Freebase: Discussion about Award Winner

Ray Charles: Don't merge - needs much untangling

2009-11-13T18:46:16.0019Z

This is really screwed up. The two Ray Charles shouldn't be merged, but they appear to have swapped identities at some point (perhaps the Oct. 12 Wikipedia load). I suspect the Wikipedia reconciliation went badly awry. Someone on Brian's team needs to look at it, figure out what went wrong, and untangle the mess.

The Wachowski brothers: Brother Co-directors

2009-11-11T18:44:23.0019Z

This clearly shouldn't be a Person, but I'd hate to see it go away altogether because the Wachoski Bros are a well known entity. It should be typed as some kind of Group or Set which includes the two people.

The suggestion on the data modeling list was to type things like this using List, but that has the unfortunate side effect of causes references to redirect to the communist (err, Socialist) domain and there's no indication of when that bug will be fixed.

Maurice Sendak: sexuality metadata

2009-11-04T13:16:39.0013Z

Celebrity includes a link to a (time-moderated) sexual orientation.

Maurice Sendak: sexuality metadata

2009-11-04T11:49:14.0018Z

I was looking into how to tag folks such as Maurice that self-identify as gay...

Are there any Sexuality / Personal Identity data types that I should know about?

Otherwise the Person type comes across as kind of, well, semantically heteronormative.