Re: namesake and namedAfter

+1, this is not only cool, but really useful in text analysis and semantic
search.
Knowing that something is named after somebody or something else is key to
disambiguation and graph navigation.

As for the signature, I would go simple with something like:

*schema:Thing schema:namedAfter schema:Thing*

So we can just point to another entity, being a Person, Place or whatever.

On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 12:15 AM, Nicolas Torzec <torzecn@yahoo-inc.com>
wrote:

> +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 <https://twitter.com/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 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q121> is named after Julius
> Caesar <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1048>.
> The Montréal–Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport
> <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q736627> is named after Pierre Trudeau
> <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8619>
>
> 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 <https://www.google.com/+ThadGuidry>
>
>
>


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