[Developers] Odd ID Showing

[Gordon Mackenzie]

It's just some keys are more equal than others when displaying a topic  
page for movies...But the GUID is always be useable for external  
applications in fetching the correct movie.  There are a few keys  
associated with most movies as we store keys for Wikipedia, Netflix,  
IMDB, etc. So the default URL of a topic may reflect an IMDB key name  
or as in this case the Netflix key name. There will always be a GUID  
and this URL will work:

http://www.freebase.com/view/9202a8c04000641f8000000000169ddf

Even if there are mergers, the GUIDs are preserved (as I understand  
it). A topic's GUID never changes.

NOTE:

Not all topics have a /en namespace. This is may be assigned usually  
at time of importation into our Graph from whatever source. Creating a  
new topic by a user will not by default also create and assign a /en  
namespace key. The latter get created and assigned in a later process.

~ Gordon

<<< gordon at metaweb.com >>>



On Apr 22, 2009, at 10:00 AM, Will Merydith wrote:

> The issue on my end is I need a reliable and consistent key to the  
> movie entry on Freebase.  I use that key not only to maintain the  
> link to the Freebase data (since I don't store the full film data  
> locally), but also to create a permalink on my app to that movie  
> listing.
>
> I was advised not to use the freebase guid.  But instead the  
> namespace.  But in searching only 40 movies I found (noticed) this  
> inconsistency.
>
> Hmmm.
>
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Tom Morris <tfmorris at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Will Merydith <will.merydith at gmail.com 
> > wrote:
> > I found a movie in the Freebase database that has a netflix id as  
> the
> > freebase id.
> >
> > See Aliens 3: http://www.freebase.com/view/user/hal/netflix/movie/60029355
> >
> > Compared to Alien: http://www.freebase.com/view/en/alien_1979
> >
> > I expect all movies to have the id "en/moviename_year".  Why does  
> Alien 3
> > have that odd id?
>
> It looks like it's id in the /en namespace is missing for some reason.
>
> Compare the outbound keys in
>
>  http://www.freebase.com/tools/explore/user/hal/netflix/movie/60029355
>
> as compared to
>
>  http://www.freebase.com/tools/explore/en/alien_1979
>
> Tom
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