Freebase: Discussion about Influence Node

Rajesh Khanna: Super Star Rajesh Khanna

2009-11-14T10:21:42.0018Z

Super Star Rajesh Khanna irrevocably impacted Indian cinema and culture like no actor before him. His acting perfection and application of talent were drawn solely from his inward vision. Super Star Rajesh Khanna did not cultivate the phenomenal attributes that created his "superstardom" by reason or will, but through the connectedness to his own persona that the masses then idealized. For he is one who is impervious as to who is ahead and who is behind. Super Star Rajesh Khanna’s inward vision, a special gift from the divine leads him always. Today he is the indomitable and highly respected veteran of one hindred and fifty films. For me, he is like the Cary Grant of India. Both actors are Capricorns that have played the widest variety of roles without ever bankrupting the fascination of the audience. Super Star Rajesh Khanna is the platinum standard for landmark performances and sheer screen presence. Ever since the camera discovered his photogenia it has been having a love affair with it. His Byronic inspirations of romance as autographed elegantly on screen endure. Super Star Rajesh Khanna is a Greatest Legend because he kindles our affections at the highest denominators and that is a life nobly lived means.

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.

Jared and Jerusha Hess: Don't delete until data moved

2009-11-02T10:30:31.0018Z

This topic should be split instead of deleted, moving the IMDB keys and any other important information.