[Developers] looking for people

[Tom Morris]

"Also known as" in the web client doesn't come from the 'name' field,
but from the 'alias' field.

Finding people by name in Freebase takes a lot of work.  I recently
loaded up the Thomas IDs for all the U.S. congress folks and almost
all of the work was in finding the right people to work with (and the
search API isn't much help either).

Tom

On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 11:07 PM, Milan Andric <mandric at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to get details on people and it has been working well
> until I ran up against a case that only returns an empty list.
> The query looks like :
>
> query  = [{
>        "name~=":'Bobby L. Rush',
>        "name" : [],
>        "type"  : "/people/person",
>        "gender" : None,
>        #"*":[{}],
>        'place_of_birth':None,
>        'date_of_birth':None,
>        'profession':[],
>        'key':[],
>        'guid':None }]
>
> Problem is I get nothing ... yet when I do a search on freebase.org I
> get him front and center.
>
> http://www.freebase.com/search?limit=30&start=0&query=Bobby+L.+Rush
>
> Ideas on what I am doing wrong?  I tried using name as well as name~=
> ... same result, None.  I'm using the freebase python lib.