[Developers] 2 x Merlot

[Kirrily Robert]

Well, this is kind of a sideways answer, but... there should only be  
one topic per entity.  If you find situations like this, please flag  
them for merge.  (The flag icon to the right of the topic's name.)

K.

On 03/04/2009, at 12:25 PM, John Merrells wrote:

>
> 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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