[Developers] Bug in the generation of the wex files

[Alec Flett]

On Mar 6, 2008, at 9:53 AM, Brian Karlak wrote:

>
>
> If you do this, you will come to what appears to be a blank page.   
> This is because the GUID has been merged with another topic that  
> referred to the same person .  You can see the evidence for the  
> merge by clicking on the "Page History" link in the upper-left:
>
> http://www.freebase.com/view/history/guid/9202a8c04000641f80000000038882a7
>
>

How ugly! I'll fix this in the next release (next week) to redirect to  
the merged-with topic.

Alec


> Midway down the list, you'll see a "Gardening Hint - Replaced By: 정 
> 지훈" on 2/20/2008, which indicates that this topic was merged.   
> (This merge was made because Rain was once a pseudonym for 정지 
> 훈.  You see the old info in the wex dump because the merge happened  
> after the wex publication.)  Following that link, you'll come to the  
> current article for Rain, now named by his proper Korean name:
>
> http://www.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000003b6f0fc
>
> You will also see that 정지훈 is indeed co-typed in freebase as a  
> person, a musical artist, and a company.  The "Company" co-typing is  
> probably incorrect, and should be deleted (we'll do this shortly).
>
> We keep the old GUID page around because items are never really  
> deleted from freebase.  One nice side benefit of this is that you  
> can explore what has happened to deleted topics -- although a nice  
> enhancement might be to show a redirect to the merged page in cases  
> like this.
>
> Brian
>
> On Mar 6, 2008, at 8:59 AM, Kavitha Srinivas wrote:
>
>> Hello
>>    Just wanted to point out that there seems to be a bug in the way
>> the wex files for types are generated.  E.g., Rain (singer) maps to a
>> freebase guid:
>> 9202a8c04000641f80000000038882a7.  Here is a grep of all types for
>> this guid from the freebase types file in wex:
>>
>> 9202a8c04000641f80000000038882a7        /business/company
>> 9202a8c04000641f80000000038882a7        /media_common/pseudonym
>> 9202a8c04000641f80000000038882a7        /people/person
>>
>> I checked the wikipedia entry in case it somehow defined a person who
>> was both a company and a person :-), but that doesn't seem to be the
>> case -- Rain is a pseudonym for a Korean singer.  BTW, I tried to
>> search for Rain from the UI, I can't find it there either.  Is this
>> guid somehow "irrelevant"?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Kavitha
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