[Data-modeling] Proposed changes to Deity properties

[Tom Morris]

Thanks for the pointer, but it doesn't appear that that schema is
finished.  The Saint Patron type is empty (except for the Ireland
entry I just added -- gotta get ready for St. Paddy's Day) and the
Saint type has patronage encoded as a text type, not a link to saint
patronage.

I don't really know enough about religion to know whether there's
useful crossover with other non-deity spheres of influence.  It was
just a thought...

Tom

On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Faye Harris <faye at metaweb.com> wrote:
> Check out: http://www.freebase.com/view/base/saints
>
> 2001 saints and counting!
>
> -- Faye
>
>
> Tom Morris wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 7:01 PM, Jeff Fry <jfry at metaweb.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> It seems like we need to (a) give the deity_of property a less ambiguous
>>> name, and possibly also (b) add a new property to capture things like
>>> that Vulcan is a fire god -- possibly something like "Sphere(s)" or
>>> "Domain(s)" with an ECT like "Religious Sphere".
>>>
>> ...
>>
>>> For (b) I'll propose a new property named Sphere with an ECT of
>>> Religious Sphere. This would enable, say, a view of fire gods across
>>> religions.
>>>
>>
>> If it can be done without warping your model too much, it would be
>> good to be able to cover religious figures who aren't gods e.g. Patron
>> Saint of <foo> where <foo> is either a subject (travel, lost things)
>> or a place.
>>
>> Tom
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