[Developers] Loading Freebase into a Star Schema

[John Giannandrea]

Paul Houle wrote:
>    It wasn't ~that~ much work,  but I had to wait a long time for the
> process to finish.  One take-away is that I'm not going to do it again
> with a larger dump.

One thing to note about this particular freebase dump is that it  
duplicates data.
/type/object/type and /type/type/instance are two sides of the same  
assertion.  So if you can identify the properties that are 'master' by  
inspecting the schema first your load might be 1/2 as long.
-jg