[Data-modeling] "Mentions" and "Mentioned In"

[Alf Eaton]

I needed a way to link topics to the works they were mentioned in, so
created two prototype types:

Work-Mentioned (equivalent to Work)
<http://www.freebase.com/type/schema/user/freebass/default_domain/work>
and Topic-Mentioned (equivalent to Topic)
<http://www.freebase.com/type/schema/user/freebass/default_domain/topic_mentioned>,

adding "Mentions" and "Mentioned In" as reciprocal properties for those types.

Here's a view making use of these properties:
<http://www.freebase.com/view/user/freebass/default_domain/views/the_characters_of_physical_law>
derived from the "Mentioned In" links shown here:
<http://www.freebase.com/view/en/the_character_of_physical_law?domain=%2Fuser%2Ffreebass%2Fdefault_domain>

If this makes sense, perhaps these reciprocal properties could be
added to the official "Work" and "Topic" types?

alf

P.S. I just noticed that there isn't an overarching "Work" type, just
"Written Work", "Book", "Film", etc. so the "Mentions" property would
have to be added to each of those, and "Mentioned In" would have to
allow those as targets.