<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Sep 2, 2008, at 5:07 PM, qi li wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">Dear All,<br><br>When I played with freebase data and API, I found I could find search results when I used search query of "Louise Ciccone Ritchie" on web page (<a href="http://www.freebase.com/search?limit=30&start=0&query=Louise+Ciccone+Ritchie">http://www.freebase.com/search?limit=30&start=0&query=Louise+Ciccone+Ritchie</a>). But I failed at any results when I used MQL query (<a href="http://www.freebase.com/api/service/mqlread?queries={%22item%22:{%22query%22:{%22name%22:%22Louise%20Ciccone%20Ritchie%22,%22type%22:[]}}}">http://www.freebase.com/api/service/mqlread?queries={%22item%22:{%22query%22:{%22name%22:%22Louise%20Ciccone%20Ritchie%22,%22type%22:[]}}}</a>)<br clear="all"> <br>Could anybody tell me the "secret"? I didn't correctly write MQL query or Mediapedia does more work in "Fuzzy" search part, that is, it provides some methods to directly map Louise Ciccone Ritchie to Madonna?</div></blockquote><div><br></div>Since names like "Ciccone" appear in the /common/topic/alias property, you could do a query like this:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.freebase.com/api/service/mqlread?queries=">http://www.freebase.com/api/service/mqlread?queries=</a>{%22item%22:{%22query%22:{%22name%22:null,%22/common/topic/alias~=%22:%22Ciccone%22,%22type%22:[]}}}</div><div><br></div><div>However, it sounds like you're interested in general search with mql results, you can use this api instead:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.freebase.com/api/service/search?query=Ciccone&limit=1">http://www.freebase.com/api/service/search?query=Ciccone&limit=1</a></div><div><br></div><div>See <a href="http://www.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000006ad84c9">http://www.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000006ad84c9</a> for more info.</div><div><br></div><div>Warren</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><br> <br>Thank you very much!<br><br>Best,<br>-- <br>Qi Li<br>School of Information Science<br>University of Pittsburgh<br><br> </div> _______________________________________________<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>