deed necessary. If
a distinction between nouns and adjectives is made, then one type + multiple
facets is necessary.
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From: John McClure [mailto:jmccl...@hypergrove.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2012 7:08 PM
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Subject: [Wikidata-l] Namespace-b
Denny said:
I think the assumption everything has exactly one type is oversimplifying
The assumption that everything is of multiple types is over-complicating.
Usually you can tell from the first sentence in the Wikipedia page.
"Tuesday is a day of the week"
"Love is an emotion"
"(Roman) Catholic
John,
your suggestion has two requirements that I think are hard to achieve:
* first, we need an agreement on the set of (non-overlapping but complete)
types that exist in the world
* second, we would need to assume that the Wikidata editors would agree on
one and exactly one type for every item,
Wiki namespaces are currently so underused people may not realize their
importance: they provide crucial semantic information. For instance,
consider the example given in Wikidata's data model article[1]
"Obama was US Senator from Illinois from January 3, 2005 to November 16,
2008"
which yielded
