[Developers] Freebase newbie: simple question

[Pito Salas]

I realize that a little table would be easier. That's what I have
already done. But I will have other similar requirements in my app and
it would be cool to have one go-to way to get them answered rather
than spelunking around the web or on www.programmableweb.com to find
some web service that wll tell me, for example, the capital of a
country or whatever. So this thread has been a tremendous learning
experience.

MQL is crazy complex though; anyone consider creating an MQL-lite?
Yeah I realize the complexity is probably justified so as to be
completely general and not assume anything, but it creates a major
barrier to use IMO.

- Pito

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 1:30 AM, John Giannandrea <jg at metaweb.com> wrote:
>
> Tom Morris wrote:
>> But more important than all of the above, Freebase is waaayy overkill
>> for this.  A simple three column table/text file with 55 or so
>> lines/rows would be much more efficient.
>
> You might want to use freebase to generate that table :-)
>
> curl -s http://download.freebase.com/datadumps/2009-01-13/browse/location/administrative_division.tsv
>  | perl -ne 'print "$1\t$2\n" if /^([^\t]+)\t[\/\w]+\tUnited States
> \tUS-([A-Z]{2})/'   | sort
>
> -jg
>
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