[Developers] Question about wpid and freebase id

[Brian Karlak]

On Jul 23, 2008, at 8:57 AM, Shug Boabby wrote:

>>> Thanks Brian, but in this case I am talking about the WEX downloads,
>>> not the API.
>>
>> It sounds like you are looking for the "articles.name" and
>> "redirects.name" columns in the WEX dumps.

> But isn't the "name" here the Freebase Name? I want to get the  
> Wikipedia Name.

The "articles" and "redirect" tables in WEX refer strictly to  
Wikipedia, and the "name" columns are Wikipedia Names.

The mapping to freebase topics -- including the topic name -- can be  
found in the freebase_wpid, freebase_names, and freebase_types tables.

Documentation for WEX can be found at:

	http://download.freebase.com/wex/doc

Brian