Update artist existence and names from MusicBrainz

Every so-called “artist” in MusicBrainz has been loaded or noted in Freebase. Many of these “artists” are not actually musical recording artists; they have been typed only as Person. Some have been typed as Pseudonym, where this information was known to MusicBrainz, and connected with their real identities. Musical Groups have been typed as such, and as Musical Artists. Peopls have also been typed as Musical Artists if they have any officially-re... more

Started Operation:

  • Dec 19, 2007 12:06:34AM UTC

Estimated Primitive Count:

  • 446,544

Mass Data Operation

Information Source:

Ended Operation:

  • Dec 19, 2007 4:48:35AM UTC

Software tool used:

  • load_artist_info
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