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Luca Faggianelli
Luca Faggianelli

Reputation: 2522

Finding properties description in Freebase with MQL

I'm getting crazy trying to fetch properties description, i mean the ones that appear in the schema...

1) the text service doesn't find properties description: https://www.googleapis.com/freebase/v1/text/people/person/profession

2) properties doesn't include /common/topic so they haven't /common/topic/description?! am I right?

3) the /freebase/property_hint (or something...) doesn't work for descriptions...

thanks luca

Upvotes: 2

Views: 583

Answers (2)

Shawn Simister
Shawn Simister

Reputation: 4603

The text for property descriptions is stored in /freebase/documented_object/tip. You can query it like this:

{
  "id": "/people/person/profession",
  "/freebase/documented_object/tip": null
}​

To figure these sorts of problems out, I often find it useful to scroll through the raw Freebase triples for a topic like this:

http://dev.freebase.com/people/person/profession?links

There you can see the direct relationship between the schema and the data.

Upvotes: 1

Tom Morris
Tom Morris

Reputation: 10540

Just use the Text API with the property's ID e.g. https://www.googleapis.com/freebase/v1/text/type/property

As an aside, an object doesn't need to have a specific type have a property from that type, if you were, for example, to look at the /type/property object, you'd see that it does in fact have a /common/topic/article property that you could follow to lead eventually to the text blob, but using the Text API is way easier.

Upvotes: 0

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