[Developers] A new way to fill in topics

[Shawn Simister]

Cool, writing for a game show must be a fun job. Does he use Freebase to 
research questions for the show?

Robert Cook wrote:
> 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 
>> <http://www.j-archive.com> 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 
>> <http://jeopardy.narphorium.user.dev.freebaseapps.com> 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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