Re: namesake and namedAfter

+1 on a generic mechanism to express namesakes.
Independently of whether it would be a simple text property and/or a reference to an Etymology type with its own properties, we should be able to reference the actual entity that an entity is named after via an object property (e.g. "namesakeFor").
-N.@NicolasTorzec


 

    On Thursday, August 25, 2016 1:54 PM, Thad Guidry <thadguidry@gmail.com> wrote:
 

 When Freebase was around, we had a really cool property called 'Namesake' introduced by a awesome Aussie lass who no longer works for Google.
The month of July is named after Julius Caesar.The Montréal–Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport is named after Pierre Trudeau
In Wikidata they have 'named after' also known as an eponym or toponym, etc.https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P138

Do we have any property closely resembling named after or named for or eponym ?
If we don't, we need it, please.
Ithis sit right at our Thing level with a simple property called 'named after'.
To avoid Developer headache, I would like to see a simple property that can expect either a Text string....or a new proposed type called 'Etymology' which would have various properties of its own, and lead into helping those that had previous discussions on the mailing list and old proposal pages about Dictionaries forming from Schema.org and vice versa.
Thad+ThadGuidry