[Developers] different search results from freebase & api

[John Giannandrea]

There is also a rather roundabout way of asking for both name or  
alias, mentioned here.
http://lists.freebase.com/pipermail/developers/2007-November/000915.html


-jg


On Sep 2, 2008, at 5:29 PM, Eynard, Davide wrote:

> Hi!
>
> Yes, actually searching for "Louise Ciccone Ritchie" via the Web  
> interface
> does a much fuzzier search which, as far as I know, also takes into  
> account
> “also known as” properties and substrings instead of exact matches.
>
> In this particular case the name is a substring of an alias of a  
> common topic,
> so you can find the original topic id and name with a query like the  
> following
> one:
>
>   {
>     "alias~=" : "Louise Ciccone Ritchie",
>     "id" : null,
>     "name" : null,
>     "type" : "/common/topic"
>   }
>
> Hope the solution is not too trivial, let me know if you need  
> something more
> general.
>
> Cheers,
>
> da
>
> From: developers-bounces at freebase.com [mailto:developers-bounces at freebase.com 
> ] On Behalf Of qi li
> Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2008 5:07 PM
> To: crism at metaweb.com; developers at freebase.com
> Subject: [Developers] different search results from freebase & api
>
> 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?
>
> Thank you very much!
>
> Best,
> -- 
> Qi Li
> School of Information Science
> University of Pittsburgh
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