[Developers] New user with MQL question

[Philip Kendall]

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 03:18:53PM +0000, Alex Genadinik wrote:
> 
> I am new to the list and am experimenting with freebase.  I am looking at MQL
> and I think the biggest question I have is that sometimes I do not know the URI or the path
> of the topic I am querying for.  I just want to throw in a term like "The Police" and
> get back results about them without having to provide the path /music/album
> 
> Is that possible in MQL?  How would I do that?

At a simple level, ask for the types of The Police:

{
  "id" : "/en/the_police",
  "type" : []
}

and then ask for all the properties of one of those types:

{
  "*" : null,
  "id" : "/en/the_police",
  "type" : "/music/artist"
}

After that, you probably want to see the Schema Introspection Cookbook
<http://www.freebase.com/view/en/schema_introspection_cookbook> in
particular the sections on "Types and Properties", "Link Queries" and
"Top-level queries", with reference to the MQL Reference Guide
<http://mql.freebaseapps.com/> as and when necessary.

Hope this helps,

Phil

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