> a few cases the shortcut implies a particular path 
> so that the existence of the intermediates can be inferred. (such as "rights 
> held by").

Hi Martin! 
In my opinion, a shortcut should never infer a long-path.
- IMHO the purpose of a long-path is to provide additional info (e.g. a date), 
but the shortcut cannot infer that
- the purpose of a shortcut is to allow simpler representation, so why also 
infer a more complex but incomplete representation (no additional details)?
- in cases when both shortcut and long-path are provided explicitly, an 
inferred long-path would be superfluous (duplicate), or a system needs to go 
through extra effort to somehow correlate the inferred to an existing long-path

Cheers! Vladimir

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