" type would be equivalent to a "Musical Performer" topic which would map to what they call the "MusicPerformanceAgent" subject concept.

Freebase: Type/Domain Equivalent Topics

2008-09-10T00:08:57.0012Z

Now time for me to nitpick on behalf of some of my types.

Why is Constitutional Convention equivalent to Election? That’s wrong.

I don’t think a Musician is equivalent to a Musical Artist; a musical artist may be a band or a DJ. Recording artist would be a better equivalent, but there isn’t really a topic for that notion in Freebase.

Otherwise, all of the domains for which I’m an administrator look good.

Freebase: Type/Domain Equivalent Topics

2008-09-09T23:48:41.0012Z

This is set up on sandbox now. I am going to e-mail the data-modeling mailing list to see if there are any type maintainers who object.

The types in the /type namespace failed, as they should; this shouldn’t really be applied to them. There’s also one bug in your file; the third column for “Chemical Compound” isn’t an ID.

Freebase: Type/Domain Equivalent Topics

2008-09-09T07:27:02.0012Z

Here is the data and query template for the type/domain equivalent topics that I would like to add to Freebase.

Thanks for helping me with this.

Freebase: Type/Domain Equivalent Topics

2008-09-09T02:36:27.0012Z

That kind of change depends on the rights of the type itself, so only those that can edit the type can set a type equivalent.

If you post the list—or submit it as a feedback comment—one of our admins can vet the list and use an internal tool with global access rights to make the change. That seems easier than contacting the owners of every type…

Freebase: Type/Domain Equivalent Topics

2008-09-09T00:13:03.0018Z

I was noticing that there are a lot of topics that could be typed as type/domain equivalent topics so I went through and added as many as I could find.

Now I would like to set the equivalent types for those topics but Freebase tells me that I don't have permission. Is it possible for me to get that permission or do I need one of the admins make the changes for me?

Freebase: Dealing with included types

2008-09-05T23:48:21.0018Z

People are adding bands, tv shows and things like Wikipedia to the Influence domain (which is intended to be restricted to people), which adds the included type 'people' to things that are obviously not people. I'm not policing the domain rigorously, and you're going to end up with junky data. You could have something like a message:

"Wikipedia" is not yet typed as a person (required by Influence Node). Do you want to continue and add Wikipedia as a person?

Book: Feild of study

2008-09-02T19:53:19.0000Z

Thank you, you're right that does seem to cover it. I'm still getting used to the way that co-typeing works (i.e., that something can be both a feild of study type and a book subject type).

Book: Feild of study

2008-09-02T17:40:31.0012Z

All books have a subject property, which seems like it should be sufficient. (The property is actually on the type "written work", but all books should have that type as a co-type.)

Book: Feild of study

2008-09-02T00:16:42.0019Z

Academic books should have a property linking them to a feild of study, e.g., philosophy, psychology, etc.

Freebase Applications: "limit" : 0 change in semantics?

2008-07-10T00:36:59.0012Z

The docs are still incorrectly stating zero returns all.

Fictional Character: Education?

2008-07-08T23:49:00.0000Z

I've done this, but without separating the fictional topics from the real-world topics: http://www.freebase.com/tools/schema/fictional_universe/school_in_fiction.

Freebase: Edit a Topic with Redirect Type?

2008-07-08T22:10:50.0030Z

I've removed the type /proficiency from the developers page. There really isn't a way to do this with the UI, so bringing it up here was a good choice.

Freebase: Edit a Topic with Redirect Type?

2008-07-08T20:47:50.0012Z

I accidentally assigned a co-type to the Freebase developers page, and not even on the sandbox :(

However, even trying to access the new instance result in a redirect, so I have no way of removing the type, at least through the GUI.

Freebase: Edit a Topic with Redirect Type?

2008-07-08T19:05:28.0044Z

What are you trying to do? The Redirect type (/freebase/redirect), like most types in the Freebase domain, is a special type, used in the UI, and its instances shouldn't be editable by most users. But there are only four instances of the type, and I assume that you're not trying to edit the home page, so I'm probably missing something.

Freebase: Edit a Topic with Redirect Type?

2008-07-08T02:45:09.0012Z

It doesn't seem like there's any way to edit a topic with the redirect co-type.

I'm guessing there may be some kind of URL param I can enter to avoid the redirect?

Fictional Character: Education?

2008-07-01T05:36:32.0000Z

I would prefer that the fictional topic be seperate from the real-world topic. i.e. University of Cambridge in the James Bond Universe be a seperate topic from the real University of Cambridge.
Perhaps 'educational institution in fiction' could have a 'based upon' property to link the fictional and real-world topics?

Fictional Character: Education?

2008-06-30T19:42:21.0012Z

An "educational institution in fiction" type could work -- we've used that locution a few times for types that can have both fictional and real-world instances.

Fictional Character: Education?

2008-06-28T13:47:06.0005Z

Could we have some way of linking in the educational background of a character? i.e. an education property.

My first thought was that we would need a 'Fictional Educational Institution' type, but that would not cover characters who were educated at real world institutions. e.g. James Bond at the University of Cambridge.

I think we therefore need an 'educational institution for fictional characters' type for the property.

Freebase Applications: "limit" : 0 change in semantics?

2008-05-19T19:22:06.0007Z

Set a large number as the limit. But if you truly want all results, you are much better off using a cursor; if you don’t know the reasonable upper bound, then you really can’t have confidence that you’ll get all the results without a timeout.

Freebase Applications: "limit" : 0 change in semantics?

2008-05-19T16:43:27.0000Z

if limit:0 now means return zero returns, how do you ask to return all results?

Freebase Applications: "limit" : 0 change in semantics?

2008-05-05T20:53:13.0007Z

The doc is being revised right now, and that change is on the list. Thanks for asking about it.

Freebase Applications: "limit" : 0 change in semantics?

2008-05-05T14:32:18.0005Z

It appears that setting limit to 0 now limits the number of results to 0, rather than be unlimited, as stated in the online documentation. Is this a recent change? Can you change the documentation if so?

The tutorial says:

Note that we use a limit of one in the above. Specifying a limit of zero means "don't limit the results: return everything you've got".