[Developers] New user with MQL question

[Tom Morris]

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Alex Genadinik <genadinik at hotmail.com> 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?

You have to resolve to a topic in some fashion.  If you just want a
name match, you might have a look at the search API.  However if you
really don't care whether you get the band, the album, or the men in
blue suits, is Freebase adding anything to the mix here?

Tom