[Data-modeling] Families

[Jeff Prucher]

I'm working on expanding the schema for Families (/people/family), and am
thinking about adding a few properties. In addition to members, families can
have founders (the person who brought the family to prominence -- the Family
type is intended for prominent families, with the knowledge that "prominent"
is highly subjective), countries in which they were prominent (to enable
searches for "prominent families of France", etc.), and a time during which
they became prominent.  

The schema is here:
http://sandbox.freebase.com/type/schema/people/family?domain=%2Fpeople

A couple filled-in examples are:
http://sandbox.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000005525723
http://sandbox.freebase.com/view/en/rothschild_family

Comments welcome.

Jeff Prucher
Type Librarian & Ontologist
Metaweb Technologies, Inc. 

PS - the originating task is here: https://bugs.freebase.com/browse/DA-466