[Data-modeling] Publishing Companies

[Kirrily Robert]

On Dec 14, 2008, at 3:14 PM, evening0star wrote:

> I've tried cleaning up those cases also, and wondered what the best
> thing to do is.  I believe in most if not all cases these are people
> from "long ago" where they could be a "self publisher" or an
> entreprenuer publisher (or whatever).  Perhaps in those cases
> Profession=Publisher is enough (or whatever else may be appropriate)?
>
> I agree that making the title more descriptive is good.  If it is
> designed for just companies, then it should say so.


Just because a type is included doesn't mean it's true in 100% of  
cases.  For instance, take Film Actor, which includes Person, but the  
dogs who played Lassie are Film Actors.

Type inclusion isn't strict inheritance; if you're dealing with a  
special case, like Thomas Caxton or Pal (http://www.freebase.com/view/authority/imdb/name/nm1306087 
) then you can manually remove the unneeded type.

K.

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