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Good thing is that several different unique ids can be interlinked to the same entity. I was using Wikipedia page_ids and IMDB's titles when playing around wit
by csytan 16y ago
Good thing is that several different unique ids can be interlinked to the same entity. I was using Wikipedia page_ids and IMDB's titles when playing around with it previously. It's a little bit messy, but it works.
- izendejas 16y agoExactly! And freebase has a lot of this data mapped. This data is so rich it holds huge potential. For example (for those that are unfamiliar with the richness of this data), visit: http://www.freebase.com/view/en/y_combinator http://www.freebase.com/view/en/y_combinator And there you'll note that Y Combinator is mapped to the official site, it's Wikipedia page, it can tell you who the founders are, etc. If you link to Paul Grahm, you can then find out what his personal site is, and so on.
- csl 16y agoIt's even more -- you can do really cool queries with the data. E.g., ask for all people linked less than three degrees of separation from PG and whose ages are between 20 and 40 (as a rather lame example). I do hope Google will do something cool with this acquisition.