[Freebase-discuss] Automatically Load Aliases?

[Jon Reitsma]

I use the alias field for foreign film titles all the time.  It was one of the main use cases for my request.  Should help prevent a lot of dups.


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From: "Stefano Mazzocchi" <stefano at metaweb.com>
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Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 3:46:28 PM
Subject: Re: [Freebase-discuss] Automatically Load Aliases?

On 1/21/10 3:33 PM, Peter Burns wrote:
> I got a feature request from Jon recently for Freebase Loader.  He's been loading a lot of films and has brought up the idea of automatically adding aliases when the names for films in his data differ from the names of films in Freebase.
>
> It seems like a good idea to me.  Currently Loader is conservative with names and aliases, it only asserts a topic's name if it's the one to create it.
>
> I guess my question is, what are folks using aliases for?  My intuition is that many of the aliases that this would create would only be slightly different (Rocky 2 vs Rocky II).  Would this add too much clutter, or would it be helpful for folks reconciling their data?

Let's see if I get this right: if we have human judgment that A is B but 
A.name is different than B.name, A.name should become B.alias.

If so, I like the idea.

Now, what about aliases that are, for example, foreign translations? 
(this happens a lot in movies), can we add that info to aliases as well?

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Stefano Mazzocchi                              Application Catalyst
Metaweb Technologies, Inc.                      stefano at metaweb.com
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