[Data-modeling] influence nodes are not always people

Dan Milbrath dmilbrath at metaweb.com
Sat Dec 13 02:12:46 UTC 2008


see: http://www.freebase.com/type/schema/influence/influence_node

It seems like we've gone to some length name the influence node type in a pretty general way, so it strikes me as odd that we've asserted that people/person is an included type on it.

Why not use influence node on other things like musical artists, political events or art movements. For instance, I might want to assert that Andy Warhol influenced Velvet Underground who influenced the Feelies.

What do people think about removing person as an included type?



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