[Developers] 2 x Merlot

[John Merrells]

Hmm, OK I'll flag them when I spot them. I think there's quite a lot  
though.
These two both came from Freebase staff....

http://www.freebase.com/view/en/sporting
http://www.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000000efbc62

You could kinda automate duplicate detection though to get a candidate
list to scan through by hand. Same name, same set of types, and  
description
that's similar....

John

On Apr 3, 2009, at 1:08 PM, Kirrily Robert wrote:

> 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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