[Developers] dimensions of tsv dumps

[aaron]

Hi there.

Forgive me if this has already been addressed (does this list have
searchable archives?)

I'm running into problems when trying to use the tsv dumps of
freebase.  It appears as though the dimensions of many, if not all of
these files, are screwed up.

For example, the geography/lake.tsv file:
line 1 has 16 tab-delimited fields
line 2 has 23
line 3 has  2
line 4 has 24
and so on.

I would expect that each line would have 16 fields, as that is how
many properties are defined in the first line.  That this isn't the
case makes these dump files quite the hassle to import into a
spreadsheet or database.

I've encountered similar results with many other files.

Am I missing something here?  Is this a fixable situation?

thanks
-aaron

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