[Developers] Built With Freebase: Creative Commons Car Pictures

[Paul Houle]

Tom Morris wrote:
>
>> My impression is that more than 50% of topics in Freebase are untyped
>>     
>
> That's off by an order of magnitude.  It was closer to 5% the last
> time I looked.
>
>   
    You're looking at a better view than I am.  I've found it pretty 
easy to draw incorrect conclusions about FB
for quite a few reasons.  (i) the story is quite different in different 
problem domains,  and (ii) it's a moving target.
I've often looked at FB and been unimpressed with what I saw in a 
particular domain.  Two months later I come
back and the story is completely different.
> That would be interesting, but I think it's only part of the story.  A
> complete taxonomy is no good if it's not applied to the topics.  One
> of the things that I use my Untyped application for is to look at
> topics which haven't been typed (and fix them if it's something
> important to me).  All topics are not created equal, so it's not
> purely a numbers game either.  Some topics (e.g. locations) are much
> more important than others.
>   
    You're right.  I'm going to link up as many topics as I can do 
easily and be looking at them with the types
applied.  And yes,  not all topics are created equal -- there are 
certain areas that I'm going focus on when it
comes to enrichment and reconcilliation efforts.  And no,  I'm not going 
to complain if you focus your
efforts on locations ;-)