Re: [Dbpedia-discussion] Fwd: Your message to Dbpedia-discussion awaits moderator approval

Kingsley Idehen wrote:
> Tim Finin wrote:
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>> Kingsley Idehen wrote:
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>>> Your dbpedia --> freebase type link mappings are now live re. the 
>>> public DBpedia instance.  Very very cool stuff!
>>> Graph IRI: <http://dbpedia.org/freebase_type_links#>
>>> ...
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>> I thought that this would be super useful, but when I looked at the
>> example in the message
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>>  http://dbpedia.org/describe/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdbpedia.org%2Fclass%2Fyago%2FNewYorkCityMusicians&urilookup=1 
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>> I noticed that the yago:Musician is declared to be owl:equivalentClass
>> freebase:people/person.
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> Hmm.
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>>   This can't be right.  Greping through the NT
>> dump I find more than 20K yago classes defined to be the equivalent of
>> Freebase's people/person, including Uyghurs, murdered children and
>> Norwegian Eurovision contestants.  Given the semantics of
>> owl:equivalentClass, all 20K of these yago classes are asserted to
>> have the same extent.
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> Kavitha: Where has  <http://freebase.com/people/person> come from? 
> Shouldn't it be: <http://rdf.freebase.com/ns/people.person> which is 
> owl:equivalent foaf:Person ?
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Meant to say: owl:equivalentClass re. the above :-)


Kingsley
>> Now *that's* irrational exuberance!
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Received on Monday, 10 August 2009 20:25:23 UTC