RE: Planned changes to the VIAF RDF

I think some cases are worth this effort and you can find a few in DBpedia. For example:

http://dbpedia.org/resource/Historical_Jesus

http://dbpedia.org/resource/Jesus


Oddly enough, DBpedia asserts no relationship between the two. Most of the rdf:types for http://dbpedia.org/resource/Jesus seem plausible except for yago:DisputedConvictionsLeadingToExecution. 

rdf:type  

    * yago:FoundersOfReligions
    * owl:Thing
    * opencyc:en/MaleHuman
    * opencyc:en/Deceased
    * opencyc:en/ReligiousSymbol
    * yago:ManifestationsOfGodInTheBahá'íFaith
    * yago:DisputedConvictionsLeadingToExecution
    * yago:Life-death-rebirthDeities
    * opencyc:en/God

The rdf:type for http://dbpedia.org/resource/Historical_Jesus doesn't make sense:

rdf:type yago:PerspectivesOnJesus

Jeff

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> Behalf Of Karen Coyle
> Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 10:50 AM
> To: Dan Brickley
> Cc: Ed Summers; public-lld@w3.org
> Subject: Re: Planned changes to the VIAF RDF
> 
> Quoting Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>:
> 
> 
> > As a loose rule, I see value in the latter when the thing figures in
> > some SKOS scheme, either to be mentioned alongside other related
> > entities (also indirectly as concepts) or so that
> > person_123_as_politician, person_123_as_parent, person_123_as_author
> > could be distinguished as different topics. There is value in that,
> > both for using those topic URIs to characterise information, but also
> > to talk in more detail about skills/expertise. Someone might be a
> > world export on "President George Bush snr. as a manager".
> 
> I can see this becoming unwieldy, however.
>    person_123_who_was_walking_along_Main_Street_on_Saturday_July_7_2011
> 
> It seems that there's a noun-verb struggle here. The person is the
> same person, the activity is different. I know that some of these
> distinctions are bound into our subject headings, but rather than
> change the identity of the person I would prefer that we use the name
> in a context where possible.
> 
> George Bush --> served as POTUS --> dates
> George Bush --> author of --> autobiog
> 
> It's the same person, but the activity of the person has changed, not
> his identity.
> 
> kc
> 
> 
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