[Developers] New user with MQL question

[Alex Genadinik]

Hi Phil,

I think the problem is that since I am planning to do this dynamically, I will not know that
the URL is /en/the_police because I do not know the police is in entertainment.  In fact, 
that is why I am using Freebase - to tell me what "The Police" is.  

So I can't really use the below query because of the /en/ - is there a more general query than the one below?
{
  "id" : "/en/the_police",
  "type" : []
}

Thank you very much,
Alex

> Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:36:32 +0100
> From: philip-freebase at shadowmagic.org.uk
> To: developers at freebase.com
> Subject: Re: [Developers] New user with MQL question
> 
> 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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>   http://www.shadowmagic.org.uk/
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