[Developers] new cool acre app

[Tom Morris]

On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Spencer Kelly
<spencerkelly86 at gmail.com> wrote:
> hi friends, heres a new data game
> http://hotdate.freebaseapps.com/
>
> i'm really pleased with its accuracy. infact, im thinking of making a
> quicker version that does 10 at a time or something like this.
> i tried ballparking how many of our events have dates but couldn't get a
> consistent answer. its probably around 20%.
> cheers~

Does this app call itself "Acre Defaults" for attribution purposes?  I
was doing a quick study of things which are typed with logical
impossibilities like Person/Location or Person/Event and came across
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/augustin_de_la_balme which was "Last
edited by robert via Acre Defaults 2 days ago."  Could that be this
app?

The person's birthdate was added as the event date, but the real root
of the problem came earlier when it somehow got typed as a military
conflict, I suspect because although the Wikipedia article is
nominally about a person, it includes an infobox titled "La Baume's
Defeat" which says that this was "included in the American Revolution"
event.  The infobox extractor should probably check for logical
impossibilities like this.

Tom