[Developers] looking for people

John Giannandrea jg at metaweb.com
Mon Mar 30 04:37:10 UTC 2009


Tom Morris wrote:
> 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, if you can forward me in email a few example names for your  
project that you found especially hard to find with the search API, Id  
be happy to see if we can improve that function...  search is intended  
to search both name and alias and to rank as best we can by relevance  
so counter examples always welcome....

-jg



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