[Data-modeling] What does "Type/Domain equivalent topic" mean ?

[John Giannandrea]

Hi
A 'equivalent topic' is a way of indicating which topic a type  
represents without making the topic (/en/person) and type (/people/ 
person) identical.

Topics are grouped by type.   If you are just trying to get all the  
people, use type: /people/person

In the data dumps, all the people will be in the person.tsv file:
http://download.freebase.com/datadumps/2009-01-13/browse/people/person.tsv

-jg


On Jan 20, 2009, at 8:06 AM, Nguyen Minh Tuan wrote:
> Hi all,
> It seems that I still not yet understand the data model of Freebase. I
> have just tried query freebase with "Person". I knew Person is a type,
> and there a lot of topic of this type like "Obama", "Paris Hilton".  
> But,
> I found the topic "Person" (http://www.freebase.com/view/en/person)
> which is of type "Type/Domain equivalent topic". I understand the
> meaning of this topic, but It seems not logic for me, or I not yet
> understand.