Re: [Freebase-discuss] Propagation of bad sameAs statements

[ Crossposting. Apologies for the duplicate. ]

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From: Philip Kendall <philip-freebase@shadowmagic.org.uk>
To: freebase-discuss@freebase.com
Subject: Re: [Freebase-discuss] Propagation of bad sameAs statements
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 15:55:31 +0100

On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 10:42:45AM -0400, joel sachs wrote:
> 
> And questions for freebase contributors: Are any of you running a script 
> that either a) loads in assertions from sameas.org, or b) deduces sameAs 
> relations from dbepedia redirection behaviour?

Essentially, (b) - they're deduced from Wikipedia rather than dppedia,
but it comes down to the same thing.

I agree with you that it's the wrong thing to do - hopefully one of the
Freebase Data Team will be along to explain why they do it.

Cheers,

Phil

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