[Developers] A new way to fill in topics

Robert Cook robert at metaweb.com
Thu Mar 26 00:06:53 UTC 2009


Outstanding!  That is, it's outstanding that there exists a database  
so insanely curated.  Also, it's a great that you reconciled the  
entities and built this fine app.  I just sent it to a friend of mine  
who writes questions for game shows.

R

On Mar 25, 2009, at 1:11 PM, Shawn Simister wrote:

> The other day I came across an interesting site called J! Archive  
> where a community of dedicated Jeopardy fans are compiling a  
> database of all the questions and answers to every Jeopardy episode  
> that has ever aired. After 25 seasons on the air, this is quite an  
> impressive resource with thousands of episodes and well over 100,000  
> questions and answers that touch on every aspect of human knowledge  
> from the past 25 years. Wouldn't it be nice to be able to feed some  
> of that data into Freebase?
>
> I've hacked together a simple search interface that will let you see  
> all the Jeopardy "facts" associated with a Freebase topic. It just  
> matches by name so its not perfect but the results are still pretty  
> good and I think it could be an interesting way to fill in empty  
> Freebase topics. Let me know what you think.
>
> Shawn
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