[Developers] MQL Lite (was newbie: simple question)

[Pito Salas]

Scott,

Thanks, but couldn't get that to work the way I need.

1)If I literally use your query I get a list of people who happen to
be in government. I don't know why I am getting that particular list.

2) And if I want to look for someone specific, say "John F. Kennedy"
or even, to take an easy one, Barack Obama, I tried this:

[
 {
   "d:type" : [
     {
       "domain" : "/government"
     }
   ],
   "name" : "Barack Obama",
   "type" : "/people/person"
 }
]

and I did get a match, but no way to tell that he was an ex-senator
and a current President which is key to where I am going. That may be
beyond the scope though...

- Pito

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 7:50 PM, Scott Meyer <sm at metaweb.com> wrote:
> Pito Salas wrote:
>> Tom,
>>
>> Thanks for the excellent mini-tutorial. I was able to reproduce your
>> examples, and your analogy of types to tables was very helpful as the
>> explanation of Domains as ways to group together types (I assume you
>> can also have multi level domains.)
>>
>> So next step, which I wasn't able to solve. What if I want to look up
>> people called X who are (might be) US politicians.
>
> [
>  {
>    "d:type" : [
>      {
>        "domain" : "/government"
>      }
>    ],
>    "name" : null,
>    "type" : "/people/person"
>  }
> ]
>
> Next?
>
> -Scott
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