[Data-modeling] how much work done on modeling of personal names -- even for surname + given name?

[Christopher R. Maden]

Christopher R. Maden wrote:
> Otherwise, I think that the structured name needs to be a CVT.  The 
> structured name CVT would have one property, name part, which is an 
> ordered list of name parts.  Those parts would be co-typed as given 
> name, maiden name, nickname, title, postnomial, etc.

Of course, that won’t work, the co-typing, I mean.  Consider Christopher 
Regan Maden; Regan would be co-typed as a given name and a family name, 
and it would be impossible to tell in my case the context in which it 
was used.

It is a challenge of the Freebase data model that ordered heterogeneous 
lists can’t be represented without seriously complex data models.

~Chris
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Christopher R. Maden
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