[Data-modeling] Type for groups/sets of people (or any entity?)

[Tom Morris]

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Robert Cook<robert at metaweb.com> wrote:
> So, Kirrily mentioned this type:
>
> http://www.freebase.com/type/schema/freebase/list?domain=%2Ffreebase
>
> which is intended to be a very generic collection holder.

I got confused by the Socialist reference.  If this isn't
Socialist-specific (not that I'm Republican or anything :-) ), it
sounds perfect.

> Some of the properties include:
>
> Entities -- the "members" of the list
> Related type -- The types these members should be.  This helps guide
> autocomplete and potentially autotyping as items are added.
> Category -- the kind of list this is "Favorite films", "Jazz musicians
> with substance abuse problems", etc.

So presumably we could define categories like Twins or Siblings or
whatever else was required.

Is the Significance property on List Item used for ordering?  So by
omitting it we'd get a set instead of a list?

Tom