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Searching: Find a Topic in User Domains?

2008-06-29T00:35:03.0012Z

Nevermind, found "Create a user domain" at http://www.freebase.com/user/domains from "Types you've created".

Searching: Find a Topic in User Domains?

2008-06-29T00:26:34.0000Z

How do you publish types?

Searching: Find a Topic in User Domains?

2008-06-24T19:41:53.0031Z

The question here is, how do you know that a topic (like “Teleological argument”) has a user-created type (like “Argument”)? The answer is that it depends on whether the user has published the domain. If the user has not, then the use of those types will not be obvious; if the domain has been published, then you will see the types just like the main community types. So if you think Alexander’s types are useful, ask him to publish them.

Searching: Find a Topic in User Domains?

2008-06-22T01:14:52.0012Z

How can we search for user-created view of a topic? I found http://www.freebase.com/view/en/teleological_argument?domain=%2Fuser%2Falexander%2Fdefault_domain through http://www.freebase.com/view/user/alexander/default_domain/argument by searching for argument in http://www.freebase.com/site/data. Is there an easier way?

Searching: New to FreeBase

2008-03-11T15:18:00.0007Z

Sreedhar, look at the comments on your other post.

Searching: New to FreeBase

2008-03-11T13:13:26.0005Z

I am new to Freebase API.

How to use this API for searching a word?

Please help in this regard.

Thanks

Sreedhar

ambatisreedhar@gmail.com

Searching: Searching through mutliple types & properties

2007-05-24T00:39:05.0006Z

Its not too difficult really - just go to to the type page for person and enter in your criteria in the filter options on the left: birthplace = Paris, France; Profession = Film Director -- click 'filter' and you're off and running!

Searching: Searching through mutliple types & properties

2007-05-23T21:12:44.0006Z

woh! Its really works. I am very impressed. Thank you

But you know, it is not very easy query, is it?

Searching: Searching through mutliple types & properties

2007-05-23T18:26:59.0006Z

Actually, I spoke too soon... Darin points out that there is in fact a profession field on person. So, here you go... http://www.freebase.com/view/filter?id=/people/person#CJcriteriaJIACJpropertyYIdJIJLpeopleLpersonLplaceVofVbirthJHJvalueJICJidJIJM9202a8c04000641f800000000002db30JHJlimitJI1DDHCJpropertyYIdJIJLpeopleLpersonLprofessionJHJvalueJICJidJIJM9202a8c04000641f8000000000284695JHJlimitJI1DDBD

Searching: Searching through mutliple types & properties

2007-05-23T17:51:54.0000Z

The UI doesn't quite let you do this yet. Its definitely an easy query to do with MQL using query editor, but if you aren't into query writing, we don't have a good way to do this presently.

A couple of potential features that would address this:
1. add a type filter option to the standard filter UI - so you could be looking at all people and then filter them down further by another type (in this case film director)
2. provide all properties as filter options (currently we just display the first 7-8) - if the person did have a job as a director, s/he could be found this way.
Option #1 is actually a better solution given the way we've modeled directors in the system - and is a generally useful feature for filtering down topics that have multiple types.

Searching: Searching through mutliple types & properties

2007-05-23T09:39:07.0011Z

I wonder if this feature is already possible in Freebase. Image that you want to search for a film director who is born in Paris, but you forgot his name. The right search for it would be "Person with place of birth = Paris and profession film director"