[Data-modeling] Religion domain: churches => places of worship

Thu Jun 26 18:53:00 UTC 2008

We have an internal user-hostile TSV (tab-separated value) loading  
tool, which is how I loaded the properties on the places of worship.   
If you send your data set to me, I'll get it loaded, with this caveat:

When pulling data from Wikipedia you should capture the double- 
bracketed wikipedia names in wiki edit mode.   These names are unique,  
rather than the names displayed on the page.  Freebase holds these  
unique keys, so it makes reconciliation much easier.

We're planning on releasing a TSV-loading tool for the community to  
use -- we have to expunge the user hostility and make reconciliation  
easier first, though.

R

On Jun 26, 2008, at 10:52 AM, Shawn Simister wrote:

> This is great work Robert. I'm also close to having my list of  
> Cathedrals ready to upload and I have a couple questions for you  
> about the best way to do it.
>
> I have at least 1,500 cathedrals extracted from Wikipedia with  
> religions and locations and I suspect many of them will have similar  
> names of the form "St. XXX's Cathedral" while others disambiguate it  
> by putting the City at the end of the name. I figure I should leave  
> the names as they appear so that I can match them with existing  
> topics in Freebase but I'm worried about creating several new topics  
> with the same name. Should I add city names to the end to help  
> disambiguate cathedrals with the same name?
>
> Also, how should I merge this many topics? Should I start by merging  
> the list of  topic names using the list import tool and then go back  
> and add the location and religion properties via the API? It would  
> be great if the list import tool accepted CVS data.
>
> Shawn
>
> Robert Cook wrote:
>>
>> Generally, it's important to have more than a topic name and a  
>> type, which is what you would get if you simply used list loader to  
>> create new topics.
>>
>> I just uploaded 639 buddhist temples, hindu temples and shinto  
>> shrines, with the religion and "type of place of worship"  
>> properties filled out.  Also, where I had location information in  
>> those list pages, I added a "/location/contained_by" property value.
>>
>> http://www.freebase.com/view/en/buddhism?pid=%2Freligion%2Freligion%2Fplaces_of_worship
>> http://www.freebase.com/view/en/hinduism?pid=%2Freligion%2Freligion%2Fplaces_of_worship
>> http://www.freebase.com/view/en/shinto?pid=%2Freligion%2Freligion%2Fplaces_of_worship
>>
>> On Jun 22, 2008, at 12:24 PM, Shawn Simister wrote:
>>
>>> I figured we might as well do both since the data is already  
>>> there. Are there any downsides to adding the topics that aren't  
>>> yet in Wikipedia?
>>>
>>> Robert Cook wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Shawn -- I'm happy to help.  Is your goal to type existing topics  
>>>> or add new ones as well (wikipedia red links)?
>>>>
>>>> On Jun 21, 2008, at 5:14 PM, Shawn Simister wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> This is starting to look like a pretty daunting task. I'm going  
>>>>> to try to write a custom crawler to speed things up a bit. Just  
>>>>> extracting all the data about Cathedrals should be enough to  
>>>>> keep me busy for a while.
>>>>>
>>>>> Here's the list of Wikipedia pages to that I've found so far.  
>>>>> Any help would be really appreciated.
>>>>>
>>>>> Cathedrals
>>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cathedrals
>>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cathedrals_in_Canada
>>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Catholic_cathedrals_in_China
>>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cathedrals_in_the_United_Kingdom
>>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cathedrals_in_France
>>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Cathedrals_in_Ireland
>>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cathedrals_in_the_United_States
>>>>>
>>>>> Basilicas
>>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_basilicas
>>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_basilicas_in_France
>>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Italian_basilicas
>>>>>
>>>>> Mosques
>>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mosques
>>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mosques_in_Africa
>>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_mosques
>>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mosques_in_the_United_States
>>>>>
>>>>> Synagogues
>>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_synagogues
>>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_synagogues_in_Canada
>>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_active_synagogues_in_Poland
>>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_synagogues_in_Romania
>>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_synagogues_in_Turkey
>>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_synagogues_in_the_United_Kingdom
>>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_synagogues_in_Mexico
>>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Synagogues_in_the_United_States
>>>>>
>>>>> Shinto Shrines
>>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Shinto_shrines
>>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Shinto_shrines_in_Brazil
>>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Shinto_shrines_in_Canada
>>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Shinto_shrines_in_the_Netherlands
>>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Shinto_shrines_in_Taiwan
>>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Shinto_shrines_in_the_United_States
>>>>>
>>>>> Jain Temples
>>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Jain_temples
>>>>>
>>>>> Hindu Temples
>>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hindu_temples
>>>>>
>>>>> Buddhist Temples
>>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Buddhist_temples
>>>>>
>>>>> Temples of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
>>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_temples_of_The_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints
>>>>>
>>>>> Kirrily Robert wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This looks like a job for the list import tool! http://www.freebase.com/importer/list/religion/church
>>>>>>
>>>>>> (Still need to rename the type key to place_of_worship, so  
>>>>>> don't mind that for now.)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> K.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Jun 20, 2008, at 6:24 PM, Shawn Simister wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Sounds like a plan. Here's what I found in terms of lists of  
>>>>>>> places of worship. There's a lot of them!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mosques
>>>>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cathedrals
>>>>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hindu_temples
>>>>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Buddhist_temples
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -- 
>>>>>> Kirrily Robert
>>>>>> Freebase Community Director
>>>>>> kirrily at metaweb.com
>>>>>> http://freebase.com/
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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