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"
Searching through mutliple types & properties
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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.-
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
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