>
> what's the usage of the Person class ?
>

'Person' [1] should generally be avoided.  For background, see the
discussion about how to classify subjects like Coco Chanel in [2].  That's
the basis for the note "not for use with P31, instead use Q5 human".
Pretty much all the items that link to 'person' [3] shouldn't.

For fictional characters, the convention is to classify them as 'fictional
character', e.g. as done for Jack Bauer [4].  There are some tricky
knowledge representation issues with fictional entities.  For example, how
do we ensure that Harry Potter is not returned in a query for all people
born in London in 1984?  The fictional universes project [5] aims to
address problems like that.

1) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q215627
2)
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Migrating_away_from_GND_main_type#P31_value_for_things_like_Coco_Chanel
3) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Q215627
4) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24
5) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikiproject_Fictional_universes



On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 4:31 AM, Jane Darnell <[email protected]> wrote:

> I would imagine it's for fictional characters like Little Red Riding
> Hood, but I see that when I click on "What links here" while on page
> Q215627 I see "Sleeping Beauty", but also roles and dead people. I am
> just as lost as you are!
>
> 2014-02-15 2:42 GMT+01:00, Hady elsahar <[email protected]>:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > just got confused a little bit between Person Q215627 and Human Q5
> classes
> > in the Person page <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q215627> it's written
> > "not
> > for use with P31, instead use Q5 human" , if so what's the usage of the
> > Person class ?
> >
> > thanks
> > Regards
> > -------------------------------------------------
> > Hady El-Sahar
> > Research Assistant
> > Center of Informatics Sciences | Nile
> > University<http://nileuniversity.edu.eg/>
> >
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