[Developers] New user with MQL question

[David Huynh]

We're going to announce this soon but this just seems like the right 
thread to give a sneak peek of the new query editor :)

Go to

   http://www.freebase.com/app/queryeditor

In between [{ }], enter

   id :

Hit the tab key and type

   the police

into the popup. Then hit Enter. If you want search for only music 
artists, then your query should look like this

[{
 type: "/music/artist",
 id:
}]

before you hit the tab key.

David

Shawn Simister wrote:
> There seem to be two parts to this question. First, you would like to 
> be able to get results for "The Police" without knowing the Freebase 
> ID for that topic. Second, you would like to get a list of attributes 
> for that topic without knowing the specific property IDs.
>
> The first part is a bit difficult because Freebase currently has 14 
> different topics called "The Police". That's why it's a lot easier to 
> narrow down the results if you know which Freebase type you're looking 
> for. Another alternative is to use the Freebase Search API 
> <http://www.freebase.com/view/en/api_service_search> which will give 
> you a list of topics about "The Police" sorted in order of relevance. 
> You should be able to get reasonably good results by just taking the 
> first result that you get back from the search API as long as you're 
> only dealing with popular topics like The Police (the band).
>
> The second part is much more straight-forward and can be done by 
> searching for all the links (/type/link) that are attached to the 
> topic that you're interested in. I wrote up a brief description of how 
> to do it 
> <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/694037/write-a-freebase-mql-query-that-gets-everything-back-about-a-given-topic> 
> over at StackOverflow a couple weeks ago.
>
> Shawn
>
> Alex Genadinik wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> 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?
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> Alex Genadinik
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