<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><div>Hello Kavitha --</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Thanks for asking about this -- it nicely illustrates how merges are handled within freebase.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>You can check the freebase topic for any guid directly by plugging it straight into a URL:</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><a href="http://www.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f80000000038882a7">http://www.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f80000000038882a7</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">If you do this, you will come to what appears to be a blank page. This is because the GUID has been merged with another topic that referred to the same person . You can see the evidence for the merge by clicking on the "Page History" link in the upper-left:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><a href="http://www.freebase.com/view/history/guid/9202a8c04000641f80000000038882a7">http://www.freebase.com/view/history/guid/9202a8c04000641f80000000038882a7</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Midway down the list, you'll see a "Gardening Hint - Replaced By: 정지훈" on 2/20/2008, which indicates that this topic was merged. (This merge was made because Rain was once a pseudonym for 정지훈. You see the old info in the wex dump because the merge happened after the wex publication.) Following that link, you'll come to the current article for Rain, now named by his proper Korean name:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><a href="http://www.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000003b6f0fc">http://www.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000003b6f0fc</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">You will also see that 정지훈 is indeed co-typed in freebase as a person, a musical artist, and a company. The "Company" co-typing is probably incorrect, and should be deleted (we'll do this shortly).</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">We keep the old GUID page around because items are never really deleted from freebase. One nice side benefit of this is that you can explore what has happened to deleted topics -- although a nice enhancement might be to show a redirect to the merged page in cases like this.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Brian</div></div></div></div></div><br><div><div>On Mar 6, 2008, at 8:59 AM, Kavitha Srinivas wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Hello<br> Just wanted to point out that there seems to be a bug in the way <br>the wex files for types are generated. E.g., Rain (singer) maps to a <br>freebase guid:<br>9202a8c04000641f80000000038882a7. Here is a grep of all types for <br>this guid from the freebase types file in wex:<br><br>9202a8c04000641f80000000038882a7 /business/company<br>9202a8c04000641f80000000038882a7 /media_common/pseudonym<br>9202a8c04000641f80000000038882a7 /people/person<br><br>I checked the wikipedia entry in case it somehow defined a person who <br>was both a company and a person :-), but that doesn't seem to be the <br>case -- Rain is a pseudonym for a Korean singer. BTW, I tried to <br>search for Rain from the UI, I can't find it there either. Is this <br>guid somehow "irrelevant"?<br><br>Thanks!<br><br>Kavitha<br>_______________________________________________<br>Developers mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Developers@freebase.com">Developers@freebase.com</a><br>http://lists.freebase.com/mailman/listinfo/developers<br></blockquote></div><br></body></html>