I started to enter some genealogical info (about my immediate family) into Freebase to try it out. One issue that I'm wondering about is what to do about names. There are a number of people in my family tree named "Gregory Stone". Should I use "Gregory Stone" as the topic name for all of them? Should I include everyone's middle name in the topic name? Should I do that only when needed to avoid ambiguity? What's a good convention here?
Also, regardless of what I use as the topic name, it seems like there ought to be a place to store the full name of each person. ("Professor J. Arthur Xavier Randolph van de Horton III", for example.) Can a "Full name" property be added to the Person type?
Since Freebase could someday contain nearly every person that ever lived, linked into a big tree, it seems like we need a good system for naming them.
-Jesse
Genealogy
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There are many person topics in Freebase that only have the first and last name for the display name. However, it isn't a bad idea to include a middle name in the display name to help disambiguate two otherwise identical names.
You can also include full names in the 'also known as' field -- this is probably the best place for that because this field has extra weight in search and auto-complete results.
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