Sebastian Hellmann wrote: > Yes, > there are disambiguation pages. > Formerly data looked like this: > :Apple a :FloweringPlant > :Apple :kingdom :Plant > :Apple :disambiguates :Apple_Inc. > > > There were even worse cases. > e.g. Braniff_(Disambiguation) was made to Braniff, which was a redirect > to Braniff_International_Airways > > There is no correct algortihmic approach to solve this matter, so the > reason, why we changed it, is that it reflects the pages on Wikipedia as > they are, without any transformations, that might lead to a strange > representation. > > If Apple is a FloweringPlant, how can it disambiguate Apple Inc.? > The concepts have nothing to with each other, except sharing the String > identifier. >
I can see the logic and agree with it (I think), but I can't see any evidence of the change in the changelog for 3.4 (have I just missed it ?) It's quite a big change to have made (the disambiguation dataset has nearly doubled in size between 3.3 and 3.4) - was there any discussion on the mailing list as to the best implementation (for example, it might be nice to add a reference to the disambiguation page - 'disambiguated by' or similar) ? Is there any benefit in setting up a dbpedia-developers list, in order to discuss these changes to the core data ? Rob ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Dbpedia-discussion mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dbpedia-discussion
