Creating a New Topic : Help

When you're viewing a list of topics you might notice that something is missing, and you'd like to add it to the list. Or maybe you have a big list of topics you'd like to contribute. Adding or creating a single a topic, or adding or creating a new list of topics, is an easy process.

Adding or Creating a Single Topic

As an example, let's say you're looking at the list of LA Glam bands and you notice that your favorite band is missing.

At the top of the list, click Add More.
A dialog box opens for you to enter the name of the topic. Start typing in the name of the topic you want to add, and autocomplete will search for a match among existing Freebase topics.
- It may be that the topic you want to add already exists in Freebase, but doesn't contain the information that would automatically include it in the list. For example, when looking at LA Glam bands, Guns N' Roses might be missing because no one has entered Glam Metal in the Musical Genre field in their topic.
- Notice that in the dialog box, the information fields that are used to create this list are already filled in for the topic you want to add. For example, if you're looking at a list of LA Glam Metal bands, then the fields that were used to create this list are Place Musical Career Began and Musical Genre. Any topic added to this list will automatically have Los Angeles and Glam Metal entered into those fields. In addition, if it's a new topic, or one that hasn't already been categorized as a Musical Artist, then it will be typed (in technical terms) as a Musical Artist and all the information fields associated with Musical Artist will be added to it.
If the topic you want to add is in the list suggested by autocomplete, click on it, then click Add.
If autocomplete doesn't find a match, click Add a New.
The topic you've added will appear at the top of the list, and it will be placed into the same category (such as Musical Artist) as other topics in the list, and the information fields for that category that were used to create this list (like Musical Genre and Place Musical Career Began) will be filled in to match the values of the other topics in that list. Click the topic name to enter additional information about that topic.

Adding or Creating a List of Topics

Click Add More at the top of the list where you want to add topics.
In the dialog box click Go to the Import Tool.
Enter the topics you want to add with each one on a single line
Click continue.
Freebase will attempt to reconcile the topics you want to add against ones that already exist in Freebase. For each topic you have the option to Add as New, Match With an existing topic, search for additional matches, or Skip.
- Just like with adding single topics, if you select an existing topic to add to the list it will automatically be categorized, and information entered into the appropriate fields, to reflect the categories and information that were used to create the original list.
After adding your new topics, they will appear at the top of the list where you added them. Click on the topic titles to enter more information about them.

Importing a Spreadsheet of Topics and Information

If you have a large dataset that you would like to add to Freebase that's in the form of a spreadsheet, please contact our data team to discuss the best way to add your information to Freebase.

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