[Data-modeling] Products with ingredients

[Jeff Prucher]

----- "Robert Cook" <robert at metaweb.com> wrote:

> 
> One solution would be to create a topic with a long name -- enter it 
> 
> exactly as it appears on the label such as "Enriched flour - (wheat, 
> 
> niacin, iron, baby powder, sawdust, DDT)".  And then it's not  
> necessary to enter the subingredients or they can be added later.  And
>  
> the subingredients could be made a disambiguator for good measure.
> 
> This also makes data input less painful and defers the structure to  
> later, which is probably the best way to actually get data into the  
> system.
> 
> Of course, this approach will in time create too many topics that  
> appear when one types "enriched flour" into Freebase Suggest, but if 
> 
> the user types in one of the subingredients it should give more  
> precise results.

This would answer. Anyone else have any comments or thoughts on this before I load the schema?

Jeff