[Developers] 2 x Merlot

[John Merrells]

I've noticed that there are quite a few duplicate topics. For example,  
'Merlot' exists twice, with the same type, but with different  
identifiers. One is more populated than the other, and has a nicer  
name, so probably that's the more authoritative one....

http://www.freebase.com/view/en/merlot
http://www.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000895e124

I'd initially thought that these two identifiers just pointed to the  
same object, a user friendly identifier, and an more stable  
identifier, but not in this case. So, if I were wanting to map a name  
thing like 'Merlot' onto a Freebase Topic identifier...  
algorithmically... which would I pick?.... the one that's not a / 
guid/... ?

Sorry if this is an essay question. I briefly looked through the docs,  
but couldn't find anything about this. Anyway...

John

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