[Developers] different search results from freebase & api

[Warren Harris]

On Sep 2, 2008, at 5:07 PM, qi li wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> When I played with freebase data and API, I found I could find  
> search results when I used search query of "Louise Ciccone Ritchie"  
> on web page (http://www.freebase.com/search?limit=30&start=0&query=Louise+Ciccone+Ritchie 
> ). But I failed  at any results when I used MQL query (http://www.freebase.com/api/service/mqlread?queries= 
> {%22item%22:{%22query%22:{%22name%22:%22Louise%20Ciccone%20Ritchie 
> %22,%22type%22:[]}}})
>
> Could anybody tell me the "secret"? I didn't correctly write MQL  
> query or Mediapedia does more work in "Fuzzy" search part, that is,  
> it provides some methods to directly map Louise Ciccone Ritchie to  
> Madonna?

Since names like "Ciccone" appear in the /common/topic/alias property,  
you could do a query like this:

http://www.freebase.com/api/service/mqlread?queries={%22item%22: 
{%22query%22:{%22name%22:null,%22/common/topic/alias~=%22:%22Ciccone 
%22,%22type%22:[]}}}

However, it sounds like you're interested in general search with mql  
results, you can use this api instead:

http://www.freebase.com/api/service/search?query=Ciccone&limit=1

See http://www.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000006ad84c9  
for more info.

Warren

>
>
> Thank you very much!
>
> Best,
> -- 
> Qi Li
> School of Information Science
> University of Pittsburgh
>
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