[Developers] State Quarters example and "need a unique result to attach here"

[David Flanagan]

John Giannandrea wrote:
> David Flanagan wrote:
>> I understand that, but in this case (and as you point out), a US state
>> is uniquely identified by its name and its type.  I'm wondering why,
>> therefore, the expected type of the state property plus the name of  
>> the
>> state isn't sufficient to identify the state object I want.  (And  
>> why is
>> it confused about a city named Delaware?)
> 
> Your original question I think was why is the type not implicit?
> 
> The reason is that MQL doesn't enforce any types.
> There is no requirement that the thing connected by the 'state'
> property be a state.  i.e. in freebase the type system is not normative.
> Its perfectly OK to put a person in that clause, should that make  
> sense to you.
> 

Thanks, jg, I think this was the the key thing I wasn't understanding.

	David