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Peril
Peril

Reputation: 1599

Knowing the genre for a certain artist using freebase

I am new at freebase , I just need to get the genre for a certain artist using MQL

Thanks

Upvotes: 1

Views: 504

Answers (2)

ashutosh raina
ashutosh raina

Reputation: 9314

[{ "type":"/music/artist", "id":null, "name":null "genre":[], }]​

this should give you what you want.You should substitute the name of the artist or the id to get the result. Since you are new ,you can look at the following as a start
https://github.com/narphorium/freebase-java-api

Upvotes: 1

Tom Morris
Tom Morris

Reputation: 10540

This will give you the first 100 musical artists with their name, genres, and Freebase IDs.

[{
  "type":"/music/artist",
  "id":null,
  "name":null
  "genre":[],
}]​

To get the genres for a given artist, just specify the ID instead of leaving it blank. Note that an artist can have multiple genres, so you need to query it using array syntax. The default return property is the name. If you'd prefer the ID or ID and name, just specify that in the query using this syntax: 

'genre':[{'id':null,'name':null}]

you could even get fancy and fetch the parent genres too using

'genre':[{'id':null,'name':null,'parent_genre':[]}]

although the genre hierarchy is pretty noisy and not too well curated.

Upvotes: 3

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