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

[John Bäckstrand]

I am wondering how chinese names work. According to my chinese friend,
they do not have family names! I'm not sure this is correct or not,
just wondering if anyone knows more about this!

> On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 18:18, Raymond Yee <raymond.yee at gmail.com> wrote:
> I would like to be able to sort topics of /people/person (e.g.,
> http://www.freebase.com/view/people/person) by the person's surname but
> don't see any generic properties for a person's surname and given name.
> Am I missing something here or is there no such field in the commons.
>
> I realize that modeling personal names is non-trivial (see
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_name for example) -- but having a
> way to indicate surnames+first names would be very helpful for many topics.
>
> I looked around on the data-modeling list archives but couldn't find any
> discussion around this issue.
>
> What should I do to have sorting on surnames?
>
> -Raymond
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John Bäckstrand