[Developers] Odd ID Showing

[Christopher R. Maden]

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Kirrily Robert wrote:
> On Apr 22, 2009, at 11:38 AM, Gordon Mackenzie wrote:
>> Even if there are mergers, the GUIDs are preserved (as I understand  
>> it). A topic's GUID never changes.
> 
> This is not true.  If two topics are merged, they come out with only  
> one GUID.  The other is lost.  However, any other keys they have (eg.  
> in the /en namespace) will both exist on the resulting merged topic.

Getting closer...

The properties are all stripped from the losing GUID and assigned to the
winning GUID.  There is a link that is kept between them,
/dataworld/gardening_hint/replaced_by.  The Freebase.com Web client
transparently follows those links, so GUID-based URIs should work
indefinitely, but applications that use GUIDs need to look for them
explicitly.

~Chris
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