Since DBpedia is an effort to extract structured data from Wikipedia, then
whether something is in Wikipedia or not is not a matter of interpretation.
It is a simple fact.
Also as per my understanding, DBpedia is not trying to filter Wikipedia
data by crosschecking facts and statements.
The Persondata template is a source of valuable information and hence it is
used to extract structured data from Wikipedia biographies.
Still it is possible it contains wrong data, this is the drawback of a
community curated encyclopedia.
Cheers
Andrea
2013/4/26 Tom Morris <[email protected]>
> On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 2:14 PM, Jona Christopher Sahnwaldt <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> The information is in Wikipedia, and thus also in DBpedia.
>>
>> The source code of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Questlove contains the
>> following section (visible when you click 'edit page' and scroll
>> down):
>>
>> {{Persondata
>> |NAME=Thompson, Ahmir Khalib
>> |ALTERNATIVE NAMES=?uestlove
>> |SHORT DESCRIPTION=[[African-American]] musician
>> |DATE OF BIRTH=January 20, 1971
>> |PLACE OF BIRTH=[[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]], [[United States]]
>> |DATE OF DEATH=November 24, 2008
>> |PLACE OF DEATH==[[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]], [[United States]]
>> }}
>>
>> That's why DBpedia extracted a death date. If you think this is an
>> error, you should edit the Wikipedia page.
>>
>
> I think whether or not it's "in" Wikipedia is a matter of interpretation.
> If the information isn't being rendered on the page, as is the case
> currently, how is anyone going to know that it's wrong (or even there)?
> I'm not sure why it isn't being rendered.
>
> Tom
>
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