[Developers] Freebase data sources

[Zodiac Seven]

Thanks Kurt,

Can you tell me how it relates the data sources to entity types, Is there
some sort of mapping table? actors-> imdb, anything else: wikipedia. I mean
how does it decide when to use wikipedia and when to use imdb. Is this
documented somewhere?

On 5/15/08, Kurt Bollacker <kurt at metaweb.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 07:27:16PM +0530, Zodiac Seven wrote:
> > Does freebase always get it's data from wikipedia?
> >
> > I notice that I see relevant links to other sources like - for actors
> there
> > is an imdb entry. Is there a list of all possible data sources which I
> could
> > use for my mashup?
>
>
> To answer your first question:
>
> A list of (at least some of) the information sources used in, or at
> least considered for Freebase can be found as instances of our
> "Information Source" type:
>
> http://www.freebase.com/view/dataworld/information_source
>
> This is a type for real world entities rather than strictly a list of
> websites with "mashupable" APIs.  Also, we don't include data in
> Freebase from sources for which there is an incompatible license.
>
> I'm not sure if this answers your question.  However, it'd be great if
> you wanted to create a "Web mashup info source" type and fill it in
> with instances that you find.
>
>
>
>                                                                 Kurt :-)
>
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