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

[Iain Sproat]

I have a text value for postnomials used by a holder of a Chivalric Title
e.g. Andrew Fraser KCSI.KCSI denoting Knight Commander of the Order of the
Star of India<http://chivalry.freebase.com/view/en/knight_commander_of_the_order_of_the_star_of_india>
 .

The schema is at
http://chivalry.freebase.com/type/schema/base/chivalry/chivalric_title

Regards

Iain

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 9:18 PM, 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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