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| x Topic | Common Commons | 10,365,987 |
Topic is one of the core types in Freebase. Topics contain a set of default properties that are generally useful when describing a topic: display name, alias, article, image and webpage.
Most types in Freebase carry these topic properties by...
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23,407,174 | |
| x Musical Recording | Music Commons | 16,094,319 |
A Musical Track is a single recorded track on a Musical Album or Musical Release—typically a recording of a song, though it may be a movement of a symphony or other partial work. It should correspond to the tracks on a track listing of an LP,...
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7,897,479 | |
| x Document | Common Commons | 5,208,567 |
Document is a core system type that is used to store articles in Metaweb. Like other properties in Metaweb, a relationship is created between a topic and the document it is displaying as an article.
Documents aren't titled, which is why you see...
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4,758,590 | |
| x Canonical Version | Music Commons |
This type is used to identify a canonical recording of a composition by a musical artist. Since many artists make multiple recordings of a single composition, it is sometimes useful to be able to point to a single topic to refer a "version" of a...
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4,522,984 | ||
| x Book Edition | Books Commons | 15,902,207 |
A Book Edition represents a specific publication of a book. Print, audio, and electronic versions of books can all be represented as book editions.The title of a book edition should be the title of that particular edition, which may vary from other...
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3,410,460 | Cataloged instance |
| x ISBN | Books Commons |
DEPRECATED. ISBNs are now represented by strings in the property /media_common/cataloged_instance/isbn
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2,667,502 | Namespace | |
| x Written Work | Media Commons | 395,345 |
A written work is any type of intellectual work expressed through writing. It is a fairly generic or abstract type that contains information common to all or most types of written works, including (but not limited to) books, plays, poems, stories,...
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2,487,895 | |
| x Book | Books Commons | 47,508 |
A book is a written work or a collection of written works in book form. "Book" represents the abstract notion of a particular book, rather than a particular edition. It is on this level that articles or discussion about a book should generally occur...
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2,447,593 | Written Work |
| x Person | People Commons | 4,127,013 |
A person is a human being (man, woman or child) known to have actually existed. Living persons, celebrities and politicians are persons, as are deceased persons.
Note: A person topic is distinct from a user in Metaweb. Users have profiles that can...
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2,225,136 | |
| x Pagination | Books Commons | 2,567,463 |
This is a compound-value type that captures information about the pagination of book editions.
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2,210,688 | |
| x Webpage | Common Commons | 3,919,798 |
'Webpage' is a commonly used type, linked from 'topic' and many other types. It stores a web link and a display name. It is typically used to link to a specific page in a web site, but basic Web URLs are supported as well.
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1,865,229 | |
| x Image | Common Commons | 2,456,693 |
'Image' is a commonly used type, typically appearing in all topics. Standard web image file formats are supported including .gif, .jpg and .png. It is also possible to capture other meta information about images such as size and date.
Images may...
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1,810,428 | |
| x Dated Integer | Measurement Unit Commons | 4,422,121 |
A dated integer is an integer (whole number) that is relevant to a particular date. For instance, "The population of London in 1750" would be a dated integer.
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1,575,050 | |
| x Location | Location Commons | 2,614,272 |
The Location type is used for any topic with a fixed location on the planet Earth. It includes geographic features such as oceans and mountains, political entities like cities and man-made objects like buildings.Guidelines for filling in location...
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1,413,400 | |
| x TV Episode | TV Commons | 4,573,476 |
This type is for individual episodes of a TV program. This includes episodes of a mini-series. Note that for two-part episodes, each part should be a separate TV Episode topic; if a topic for the whole of the two-part episode is additionally needed,...
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903,291 | |
| x Musical Release | Music Commons | 13,233,283 |
A Musical Release is a collection of Musical Tracks (recordings of Songs) released in a common format such as Compact Disc or LP. A release typically associated with a Musical Artist unless it is a compilation which is a collection of tracks by...
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892,583 | |
| x Geocode | Location Commons | 1,841,690 |
Geocodes are used to express the latitude and longitude of a given location. This allows them to be placed accurately on a map.
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853,407 | |
| x Resource | Common Commons | 35,899 |
Annotation that is an external webpage.
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| x Musical Album | Music Commons | 2,270,041 |
A Musical Album refers to a collection of Musical Tracks (recordings of Songs) released in a common format such as Compact Disc or LP. An album is typically associated with a single Musical Artist unless it is a compilation, which is a collection of...
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744,991 | |
| x Film performance | Film Commons | 1,541,001 |
The performance type is a mediator that connects a film to an actor who starred in the film. Normally this would be a direct relationship, but a mediator was needed to hold the character name.
Some performances, particularly famous ones (eg. ...
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660,304 | |
| x Organization | Organization Commons | 341,565 |
An organization is an organized body of members or people with a particular purpose; in the Freebase context, a organization doesn't have a business association, like a company.
Companies have their own type in the business domain, located here. In...
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606,160 | |
| x Drug label section | Medicine Commons | 2,451,519 |
Section of a drug label
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597,747 | |
| x Author | Media Commons | 2,753,738 |
An author is a creator of a written or published work. The Author type is used for anyone who has written prose (whether fiction, essay, journalism, or scholarship), poetry, drama, or written or edited a book of any sort. This therefore includes...
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561,743 | Person |
| x Creative Work | Media Commons | 956,108 |
A type for the use with any creative work that needs the accurate accreditation as it appears on the creative work. This type should almost always be used in conjunction with other types in order to give the fullest amount of information possible ...
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545,362 | |
| x Musical Artist | Music Commons | 313,350 |
A musical artist can be an individual or a group that performs or makes music. Musical artists should typically have performed in front of an audience on a regular basis or have recorded musical tracks or musical albums. For more information, please...
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505,656 | |
| x TV episode performance | TV Commons | 976,553 |
"TV Guest Performance" is a compound value type storing information about guest (i.e., non-starring) appearances on television programs. It applies specifically to actors playing characters; non-character guest appearances use the "TV Guest personal...
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450,762 | |
| x Rectangle Size | Measurement Unit Commons | 876,492 |
Rectangle size specifies an area with width (x) and height (y). It is most commonly used with /common/image to specify the pixel size of an image. X and Y are floats, even though images always use whole numbers.
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438,247 | |
| x Deceased Person | People Commons | 575,852 |
Deceased person is a type of person who is no longer alive. This type contains properties for date, place and cause of death.
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426,277 | Person |
| x City/Town/Village | Location Commons | 37,969 |
City/town/village refers to all named inhabited places at the most locally recognized level, but above the level of neighborhood. It is the most local region where there is a form of government or self-organization.
Cities/towns/villages are larger...
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410,439 | Dated location |
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| x Address | Location Commons | 1,336,661 |
A mailing address is a type of location that is described in such a way that the local postal service could deliver mail to it. In the US a mailing address usually consists of a street address (one or two lines), a city/town, and a postal/zip...
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395,736 | Location |
| x Dated location | Location Commons | 6,454 |
This type allows dates of formation and dissolution to be applied to locations of appropriate types (such as countries, cities, electoral districts, etc.). This is a "supporting" type, which means that it does not appear (in the UI) in the list of a...
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388,549 | Location |
| x SKOS Concept | SKOS Base Base | 1,730,370 | 380,151 | ||
| x Statistical region | Location Commons | 854,091 |
A Statistical Region is any area of the earth for statistics have been or may be gathered. These include political divisions (such as countries, cities, provinces, etc.) and regions created specifically for statistical purposes, such as census areas....
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372,030 | Location |
| x Business Operation | Business Commons | 95,437 |
Business operation refers to a company, concern or other operation with the intention of earning revenue. There are several properties on this type relating to financial information, primarily chosen due to being GAAP reporting requirements and...
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343,982 | Organization |
| x Dated Float | Measurement Unit Commons | 656,781 |
This is a compound-value type that can be used for recording decimal (floating point) numbers that have a date component. Because this is a general type, it is mainly useful for dimensionless properties (i.e. those that do not require a specific...
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328,394 | |
| x Fictional Character | Fictional Universes Commons | 85,172 |
The fictional character type is applied to any character who appears in a work of fiction, even if the character is based on a real person. For such characters, the name of the real person they are based on should be entered in the "based on"...
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323,344 | |
| x Athlete | Sports Commons | 159,612 |
An athlete is a person who participates in a sport for personal fitness or as part of an amateur or professional competition or contest. For more information, please see the Freebase wiki page on Athlete.
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271,978 | Person |
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| x Employer | Business Commons | 749 |
An employer is any entity that can or has paid people to work for it. For more information, please see the Freebase wiki page on Employer.
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237,787 | |
| x Flag Judgment | Freebase Commons | 548,006 |
A specific vote on a flagged item
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230,291 | |
| x Phone Number | Common Commons | 437,623 |
'Phone Number' is a common type, used by many other types in the system. The format is simplified in an effort to most easily support many international formats. It consists of only two properties, a country code and a number - which can also...
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226,524 | |
| x Organization Relationship | Organization Commons | 1,112,406 |
This type holds information about parent/child (or parent/subsidiary) relationships between organizations.
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222,164 | |
| x Film actor | Film Commons | 1,950 |
The Film Actor type includes people (and credited animals) who have appeared in any film as a character, including portrayals of real people, as in a biopic. The appearance could be minor, like a cameo appearance; unseen, like the work of a...
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207,049 | Person |
| x Word sense | wordnet Base | 902,612 | 206,979 | ||
| x Organism Classification | Biology Commons | 335,523 |
An organism classification is a set of living things, (e.g., plants, animals, microorganisms), that has a classification rank, (e.g., Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species). All classifications, from the lowest classification (sub...
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201,884 | |
| x Film character | Film Commons |
This type is for all fictional characters who have appeared in a film. Minor characters in films may have similar names ("Policeman #3", "Waitress", "Mary"), but each instance of these should be a separate topic since they are not actually the same...
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195,229 | Fictional Character | |
| x Dated Percentage | Measurement Unit Commons | 580,560 |
A dated percentage is a decimal (floating point number) that is relevant to a particular date. It is expressed as a percentage and should be divided by 100 before being used in computations. For example: an unemployment rate of 8.5% measured on July...
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193,520 | |
| x Film | Film Commons | 1,648,797 |
Film is a release of a visual narrative composed of a series of moving images that is considered a complete presentation and is intended to be classified as a film. A film can be of any length of running time and presented in a theatrical,...
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191,929 | |
| x Vote | freequeue Commons | 190,307 |
deprecated This type was used to track votes on merge and delete tasks
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190,310 | |
| x Education | Education Commons | 408,026 |
This is a compound value type that contains information about a person's education -- the educational instution, the dates they attended, degrees obtained, fields of study, and dissertation topics. The data can be entered from either the person's or...
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185,502 | |
| x Place lived | People Commons | 366,496 |
Place lived is used to document places in which a person has lived. It can include their hometown or place of birth, as well as any subsequent place of residence.
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181,020 | |
| x Film cut | Film Commons | 334,797 |
The Film Cut type holds anonymous compound objects that contain the runtime for a particular cut of a film. Many of these are the primary or only cut of a film. Some might represent the "special edition" or "director's cut" of a film.
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164,962 | |
| x Track Contribution | Music Commons | 507,073 |
This is a compound-value type that holds information about musical contributions made to a recording by an individual artist.
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164,478 | |
| x Educational Institution | Education Commons | 145,806 |
An educational institution is an organization that provides formal education to students. It provides academic and/or specialized training programs at any level of education, including primary and secondary schools, colleges, universities, and...
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161,731 | Employer |
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| x Musical Group | Music Commons |
A musical group is a Musical Artist that consists of more than one person. Instances can include everything from pop duos to orchestras and artists that only record or publicly perform together once. When multiple Artists or Musical Groups...
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156,004 | Musical Artist | |
| x Curation State | Topic Curation Base | 10 | 151,725 | ||
| x word | wordnet Base | 148,729 | |||
| x Sports played | Sports Commons | 155,297 |
This is a compound-value type that holds information about sports played by athletes.
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146,899 | |
| x Film crew gig | Film Commons | 143,444 |
This is a compound-value type that connects film crewmembers to the films they worked on and the jobs they performed on those films. Film crewmembers are (for the purposes of this type) people who have performed any function in the production of a...
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146,449 | |
| x School | Education Commons | 39,656 |
A school is an institution that provides education below the tertiary level, including preschools, primary, and secondary schools.
Note: The term college used in this definition refers to institution of higher learning that grants bachelor’s...
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126,771 | Educational Institution |
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| x synset | wordnet Base | 519,981 | 117,659 | ||
