robert http://www.freebase.com:80/view/user/robert Freebase Atom Feed Generator http://www.freebase.com:80/view/people/family_name Family name 2008-08-21T13:16:43Z robert http://www.freebase.com:80/view/user/robert <p>I lost my network connection before I sent my addendum -- I agree that these are not 'family names', but, rather 'families'. I think the renaming of the topic is not a problem, provided that we create a type called "family".<br /> <br /> These came from wikipedia categories for surname (and family name). WP categories are notoriously blurry, hence the problems. Thanks for the cleanup. I'll create and document a new type for "family" in the people domain.<br /> <br /> </p> http://www.freebase.com:80/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f80000000059414f2 I lost my network connection before I sent my addendum -- I agree that these are not 'family names'... Family name: Rename family names with the name 'X family'? 2007-08-09T19:37:16.0000Z dsp13 http://www.freebase.com:80/view/user/dsp13 <p>After renaming the topics (!), the same distinction occurred to me - between family names in the general sense of surnames (see wikipedia category Surnames) and family names in the sense of naming an identifiable family (which might also include cases like 'House of X', 'X Dynasty' etc. - see the wikipedia category Families). I don't know which was used to automatically type as 'family name' on freebase<br /> </p> http://www.freebase.com:80/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000005901673 After renaming the topics (!), the same distinction occurred to me - between family names in the... Family name: Rename family names with the name 'X family'? 2007-08-08T17:58:45.0000Z jeff http://www.freebase.com:80/view/user/jeff <p>I'm not so sure, actually -- the topic "Huxley family" refers to a specific group of people with the last name of Huxley (and specifically, to two generations of Thomas Huxley's descendants). Whereas I would expect topics of the type "last name" should refer to the name itself, regardless of specific lineages.</p> http://www.freebase.com:80/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f80000000059011ce I'm not so sure, actually -- the topic "Huxley family" refers to a specific group of people with... Family name: Rename family names with the name 'X family'? 2007-08-08T17:16:59.0007Z dsp13 http://www.freebase.com:80/view/user/dsp13 <p>flagged for deletion by mistake<br /> </p> http://www.freebase.com:80/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000005900e39 flagged for deletion by mistake Bergen: sorry 2007-08-08T15:00:05.0004Z robert http://www.freebase.com:80/view/user/robert <p>Yes they should. These are topics derived from wikipedia, which normally distinguishes articles with a parenthetical disambiguator which is stripped off when we import it. In the case of families, very often "family" is added without the parentheses.<br /> </p> http://www.freebase.com:80/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f80000000058ff553 Yes they should. These are topics derived from wikipedia, which normally distinguishes articles... Family name: Rename family names with the name 'X family'? 2007-08-08T02:55:11.0000Z dsp13 http://www.freebase.com:80/view/user/dsp13 <p>A few topics typed family name have a name including 'family': should these be renamed? E.g. should 'Huxley family' be renamed 'Huxley'?</p> http://www.freebase.com:80/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f80000000058b92c3 A few topics typed family name have a name including 'family': should these be renamed? E.g. should... Family name: Rename family names with the name 'X family'? 2007-08-06T23:11:39.0004Z